Anonymous103 (2022-10-22). Non-Aligned Countries Mobilize To Demand US Answers About Military Biolabs. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageWashington violated international law by conducting illegal biological research. | Written by Gradually, international society is mobilizing to demand answers from the US about its involvement in criminal scientific activities. On October 18, Belarus, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Syria, and Russia invoked the Artic…
WSWS (2022-10-22). Condemn brutal Sri Lankan police attack on student demonstration! wsws.org The ongoing police attacks on student demonstrations are another indication that the Wickremesinghe government will use its repressive powers to crush all those opposing its IMF austerity measures.
Lorcan T. Kilory, M.F.A. (2022-10-22). Ex LAUSD Teacher Files FBI Report Against Disgraced City Council Member Nury Martinez. indybay.org Los Angeles California, Oct. 21, 2022- Lorcan T. Kilroy M.F.A., the dismissed Los Angeles High School Art teacher and the son of award winning Irish Playwright Thomas Kilroy, has now, after concluding 7 years of litigation against now-disgraced former LAUSD Board Member Nury Martinez and others, filed a conclusory report with the F.B.I.
WSWS (2022-10-22). Australian rank-and-file groups call online public meeting: "Unite educators and health workers: Oppose the ending of COVID protection measures! Lives before profit!" wsws.org The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee and the Committee for Public Education call on all workers, students and professional people to register for the November 20 online public meeting.
The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (2022-10-22). Tuesday 12/6: Film screening of Uprising (directed by filmmaker Jon Avnet). indybay.org The Contemporary Jewish Museum | 736 Mission Street | San Francisco, CA 94103…
____ (2022-10-22). University students feel impressed by congress. ecns.cn It was Sunday but not an off day for Filip Filipovic, a master's student at the School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai's Fudan University.
_____ (2022-10-21). Johns Hopkins University Graduate Students Organize For A Living Wage. popularresistance.org The life of a graduate student looks much closer to that of an average worker than many universities care to admit. After completing core courses, most students at this level devote the equivalent of full time working hours or more towards research. Levels of compensation and protections vary across the country, but many graduate students are simply handed paltry stipends that hardly cover their needs, and ultimately amount to pathetic hourly wages. At Johns Hopkins University, many graduate students are producing much-needed research on the COVID-19 pandemic. These students produce vast profits for the universit…
_____ (2022-10-21). The Insidiousness Of Iowa's Chapter 20 Anti-Union Labor Law. popularresistance.org Iowa City, Iowa – On a chilly Friday morning In Iowa City, a handful of graduate students and members of UE Local 896 enter their union office and prepare to call as many fellow workers as they can. Most calls go to voice mail, but those who answer will hear something like this: "Hi there, this is Caleb from our labor union. We're just checking in with folks to see if you've had a chance to vote in our recertification election?" We briefly explain the importance of the election to those who don't know. We need a majority of all 1,932 TAs and RAs, not just members, to vote yes to keep the union legally recognized.
Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-21). 55% of Humanity Does Not Reject the Accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia. libya360.wordpress.com Roger Stoll On October 12, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution rejecting the accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine. The resolution is titled, "Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Defending the Principles of the Charter of the United Nations." It reads, in part: "[The UNGA] Declares that…
SouthFront5 (2022-10-21). Romania Hopes To Turn Moldova Further Away From Russia By Providing Cheap Energy. southfront.org By Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | After Ukraine decided to reduce the export of electricity, Moldova found cheap energy sold by Romanian state-owned hydropower producer Hidroelectrica. In fact, Hidroelectrica is selling its energy to Moldova at a massively reduced price. This is in the hope of pulling Moldova further away from Moscow and towards the EU and NATO. | Hidroelectrica and Moldovan energy trader Energocom signed on October 13 a 100 MW supply contract. Speaking at the…
Max Blumenthal (2022-10-21). Iran's Anti-Morality Police Protests: A Different View From the Ground. towardfreedom.org Setareh Sadeghi, an Esfahan, Iran-based scholar and teacher, provides Max Blumenthal with a complex view of Iran's protests against the country's morality police and the death of Mahsa Amini.
Editor (2022-10-21). Of, by, and for the elite: The class character of the U.S. Constitution. mronline.org In history and civics classrooms all over the United States, students are taught from an early age to revere the "Founding Fathers" for drafting a document that is the bulwark of democracy and freedom—the U.S. Constitution.
____ (2022-10-21). Chinese research team develops software to deal with surface mesh files. ecns.cn A research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed software to deal with 3D surface models in order to improve the visualization effect of fossil and modern biological imaging data.
WSWS (2022-10-21). IYSSE members discuss international movement against war at beginning of semester at Berlin's Humboldt University. wsws.org The IYSSE's fight against universities being centres for war research and right-wing propaganda met with concern among first-year students, who responded positively at the official freshers events at Humboldt University.
Dean Baker (2022-10-21). What Difference Does It Make If Spending Is Over One Year or Forty? None to the New York Times. cepr.net The New York Times continued in its trashing of the economy under President Biden, implying that the 40-year cost of his student loan forgiveness plan will be incurred over a single year. An article reporting on the sharp drop in the deficit in fiscal year 2022, which just ended at the start of the month, …
JANET (2022-10-21). Geopolitical Conflict and the Prospect for Peace: Teach-in Oct 22. iacenter.org
Rann Miller (2022-10-21). Opinion: It's Not That Asian Students Perform Better On The SAT Than Black Students Because They Are Better. The SAT Is Just A Racist Test. moguldom.com On Oct. 4, a tweet from Monitoring Bias shared SAT scores according to racial demographic groups in Michigan. It specifically showed that only 3 percent of Black test-takers scored above 1200 on the SAT versus 47 percent of Asian students, 19 percent of white students, and 8 percent of Latino/a/x students. When I did my …
Eforinoco (2022-10-21). President of Peru Requests OAS to Activate Inter-American Democratic Charter. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 20, a special session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) was convened to analyze the request of the Peruvian government to help maintain democracy in the country after repeated accusations against President Castillo's government from the Peruvian right wing. | The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, made a speech on Wednesday to report that he had asked the OAS to activate the Inter-American Charter in order to avoid a "serious alteration of the democratic order" in the country. The Inter-American Charter affirms that "democracy is and should be the common fo…
WSWS (2022-10-21). Teachers in Haverhill, Massachusetts, defy injunction and continue strike for fourth day. wsws.org Educators in Haverhill remained on strike Thursday despite court injunctions and the union insisting that a settlement on wages had been reached Wednesday night.
Imperial.ac.uk (2022-10-21). Imperial students create low-cost technology solutions to build better world. imperial.ac.uk Five teams of undergraduate students have had the opportunity to develop impactful new technologies in Imperial labs this summer.
____ (2022-10-21). Sinopharm separates monkeypox virus strains; R&D of vaccines and medicine underway. ecns.cn Sinopharm's Wuhan Institute of Biological Products has recently successfully separated monkeypox virus strains from clinical samples of infected patients to help scientific research into the epidemic prevention and control of monkeypox.
WSWS (2022-10-21). Australia: Victoria triple-zero call delays linked to 33 deaths over 18 months. wsws.org A recent report on emergency performance statistics is a damning indictment of the "let it rip" COVID-19 policy of state and federal governments.
____ (2022-10-21). New monkeypox research paves way for domestic vaccine. ecns.cn A Chinese research institute said on Thursday that it has successfully isolated monkeypox virus strains from clinical samples and has begun researching vaccines and drugs for fighting the infectious disease.
Rann Miller (2022-10-20). Opinion: Admiration For Elijah Muhammad Reached Far Beyond His Students And Followers. moguldom.com October 7 marks the date that many followers and students of Elijah Muhammad celebrate the anniversary of his birth, sending out birthday wishes each year to their teacher via social media and other platforms. Born Oct. 7, 1897, Muhammad was the self-proclaimed messenger of Allah who led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his …