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2022-03-12: News Headlines

Fight Back (2022-03-12). Minneapolis teachers and education assistants holding strong on Day 4 of strike! fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) strike entered its fourth day on Thursday March 11 as Minneapolis Public Schools remained closed. Picket lines continued to have large crowds with many schools reporting 100% turnout to their picket lines every day of the strike, and the others reporting nearly all educators on their lines. | Each day of the strike so far has featured morning pickets at schools starting at 7: 30 a.m. and a large unity action happening mid-day or early afternoon. On Tuesday at noon a large rally of around 7000 educators and supporters was held at the Davis Center…

Elizabeth Ankunda (2022-03-12). 259 schools to be constructed in subcounties without seed schools, says Janet Museveni. plusnews.ug The First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni has said that under the Inter-Government Fiscal Transfer (UgIFT) programme, Government has a plan of constructing upto 259 schools in Sub- counties without Seed Schools. Speaking at the Commissioning of Kigarama Seed School in Sheema District on Friday, the First Lady, noted the construction …

ecns.cn (2022-03-12). Employment, education high on government agenda this year. ecns.cn Employment, education and healthcare are high on the agenda this year so that people's livelihoods can be continuously improved, according to Premier Li Keqiang.

Carlos L. Garrido (2022-03-12). The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography. By: Marcello Musto. (Book Review). orinocotribune.com By: Carlos L. Garrido — Mar 7, 2022 | Marcello Musto's The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography provides an illuminating glance at the work and life of Karl Marx during the most unexamined period of his life. Musto's oscillation between Marx's work and life provides readers with both an intellectual allurement towards research in Marx's later years, a task facilitated by the 1998 resumed publication of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2) (which has sense published 27 new volumes and

ecns.cn (2022-03-12). Study reveals why women more prone to Alzheimer's. ecns.cn An international team of researchers has found that follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) may have led to a higher incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) among older women, providing a possible treatment target for the disease.

Farrokh Habibzadeh (2022-03-12). [Correspondence] Disparity in the selection of patients in clinical trials. thelancet.com Evidence-based medicine is the universally accepted cutting-edge standard of care. The framework heavily relies on protocols typically derived from the systematic reviews of randomised clinical trials (RCTs), the gold standard of research in biomedical sciences. However, the results obtained from RCTs might not be applicable to real-world populations if the study sample was not representative of real populations of patients.

ecns.cn (2022-03-12). China planning global system for precision meteorological monitoring. ecns.cn China is planning the construction of a new global system for gathering high-precision meteorological data based on the interpretation of signals beamed down from satellites, according to the second institute of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Ltd. (CASIC).

Andrew Robinson (2022-03-12). [Perspectives] Shocking discoveries and mysteries. thelancet.com Despite more than a century of neuroscience since Santiago Ramón y Cajal proposed his neuron theory, "The brain remains largely an electrical black box. We send electrical signals in and we get electrical signals out, but what it all exactly means is open to a lot of interpretation and some intense controversy", remarks health physicist Timothy Jorgensen in his new book. Even so, neuroscience and the application of electricity to medicine have made striking progress, without a profound understanding of how neurons and electricity control brain functioning, behaviour, and consciousness.

G. Dunkel (2022-03-11). Student-community-labor coalition grows in New York City. workers.org New York City A growing student-community-labor coalition held a large rally March 6 on demands related to New York City educational institutions. After gathering at Brooklyn Borough Hall, participants marched over the Brooklyn Bridge to Foley Square in Manhattan. Brooklyn Borough Hall, March 6 WW Photo: G. Dunkel Key organizers . . . |

Fight Back (2022-03-11). Day two of Minneapolis teachers strike. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – Thousands of striking Minneapolis teachers, education support professionals, along with supporters rallied at the Capitol Building in Saint Paul, March 9. Educators are firm in demanding a decent contract, and state they are ready to stay on strike until their demands are met. There has been widespread support from other trade unions and the community.

Kevin Mwanza (2022-03-11). Russia: The US Must Explain Bioweapons Research In Ukraine, We Have Proof. moguldom.com Russia says it found proof during its "special operation in Ukraine" that the U.S. was working with Ukrainian laboratories to develop bioweapons. The U.S. denied the renewed Russian accusations, calling the claims "laughable" and counter claiming that Moscow may be laying groundwork to use chemical warware in Ukraine, according to a Reuters report. "We confirm …

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-11). COVID-19 mapper reveals symptom variation between countries and health status. imperial.ac.uk Imperial research has unveiled how COVID-19 symptoms varied between country and health condition in 2020 in partnership with symptom mapper Healthily.

WSWS (2022-03-11). US media continues coverup of State Department admission of biological weapons labs in Ukraine. wsws.org For three days, major news outlets in the US have refused to report on the extraordinary acknowledgement by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland on Tuesday that there are "biological research facilities" in Ukraine.

Steven Rosenfeld (2022-03-11). Mailed ballots boosted 2020's turnout—will it work in 2022? nationofchange.org New research on the 2020 election confirms that mailed-out ballots boost turnout—especially when there are no bureaucratic hurdles for voters.

Editor (2022-03-11). Socialist planning could reverse sobering findings in new UN climate report. mronline.org The latest UN Climate Report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability released Feb. 28 once again urges immediate action and outlines the catastrophic effects that humanity faces with the continued lack of meaningful action. Compiled by 270 researchers from 67 countries, it outlines the impacts that are already unfolding and how these disasters will increase even …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-11). Nuclear War is "On the Table". Build Awareness. Say No to Joe Biden's $1.2 Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program! globalresearch.ca Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"?

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-11). Russophobia and Discrimination the New Pandemic. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and, endowed as they are with reason and conscience, should behave towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Universal Declaration of Human Rights It is unworthy for countries that claim to be "civilized" or that call themselves "developed"…

Ann Brown (2022-03-11). Black America Defends Chair-Throwing Teacher After He Was Busted In Head By Chair-Throwing Student. moguldom.com Chairs were hurled around in a Texas middle school classroom resulting in a male substitute teacher being hit in the head, and several students pulled out their cell phones and recorded the whole thing. As captured on video, the teacher threw a chair back at the student who hit him in the head with a …

Daniel Figueroa (2022-03-11). Oakland communities rally to keep schools open. peoplesworld.org OAKLAND, Calif.—Students, teachers, parents, community members, and local activist leaders are stepping up their struggle to stop school closures and mergers in this city, which are largely affecting Black and Brown students and families. A crowd of nearly 200 rallied at International Blvd. and 66th Ave. on the morning of March 5, on what had …

imperial.ac.uk (2022-03-11). Minister for the Cabinet Office meets cyber security experts at Imperial. imperial.ac.uk Minister for the Cabinet Office, Michael Ellis QC MP, met Imperial academics and students to discuss cybersecurity and resilience.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Masking recommendations lifted as COVID-19 continues to ravage Arkansas. wsws.org Despite the continued spread of COVID-19 and an average of 27 deaths per day, mask-wearing recommendations have been lifted in 32 of the 75 counties in the state, where schools have witnessed a particularly sharp increase in COVID-19 cases amongst students and educators.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Australia's state-funded broadcaster pumping out pro-war anti-Russian propaganda. wsws.org ABC's "Media Watch" said nothing about the censorship and removal of a Russian-Australian student from the network's "Q+A" program only four days earlier.

WSWS (2022-03-11). US educators call for building a mass movement to prevent World War III and end the pandemic. wsws.org Rank-and-file committees of educators, parents and students met across the US last weekend to adopt a resolution opposing the drive to World War III and calling for a mass movement of the working class to stop the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Chicago-area teachers and staff strike over pay, class sizes. wsws.org After working without a contract since the start of the school year, Proviso Township teachers, just outside Chicago, launch strike action.

WSWS (2022-03-11). Striking Minneapolis teachers denounce increased military funding while schools starve: "War fills the capitalists' coffers" wsws.org The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers has already dropped its call for a 20 percent raise in the first year of the contract, bowing before the Democratic Party's demands for austerity as the war drive accelerates.

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