(2021-04-29). There Are No Winners In Afghanistan — OpEd. eurasiareview.com By Jeff M. Smith* | The U.S. has all the watches, but we have all the time." This quote, sometimes attributed to a captured Taliban fighter, is among the handful of now-famous anecdotes produced by the Afghan War. "The U.S. hasn't fought a 20-year war in Afghanistan. It has fought 20 one-year wars in Afghanistan," is another likely to make its way to the annals of history. | Similarly, for at least the past 10 years it seems there have been at least ten different debates on the U.S. role in Afghanistan: Should we stay? Should we go? Should we switch strategies? | In 2015, I weighed in on one of those debates,…
(2021-04-29). Study from Omaha, Nebraska shows vast failure to detect COVID-19 in schools. wsws.org The study found that infection rates in three schools were almost six times higher for students and two-and-a-half times higher for staff than what was recorded through self-initiated tests and reporting.
(2021-04-29). Foreign Experts Assess Benefits Of Russia's Sputnik V Coronavirus Vaccine — Analysis. eurasiareview.com The Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia's sovereign wealth fund) announced that the Sputnik V vaccine demonstrated efficacy of 97.6%, based on the analysis of data on the infection rate of coronavirus among those in Russia vaccinated with both components of Sputnik V. | "The Ministry of Health of Russia maintains a register of persons who have been vaccinated, as well as citizens who have got infected with COVID as part of the Unified State Information System in Healthcare. Ac…
(2021-04-28). Anthrax Vaccine Manufacturer to Produce COVID-19 Vaccines for Major Companies. globalresearch.ca DOD created
(2021-04-28). 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 …
(2021-04-28). Microchip Can Detect COVID Before You're Sick. globalresearch.ca Pentagon scientists and Profusa have developed a tiny biosensor that can …
(2021-04-28). Spanish Doctors Say High-Dose Vitamin D Cuts Risk of Death from COVID-19 by 60 Percent. globalresearch.ca A team of researchers from Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain, …
(2021-04-28). Bizarre Phenomenon: Unvaccinated Getting Sick Being Around the COVID Vaxxed. globalresearch.ca In a bizarre turn of events, the COVID vaxxed are apparently …
(2021-04-28). COVID Public Health Policies Are Killing the Elderly, Deliberately. globalresearch.ca The pandemic has exposed underlying, inhumane, Eugenics-driven public health policies. The …
(2021-04-28). UK Hiring COVID Marshals to Patrol Streets Until 2023 Despite Lockdown Restrictions Supposedly Ending in June. globalresearch.ca Government councils in the UK are hiring COVID Marshals to patrol …
(2021-04-28). As UK governments reopen schools: educators and students speak about life with Long COVID. wsws.org "There was a decision to let this spread and see how we go with it. The government should be blamed for social murder."
(2021-04-28). White House to Share Its Emergent BioSolutions, Unusable AstraZeneca Vaccine with Other Nations. globalresearch.ca There is war within Big Pharma. | Amply documented: all mRNA covid …
(2021-04-28). Say her name! Ma'Khia Bryant! workers.org 
Ohio State University students protest police murder of Ma'Khia Bryant, demand university break ties with Columbus Police Department People in Columbus have been in the streets nearly every day since the police murder of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant April 22. She was shot four times by Columbus Police Department Officer Nicholas . . . |
(2021-04-28). Vienna Shadow Play Hangs over Iran Nuke Deal. globalresearch.ca Few people, apart from specialists, may have heard of the JCPOA …
(2021-04-28). No Justification for the Existence of Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org 
Non-profit and for-profit charter schools are privatized, marketized, corporatized education arrangements that appeared 30 years ago in the U.S. They are legal in 45 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, and Guam. About 3.3 million youth are currently enrolled in roughly 7,400 charter schools. Charter schools openly embrace "free market" ideology and siphon billions of public …
(2021-04-28). Goebbels está vivo en Nicaragua: Conspiración implacable de Estados Unidos contra Nicaragua inventando falsas narrativas e instaurando el terror. globalizacion.ca 
"Una mentira que se dice una vez sigue siendo una mentira, pero una mentira que se dice mil veces se convierte en verdad". Joseph Goebbels, ministro de propaganda de Hitler, 1933-1945 °El presidente Ortega es un dictador! °El presidente Ortega…
(2021-04-28). May Day preview: PRO Act to take center stage. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON (PAI)—From coast to coast, demands for passage of the PRO Act, the most pro-worker labor law overhaul in 86 years, will take center stage at May Day marches, teach-ins, and events, preceded by other pro-PRO Act actions that began on April 26. The AFL-CIO reports more than 700 events are planned, and that count …
(2021-04-28). The MH17 Trial: The Dangers of Presuming the Fairness of a Geopolitically-Driven Enterprise. mintpressnews.com 
Inspection of the MH17 saga teaches us, in the first instance, never simply to presume that an enterprise that appears to have the status of an officially supported and endorsed international legal proceeding must on that account be above reproach.
(2021-04-28). Climate Crisis Has Shifted the Earth's Axis, Study Shows. truthout.org 
This story originally appeared in The massive melting of glaciers as a result of global heating has caused marked shifts in the Earth's axis of rotation since the 1990s, research has shown. It demonstrates the profound impact humans are having on…
(2021-04-28). Italia a las órdenes de Estados Unidos ‚Äécontra Rusia. globalizacion.ca 
Todos los países miembros de la OTAN fueron conminados a presentarse de inmediato ‚Äéante el Consejo del Atlántico Norte y a firmar una declaración contra Rusia. Y todos ‚Äécorrieron a cumplir la orden. | Sin embargo, cuando el presidente estadounidense Joe…
(2021-04-28). UK Government Drops Bid to Shield Soldiers from War Crimes Prosecutions Committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. globalresearch.ca The UK government has abandoned attempts to shield members of its …
(2021-04-28). Cracks in QUAD as US Violates Indian Sovereignty? asia-pacificresearch.com …
(2021-04-28). Biden to unveil 1.8-trln-USD spending plan on childcare, education. ecns.cn U.S. President Joe Biden is set to unveil a 1.8-trillion-U.S.-dollar spending plan focusing on childcare and education later Wednesday, just a few weeks after proposing a 2-trillion-dollar infrastructure plan.
(2021-04-29). Women's Football In Japan Had A Rich History Before WWII. eurasiareview.com A team of scientists has found that women's football was common across Japan between the Meiji restoration and the start of the Second World War. In the process, they also uncovered the oldest known photograph of women playing football in Japan, from 1916. | The history of men's football in Japan is well documented. In particular, the introduction of association football into Japan in the late 19th and 20th centuries has been extensively investigated. The same degree of attention had not been paid to women's football. | A team of researchers from six institutions, including Associate Professor Yoshihiro Sakita…
(2021-04-29). Low-Income Blocks In 92% Of US Urban Communities Have Less Tree Cover And Are Hotter. eurasiareview.com A new analysis of thousands of U.S. communities finds that, on average, low-income urban blocks have less tree cover and are hotter than high-income blocks. Robert McDonald of The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. | Mounting research links urban tree cover with human health benefits, including reduced air pollution, better cardiovascular function, and improved mental health. Tree cover can also cool urban areas, mitigating the effects of heat waves. However, research from the U.S. and other countries suggests that urban tree co…
(2021-04-29). Category Killers Of The Internet Are Significantly Reducing Online Diversity. eurasiareview.com The number of distinctive sources and voices on the internet is proven to be in long-term decline, according to new research. | A paper entitled 'Evolution of diversity and dominance of companies in online activity' published in the PLOS ONE scientific journal has shown between 60 and 70 percent of all attention on key social media platforms in different market segments is focused towards just 10 popular domains. | In stark contrast, new competitors are struggling to survive against such dominant players, with just 3 percent of online domains born in 2015 still active today, compared to nearly 40 percent of th…
(2021-04-29). Uncertainty Of Future Southern Ocean CO2 Uptake Cut In Half. eurasiareview.com Anyone researching the global carbon cycle has to deal with unimaginably large numbers. The Southern Ocean – the world's largest ocean sink region for human-made CO2 – is projected to absorb a total of about 244 billion tons of human-made carbon from the atmosphere over the period from 1850 to 2100 under a high CO2 emissions scenario. But the uptake could possibly be only 204 or up to 309 billion tons. That's how much the projections of the current generation of climate models vary. The reason for this large uncertainty is the complex circulation of the Southern Ocean, which is difficult to correctly represent…
(2021-04-29). Support grows for striking faculty at Oregon Institute of Technology. wsws.org Dozens of faculty, staff and students showed their support on picket lines in the first days of the strike at the main OIT campus in Klamath Falls, a small city in the southern part of Oregon near Medford.
(2021-04-28). Welsh Communists demand power in the community. challenge-magazine.org Welsh Communists have issued a statement calling for new powers for the Welsh Parliament to deliver real change in communities, education, housing, health and social care. The Communist Party is running its biggest electoral campaign this year since the 1980's across Britain, with candidates in every Welsh regional list seat. | Cleaner, safer, connected communities | We need to make sure that people can travel for work within or near their local community, comfortably and affordably. That will reduce combat carbon emissions and help our communities to survive and thrive. | The need to end the routine whereby l…
(2021-04-28). Filipino investigative journalist to receive UN press freedom prize. news.un.org The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday named investigative journalist and media executive Maria Ressa of the Philippines as the recipient of its 2021 press freedom award.
(2021-04-28). AI robot incarnates talented ancient poetess. ecns.cn A newly developed educational robot was incarnated as Li Qingzhao, an ancient Chinese poetess and essayist, at the 4th Digital China Summit held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.
(2021-04-28). National identity key to 'uniting into national development'. ecns.cn Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said Wednesday that without a proper sense of national identity and national education among the public, many favorable policies for Hong Kong to integrate into the mainland will render useless and ineffective.
(2021-04-28). 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…
(2021-04-28). The Destructive Human Health and Environmental Impacts of Glyphosate Based Herbicide. globalresearch.ca On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner …
(2021-04-28). Lab—grown Embryos and Human—monkey Hybrids: Medical Marvels or Ethical Missteps? globalresearch.ca In Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel "
(2021-04-28). The China-Africa Relationship in the 21st Century. globalresearch.ca "US corporate media have called China a 'new colonizer' in Africa …
(2021-04-28). The Russians Aren't Coming. globalresearch.ca The New York Times
(2021-04-28). Virtual Reality Could Help Improve Balance In Older People. eurasiareview.com Researchers at the University of Bath investigating how virtual reality (VR) can help improve balance believe this technology could be a valuable tool in the prevention of falls. | As people grow older, losing balance and falling becomes more common, which increases the risk of injury and affects the person's independence. | Falls are the leading cause of non-fatal injuries in over 65-yearolds and account for over 4 million bed days per year in England alone, at an estimated cost of £2 billion. | Humans use three ways of keeping their balance: vision, proprioceptive (physical feedback from muscles and jo…
(2021-04-28). Business School Research Is Broken: Here's How To Fix It. eurasiareview.com Researchers from Erasmus School of Economics, IESE Business School, and New York University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines what business schools do wrong when conducting academic research and what changes they can make so that research contributes to improving society. | The study, forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing, is titled "Faculty Research Incentives and Business School Health: A New Perspective from and for Marketing" and is authored by Stefan Stremersch, Russell Winer, and Nuno Camacho. | In February 2020, an article in the Financial Times stated that business schoo…
(2021-04-28). New EU Climate Target Could Phase Out Coal Power In Europe As Early As 2030. eurasiareview.com Tightening the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) in line with the EU Green Deal would dramatically speed up the decarbonization of Europe's power sector – and likely cause a demise of the coal industry. In a new study a team of researchers from Potsdam, Germany has quantified the substantial shifts Europe's electricity system is about to undergo when the newly decided EU climate target gets implemented. Higher carbon prices, the authors show, are not only an inevitable step to cut emissions – they will also lead much faster to an inexpensive electricity system powered by renewable energies. | "Once the EU t…
(2021-04-28). Scientists Don Spacesuits To Explore Hawaiian Lava Tubes As If They Were On Mars. eurasiareview.com Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a bulky spacesuit with puffy gloves on, under a time constraint because you don't want to run out of oxygen. That's what the analog astronauts do daily at the HI-SEAS moonbase habitat in Hawaii as they prepare for future missions to the moon and Mars, says Michaela Musilova of the International MoonBase Alliance (IMA) and director of HI-SEAS, the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation. | Musilova will present the latest on her team's research on Hawaiian lava tubes, and the challenges of trying to do research in spacesuits, this w…
(2021-04-28). Hidden Air Pollutants On Rise In Cities In India And UK. eurasiareview.com Levels of air pollutants in cities in India are on the rise, according to scientists using observations from instruments on satellites that scan the global skies every day. | Researchers used a long record of data gathered by space-based instruments to estimate trends in a range of air pollutants for 2005 to 2018, timed to coincide with well-established air quality policies in the UK and rapid development in India. | The study was led by the University of Birmingham and UCL and included an international team of contributors from Belgium, India, Jamaica and the UK. The researchers published their findings in th…
(2021-04-28). U.S. Army Used Virtual Town Hall to Convert — and Coerce — Vaccine Skeptics. globalresearch.ca Earlier this month, the U.S. Army hosted a Facebook live town …
(2021-04-28). Imperial to launch new Global Development Hub. imperial.ac.uk New Hub will galvanise expertise as Imperial researchers continue to forge vital international partnerships…
(2021-04-28). Mayo study finds colon cancer driven by hereditary gene mutations in 1 in 6 patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. –?A new Mayo Clinic study bolsters evidence that colorectal cancer is often imprinted in family genes and passed on from one generation to the next. In the study, published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, researchers within the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine found 1 in 6 patients with colorectal cancer had an …
(2021-04-28). Mayo researchers, collaborators identify 'instigator' gene associated with Alzheimer's disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators report the protein-coding gene SERPINA5 may worsen tau protein tangles, which are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, and advance disease. By combining clinical expertise, brain tissue samples, pathology expertise and artificial intelligence, the team clarified and validated the relevance of …
(2021-04-28). Enemies of Science. counterpunch.org There's been a lot of discussion recently about the threat that enemies of science represent to contemporary American culture. That concern, is well founded. In fact, it is better founded than I believe most people suspect. Until recently, most victims of the anti-science contagion were religious fundamentalists, or those on the far right of the political
(2021-04-28). The State Of China's Climate In 2020: Warmer And Wetter Again. eurasiareview.com The National Climate Center (NCC) of China has just completed a report that gives an authoritative assessment of China's climate in 2020. It provides a summary of China's climate as well as the major weather and climate events that took place throughout the year. This is the third consecutive year that the NCC has published an annual national climate statement in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters (AOSL). | "Against the background of global warming, extreme weather and climate events occur more frequently and have wide influence on society and economies. Last year, floods, droughts, typhoons, low-temperat…
(2021-04-28). NYU seeks to break graduate student strike as many Columbia graduate students vote "no" on sell-out contract. wsws.org NYU president Andrew Hamilton, who takes home about $2 million every year, sent an email to the parents of striking graduate students as well as undergraduates on Monday in a blatant attempt to break the strike.
(2021-04-28). Knifeman attacks kindergarten in China. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 28 (MNA) — As reported on Wed., 16 Kids and two teachers have been injured after a knifeman attacked a kindergarten in China.
