2022-05-04: News Headlines

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-05-04). Washington Will Not Invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to Summit of the Americas. orinocotribune.com Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela will be excluded from participation at the Summit of the Americas, said Brian Nichols, assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the US State Department. | During an interview with the Colombian television channel NTN24, Nichols confirmed the complaint that the Cuban government had recently expressed about its exclusion from the Summit of the Americas. Nichols stated, "Cuba, Nicaragua and the Maduro regime do not respect the Democratic Charter of the Americas and therefore I do not expect their presence." | The Summit of the Americas is scheduled to be held in Los Angeles…

Morning Star (2022-05-04). German unions begin rolling strikes against money for arms. peoplesworld.org GERMAN social services and education workers began rolling strikes on Monday ahead of a new round of pay negotiations on May 16, warning the government not to spend money on arms that should go to raise wages and address climate change. Hundreds of striking social workers paraded through the streets in what the Ver.di general …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-05-04). 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.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-05-04). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-05-04). Science Saturday: Regenerating damaged vocal cords. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cells from amniotic membrane show potential of repairing vocal cord injuries that don't respond to standard care, Mayo Clinic discovered in preclinical research. The placental membrane provides a rich source of epithelial cells that could regenerate damaged tissue. Research by David Lott, M.D., a laryngeal surgeon in Arizona, found epithelial cells extracted after childbirth triggered healing in animals with vocal cord damage. Dr. Lott's paper is published in Stem Cell Research & Therapy. "We believe our study…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-05-04). The Emerging Science Of Long Covid: Many Never Had Symptoms Or Minor Ones But Now Have Long Covid. moguldom.com Up to 30 percent of people who tested positive for the coronavirus have developed long covid, and some who had no symptoms initially are now battling with long-term effects of the virus. Officially known as post-acute sequelae of covid -19 (PASC), long covid is a condition in patients who've tested positive for the coronavirus for …

_____ (2022-05-04). Grinnell College Becomes First Fully Unionized Undergraduate School In U.S. popularresistance.org On April 26, student workers at Iowa's Grinnell College elected to create the first wall-to-wall undergraduate student union in the country, expanding their Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers (UGSDW) to include all hourly student workers. | On March 4, UGSDW and Grinnell College signed "a first-of-its-kind neutrality and election agreement," which, members of the union explained in Labor Notes, "legally binds the College to respect the results of an election." On the night of the 26th — delayed from April 21, the original ballot-count date, after a toxic gas leak at the local National Labor Relations…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-05-04). Baloch students protest repeated enforced disappearances. peoplesdispatch.org Several student groups gave the call for protests after Bebagr Imdad, a Baloch student, was picked up in broad daylight from the premises of Punjab university (PU) in national capital Islamabad…

Sa'iyda Shabazz (2022-05-04). With the Stroke of a Pen, Biden Could Set Millions of Americans Free. otherwords.org President Biden campaigned on a promise to help relieve student debt. Now, after over a year of punting on the issue, he says Student loan forgiveness would be a game changer for so many people, myself included. | My student debt is a dark cloud that hangs over my head. It's not that I don't want to repay my student loans — it's that I simply don't know how to do that and survive. It feels impossible to do both. | There are millions of Americans who feel the s…

Judy Greenspan (2022-05-04). Workers and community power shuts down Oakland. workers.org Oakland, California Despite threats of retaliation from officials in the Oakland Unified School District and the Port of Oakland, teachers and longshore workers went out on strike on April 29. They shut down public schools and the port for the entire day to protest school closures and the pending sale . . . |

Editor (2022-05-03). Political education for all. mronline.org Political education is absent from our current system. The left should be providing alternative means of obtaining it, writes Shamime Ibrahim.

Goldenberg NA, Brandà£o LR, Male C, et al. (2022-05-03). Anticoagulant Therapy for 6 Weeks vs 3 Months in Patients With Provoked Venous Thromboembolism—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Dr Abdelmonem and colleagues raise a concern that by not including asymptomatic recurrent venous thromboembolism, the primary efficacy end point definition in the Kids-DOTT randomized clinical trial may have underestimated the actual event rate. Although we agree that clinically unsuspected venous thromboembolism events were not captured, symptomatic venous thromboembolism is still considered the gold standard for primary efficacy end point reporting in pediatric venous thromboembolism research and by regulatory agencies. As noted in the Discussion section of our article, the rates of symptomatic recurre…

ecns.cn (2022-05-03). More teenagers carry handguns in U.S.: ABC News. ecns.cn An increasing number of teenagers in the United States own their handguns in recent years, ABC News said recently, citing a research report.

Ann Brown (2022-05-03). Biden Planning Executive Order For $10K Of Student Debt Relief: 3 Things For Black America To Know. moguldom.com The pressure on President Joe Biden to forgive student loan debt is mounting. Now, it seems that Biden might be leaning toward issuing an executive order for $10,000 worth of student loan debt. Initially, Biden wanted to pass a debt-relief bill through Congress but is now considering an executive order, Business Insider reported. If he does go …

Evan Branan reporting from Havana (2022-05-03). Over 5 million people march on May Day in Cuba, a country of 11 million. liberationnews.org Led by the slogan, "Cuba Works and Lives," Havana's 2022 May Day parade was attended by more than 700,000 workers and students from across Havana, demonstrating both a joyful celebration and triumphant victory of the Cuban Revolution.

Evan Brannan reporting from Havana (2022-05-03). 5+ million people march on May Day in Cuba, a country of 11 million. liberationnews.org Led by the slogan, "Cuba Works and Lives," Havana's 2022 May Day parade was attended by more than 700,000 workers and students from across Havana, demonstrating both a joyful celebration and triumphant victory of the Cuban Revolution.

Braxton Brewington (2022-05-03). Canceling Student Debt Is Morally Right. It's Also Good Politics for Democrats. truthout.org American indebtedness has never been higher than it is

India Walton (2022-05-03). "Debt shaming" has dampened democracy. nationofchange.org As crucial steps to reduce income inequality, we need to reject "debt shaming" and insist on cancelation of student debt.

WSWS (2022-05-03). Australia: NSW teachers' strike—form rank and file committees, prepare political struggle against government! wsws.org Among teachers, health workers, aged care staff and broader sections, there is a mood of opposition and a desire to fight back. These oppositional sentiments do not find the slightest expression in the official federal election campaigns of the major parties or the media.

ecns.cn (2022-05-03). Hong Kong's secondary schools, kindergartens to resume face-to-face classes in phases. ecns.cn Secondary schools and kindergartens in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) will start resuming face-to-face classes in phases on Tuesday, increasing the number of face-to-face teaching schools to over 2,100.

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