Daily Archives: October 16, 2021

2021-10-16: News Headlines

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-10-16). Afghanistan: Russia Draws Redlines for U.S. Moscow Will Not Accept U.S. Military Presence in Central Asia. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2021-10-16). Ontario teacher protest for better PPE fiercely opposed by education unions. wsws.org The protest called for school staff across Ontario to wear superior masks to work, such as N95 respirators, rather than the surgical masks mandated by the provincial government and school boards.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-10-16). Expert Alert: Advancing individualized medicine through genomics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The virtual 10th Annual Individualizing Medicine Conference on Oct. 8—9 will highlight the latest discoveries, diagnostics, therapeutics and emerging approaches in the field of genomics. Attendees will hear from renowned experts and learn first-hand how individualized medicine is transforming clinical practice, research and education. Highlighted topics will include artificial intelligence, health disparities, precision oncology, microbiome, genomic clinical applications and challenges, and many others. Taking the virtual center stage will be keynote speakers Gianrico…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-10-16). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Continuing progress in battle against COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org "October is going to be a very exciting month in the U.S., regarding COVID-19 vaccines," says Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "On Oct. 14 the Federal Drug Administration is going to look at COVID-19 boosters for Moderna. On Oct. 15, (the FDA will review) boosters for Johnson & Johnsons' COVID-19 vaccine. And on Oct. 29, the FDA will look at extending emergency use for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children down to…

Dean Baker (2021-10-16). The Preventable Horrors of the Pandemic and the Short Case for Open Research. zcomm.org By allowing the pandemic to spread largely unchecked in the developing world, we gave it the opportunity to mutate into more vaccine-resistant forms that will continue to reverberate in the months and years to come…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-10-16). Bowel cancer: Mayo Clinic Healthcare expert describes role hard-to-see polyps play in cancer risk. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org LONDON — Physicians screening people for bowel cancer are becoming increasingly concerned about a type of polyp once thought harmless: serrated polyps, sawtooth-edged growths in the colon that are flat, nearly translucent, and sometimes difficult to spot during colonoscopies. New research suggests people with serrated polyps should be checked more frequently for bowel cancer, a Mayo Clinic Healthcare expert writes in a commentary in the journal Gut. A serrated polyp after blue dye has been…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-10-16). Who Was Killed in Abbottabad in May 2011? Osama bin Laden or Someone Else? Pentagon Ordered Purge of Osama "Death Files" from Data Bank. globalresearch.ca This article was first published in July 2013 following the Pentagon's Decision to Purge the bin Laden "death files" from the Pentagon's data bank. | The decision was justified "to protect the names of the personnel involved in the …

Raghav Kishore (2021-10-16). [Perspectives] How imperialism, slavery, and war shaped epidemiology. thelancet.com In recent decades, historians have become increasingly attuned to the ways in which empire and imperialism transformed modern conceptions of disease, medicine, and the body. Such scholarship argues that European medical theories were not simply disseminated in imperial territories and that science and medicine should not only be seen as scientific and cultural projects that consolidated imperialism. Instead, the thrust has been to understand how the development of modern ideas of hygiene, sanitation, public health, and disease were themselves produced out of an encounter with empire and subjugated populations.

WSWS (2021-10-16). International Youth and Students for Social Equality demands the immediate reinstatement of Bright Sheng. wsws.org The IYSSE calls on the university administration to retract the slanders against Professor Sheng and immediately invite him to return to the classroom from which the distinguished artist should have never been removed.

Eve Ottenberg (2021-10-15). Toothless: the Build Back Better Bill's Dental Coverage. counterpunch.org There's a lot to be said about teeth. Like, that not having them can be a real problem. Since one out of five American seniors has lost all their natural teeth, this is no minor statistical blip of an irritation. It is a BIG issue. So that's why, for months, Senator Bernie Sanders has told

Peter Weiss, Judy Weiss (2021-10-15). Ban the Use of Drones as Weapons. fpif.org Everyone who followed the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan was horrified by the drone attack, Zemari Ahmadi, who worked for Nutrition and Education International, a U.S.-based aid organization, became the target because he drove a white Toyota, went to his office, and stopped to pick up containers of clean water for his extended family. Those actions, deemed suspicious by the drone surveilla…

Lee Harding (2021-10-15). Bank of Canada Moving Ahead on Preparing a Digital Currency. globalresearch.ca

Niki Vogt (2021-10-15). Now it has Happened: Vaccinated Pilot Dies in Flight. Emergency Landing and Uproar in the Aviation Industry. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-10-15). Video: The Criminal Mindset of the Pentagon: "All Vietnamese Were 'Gooks'", "We Were The Civilized People" globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-10-15). Food As A Spearhead For Gentrification. popularresistance.org I live in San Diego, where I teach courses on urban and food geographies and conduct research on the relationship between food and ethnicity in urban contexts. | In recent years, I started to notice a pattern playing out in the city's low-income neighborhoods that have traditionally lacked food options. More ethnic restaurants, street vendors, community gardens and farmers markets were cropping up. These, in turn, spurred growing numbers of white, affluent and college-educated people to venture into areas they had long avoided. | This observation inspired me to write a book, titled The $16 Taco, about how food [m…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-10-15). The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of "Positive Cases" are Meaningless. The Lockdown Has No Scientific Basis. globalresearch.ca One year later the WHO retracts. They don't say "We Made a Mistake". It's carefully formulated. While they do not officially deny the validity of their misleading January 2020 guidelines, they recommend RT-PCR "Re-testing" (which everybody knows is an impossibility).

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2021-10-15). Funeral Rites for COVID Zero. asia-pacificresearch.com

Jeffrey A. Tucker (2021-10-15). The Vaccine Mandate: Is This Becoming a General Strike? globalresearch.ca

Children's Health Defense (2021-10-15). Biologist Tells RFK, Jr : Science Doesn't Support Vaccine Mandates. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2021-10-15). Selected Articles: Engineered Economic Chaos, "Fake Shortages". Collapse in Industrial Production. globalresearch.ca By Worldwide, large sectors of industry, agriculture a…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-15). The Agribusiness Alliance for a Green Revolution Failed Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Research by Tim Wise (GDAE-Tufts University) is conclusive and fully resonates with claims by Africa's biggest grassroots movement, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa: the corporate capture of food systems should be rejected. Donors and government funding must shift to agroecology. Produced by Lynn Fries / GPEnewsdocs…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-10-15). The Pentagon's Dilemma: The Covid Vaccine Impairs the Performance of U.S. Fighting Forces. globalresearch.ca "Physician and Army Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Long is a rare, courageous truth-teller willing to probably jeopardize a military career for the greater good. To try and steer the Department of Defense to policies that protect military personnel from dangerous and …

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2021-10-15). La respuesta de La Habana al COVID-19: øCayó la Cuba socialista en la "falsa narrativa" de las grandes farmacéuticas? globalizacion.ca Necesitamos ser honestos sobre esta pandemia global que tiene una agenda no tan oculta para llevar a la civilización de regreso a la edad oscura. Es fácil ver lo que está sucediendo a nuestro alrededor con las constantes mentiras sobre…

South Front (2021-10-15). Video: Gruesome Warfare and Artificial Intelligence: Robot Dogs with Assault Rifles. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous103 (2021-10-15). Russia's Arctic Strategy Aimed At Guaranteeing Development. southfront.org Illustrative ImageMoscow wants to strengthen Arctic diplomacy, while the West insists on military plans. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. | Historically, the Arctic has been a Russian-influenced zone. As one of the greatest military powers in the world, Russia tends to expand its projection to geographically close regions, consolidating a broad regional space, in which the North Pole is included. The US, Canada and the European Union for a long time ignored the strategic potential of the Arctic, seeking power projection in other zones, su…

Brian Shilhavy (2021-10-15). Chicago Set to Lose 50% or More of Police Force at Midnight Tonight as Police Union Calls Mayor's Bluff on Reporting COVID-19 Vaccine Status. globalresearch.ca

Juan Cole (2021-10-15). A Yemen Catastrophe that America helped Make (Pearson Inst. Video with Juan Cole). juancole.com Pearson Institute Panel on Catastrophe in Yemen from October 13, with Juan Cole among the panelists. Pearson Institute: Yemen in Neglect My (much more expert-on-Yemen than I) colleagues in this panel: Afrah Nasser is Yemen Researcher, Human Rights Watch. Shadi Abu Sneida is a humanitarian working with UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Yemen. Stacy …

Will Steffen (2021-10-15). Green Left Show #18: Will Steffen on climate policies in the lead up to Glasgow. greenleft.org.au Climate Council member Will Steffen spoke to Green Left about climate science and politics in the lead up to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

Elliott Negin (2021-10-15). To find out if ExxonMobil really supports a carbon tax, just follow the money. peoplesdispatch.org Despite claiming to endorse a carbon tax, ExxonMobil has funneled millions of dollars to lawmakers who oppose the idea. The company's PAC also funded 16 of the climate science deniers in the Senate and 81 in the House…

_____ (2021-10-15). David Miller Speaks Out About Firing And Israel Lobby Smears. popularresistance.org Instead of simply stopping its human rights abuses, the Israeli government has built an extensive and sophisticated public relations network across the West in order to protect itself from criticism. | Today, Lowkey speaks to one of the latest victims of that smear campaign, Professor David Miller. A prominent critic of the state of Israel's policies, Miller was recently sacked from his position as Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, after a pressure campaign involving Zionist student groups and even members of parliament, who accused him of "inciting hatred against Jewish students." | Miller, a…

sputniknews (2021-10-15). Texas Official Caught Instructing Teachers to Balance Holocaust Books With 'Opposing' Views. sputniknews.com Newly surfaced audio recordings have captured the executive director of curriculum and instruction of the Carroll Independent School District in Texas advising teachers that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to "opposing" perspectives.

Alex Bainbridge (2021-10-15). Thousands demand climate action at over 40 #ClimateStrike events. greenleft.org.au More than 10,000 students joined climate strike actions around the country, reports Alex Bainbridge.

WSWS (2021-10-15). UNC Chapel Hill campus mourns suicide and attempted suicide of two students over the weekend. wsws.org Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were distraught to learn of the suicide and attempted suicide of two students over the weekend, the second month in a row in which the university has seen a suicide and attempted suicide by students.

WSWS (2021-10-15). Sri Lankan educators and students support today's global school strike. wsws.org A grade 11 student from Kandy said: "I'd like to go to school with my friends but I'll never sacrifice the lives of myself and my friends to this deadly virus."

It's Going Down (2021-10-15). Fire From Below: Zoe Baker on Lessons from Anarchist History. itsgoingdown.org On this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we speak with anarchist historian and YouTuber, Zoe Baker, about lessons from anarchist history, what past struggles can teach us about the social movements of today, just what the hell an 'anarcho-communist' is, and how anarchists in the past have dealt with the question of organization,…

WSWS (2021-10-15). Sà£o Paulo teachers and public employees strike against attack on pensions. wsws.org Workers are fighting against austerity measures that will have a deep impact on their pensions and working conditions.

WSWS (2021-10-15). Global Online Picket Line: Oct 15 school strike. wsws.org Today—October 15, 2021—parents, teachers and workers in countries around the world are once again supporting the call from UK parent Lisa Diaz for a one day school strike to fight against the deadly reopening of schools as the COVID-19 pandemic rages.

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