Daily Archives: December 11, 2022

2022-12-11: News Headlines

Ralf Streck (2022-12-11). How critical journalists are muzzled in Europe. indybay.org Besides the case of Julian Assange, the case of the Basque Pablo González has stood out for almost a year now. Poland wants to keep him in solitary confinement for at least a year without presenting any evidence for the accusations of alleged espionage for Russia. His offense is apparently to have done research in eastern Ukraine, which alarms Ukrainian and Polish intelligence.

Labor Video Project (2022-12-11). Hundreds of UC UAW Strikers March & Rally In Sacramento At Capitol. indybay.org Hundreds of striking UC UAW education workers marched and rallied in Sacramento against the union busting and refusal of the administration to meet their demands for living wages, a COLA and. housing.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-12-11). Wreaths Across America "Remember, Honor, Teach" – California Pioneers of African Descent. indybay.org "Remember, Honor and Teach" includes the 1848 Historic Towns of Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar – Gold Mining District…

Arnaud Develay (2022-12-10). "Ukraine conflict is an informational war as well as a military conflict." Interview with Arnaud Develay. globalresearch.ca

Fyodor A. Lukyanov (2022-12-10). Ukraine, Russia, and the New World Order. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović (2022-12-10). The 1991 Dissolution of the USSR: Will Russia Take Decisive Geopolitical Steps Regarding Kosovo? globalresearch.ca

Aarathi Prasad (2022-12-10). [Perspectives] Yin Paradies: transforming organisational and societal cultures. thelancet.com Yin Paradies, the Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Race Relations at Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia started his academic life studying applied mathematics and computing. His first job, at the Indigenous Health Statistics Unit of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, took him towards his work in heath inequalities, on racism as a determinant of Indigenous health in Australia, and his current focus on decolonisation and Indigenous knowledges and perspectives. Paradies, who is a Wakaya man, and "the first person", he says, "in any part of my family to get a PhD", has since published widely on experi…

Rohini Mathur, Christopher T Rentsch, Kavita Venkataraman, Segun Fatumo, Modou Jobe, Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Suan Ee Ong, Angel Y S Wong, Moneeza K Siddiqui (2022-12-10). [Comment] How do we collect good-quality data on race and ethnicity and address the trust gap? thelancet.com The collection of high-quality data on race and ethnicity is essential for identifying inequalities and uncovering patterns of potential disadvantage and racism that might otherwise remain insidious. The terms race and ethnicity encompass a wide and complex range of socially constructed characteristics, including an individual's own self-identification and social determinants of health and wellbeing. The importance of collecting race and ethnicity data was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic; for instance, in the UK, researchers uncovered stark ethnic inequalities1,2 and translated these findings into policy…

WSWS (2022-12-10). Humboldt University students in Berlin support call for an international mass movement against war. wsws.org "NATO must stop with its threatening gestures and expansions to the East and stop its provocations. Capitalism is a global problem. There must be no war that takes place merely for the interests of the rulers. Workers must unite against it."

WSWS (2022-12-10). Youth, students and workers in Australia and New Zealand support global IYSSE anti-war webinar. wsws.org "There can be no future when global destruction is on the horizon. I believe in the international movement against war and I will be present for the IYSSE international webinar."

Saleem Razack, Thirusha Naidu (2022-12-10). [Comment] Honouring the multitudes: removing structural racism in medical education. thelancet.com Structural racism prescribes systems in which policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity.1 Important differential outcomes are based upon race in medical care, within fields as diverse as paediatric surgical outcomes,2 biomedical device design,3 and health-care systems.4 Historically, the uneasy relationship between modern medicine and eugenics, expressed in such broad contexts as the horrors of Nazi "medicine",5 the forced sterilisation of Indigenous women in settler colonial societies,6 and unethical research…

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2022-12-10). Has Big Pharma Hijacked Evidence-Based Medicine? globalresearch.ca

Aarathi Prasad (2022-12-10). [Perspectives] Margo Greenwood: addressing anti-Indigenous racism in health. thelancet.com Margo Greenwood was born in Wetaskiwin, AB, Canada, to a Cree father and English mother, and was raised and educated in Ponoka, AB. Both places are located in Treaty 6 territory. Tragically, Greenwood lost both her parents, "in my mid-teens", she recalls, "and so I was really on my own". It was an experience that influenced the focus of her work. Greenwood is now Professor in the Education programme at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George, BC, Canada. She is also Academic Leader of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health, hosted at UNBC, Interim Scientific Director o…

Aarathi Prasad (2022-12-10). [Perspectives] Thirusha Naidu: shifting power, changing practice. thelancet.com Thirusha Naidu grew up in South Africa, a fourth generation descendent of indentured labourers brought to South Africa in the 1860s. 1994, the year she completed her master's degree in clinical psychology at the University of Durban-Westville, was the same year that apartheid finally came to an end. "Most of my education was during the apartheid era", Naidu says, "and I think that really influenced how I see and think about the world." Now Head of Clinical Psychology at King Dinuzulu Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioural Medicine at the School of Nursing and Public Health, University o…

Mike Ludwig (2022-12-10). Student Debt Relief Opponent Runs to Chair Education Committee for GOP. truthout.org Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina is a vocal opponent of the Biden administration's student debt relief plan and has said she would shutter the Department of Education if given the chance. Foxx has led the Republican minority on the House Committee on Education and Labor since 2017 and is the top candidate to chair the committee when the GOP majority takes over next year. Due to term limit… |

Susan Price (2022-12-10). Philippines: Ecosocialism launched. greenleft.org.au Socialist and environmental activists came together to launch a course of educational seminars on ecosocialism in the Philippines' capital, Manila, on November 25, reports Susan Price.

Aarathi Prasad (2022-12-10). [Perspectives] Marie A Bernard: promoting diversity in research. thelancet.com Marie A Bernard was born in New York City and moved to Oklahoma City, USA, as a young child when her physician parents established a private practice there. "They were told that there were a lot of opportunities for Black doctors in Oklahoma", she says. "It was segregated at that time, segregation that persisted in southern parts of the US for many years…I grew up in a segregated system until doors opened as I entered high school." Following in her parents' footsteps, Bernard studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1976, before training in internal medicine and becoming a faculty membe…

Diego Baptista, Iruka N Okeke, Chisomo Kalinga (2022-12-10). [Comment] How can research funders advance racial equity? thelancet.com Unequal representation in science means that some scientific questions are not getting asked or answered, and crucially, this limits the breadth of research and stifles innovation. For example, it is now known that encouraging broader populations to participate in clinical trials makes better therapies.1 Additionally, we know that increasing the diversity of human genome data can beneficially inform therapeutic development and the direction of genomics more broadly.2 Increasing the diversity of who participates in research careers improves health equity and outcomes by increasing the spread of research problems t…

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2022-12-10). Wie Mitmenschen verstandes- und gefàºhlsmà§àüig erreichen? globalresearch.ca Alle Artikel von Global Research kà∂nnen in 51 Sprachen gelesen werden, indem Sie die Schaltflà§che Website àºbersetzen unterhalb desnewsauthor">Ns des Autors aktivieren. | Um den tà§glichen Newsletter von Global Research (ausgewà§hlte Artikel) zu erhalten, Folgen Sie …

Josh Mitteldorf (2022-12-10). U.S. Senate Roundtable: COVID Policy Has Been a Crime Against Humanity. globalresearch.ca

Michael Snyder (2022-12-10). Climate Change Lockdowns. Yup, They Are Actually Going There… globalresearch.ca Important article by Michael Snyder | I suppose that we should have known that this was inevitable. After establishing a precedent during the pandemic, now the elite apparently intend to impose lockdowns for other reasons as well. | What I have detailed …

Michael Welch (2022-12-10). Is the Pandemic Over? The Worldwide Corona Crisis. Bankruptcies, Unemployment, Famine and Food Insecurity. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-10). Video: The Corona Lockdown, The Most Devastating Crisis in Modern History. What We Need is "Democratic Regime Change". Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca

Talha Burki (2022-12-10). [World Report] Research focus: the Ubuntu Center. thelancet.com The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity brings together academics, residents, organisers, and advocates to advance health. Talha Burki reports.

Udani Samarasekera (2022-12-10). [Perspectives] Senjuti Saha: advocate for equity in global health research. thelancet.com Microbiologist Senjuti Saha is the Director of the non-profit Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a strong advocate for equity in global health research. When she received a grant in 2018 to set up a sequencing facility at CHRF and got the non-governmental organisation's first sequencing machine, she says, "I wanted to show the world that you could be anywhere in the world and be able to sequence. You don't have to ship samples out to the US or UK. You can sequence wherever you are and everybody's capable.

_____ (2022-12-10). How Academic Workers' Leverage Can Grow In A Long-Haul Strike. popularresistance.org California – Forty-eight thousand academic workers have been on strike across the 10 campuses of the University of California since November 14. It's the biggest strike in the country this year. The strikers are in four bargaining units—teaching assistants, student researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and academic researchers—all affiliated with the United Auto Workers. | The following speeches were written for and read out at the Strike to Win Assembly on December 6 at UC Berkeley. This assembly was put together by rank-and-file members from the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, en…

Puja Mehta, Christopher D Buckley (2022-12-10). [Correspondence] "Your people have always been servants": internalised racism in academic medicine. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests catalysed a global racial awakening, intensifying an outcry to abolish structural racism, including making science more equitable and accountable. Many minoritised people had an epiphany: that we are standing at the foot of a "hostile obstacle course",1 which contrasts with the popular, but passive, leaky pipeline analogy.

Udani Samarasekera (2022-12-10). [Perspectives] Ntobeko Ntusi: valuing a culture of inclusivity and reciprocity. thelancet.com Before our interview, Ntobeko Ntusi, Chair and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, had been doing a bedside tutorial with students. He highlighted the different way they had presented the Black and White patients. "I asked the students why it is important to clarify the HIV status of Black patients when you present them when it has no bearing on their clinical presentation. And you can see the dumbfounded faces because it's not something they do consciously, but these biases are so in-built, even at this young age", he says.

José Luis Granados Ceja (2022-12-10). Venezuela's Maduro Condemns Parliamentary Coup in Peru. venezuelanalysis.com A rural school teacher and a political neophyte, Castillo struggled to establish a stable government against a hostile Congress.

WSWS (2022-12-10). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org Indian rubber plantation workers continue strike over wages; Australian paramedics and pharmacists carry out limited work bans over crippling staff shortages; New Zealand teachers vote to stop work.

Shane Quinn (2022-12-09). The Rise of Nazism and Terrorist Groups in Interwar Germany. globalresearch.ca

Mark Sleboda (2022-12-09). Video: Russia's Large Winter Offensive, Dwindling Western Arms Supplies. globalresearch.ca

Prof. Vijay Prashad (2022-12-09). The West Must Stop Blocking Negotiations Between Ukraine and Russia. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-12-09). Indian students and workers support December 10 rally to build international anti-war movement. wsws.org Supporters of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) in India have received significant support from workers and students in their campaign to build the international online rally, "For a mass movement of youth and students to stop the war in Ukraine!" organized by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) on December 10.

WSWS (2022-12-09). French students support December 10 IYSSE rally for an international anti-war movement. wsws.org Students who spoke to SEP members in France denounced the impact of the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine on inflation, energy supply and the threat of a nuclear escalation.

Drago Bosnic (2022-12-09). Can Germany's Plan for Confrontation with Russia Work? Is the Bundeswehr Preparing for War? globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-12-09). We Defend A Socialist Society Where People And Planet Come First. popularresistance.org Belgium – An acute cost of living crisis marked by soaring food and fuel prices has hit working class households across Europe. In Belgium, students have been standing alongside workers at the forefront of protests demanding effective measures from the government to tackle the crisis. | Peoples Dispatch spoke to Sander Claessens, president of the Comac student movement in Belgium, about their involvement in the protests against the cost of living crisis, political interventions in campuses and society, and the policies of the government towards education, among other issues. Comac is affiliated to the Workers' Pa…

Alyssa Bowen (2022-12-09). The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards. truthout.org Following the November elections, staffers from several dark money anti-public school groups — Moms for Liberty (M4L), Independent Women's Forum (IWF) and Parents Defending Education (PDE) — took to the media to tout the supposed success of far right school board candidates. One IWF staffer described the results of local and state public education races as a bright spot for Republicans in an… |

____ (2022-12-09). Saudi Arabia OKs use of Mandarin language textbooks. ecns.cn Chinese language textbooks developed by a company in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, have been certified by the Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia, marking the first set of foreign textbooks approved by that country.

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-12-09). Recycled gold from SIM cards could help make drugs more sustainable. imperial.ac.uk Researchers have used gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines.

Andrew Lautz (2022-12-09). Christmas Comes Early for Hawks as Congress Considers Giant Defense Bill. globalresearch.ca

Andrew Lautz (2022-12-09). National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): Congress Considers Giant "Gift Wrapped" Defense Bill of $858 Billion. globalresearch.ca

Ashley Sadler (2022-12-09). Florida Governor DeSantis Promises to Hold Pfizer, Moderna Accountable for COVID Jab Side Effects. globalresearch.ca

Azerbaycan24 (2022-12-09). Merkel Acknowledges that 2014 Minsk Accord Was a Deception. globalresearch.ca

Black Alliance for Peace (2022-12-09). Human Rights Day 2022 Must be Recommitment to the Black Radical Human Rights and Peace Traditions. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-12-09). Warming oceans have negative impact on baby kelp: study. ecns.cn The condition of kelp forests worldwide is deteriorating due to rising ocean temperatures, and a group of New Zealand researchers hope to help turn the tide and restore the valuable habitats.

Emanuel Pastreich (2022-12-09). The Third Opium War: The Agenda Behind the COVID-19 Assault on China. globalresearch.ca

Fight Back (2022-12-09). University of California academic workers on strike say 'No COLA, no contract!'. fightbacknews.org Berkeley, CA – Wednesday, November 23, around 100 people came to support the academic workers' strike at the University of California, Berkeley. University of California's 48,000 academic workers have been on a statewide strike that is now heading into its fourth week. | Consisting of academic student employees, graduate student researchers, postdoctoral researchers and employees, associate instructors and teaching assistants, and spanning from San Diego to Davis, academic workers are not backing down to the University of California (UC) system. | They are demanding that the United Auto Workers represent them an…

Global Research News (2022-12-09). Selected Articles: Video: The Dark Truth of America's Federation of State Medical Boards. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2022-12-09). This Week's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca

John Cody (2022-12-09). Germany's Massive Right-wing Extremist Raid: Is It More Show Than Substance? globalresearch.ca

Lindsay Koshgarian (2022-12-09). We Need a Smaller Pentagon. globalresearch.ca

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2022-12-09). US Internationalises Iran's Unrest. globalresearch.ca

Mahboob A. Khawaja (2022-12-09). Peace or War: To be Optimistic or Pessimistic About the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca

Matthew Ehret-Kump (2022-12-09). The Club of Rome and the Rise of the "Predictive Modelling" Mafia. globalresearch.ca

Mike Campbell (2022-12-09). WHO Member States Agree to Develop Legally-binding Pandemic Treaty. globalresearch.ca

Mike Whitney (2022-12-09). Four Minutes of Undiluted Truth on Mainstream TV. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-09). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-09). Climate Instability Worldwide: Does the US Military "Own the Weather"? "Weaponizing the Weather" as an Instrument of Modern Warfare? globalresearch.ca Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, "offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary", capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes…

The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (2022-12-09). The Rockefeller Way: The Family's Covert 'Climate Change' Plan. globalresearch.ca First published in December 2016, this article is of relevance to an understanding of the ongoing debate on Climate Change as well the Green New Deal, largely controlled by the financial establishment. The Rockefellers also play a key role in …

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2022-12-09). The Cult of Globalism: The Great Reset and Its "Final Solution" for "Useless People" globalresearch.ca

Vijay Prashad (2022-12-09). Nothing good will come from the New Cold War with Australia as a frontline State: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 15 November 2022, during the G20 summit in Bali (Indonesia), Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told journalists that his country 'seeks a stable relationship with China'. This is because, as Albanese pointed out, China is 'Australia's largest trading partner. They are worth more …

Dan Beeton (2022-12-09). Preview: What to Look for in the November CPI. cepr.net The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday, December 13 at 8: 30 a.m. Eastern Time. The overall CPI rose by 0.4 percent in October, the same as its September increase. However, food and energy prices raised the overall rate above the core 0.3 percent core …

Editor (2022-12-09). Sander Claessens: 'We defend a socialist society where people and the planet come first'. mronline.org The president of the Comac student movement in Belgium spoke to Peoples Dispatch about organizing students and youth to fight against oppression and injustice…

WSWS (2022-12-09). "If they use the nuclear bombs nothing will be left," Sri Lankan student tells IYSSE campaigners. wsws.org Campaigns by the SEP and IYSSE in Sri Lanka for the global IYSSE anti-war webinar have won significant support from youth and workers who were shocked to learn of the rising danger of a nuclear world war.

_____ (2022-12-09). Perú: Attempts To Remove Castillo Continued Until Abrupt End. popularresistance.org Rural teacher and trade unionist Pedro Castillo has had a troubled presidency. From the beginning, he faced attempts by the right wing in parliament, where the extreme right predominates, to remove him. However, he was also weakened by his abandonment of campaign proposals that raised many hopes among Peruvians, the serious shortcomings of his management, repeated signs of ineffectiveness, questioned appointments, and corruption scandals. There were four attempts to remove him from the presidency before Castillo decided to attempt carrying out his own coup against Congress, trying to shut it down in an unconstitu…

Paul Craig Roberts (2022-12-09). The lessons Murder Mysteries Teach Us. thealtworld.com I am a fan of the mystery stories written by British women during the 1920s and 1930s, although they wrote beyond that time. I read them for their social history, for the manners and behavior of the time, and for the astonishing politeness and restraint of the police. There were no SWAT teams, no brutality. As all of my favorite writers paint the same picture of police behavior, village life, the upper and lower classes, I think the depictions are true. I use the books as an escape from our barbarous time into a civilized existence when there existed ladies and gentlemen and gentlemen police, manners, and restrai…

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2022-12-09). EU Better be More Independent from US to Overcome Crisis. globalresearch.ca

Michael Snyder (2022-12-09). Confinamientos por Cambio Climático. globalizacion.ca Supongo que deberíamos haber sabido que esto era inevitable. Después de establecer un precedente durante la pandemia, ahora la élite aparentemente también tiene la intención de imponer bloqueos por otras razones. | Lo que he detallado en este artículo es extremadamente…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-09). Inestabilidad climática en todo el mundo: øEl ejército de EE.UU. es "dueño del clima"? "convertir el clima en un arma" como un instrumento de la guerra moderna? globalizacion.ca La cumbre de cambio climático de la ONU (COP27) se inauguró en Egipto. (6 de noviembre de 2022). | Más de 120 líderes mundiales asisten a la cumbre COP27 en el balneario de Sharm el-Sheikh en el Mar Rojo, en medio…

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