Daily Archives: August 14, 2021

2021-08-14: News Headlines

WSWS repost (2021-08-14). 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.

James A. Lucas (2021-08-14). US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 "Victim Nations" Since World War II. globalresearch.ca Among Global Research's most popular 2020 articles | . | . | First published in November 2015 | . | . | . | . | . | GR Editor's Note | . | Let us put this in historical perspective: the commemoration of the War to End All Wars acknowledges …

scorinoco (2021-08-14). Eyewitness Venezuela: Digital Literacy Free to All Students. orinocotribune.com By Rachell Tucker — Aug 4, 2021 | As a teacher who has had to struggle alongside thousands of coworkers, students and parents during the pandemic with hybrid education, I was astounded by my visit to the Canaima computer factory that was created to fulfil the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez's dream of "one computer per child." | At the Bicentennial Congress of the People in Caracas hundreds of anti-imperialists worldwide convened to discuss the unity needed to defeat the brutal US sanctions Venezuela and many other countries are suffering under. The "sanctions," or unilateral coercive measures imposed by…

_____ (2021-08-14). Tribal Leaders React To Removal Of Native Americans in Curriculum. popularresistance.org Sioux Falls, S.D. — A draft of Social Studies content standards has been released by the Department of Education. The draft of standards released differ in some ways from the initial proposal, which was submitted by the Social Studies Standards Revision Workgroup, made up primarily of educators from across the state. | The main way that the standards appear to be altered in the removal of references to Native American culture and history. | Some examples of this are the removal of Kindergarten history standard K.H.6.1: 'Read or listen to Oceti Sakowin Oyate stories, such as Iktomi stories and historical lor…

Nanna Maalà∏e, Natasha Housseine, Tarek Meguid, Siri Tellier, Jos van Roosmalen, Dan W Meyrowitsch, Thomas van den Akker (2021-08-14). [Correspondence] Trends in population health and demography. thelancet.com Stein Vollset and colleagues forecasted that population increase in sub-Saharan Africa will continue until 2100. Consequently, three of the region's countries will join Nigeria among the ten most populous countries globally: DR Congo, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.1 Although we applaud the authors for including alternative scenarios based on change in educational attainment and access to contraception, the Article neglects safe childbirth as a co-driver of decreasing fertility rates.

Joachim Hagopian (2021-08-14). The Evils of Big Pharma Exposed. globalresearch.ca Originally published on Global Research in January 2015 | This article published six years ago, is of utmost relevance to the ongoing covid-19 crisis. What's wrong with America is what's wrong with Big Pharma. And what's wrong with Big …

Daily Mail (2021-08-14). UK Mainstream Media: "Fury over Public Health England's estimate is 'away with the fairies' and mathematically impossible" globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2021-08-14). COVID-19 Vaccines are Killing "Huge Numbers" of People: Government Scrubs Stats on Vaccine-Related Deaths. globalresearch.ca First published on …

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2021-08-14). No Jab for Me — And Here Are 35 Reasons Why. globalresearch.ca Fist published by …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-08-14). The "Killer Vaccine" Worldwide. 7.9 Billion People. globalresearch.ca The stated objective is to enforce the Worldwide vaccination of 7.9 billion people in more than 190 countries, to be followed by the imposition of a digitized "vaccine passport". The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from the vaccine is overwhelming. Needless to say this is a multi-billion dollar operation for Big Pharma.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-14). 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…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-14). 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…

Dr. Abbas Poorhashemi (2021-08-14). How the Covid-19 Crisis Affects Individual Rights and Freedoms. A New Crisis in International Law? globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on August 14, 2020 One of the direct impacts of the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 is challenging human rights. The pandemic not only created and still creating health issues, economic challenges, political crises …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-14). 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

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-14). 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 (2021-08-14). 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 (2021-08-14). 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…

HEAT (2021-08-14). 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…

Geraldina Colotti (2021-08-14). Peru No Longer Wants to 'Wag Its Tail' in the Backyard of the US. orinocotribune.com By Geraldina Colotti — Aug 11, 2021 | In what stands out as the second progressive wave of this century for Latin America, Peru of rural teacher Pedro Castillo, who assumed the presidency on the bicentennial of independence, promises to do its part. The long and complicated wait for the ratification of the result and the aggressiveness of the conservative forces that support fujimorismo show, however, that it will not be easy for him to implement his projects. | The oligarchy and the large multinational interests, represented by the elites of the urban areas, have formed a ring around the Fuerza Popular part…

Global Research News (2021-08-13). Selected Articles: What Is the Future of Afghanistan? globalresearch.ca By In a coordinated blitzkrieg, the Taliban have subdued no less than six Afghan provincial capitals in only four days. The central administration in Kabul will …

South Front (2021-08-13). Video: Taliban's Unstoppable Force Rolls Through Afghanistan, Towards Kabul. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-08-13). Headlines for August 13, 2021. democracynow.org U.S. Begins Evacuating Afghanistan Embassy Staff as Taliban Seize Kandahar and Herat, China Closes Shipping Terminal over Single COVID-19 Case; Russia Logs Record Death Toll, FDA Approves Third COVID-19 Vaccine Dose for Immunocompromised People, New Orleans, San Francisco to Require Vaccination Card or Negative Test for Indoor Venues, Four Teachers in Florida's Broward County Die of COVID-19 in One Day, Supreme Court Blocks Part of New York Eviction Moratorium Despite Worsening Pandemic, Israel to Resume Building Illegal Settlements in Occupied West Bank, Jewish American Leaders Demand AIPAC Apologize over Islamo…

Vijay Prashad (2021-08-13). Show the children the green fields and let the sunshine into their minds: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2021). mronline.org The turn to digital education has emboldened mega-corporations to enclose the commons of public education, making it harder and harder for the masses of children to have access to any education at all. Big business sees the opportunity clearly.

Prof. Carlos L. Garrido (2021-08-13). Anti-Government Protests in Cuba Provoked by U.S. Embargo Has Right-Wingers Salivating at the Prospect of Regime Change. globalresearch.ca

August H. Nimtz (2021-08-13). Race hustling at George Floyd square: a valuable teaching moment. mronline.org Only "niggers" have the right to employ the example of George Floyd to fight oppression. And, "there are no niggers in Cuba!" So proclaimed someone who identified himself as a "nigger" to a group of us at George Floyd Square on Saturday afternoon, July 31.

The Zinn Education Project (2021-08-13). On the Line: Refusing to Lie, Regardless of the Law. progressive.org On June 12, in more than two dozen cities and towns across the United States, thousands of educators

Peoples Dispatch (2021-08-13). Ecuadorian teachers end hunger strike after court ratified progressive education law. peoplesdispatch.org The National Union of Educators, announced the end of the hunger strike after the Constitutional Court ratified the constitutionality and validity of the Organic Law of Intercultural Education…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-08-13). Heroes or Murderers? Colombian Government Defends Its Mercenaries. globalresearch.ca

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (2021-08-13). Three Charts the Delta Variant Scaremongers Don't Want You to See. globalresearch.ca

David Heller (2021-08-13). Pressure on Unvaccinated Intensifies. globalresearch.ca

Connor Freeman (2021-08-13). Next on the US Agenda: War with China? globalresearch.ca

Robert C. Koehler (2021-08-13). War, Herbicides and Moral Disengagement. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-08-13). Study: 'Blue Hydrogen' In Bipartisan Plan More Polluting Than Coal. popularresistance.org While celebrated as a climate victory by the Biden administration, the large infrastructure bill passed in the U.S. Senate this week includes billions of dollars of funding toward "blue hydrogen," which new research published Thursday finds is more polluting than coal. | The $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure package passed Tuesday includes $8 billion to develop "clean hydrogen" via the creation of four regional hubs. | The White House claims that the bill is in step with President Joe Biden's climate goals and advocates of hydrogen energy champion it as a low-emissions alternative for various uses such as fu…

Philip Giraldi (2021-08-13). Washington's Clueless Ambassadors: Damaging American Interests Is Their Legacy. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2021-08-13). Billionaires Rejoice: COVID Economic Recession Year One: Who Gained, Who Lost. globalresearch.ca

Megan Redshaw (2021-08-13). Fauci Claims Spread of Virus by Unvaxxed Will Lead to More Dangerous Variants, but Experts Say Opposite Is True. globalresearch.ca

Karsten Riise (2021-08-13). Coming War on Taiwan? China Taking over Control of Taiwan's Airspace? globalresearch.ca

Center For Food Safety (2021-08-13). Lawsuit Challenges "Bioengineered" GMO Food Labeling. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-08-13). Show Children The Green Fields And Let The Sunshine Into Their Minds. popularresistance.org Exactly two years ago, I walked with my colleagues from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research through the Camp Marielle Vive ('Marielle Lives') outside of Valinhos in the state of Sà£o Paulo, Brazil with a great sense of déjà vu. The camp resembles so many other communities of the desperately poor on our planet. The United Nations calculates that one in eight people on our planet — one billion human beings — live in such precariousness. The homes are made of a jumble of materials: blue tarpaulin sheets and bits of wood, corrugated iron sheets and old bricks. A thousand families live in C…

Elizabeth Woodworth (2021-08-13). COVID-19 and the Shadowy "Trusted News Initiative" globalresearch.ca

Brian Shilhavy (2021-08-13). CDC's Own Stats Show 1,270 Premature Fetal Deaths Following COVID Shots but Recommend Pregnant Women Get COVID Injections. globalresearch.ca

Michael Jansen (2021-08-13). By Failing to Deliver, Biden, Like Trump, Further Undermined Global Trust in US. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-13). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: The COVID-19 delta variant has changed everything. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A fourth COVID-19 surge is blanketing the U.S., and the delta variant is the culprit. "Where did this delta variant come from? It came from unvaccinated people getting infected in large numbers allowing the virus to continue mutating," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. In the past, a person with COVID-19 might infect two to four people. But with the delta variant, one person can infect…

Global Research News (2021-08-13). Selected Articles: Worse than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19. globalresearch.ca By So-called Delta or "Indian" variant is spreading like chicken pox we are told, but not what that …

_____ (2021-08-13). Let's Honor Social Security's Anniversary by Boosting Seniors' Benefits. commondreams.org "I would say the scientists have done their job and now policymakers have to do their own job," said one climate researcher frustrated by the lack of serious action on the existential crisis.

Dr. Russell Blaylock (2021-08-13). Vaccines: What You Need to Know for Informed Consent. Dr. Russell Blaylock. globalresearch.ca

John Pilger (2021-08-13). A Day in the Death of British Justice. globalresearch.ca

Children's Health Defense (2021-08-13). We've Never Seen Vaccine Injuries on this Scale — Why Are Regulatory Agencies Hiding COVID Vaccine Safety Signals? globalresearch.ca

Lech Biegalski (2021-08-13). Are the COVID-19 Vaccines and Emergency Measures Still Legal? globalresearch.ca

Rodney Atkinson (2021-08-13). UK Vaccine Fatality Rate Higher than Virus, Official Lies, Money Corrupts Medicine. globalresearch.ca

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