Daily Archives: January 19, 2022

2022-01-19: News Headlines

Party for Socialism & Liberation (2022-01-19). Friday 1/21: Virtual Forum: The Crisis in SF Public Education. indybay.org Virtual event. Register here…

WSWS (2022-01-19). Hundreds of students walk out across Manitoba to protest unsafe schools. wsws.org The demands being advanced by the students are an option to enroll in remote learning along with the provision of N95 masks and rapid antigen tests. They are also calling for students to be given immediate access to booster shots and the right to be notified when there is a case reported in their school.

WSWS (2022-01-19). Australian teacher unions collaborate with school reopening drive amid record COVID infections. wsws.org The refusal of the union bureaucracy to defend the basic rights of teachers and school workers has never been as stark as it is now.

WorkWeek (2022-01-19). SEIU Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota,Chicago Teachers/ Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SEIU 1021 Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota, Chicago Teachers & Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid 19, Vermont AFL-CIO On Rise Of Fascism, Journalist Jeremy Portjo's Assault & Argentina General Strike Against A Mining Company.

Robert S. Becker (2022-01-18). How much crass irrationality can self-government stand? Can community wisdom offset howls for mob mayhem? nationofchange.org Trump-proof elections — with energized agendas, expanded voting, critical thinking and compassion Like delivery companies, food production, and all sorts of machinery, democratic self-government must work to be viable. That means spreading enough wealth, services (especially medical), housing, clothing and education to motivate enough key workers to sustain interwoven supply chains. Viability thus depends on …

sputniknews (2022-01-18). Kremlin 'Concerned' by 'Extremely Dangerous' Prospect of Delivery of Stingers to Ukraine. sputniknews.com British defence chief Ben Wallace announced Monday that London is supplying Kiev with weapons for "self defence" and small numbers of trainers to teach the Ukrainian army how to use them. US officials and lawmakers, meanwhile, have warned that they would back a Ukrainian "insurgency" with anti-armour and anti-air weapons if Russia invaded.

Shawgi Tell (2022-01-18). Persistent Discriminatory Enrollment Practices In Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org Privately-operated charter schools are notorious for consistently under-enrolling different groups of students, even though they are ostensibly public schools that are said to be tuition-free and open to all. Few charter schools have a truly diverse student body. Students with special needs, English language learners, and homeless students are the three main groups of regularly …

Staff (2022-01-18). Most Covid jab 'side effects' are not caused by vaccines — study. rt.com Many people are so worried about Covid vaccine 'side effects' they actually feel them even if they get placebo, new research claims | Vast majority of Covid vaccine 'side effects' are caused by people's expectations rather than by the vaccine, Harvard Medical School researchers say, after analyzing the reports of more than 45,000 trial participants. | Various "systemic" side effects, such as headaches, tiredness, and joint pain were reported in both halves of the focus group: among those who received various Covid vaccines, as well as those who unknowingly received placebo. | After analyzing the reports, scien…

Staff (2022-01-18). North Korea launched cyberattack against Russia – media. rt.com One employee's account was allegedly compromised | The North Korean hacker group APT37 attacked the Russian Foreign Ministry and its employees in late 2021 and subsequently compromised the account of a government employee, US information security experts have reported. | According to researchers at US cybersecurity companies Cluster25 and Black Lotus Labs, and later reported by Moscow daily Kommersant, a phishing campaign was targeted at the Ministry back in October. The researchers claim that some employees were sent archives of documents and asked to provide vaccination details, while others were fed with li…

Peter Koenig (2022-01-18). Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario. globalresearch.ca It's an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector.

Dr. Meryl Nass (2022-01-18). Dr. Meryl Nass: My Side of the Story, and the Constitutional protections that I believe are being abridged by the Misinformation Witch Hunt. globalresearch.ca The Constitutional amendments I have excerpted below are the premier law of the land. | States and state agencies are not allowed to abridge these rights, which have been granted to all US citizens. However, my state's Medical Board is trying …

Edward Curtin (2022-01-18). "Orders to Kill" Dr. Martin Luther King: The Government that Honors MLK with a National Holiday Killed Him. globalresearch.ca Few people, in a massive act of self-deception, have chosen to question the official explanation, choosing, rather, to embrace a mythic fabrication intended to sugarcoat the bitter fruit that has resulted from the murder of the one man capable of leading a mass movement for revolutionary change in the US.

Global Research (2022-01-18). Farsa y tragedia en Estados Unidos. globalizacion.ca Hace un año escribimos un ensayo Golpe de estado de Estados Unidos que analizaba los dramáticos eventos del 6 de enero y la toma del Capitolio en Washington por los seguidores del entonces presidente Donald Trump. Un año después, consideramos…

US Department of Justice (2022-01-18). Pfizer Inc. "Fraudulent Marketing": "Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History" (2009). US Department of Justice. globalresearch.ca First posted on Global Research on July 19, 2021 | . | Introductory …

Staff (2022-01-18). HIV can be fooled into an ambush by killer cells — study. rt.com The AIDS-causing virus was completely wiped out in four out of 10 lab mice using promising approach | Researchers have refined a 'kick and kill' approach targeting dormant HIV particles by tricking them out of infected cells into the open to be attacked by the body's natural killer cells, offering hope for a potential cure. | The

Manlio Dinucci (2022-01-18). Il piano Usa di un Afghanistan dentro l'Europa. globalresearch.ca Soldati in assetto di guerra e veicoli corazzati da combattimento sono stati schierati dalla Svezia su Gotland, l'isola nel Mar Baltico a 90 km dalle sue coste orientali. Il ministero della Difesa dichiara che lo ha fatto per difendere l'isola …

Global Research News (2022-01-18). Selected Articles: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates-WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport" globalresearch.ca By Behind its development is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — with support of the Rockefeller Foundation — …

Staff (2022-01-18). Caribbean is Region With Most Per Capita Visits to OrinocoTribune.com. orinocotribune.com Caracas, January 17, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—Last November, Orinoco Tribune celebrated its third anniversary ranked among the top independent media outlets according to the Alexa.com ranking service. Currently, Orinoco Tribune is ranked at position 214 in Venezuela, at the 36K level globally, and at the 86K level in the US. | A few days ago, the Orinoco Tribune team carried out a statistical analysis of the geographic origins of traffic to our website, using data provided by WordPress over the last 12 months. The discovery that struck our team most was that Caribbean countries brought the greatest number…

Gideon Polya (2022-01-18). Excellent Xinjiang Health Statistics vs US Alliance Lies. dissidentvoice.org The US and its allies are countering the re-emergence of China with a Sinophobic confection of new alliances (the AUKUS and the Quad), military threats, jingoism and false propaganda about a falsely claimed Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang. The UK Uyghur Tribunal admits that there have been no mass killings in Xinjiang but absurdly asserts that …

Fight Back (2022-01-18). Dallas rally demands justice for murdered Kerala student leader Dheeraj Rajendran. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – On January 16, progressives gathered downtown at Dallas City Hall to demand justice for Dheeraj Rajendran, an engineering student and member of the Student Federation of India, a mass student movement connected to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), murdered in the Indian state of Kerala by members of the Kerala Students Union and the youth wing of the Indian National Congress. | Dheeraj was murdered by the local branch of the Youth Congress because he was poised to win local school elections at the Government Engineering College of Idukki. | The protest was called by the Dallas Anti-War Committe…

It's Going Down (2022-01-18). This Is America #157: Protests in NYC as Eviction Moratorium Ends; Student Walkouts Spread Across US. itsgoingdown.org Welcome, to This Is America, January 18th, 2022. On this episode, we speak with a student involved in organizing ongoing strikes in the Oakland Unified School District. We talk about the spread of Omicron throughout schools, the impact of sickout actions by teachers, and how students began to self-organize to issue their own demands and…

WSWS (2022-01-18). "Get COVID out of schools!": Hundreds of school occupations in Greece. wsws.org Students in Greece have occupied more than 250 schools in protest against the unsafe reopening of schools following the winter holidays.

WSWS (2022-01-18). Ontario educator's post about allowing infectious students to return to class gives voice to widespread outrage. wsws.org The teacher, Ken, reported that he was made aware that a student with COVID-19 would be returning to his class today just five days after testing positive. "When I raised the concern that the kid is contagious for 10 days, I was told that the guidelines state he can come back after five days," he wrote on Twitter.

WSWS (2022-01-18). Michigan educators and students: Join the fight to close schools and stop the pandemic! wsws.org This statement was adopted by Michigan educators, parents and students to fight plans to reopen schools in Detroit and other cities despite the record-breaking surge in COVID infections and hospitalizations.

sputniknews (2022-01-18). Outcry After Teacher Assigns Students to Translate Sentence Calling Mexican People 'Ugly' – Reports. sputniknews.com The translation assignment included sentences that read, "You (friendly) are Mexican and ugly" and "You (politely) are pretty and American."

WSWS (2022-01-18). Students strike for safe schools: Teachers, parents back walkout in Oakland, California. wsws.org The students join thousands of other educators and young people throughout the country fighting for the emergency closure of schools to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Michelle D. Holmes (2022-01-18). The Folly of School Openings as a Zero-Sum Game. zcomm.org We need to address the needs of students—and parents, and teachers. One size does not fit all, and race complicates the challenge…

WSWS (2022-01-18). Record surge in COVID-19 child deaths as opposition grows among US educators and students. wsws.org The WSWS spoke to educators, parents and students nationwide about conditions in their schools and their thoughts on the most recent collective actions of educators and students across the US and globally.

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-18). NATO recruiting Oman to its Persian Gulf partnership. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are founding members of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative. Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen are prospective members. Sultan Qaboos University of Oman visits NATO Headquarters On 4-5 January 2022, a group of students and faculty members from the International Relations and Security Studies Graduate Programme of the …

WSWS (2022-01-18). Chicago students, teachers and workers: Unite! Close all schools and nonessential workplaces to end the pandemic! wsws.org The fight in Chicago to close schools and save lives is far from over, but the development of this struggle requires a united movement of workers and student youth independent of the big-business parties and the corporatist unions.

sputniknews (2022-01-18). 'Ready to Indoctrinate': Dems Panned For Saying Kids Are Taught What Society 'Needs Them to Know'. sputniknews.com A Saturday post shared by Michigan's Democrats on their official Facebook page, which has since been removed, criticised the idea that parents should be involved in what public schools teach their children, suggesting that they always had the option to send their offspring to a private school at their own expense "if this is what they desire".

WorkWeek (2022-01-18). SEIU Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota,Chicago Teachers/ Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SEIU 1021 Members On Death Of Ludwig Leota, Chicago Teachers & Zero Covid vs Permanent Covid 19, Vermont AFL-CIO On Rise Of Fascism, Journalist Jeremy Portjo's Assault & Argentina General Strike Against A Mining Company.

WSWS (2022-01-18). Australian prime minister demands schools reopen to maintain workforce for corporations. wsws.org Children, teachers, and school workers are being told to accept the risk of infection and serious health consequences in the interests of big business and finance capital.

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