Daily Archives: November 18, 2021

2021-11-18: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-18). Biden infrastructure bill nixes all education funding as schools remain epicenter of COVID-19 spread. wsws.org The Biden administration's infrastructure bill puts to rest any claims that this president or the Democratic party as a whole has any real concern for the needs of public schoolchildren.

ecns.cn (2021-11-18). New drug shows promise in treating COVID-19. ecns.cn DXP-604, a new neutralizing antibody medicine to treat COVID-19 which has been approved for compassionate use with patients at the Beijing Ditan Hospital, has shown good results in phase 2 clinical trials, Science and Technology Daily reported on Thursday.

Staff (2021-11-18). Headlines for November 18, 2021. democracynow.org White House Plan Would Expand U.S. Vaccine Production by One Billion Doses a Year, House Censures Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar for Violent Video Targeting AOC, "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley Gets 41 Month Prison Term for Role in Capitol Riot, Attorneys for Teen Gunman Kyle Rittenhouse Ask Judge to Declare Mistrial, Travis McMichael, Who Shot and Killed Ahmaud Arbery, Testifies in Own Defense , Students Walk Out of Oklahoma Schools to Protest Planned Execution of Julius Jones, Two Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated, Biden Administration to Hold Massive Auction for Oil and Gas Leases in Gulf…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-18). Anti-Communism, Anti-Blackness, and Imperialism. libya360.wordpress.com Dr. Charisse Burden Stelley In this talk prepared for the Albuquerque Anti-War Coalition's Anti-Communism & Imperialism panel discussion, Dr. Charisse Burden Stelley discusses how anti-communism and anti-Blackness are intrinsically intertwined structures of white supremacist and capitalist control. Transcript Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Charisse Burden Stelley and I am a professor of Africana studies in political science…

Landless Rural Workers' Movement (2021-11-18). 100,000 people have become literate through MST education programs in Brazil. peoplesdispatch.org In 37 years of struggle, the MST has already enabled more than 100,000 people throughout Brazil to become literate. The work has been based on the Cuban literacy method "Yes, I can" and Paulo Freire's Brazilian Cultural Circle…

Global Research News (2021-11-18). Selected Articles: Vaccinated People Are Up to Nine Times (9X) More Likely to be Hospitalized than Unvaccinated People. globalresearch.ca By In the spring of 2021, before the emergence of the Delta variant, Israel had been the first country in …

Mohamed Osman (2021-11-18). Sudan Is Backsliding Dangerously. fpif.org In September, I sat down in Khartoum with the mother of a medical student killed by security forces during Sudan's 2018-2019 protests. | "The reason why I wake up every day is that I have a little hope that I can find justice for my son," she confided. "This will not be only for him, but to prevent other parents from having to face the devastation of losing their children because of state violence." | In this period of uncertainty for Sudan, one thing is clear: It would be fundamentally wrong and dangerous to jettison justice for serious past and more recent abuses in the name of political expediency. | Our resea…

Editor2 (2021-11-18). No One is Going to Rain on Our Party! orinocotribune.com By Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba — Nov 12, 2021 | On November 15, Cuba will reopen its borders, students will return to school; Havana, the capital of dignity, will await its 502nd anniversary, to celebrate as it has not been able to do in the last two years. National life will resume its course, with the greatest joy, but alert. | In direct contradiction with President Biden's recent declarations before the United Nations General Assembly in support of multilateralism and cooperation in the global struggle against the pandemic at a global level, the blockade of Cuba has been…

WSWS (2021-11-18). Students and teachers walk out at Detroit high school over COVID-19 policies. wsws.org Students and teachers at Martin Luther King High School walked out on Wednesday to protest the school administration's COVID-19 policies and failure to stop the pandemic, which is now surging in Detroit and Michigan.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-18). Greeks mark 48th anniversary of Polytechnic uprising with massive mobilizations. peoplesdispatch.org The Athens Polytechnic uprising of 1973 started as a student strike which escalated into a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the US-backed right-wing military junta. The uprising was brutally suppressed on November 17…

Zeyu Wang (2021-11-18). F&M Students Express Support for Intellectual Freedom. zcomm.org We unconditionally uphold the value of freedom of speech and condemn foreign intervention with an explicit agenda from Israel…

WSWS (2021-11-18). Sri Lankan teachers' unions shut down all protests. wsws.org Contrary to the unions' claims, the deal is a betrayal of the teachers, with a paltry wage increase that has already been wiped out by rampant inflation and the government's removal of price controls on all essentials.

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-17). AP spreads canard of Belarus conducting cyber warfare against NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Report Implicates Belarus in Anti-NATO Cyber Campaign Cybersecurity researchers say they have uncovered evidence that Belarus has been involved in a hybrid hacking and disinformation campaign against Eastern European NATO members since 2016 that aimed to sow discord in the military alliance, steal confidential information and spy on dissidents. Tuesday's report by the prominent U.S. …

Brittani Banks (2021-11-17). The Georgia Way: How to Win Elections. independentmediainstitute.org Corey Shackleford knew he could rely on Georgia's Prince Hall Masons—named after the freed slave who created the civic-minded group's first Black chapter in 1784. "We're in those corners of the state, those rural areas, where others don't normally go. But we are there." Shirley Sherrod, whose Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education has been …

rebekah (2021-11-17). Inflation Is Complicated, but Making It Better Doesn't Have to Be. inequality.org

Kevin Mwanza (2021-11-17). Investor Runs Into Scam Trap On Discord, MetaMask Crypto Wallet, Crypto Wiped Clean. moguldom.com Users of crypto wallets MetaMask and Phantom, as well as the crypto swap platform PancakeSwap, have been targeted in a crypto phishing scam involving the theft of at least $500,000, according to a report from cyber threat intelligence company Check Point Research. Newbie crypto investors, lured by high returns in emerging digital assets, are jumping …

Staff (2021-11-17). Professor who wants to 'destigmatize' pedophilia faces consequences. rt.com Old Dominion University has placed Dr. Allyn Walker on leave, after the non-binary professor spoke out in favor of erasing the "stigma" surrounding pedophilia. The professor's comments incited outrage online. | "Old Dominion University has placed Dr. Allyn Walker on administrative leave, effective immediately, from their position as assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice," read a statement from the Norfolk-based university on Tuesday. The statement added that "the controversy over Dr. Walker's research has disrupted the campus and community environment and is interfering with the institution's m…

The Global Research Team (2021-11-17). Global Research: Access to Information Is the Key to Truth. globalresearch.ca For more than 20 years, Global Research has been bringing our readers a broad spectrum of voices analyzing complex global situations. | And we will continue to do so because we believe that access to information is the key to the …

Whitney Webb (2021-11-17). Wall Street's Takeover of Nature Advances with Launch of New Asset Class. globalresearch.ca

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-11-17). COP26: India Ends Up as Fall Guy. asia-pacificresearch.com

Global Research News (2021-11-17). Selected Articles: Trends in Mortality and Morbidity in the Most Vaccinated Countries. globalresearch.ca By The stakes of this summit were high. The meeting can be summed up as 'one point five to …

F. William Engdahl (2021-11-17). Colossal Financial Pyramid: BlackRock and The WEF "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca First published by …

imperial.ac.uk (2021-11-17). Nature is trying to kill you, but science has your back. imperial.ac.uk A new book explores disease-causing microbes, the tools we've developed to fight them, and the scientists who've advanced infectious disease research.

Newsclick (2021-11-17). COP26: Taking forward agenda of developed countries? peoplesdispatch.org NewsClick's editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha and D. Raghunandan of Delhi Science Forum talk about the hits and misses of the COP26 summit and how the developed countries may have emerged as the winners yet again…

WSWS (2021-11-17). Profit instead of science: The German government's COVID-19 policy. wsws.org A letter signed by dozens of prominent scientists and sent to Germany's federal government sharply criticized the political establishment's failure to prevent mass infection and deaths.

_____ (2021-11-17). Davos Billionaires Want to Save the Planet… Why Don't Developing Countries Trust Them? strategic-culture.org For the time being, the world's developing sector is generally not going to accept being sacrificed on the altar of a new Gaia cult managed by a priesthood of Davos billionaires. | A miracle appears to be happening, as the multibillionaires of the World Economic Forum (WEF) appear to have grown consciences. | As if by magic, it appears that these gold collar elites no longer yearn for profit and power as they once had. As COP26 closes up its 12 day annual ceremonies, leading WEF-connected figures like Prince Charles, Jeff Bezos, Mario Draghi, Mark Carney and Klaus Schwab have announced a new system of economics t…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-17). Bolivian government rejects far-right destabilization attempts and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at Law 1386 repealed by the Bolivian Senate amid protests led by far-right civic committees; a leaked judicial panel report on the violence by police and armed forces during the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria; the tentative agreement reached between student workers and the Harvard University administration in the US; and the political alliance announced by Sara Duterte and Ferdinand Marcos Junior ahead of the 2022 general elections in the Philippines.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-17). The World Stands with Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com Tanya Wadhwa Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel with college students at a peaceful sit-in organized in Havana on Nvember 14. Photo: Miguel Díaz-Canel/Twitter Social movements and organizations around the world organized demonstrations in solidarity with Cuba and in rejection of the US-backed opposition protests planned in the country for November 15 The US-backed counter-revolutionary protests planned…

Cascadia Forest Defenders (2021-11-17). Dozens Risk Arrest to Protest Ongoing Post-Fire Logging In Breitenbush Watershed. itsgoingdown.org Report on mass community action in Oregon in defense of post-fire clear-cutting in the Breitenbush watershed. Detroit, OR — This morning, community organizers defied a closure order and are occupying a road leading to public forest slated for clearcutting in the Willamette National Forest. The organizers are holding a concert and teach-in, discussing the ecology and rich history of…

Staff (2021-11-17). Republican AG sues school district over CRT records. rt.com Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has sued school officials in Springfield for demanding exorbitant fees to respond to his request for records on their teaching of critical race theory (CRT). | The Springfield Public Schools has…

WSWS (2021-11-17). Major staffing shortages at schools throughout the US due to COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org As a result of widespread infections and a mass exodus of teachers from the profession, roughly 40 percent of all district leaders describe their current staff shortages as "severe" or "very severe," according to a recent survey.

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