(2021-05-03). What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like? counterpunch.org The Green New Deal has attracted perhaps the greatest attention of any proposal for decades. It would guarantee Medicare-for-All, Housing-for-All, student loan forgiveness and propose the largest economic growth in human history to address unemployment and climate change. But the last of these hits a stumbling block.
(2021-05-03). Dallas teachers take pay raise demands to school board. peoplesworld.org DALLAS—Members of Alliance/AFT, the local American Federation of Teachers union in the Dallas Independent School District (ISD), took its demand for pay raises to the city's school board on April 22. The union is demanding 7% pay raises for teachers and a 5% increase for support staff, along with a $1,000 bonus in January 2022. …
(2021-05-03). Star Trek: Progressivism and Corporatism Don't Mix. dissidentvoice.org The television series Star Trek has appeared in several iterations with a few handfuls of movies thrown in that have fired the imaginations of viewers of all ages for nigh 55 years. In particular, Star Trek captured the viewership of many progressives because Star Trek was much more than science-fiction intrigues or the swashbuckling adventures …
(2021-05-03). Selected Articles: Our Humanity, Our Identity. globalresearch.ca By Identity politics has been on the ascendancy in many parts of the world in the last few decades. Its relationship to ethnicity, culture and religion is what concerns …
(2021-05-03). Drive-By Shooting In The West Bank, Hours After IDF Shoots And Kills 60-Year-Old Woman. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 2nd, three 19-year-old yeshiva students were injured, two of them seriously, in a drive-by shooting at a bus stop in the northern West Bank. | The shots were fired from a passing car at the Tapuah Junction south of Nablus. The victims were all civilians, according to the Israel Defense Forces."IDF troops returned fire at the vehicle, which fled the scene. IDF troops are searching for the vehicle and are setting up roadblocks in the area," the military said. | Then, due to the in…
(2021-05-03). CDC Officially Recommends COVID Jab for Pregnant Women. globalresearch.ca The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending …
(2021-05-03). "Open letter" demands end to UK pandemic restrictions as official figures confirm COVID-19 is a "poor man's disease" wsws.org Ten of its signatories are also signatories to the Great Barrington Declaration, launched at the right-wing American Institute for Economic Research in Massachusetts on October 4 last year.
(2021-05-03). Germany's official COVID-19 contagion policy puts hundreds of thousands of students and educators at risk. wsws.org The updated Infection Protection Act reinforces the government's reckless contagion policy in schools and threatens the health of students.
(2021-05-03). Tampa workers rally on International Workers Day. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – Labor and community activists in Tampa rallied May 1 to join the world in celebrating International Workers Day. The rally was called by the Tampa District of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, with speakers including Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society, Tampa Bay Community Action Committee and local union activists. | With dozens of people in attendance, the rally demanded housing and COVID assistance, more protections for all workers and an increase in funding to local social programs. The rally also demanded a stop to the proposed construction of a new Tampa Police Department (TPD) he…
(2021-05-03). Significant Jump this Week in Reported Injuries, Deaths After COVID Vaccine. globalresearch.ca Data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
(2021-05-03). Just How Much COVID-19 Vaccine Money (And How Many Doses Per Person) Is on the Table? globalresearch.ca It is hard for me to fathom what is going on. …
(2021-05-03). 19,916 'Eye Disorders' Including Blindness Following COVID Vaccine Reported in Europe. globalresearch.ca Hundreds of cases of blindness are among the 19,916 reports of …
(2021-05-03). Desmadejando la normativa de las patentes de las vacunas covid-19. globalizacion.ca Más de un año después desde que la OMS declarase la COVID-19 pandemia mundial, y transcurridos ya cinco meses desde que se puso la primera vacuna, puede parecer innecesario recordar que el ritmo de vacunación es muy desigual entre los…
(2021-05-03). Mayo Clinic researchers question effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for solid organ transplant patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A small study from Mayo Clinic researchers raises the concern that some transplant patients may have a limited immune response after being vaccinated for COVID-19 with an mRNA vaccine. Their findings are published as a letter to the editor in the American Journal of Transplantation. The letter covers seven organ transplant recipients …
(2021-05-03). High vaccination rate is key to future course of COVID-19 pandemic, Mayo Clinic computer modeling shows. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Mayo Clinic data scientists who developed highly accurate computer modeling to predict trends for COVID-19 cases nationwide have new research that shows how important a high rate of vaccination is to reducing case numbers and controlling the pandemic. Vaccination is making a striking difference in Minnesota and keeping the current level of positive cases …
(2021-05-03). Two-year-old Baby Dies During Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine Experiments on Children. globalresearch.ca Within six days of receiving a second injection of Pfizer's experimental …
(2021-05-03). College Athletes In Supportive Programs Coping Better With Pandemic. eurasiareview.com Like much of society, college athletics were thrown into disarray by the COVID-19 pandemic. While student athletes were suddenly prevented from competing, training or seeing as much of their teammates and coaches, those who perceived they were part of a positive sporting environment also coped better during the early days of the crisis, a new study from the University of Kansas has found. | KU researchers have long studied a caring, task-involved sporting climate, in which young athletes receive support and recognition for their efforts, while mistakes are treated as learning opportunities. But the pandemic pr…
(2021-05-03). [Research Paper] A urinary peptidomic profile predicts outcome in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients. thelancet.com this first CRIT-COV-U report proves the concept that urinary proteomic profiling generates biomarkers indicating adverse COVID-19 outcomes, even at an early disease stage, including WHO stages 1—3. These findings need to be consolidated in an upcoming final dataset.
(2021-05-03). Gun Violence Starts at the Top. globalresearch.ca If the state reserves the right to commit mass murder no …
(2021-05-03). On the Insidious Discourse of "Terrorism" in the US and How It Functions to Demonize Palestine Advocates and Muslims. globalresearch.ca After Heike Schotten, Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts …
(2021-05-03). Breakthrough in Afghan Peace Process! globalresearch.ca The "extended Troika" on the Afghan problem comprising the United States, …
(2021-05-03). Hedges: Don't Be Fooled By Joe Biden. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Don't be fooled by Joe Biden. He knows his infrastructure and education bills have as much chance at becoming law as the $15-dollar minimum wage or the $2,000 stimulus checks he promised us as a candidate. He knows his American Jobs Plan will never create "millions of good paying jobs — jobs Americans can raise their families on" any more than NAFTA… |
(2021-05-03). Twitter Isn't Censoring Accounts to Keep Users 'Safe', It Is Using Its Power to Spoon-feed the World Establishment Narratives. globalresearch.ca It's one thing to have policies against violence, abuse, and harassment. …
(2021-05-03). Premier League: Football Clubs Obliged to Sign Owners' Charter in Aftermath of Super League Collapse. sputniknews.com Some of Europe's biggest clubs in April proposed the creation of a new tournament, dubbed the Super League. However, the idea was nipped at the bud in a matter of days, as fans, players, football associations, and political figures were less than pleased with the proposal, believing such a league would be harmful to lesser-known clubs.
(2021-05-03). Australian Education Union announces phony "week of action" over Victorian teachers' workplace agreement. wsws.org The development of a new industrial agreement ought to be the trigger for a unified political struggle of teachers and school workers for decent wages and conditions, and for a genuinely free, accessible, high quality public education system.
(2021-05-03). Australia: Liberals survive Tasmanian election due to near-record low Labor vote. wsws.org Despite appalling conditions in public health, housing and education, Labor's vote plunged to about 28 percent.
(2021-05-03). Mayo Clinic celebrating all things green for Earth Day. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Earth Day was founded in 1970 as a day of education about environmental issues. The global celebration is sometimes extended into Earth Week, a full seven days of events focused on green living. ___________________________________________________ Mayo Clinic is celebrating all things green this week to recognize Earth Day and the importance of environmental protection practices, celebrate …
(2021-05-03). As Ukraine Simmers, Victoria Nuland Is Now Highest-ranking Member of U.S. Foreign Service. globalresearch.ca On April 29 the U.S. Senate confirmed Victoria Nuland as Under …
(2021-05-03). Kent State, April 4, 1970: Was It about Civil Rights or 
Murdering Student Protesters? globalresearch.ca When Ohio National Guardsmen fired sixty-seven gun shots in thirteen seconds at Kent State University (KSU) on May 4, 1970, they murdered four unarmed, protesting college students and wounded nine others.
(2021-05-03). US Interference in Mexico's Phaseout of Glyphosate and GM Corn. globalresearch.ca A coalition of 80 U.S. agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health, and …
(2021-05-03). Video: Coronavirus Crisis Wrecking Havoc Worldwide. Dr. Richard Urso with Kristina Borjesson. globalresearch.ca "As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc around the world, evidences …
(2021-05-03). US' New "Foreign Malign Influence" Center Is Just Official Cover for American Intelligence Interference in Domestic Politics. globalresearch.ca The Director of National Intelligence has ostensibly created a new "center" …
(2021-05-03). Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe. globalresearch.ca This was aired on February 17, 2017. | In 2014, biologist Dr. …
(2021-05-03). More Projection from the Right: CEPR Is Not Well-Funded. cepr.net I was happy to see the New York Post take note of the work of the Revolving Door Project (RDP) at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. RDP has been very aggressive in vetting potential appointees in the Biden administration. It tries to prevent people with clear conflicts of interest from getting top-level jobs. …
(2021-05-03). Ongoing Russia-France Business Relations Despite EU Sanctions. globalresearch.ca On April 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin held videoconference with leaders …
(2021-05-03). Science Saturday: Using AI to reveal causes of complex diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Researchers within Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that can uncover causal drivers and relationships embedded within complex biomedical data. Nicholas Chia, Ph.D.,?John Kalantari, Ph.D., and Kia Khezeli, Ph.D., recently tested their machine-learning framework, called Causal Relation and Inference Search Platform (CRISP) on multiomic colorectal cancer samples alongside …
(2021-05-03). Mayo Clinic preclinical discovery triggers wound healing, skin regeneration. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Difficult-to-treat, chronic wounds in preclinical models healed with normal scar-free skin after treatment with an acellular product discovered at Mayo Clinic. Derived from platelets, the purified exosomal product, known as PEP, was used to deliver healing messages into cells of preclinical animal models of ischemic wounds. The Mayo Clinic research team documented …
(2021-05-03). Mayo Clinic's New Research Building Growing to 11 Floors. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The long tradition of biomedical innovation that makes up Mayo Clinic's DNA will continue with the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Building on the Rochester, Minnesota, campus, set to open in the fourth quarter of 2023. Research is the engine that drives advances in medical care, and the new facility will enable the …
(2021-05-03). Sexed Semen—Why the Technology of Producing Only Female Calves Should be Opposed Firmly. globalresearch.ca There is a fast increasing trend in cattle breeding towards sex …
(2021-05-03). The British Connection with Colombia's Police. globalresearch.ca In the last few days, the Colombian police showed what it …
(2021-05-03). 15 Year Old Boy Dies of Heart Attack Two Days After Taking Pfizer Vaccine, Had No History of Allergic Reactions. globalresearch.ca According to data in the national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, …
(2021-05-03). Newly Discovered Miocene Biome Sheds Light On Rainforest Evolution. eurasiareview.com An international research group led by Prof. WANG Bo and Prof. SHI Gongle from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) collected approximately 25,000 fossil-containing amber samples and about 5,000 fossil plants in Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, southeast China from 2010 to 2019. | Their findings were published in Science Advances. | The Zhangpu biota, including amber biota and co-occurring megafossils, is the richest tropical seasonal rainforest biota discovered so far. It reveals that extraordinary species diversity existed within a 14.7 million-year-o…
(2021-05-03). Wildfire Smoke Trends Worsening For Western US. eurasiareview.com From the Pacific Northwest to the Rocky Mountains, summers in the West are marked by wildfires and smoke. New research from the University of Utah ties the worsening trend of extreme poor air quality events in Western regions to wildfire activity, with growing trends of smoke impacting air quality clear into September. The work is published in Environmental Research Letters. | "In a big picture sense, we can expect it to get worse," says Kai Wilmot, lead author of the study and doctoral student in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. "We're going to see more fire area burned in the Western U.S. between now…
(2021-05-03). Consumers Make Decisions Based On How And Why Products Are Recommended Online. eurasiareview.com As more people go online for shopping, understanding how they rely on e-commerce recommendation systems to make purchases is increasingly important. Penn State researchers now suggest that it's not just what is recommended, but how and why it's recommended, that helps to shape consumers' opinions. | In a study, the researchers investigated how people reacted to two product recommendation systems. The first system generated recommendations based on the user's earlier purchases — often referred to as content-based recommendation systems. The second provided recommendations based on what other people bought — c…
(2021-05-03). Poorer Communities Hardest Hit By Toxic Pollution Incidents. eurasiareview.com Toxic pollution hits poorer populations hardest as firms experience more pollutant releases and spend less money on waste management in areas with lower average incomes. | Research from Lancaster University Management School and Texas Tech University, published in European Economic Review looked into the relationship between the location choices of potentially polluting firms and levels of local income to discover if firms made strategic decisions on site locations based on population demographics. | The team studied potentially polluting firms across Texas, and found a correlation between lower income locatio…
(2021-05-03). Plastic Pollution In The Deep Sea: A Geological Perspective. eurasiareview.com A new focus article in the May issue of Geology summarizes research on plastic waste in marine and sedimentary environments. Authors I.A. Kane of the Univ. of Manchester and A. Fildani of the Deep Time Institute write that "Environmental pollution caused by uncontrolled human activity is occurring on a vast and unprecedented scale around the globe. Of the diverse forms of anthropogenic pollution, the release of plastic into nature, and particularly the oceans, is one of the most recent and visible effects." | The authors cite multiple studies, including one in the May issue by Guangfa Zhong and Xiaotong Peng,…
(2021-05-03). Discovered New Vulnerability Affecting Computers Globally. eurasiareview.com In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. | Researchers named the vulnerability Spectre because the flaw was built into modern computer processors that get their speed from a technique called "speculative execution," in which the processor predicts instructions it might end up executing and preps by following the predicted path to pull the instructions from memory. A Spectre attack tricks the processor into executing instructions along the wrong path. Even though the processor recovers and co…
(2021-05-03). Antarctic Ice-Sheet Melting To Lift Sea Level Higher Than Thought. eurasiareview.com Global sea level rise associated with the possible collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been significantly underestimated in previous studies, meaning sea level in a warming world will be greater than anticipated, according to a new study from Harvard researchers. | The report, published in Science Advances, features new calculations for what researchers refer to as a water expulsion mechanism. This occurs when the solid bedrock the West Antarctic Ice Sheet sits on rebounds upward as the ice melts and the total weight of the ice sheet decreases. The bedrock sits below sea level so when it lifts, it pus…
(2021-05-03). Italian Authorities Say Rome's Colosseum Will Get a New Arena Floor. sputniknews.com The country' Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini hailed the project as "extraordinary". According to the official, it will allow visitors to walk into the centre of the arena and stand where the gladiators once fought.
(2021-05-03). Per Excrementum ad Astra: Study of Human Faeces May Help Prepare For Missions to Mars. sputniknews.com The study in question is the Mars500 project, a joint initiative of China, Russia, and the European Space Agency, which saw volunteers live for 520 days in conditions that are similar to those that astronauts would be subjected to during a trip to the red planet.