Monthly Archives: April 2022

2022-04-05: News Headlines

Jamal Rich (2022-04-05). D.C. hit by mass student debt protest before payments resume in May. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Monday, April 4 at noon, student debtors and allies from across the United States came to the Department of Education to demand that the Biden administration cancel all federally-held student loan debt. The rally and march was held by the Debt Collective, which is a union for debtors. "Just like workers need to …

Mark Gruenberg (2022-04-05). A Poor People's Pandemic Report links poverty, race, coronavirus deaths. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Poverty is inextricably linked with the almost one million U.S. deaths, so far, from the coronavirus pandemic, a new and detailed report says. And the county-by-county statistics also reveal a disproportionate impact on people of color, it adds. A Poor People's Pandemic Report: Mapping The Intersection Of Poverty, Race And Covid-19—the formal name for the …

____ (2022-04-05). New Zealand student with Long COVID denounces abandonment of public health measures. wsws.org A 22-year-old Wellington student spoke to the WSWS about her experience with Long COVID and her deep concern at the Labour government's decision to lift public health restrictions while infections and deaths are surging.

____ (2022-04-05). Sacramento teachers' strike called off. wsws.org Late Sunday night SCTA and SEIU called off an eight-day strike of teachers and school workers in Sacramento, reaching a sellout deal with the district and leaving workers in the dark about contract details.

Shane Quinn (2022-04-04). The Alarming Rise of Ukraine's Neo-Nazi MPs Since the 2014 "Pro-democracy Revolution" globalresearch.ca Over elapsing time from the February 2014 US-instituted "pro-democracy revolution", an ever expanding group of neo-Nazis has been elected to office in the Ukrainian parliament. Over the past five years of what the Washington Post calls "fledgling democracy"

Staff (2022-04-04). Betsy DeVos and Her Family Are Flooding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis With Cash. truthout.org Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her family have donated more than $280,000 to back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' re-election effort amid his crackdown on discussions of race and sexual orientation in schools. | DeVos, who served four years as former President Donald Trump's education chief, personally contributed $5,500 to a super PAC backing DeSantis' re-election bid last month, according to state

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-04-04). Bombshell Document Dump on Pfizer Vaccine Data. globalresearch.ca What is contained in Pfizer's confidential report is detailed evidence on the impacts of the "vaccine" on mortality and morbidity. This data which emanates from the Horse's Mouth can be used to confront as well formulate legal procedures against Big Pharma, the governments, the WHO and the media.

Doctors for COVID Ethics (2022-04-04). J'Accuse! The Gene-based "Vaccines" Are Killing People. Governments Worldwide Are Lying to You the People, to the Populations They Purportedly Serve. globalresearch.ca The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the 'Covid' vaccine programme be halted immediately.

F. William Engdahl (2022-04-04). "We are Human Guinea Pigs": Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action. globalresearch.ca Official US and EU data confirm alarming numbers of deaths and permanent paralysis as well as other severe side effects from the experimental mRNA vaccines. It is now clear that we are being asked to be human guinea pigs in an experiment that could alter the human gene structure and far worse.

Reynard Loki (2022-04-04). Kids Are Really Worried About the Climate Crisis. independentmediainstitute.org Middle school student activists write their elected representatives to urge climate action. By Reynard Loki, Independent Media Institute 17 min read In 2019, Earth | Food | Life writing fellow Lucy Goodchild van Hilten, a science writer and mother of a young child, wrote a piece titled, "How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change." …

Leonid Savin (2022-04-04). L'Ukraine et la cyberguerre. thealtworld.com Dans sa récente interview avec la chaàÆne de télévision japonaise TBS, le président de la Biélorussie Alexandre Loukachenko a déclaré que les cyber-armes sont plus dangereuses que les armes nucléaires. Il a expliqué que ces armes sont difficiles à détecter et que "nous ne sommes pas prêts à avoir peur de la cybercriminalité et des cyberarmes". Il y a de la logique dans ses propos. Si nous considérons l'informatique comme la science de la rétroaction et de l'interaction homme-machine, alors les armes nucléaires font également partie des cyber-armes, bien que nous ayons l'habitude de considérer le "cyber" uni…

____ (2022-04-04). Hinduism — The Secrets of the Vedas. transcend.org "One finds two theorems in modern science which have a profound spiritual echo, wrote in 1926 Sri Aurobindo, India's avatar of the Modern Age: "First that atoms are masses of swirling structures, like the solar system; and then that all the atoms are constituted of the same elements… (read on)…

Fight Back (2022-04-04). Red theory: Dialectics or metaphysics, two methods of analysis. fightbacknews.org In our last article we saw that Marxism-Leninism bases itself on a materialist worldview. But we saw, at the same time, that materialism as it came to be understood with the rise of bourgeois society was still metaphysical in its method of analysis. At this point, let's look at the difference between the metaphysical and dialectical method. Then we can better understand how Karl Marx established the philosophical basis of revolutionary science, dialectical materialism. | Metaphysics is a subject of philosophy that really begins, at least in the West, with Aristotle in ancient Greece, and is intended to look at th…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-04-04). Government numbers show depression virtually over, for now. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The coronavirus-caused economic Depression is apparently over, at least for workers, for now, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. But the public mood is different, and that's a problem for the Biden administration. And with Republicans in Congress hamstringing further funds to battle the modern-day plague—despite the threat of yet another variant—that could quickly change, …

_____ (2022-04-04). Parents And Students Organize Sit-In In Solidarity With Striking Sacramento Teachers. popularresistance.org In an incredible show of solidarity, Sacramento parents and students have organized a sit-in to support striking teachers and support staff. Parents have been camping out at district headquarters in the Serna Center, calling for the school board to meet with teachers and reach an agreement. They are watching movies and playing board games, and have vowed to continue the sit-in until the district takes action. These community-led tactics demonstrate the interconnectedness between teachers and their communities. | Since March 23, 4,000 educators in Sacramento have been on strike demanding higher pay in pace with in…

_____ (2022-04-04). Parents And Students Sit-In In Solidarity With Striking Teachers. popularresistance.org Sacramento, California – In an incredible show of solidarity, Sacramento parents and students have organized a sit-in to support striking teachers and support staff. Parents have been camping out at district headquarters in the Serna Center, calling for the school board to meet with teachers and reach an agreement. They are watching movies and playing board games, and have vowed to continue the sit-in until the district takes action. These community-led tactics demonstrate the interconnectedness between teachers and their communities. | Since March 23, 4,000 educators in Sacramento have been on strike demanding h…

____ (2022-04-04). Sacramento teachers: No return to work without seeing the contract! wsws.org The SCTA and SEIU are ordering teachers back to work on 12-hours notice without providing any details of the contract. Teachers must reject this effort to sell out teachers and their students!

_____ (2022-04-04). 'Pick Up the Pen, Joe': DC Protest Calls on Biden to Cancel Student Debt. commondreams.org "If Biden restarts payments on May Day we know that nearly eight million people will be pushed into default," said one Debt Collective organizer. "We don't need to pause this crisis, we need to end it."

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-04). Educators up in arms in Belgium demanding pay rise, smaller classrooms. peoplesdispatch.org Schools teachers across Belgium are suffering due to the combined effect of the COVID-19 crisis, harsh workloads, crippling infrastructure, inconsistent sectoral agreements and the insensitivity of the government. Now, the worsening cost of living crisis marked by higher energy prices has pushed teachers to the brink…

Editor (2022-04-04). Briefing: World hunger and the war in Ukraine. mronline.org The New Cold War is rapidly heating up, with severe consequences for people around the world. Our new series, Briefings, provides the key facts on these matters of global concern.

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2022-04-04: News Headlines

Shane Quinn (2022-04-04). The Alarming Rise of Ukraine's Neo-Nazi MPs Since the 2014 "Pro-democracy Revolution" globalresearch.ca Over elapsing time from the February 2014 US-instituted "pro-democracy revolution", an ever expanding group of neo-Nazis has been elected to office in the Ukrainian parliament. Over the past five years of what the Washington Post calls "fledgling democracy"

Staff (2022-04-04). Betsy DeVos and Her Family Are Flooding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis With Cash. truthout.org Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her family have donated more than $280,000 to back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' re-election effort amid his crackdown on discussions of race and sexual orientation in schools. | DeVos, who served four years as former President Donald Trump's education chief, personally contributed $5,500 to a super PAC backing DeSantis' re-election bid last month, according to state

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-04-04). Bombshell Document Dump on Pfizer Vaccine Data. globalresearch.ca What is contained in Pfizer's confidential report is detailed evidence on the impacts of the "vaccine" on mortality and morbidity. This data which emanates from the Horse's Mouth can be used to confront as well formulate legal procedures against Big Pharma, the governments, the WHO and the media.

Doctors for COVID Ethics (2022-04-04). J'Accuse! The Gene-based "Vaccines" Are Killing People. Governments Worldwide Are Lying to You the People, to the Populations They Purportedly Serve. globalresearch.ca The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the 'Covid' vaccine programme be halted immediately.

F. William Engdahl (2022-04-04). "We are Human Guinea Pigs": Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action. globalresearch.ca Official US and EU data confirm alarming numbers of deaths and permanent paralysis as well as other severe side effects from the experimental mRNA vaccines. It is now clear that we are being asked to be human guinea pigs in an experiment that could alter the human gene structure and far worse.

Reynard Loki (2022-04-04). Kids Are Really Worried About the Climate Crisis. independentmediainstitute.org Middle school student activists write their elected representatives to urge climate action. By Reynard Loki, Independent Media Institute 17 min read In 2019, Earth | Food | Life writing fellow Lucy Goodchild van Hilten, a science writer and mother of a young child, wrote a piece titled, "How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change." …

Fight Back (2022-04-04). Red theory: Dialectics or metaphysics, two methods of analysis. fightbacknews.org In our last article we saw that Marxism-Leninism bases itself on a materialist worldview. But we saw, at the same time, that materialism as it came to be understood with the rise of bourgeois society was still metaphysical in its method of analysis. At this point, let's look at the difference between the metaphysical and dialectical method. Then we can better understand how Karl Marx established the philosophical basis of revolutionary science, dialectical materialism. | Metaphysics is a subject of philosophy that really begins, at least in the West, with Aristotle in ancient Greece, and is intended to look at th…

____ (2022-04-04). Hinduism — The Secrets of the Vedas. transcend.org "One finds two theorems in modern science which have a profound spiritual echo, wrote in 1926 Sri Aurobindo, India's avatar of the Modern Age: "First that atoms are masses of swirling structures, like the solar system; and then that all the atoms are constituted of the same elements… (read on)…

____ (2022-04-04). Sacramento teachers: No return to work without seeing the contract! wsws.org The SCTA and SEIU are ordering teachers back to work on 12-hours notice without providing any details of the contract. Teachers must reject this effort to sell out teachers and their students!

Editor2 (2022-04-03). Russia-Ukraine Conflict Highlights Racist Double Standard in the West. orinocotribune.com By Wu Chaolan — Mar 21, 2022 | The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has garnered widespread attention across the globe. The wall-to-wall coverage and outpouring of reactions to the Russia-Ukraine conflict from the West has raised eyebrows at its double standard toward other humanitarian crises, which has unsheathed flagrant racist and biased attitudes toward the value of non-white lives that also matter. | CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D'Agata, for instance, has faced a widespread backlash due to his discriminatory comments on the Ukraine crisis: "This isn't a place, with all due respect, like…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-03). Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing Through the Fog of the Information War. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Rockhill Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021. (Genya Savilou/AFP) On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a "special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine." Western bourgeois media immediately decried these stated goals, regularly repeating that the allegations of…

Michael Welch (2022-04-03). Ukraine: Countering the Spin. "The Propaganda War". Max Blumenthal. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-04-03). Reopening of Iranian schools after 2 years. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 03 (MNA) — All the schools in Iran reopened on Sunday after two years of online education due to the pandemic.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-03). Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine once again ranks among top 10% in the nation in U.S. News & World Report's 'Best Medical School' rankings. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — U.S. News & World Report released its 2023 "Best Graduate Schools" rankings on Tuesday, March 29. Ranked in the top 10% of medical schools in the U.S. for the sixth consecutive year is Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. The school is ranked No. 14 in the 2023 Best Graduate School rankings for "Best Medical Schools" in research, and overall — part of a three-way tie with two other medical schools. "To…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-03). Mayo Clinic Minute: What is chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Roughly 620,000 new cases of lymphoma were diagnosed worldwide, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International's 2020 report. Survival rates have improved as advances develop in treatment, such as chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy). Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/PwvoDnhJLU0 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 02) is available in the downloads at the end of…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-03). Arizona couple donates Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Scottsdale, Ariz. — Thomas R. and Ruth Ann Hornaday of Paradise Valley, Arizona, have donated the Collaborative Research Building to Mayo Clinic. The 110,000-square-foot biomedical research facility, which opened on Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus in 2005, is valued at $64.4 million. The Collaborative Research Building houses laboratory-based research activity at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians and other investigators are leading the scientific discovery of the mechanisms of human disease, as well as…

ecns.cn (2022-04-03). Comicomment: What is the purpose of U.S. research in Ukraine-based biolabs?>. ecns.cn The recent revelation of the U.S. biological military activities in Ukraine has sparked widespread concerns.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-03). Taking Mayo Clinic research beyond the lab and into space. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It's a historic mission to space, and Mayo Clinic research will be on board. Larry Connor, a Mayo Clinic benefactor, well-known philanthropist and CEO of The Connor Group, will make history in April 2022 when he pilots the first-ever all-civilian flight to the International Space Station. Connor will take part in some research projects for Mayo Clinic during the 10-day Axiom Space flight. Watch: Taking Mayo Clinic research beyond the lab and into space. youtu.be/bdjrGrgH6nk

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-03). New computational model proposed for Alzheimer's disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have proposed a new model for mapping the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease to brain anatomy. This model was developed by applying machine learning to patient brain imaging data. It uses the entire function of the brain rather than specific brain regions or networks to explain the relationship between brain anatomy and mental processing. The findings are reported in Nature Communications. "This new model can advance our understanding of how…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-03). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 metrics improve, expert still urges caution. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 continue to decline, leading to some optimism about the way forward from pandemic to endemic. But experts still urge caution as the omicron subvariant, named BA.2, has quickly become the dominant strain in the U.S. "When you look around the nation, all of the metrics, with the exception of BA.2, have fallen precipitously," explains Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "But we need to be very cautious about…

____ (2022-04-03). Chilean court sentences military personnel for burning alive student protesters in 1986. wsws.org The "Caso Quemados" (case of the burnt ones) occurred in the midst of demonstrations against depression-level unemployment, poverty and bloody repression under the Pinochet dictatorship.

_____ (2022-04-03). Italian Students Are Rising Up Against Exploitation. popularresistance.org On January 21, 18-year-old Italian high school student Lorenzo Parelli died after being hit by a heavy metal beam while working at a factory in Lauzacco, a small town in northern Italy. The accident happened on the last day of Lorenzo's alternanza scuola-lavoro ("school-work alternation") internship as part of a mandatory work-placement program for high school students. | In an attempt to individualize the responsibility for this tragedy, investigators are now wasting time and resources to determine who is to blame for Lorenzo's death. Meanwhile, they are letting the neoliberal capitalist death machine that legit…

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