Daily Archives: January 15, 2023

2023-01-15: News Headlines

Victoria Torres (2023-01-15). Chavista Teachers March in Caracas in Defense of the Bolivarian Revolution. orinocotribune.com

| Reuters | (2023-01-14). UN calls on Taliban to end worsening repression of women. tribune.com.pk Nearly a dozen UN Security Council members on Friday urged the Taliban to end repressive treatment of women in Afghanistan as the hardline Islamists push ahead with tightening restrictions. | The Taliban seized power in August 2021, promising a softer version of their brutal 1996-2001 rule that was infamous for human rights abuses. | But they have squeezed women out of almost all areas of public life, recently banning them from secondary and higher education, public sector work and from visiting parks and baths. | "We urge the Taliban to immediately reverse all oppressive measures against women and girls," sai…

Judy Greenspan (2023-01-14). Sunday 1/22: Stop US Wars! Disband NATO! Money for Jobs and Education Not for the Pentagon! indybay.org Gather at the Lake Merritt Columns, Oakland at 1 p.m. March to the Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Oakland…

Wendy Craig (2023-01-14). Press Conference: Defend the African Community's Right to Economic Self-Determination. indybay.org What: Press Conference: Defend the African Community's Right to Economic Self-Determination, and Human and Civil Rights on this MLK Day! | When: Friday, January 13th, 2023 at 10am | Where: Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles, 3742 Grand Ave., Oakland, CA 94610 | Who: African People's Education & Defense Fund and Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles | Black Star Industries and Uhuru Foods and Pies…

Wolfgang Herzberg, Tomasz Konicz (2023-01-14). Negotiated Solution – No Alternative! indybay.org NATO intervention seems unlikely so far, after U.S. President Biden ruled out direct military intervention even in the run-up to the war…Nevertheless, a further escalation of the war cannot be ruled out. At present, the powerless left has only the option of fighting for peace and of educational work: of emphasizing the survival necessity of a post-capitalist system transformation… (TKonicz)…

_____ (2023-01-14). The Higher Education Labor Movement Runs Full Speed Ahead Into 2023. popularresistance.org At the end of 2022, workers in higher education had their eyes turned toward the weeks-long strikes at the University of California (UC) and The New School. These strikes were among the largest and longest that higher education in the U.S. has ever seen. In California, the striking unions represented about 48,000 workers. While the total number of striking faculty at The New School in New York was much smaller, they represented 87 percent of all teaching faculty at the university, showing the power of what a near-total shutdown of classes can do. | These strikes are part of a much bigger trend in the higher educa…

Jie Qiao, Yuanyuan Wang, Fei Kong, Yu Fu (2023-01-14). [Correspondence] Medical education reforms in China. thelancet.com Julio Frenk and colleagues1 put forward education for life as a guiding principle for health-professional education after the COVID-19 pandemic. We concur with the need for a radical rethink of medical education systems worldwide, and would like to share responses and reflections from China at a time that coincides with the 110th anniversary of the Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC; figure).

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-14). Mayo Clinic Laboratories and Helix collaborate to provide comprehensive suite of laboratory services to biopharma customers. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic Laboratories, a leading reference laboratory, and Helix, the nation's leading population genomics and viral surveillance company, today announced a new strategic collaboration that will provide biopharma customers access to a comprehensive joint laboratory offering for research and development initiatives across the drug development lifecycle. The offering will include a full spectrum of testing capabilities that leverages both Helix's suite of next generation sequencing capabilities and Mayo Clinic Laboratories' portfolio of more than 3,800…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-14). Celebrating international relationships, past, present and future. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org It was 100 years ago that Dr. Charles Mayo visited France and met with famed physicist Marie Curie, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize. That meeting helped to set the stage for her research collaboration with Mayo and the relationship between Mayo and France that continues today. Celebrating those past, present and future relationships was the reason for a news conference held at Mayo Clinic on Friday, Jan. 6. Ambassador of France to…

Anonymous103 (2023-01-14). ExxonMobil, Suppressing Science and Climate Change. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Villains often have the best tunes. In some cases, they also have the best evidence. The tendency in the latter is to suppress or distort that evidence if it is contrary to their interests. Exxon, now ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil and gas company, has revealed, much like tobacco companies of the past, that excellent research that might prove costly to profits is best suppressed. Destroying ecological systems and ravaging mother nature are secondary consider…

Berenice Galli (2023-01-14). ASSANGE: Il momento decisivo. globalresearch.ca Il padre di Julian Assange, John Shipton, annuncia dall'Australia, in questa intervista a Berenice Galli, una novità che potrebbe essere decisiva per la sorte del figlio: "Sento che prevarremo e che Julian sarà libero. Lo sento, lo vedo, lo percepisco …

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2023-01-14). It Is Official—the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Is Weaponized. The Alleged January 6, 2021 "Attack on the Capitol" globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-01-14). Patrick Lawrence: 'Pessimism of the Mind, Optimism of the Will'. scheerpost.com By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Some years ago now, while researching a book that eventually came out as Somebody Else's Century, I spent time in Ahmedabad, a city in the northwest Indian state of Gujarat. Ahmedabad has a long and interesting history as a place where Hindus and Muslims lived side by side …

ELEL (2023-01-14). [Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Vaduganathan M, Docherty KF, Claggett BL, et al. SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure: a comprehensive meta-analysis of five randomised controlled trials. Lancet 2022; 400: 757—67—In this Article, the Research in context panel has been corrected to clarify that SOLOIST-WHF included patients hospitalised for worsening heart failure, irrespective of ejection fraction. Also, the p value for the test for heterogeneity in Figure 2H has been corrected to 0 ∑0067. These corrections have been made to the online version as of Jan 12, 2023.

Geoff Watts (2023-01-14). [Perspectives] Kumanan Rasanathan: committed advocate of equity in health. thelancet.com Kumanan Rasanathan, public health physician and Executive Director of the Geneva-based Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, quotes the 19th-century physician and polymath Rudolf Virchow, who famously suggested that "medicine is a social science, and politics nothing more than medicine on a large scale". Rasanathan, in addition to his medical qualification, has a degree in politics and a master's in public health. In retrospect, he describes Virchow's aphorism as "one of the key principles of my career", explaining that "to have trained in medicine, politics, and public health has been a good preparati…

Michael Welch (2023-01-14). January 6 Riot LIVE! Helping to Propel the War on Domestic Terrorism and More! file:/Users/rain/Dropbox/_data/_rss/globalresearch.ca.xml

Michael Welch (2023-01-14). January 6 Riot LIVE! Helping to Propel the War on Domestic Terrorism and More. globalresearch.ca

Binoy Kampmark (2023-01-14). ExxonMobil: Suppressing Science and Climate Change. dissidentvoice.org Villains often have the best tunes. In some cases, they also have the best evidence. The tendency in the latter is to suppress or distort that evidence if it is contrary to their interests. Exxon, now ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil and gas company, has revealed, much like tobacco companies of the past, that excellent …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-14). Science Saturday: MayoComplete next-generation sequencing — Transforming comprehensive cancer care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org For patients facing a cancer journey, navigating diagnosis and treatment can be extremely daunting. Fear of the unknown is compounded by a confusing ocean of emerging information on discoveries and technological advancements. While each wave of progress brings about new types of treatment, including targeted and immune therapies linked to improved outcomes, the cancer's nuances must be understood for these pioneering treatments to work. Laboratory testing offers crucial information to help patients traverse the shifting…

Richard Horton (2023-01-14). [Comment] Offline: The mathematics of danger. thelancet.com Rishi Sunak, the UK's Prime Minister, last week announced his ambition that all school students would study some form of mathematics to the age of 18 years. He was sharply criticised by those who either hated maths at school or have prospered in life with little knowledge of mathematics. But Sunak's motivation was sound. 8 million adults in England have the numeracy skills of primary school children. In a world where quantitative and statistical capabilities will become ever more important, he was right to draw attention to the importance of mathematics.

WSWS (2023-01-14). Teachers union pushes through sellout contract to avert a strike in Akron, Ohio. wsws.org The concessions contract agreed to by the union effectively cuts teachers' pay and meets none of their demands for safe working conditions.

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