(2023-04-21). The Need For A New US Foreign Policy. popularresistance.org U.S. foreign policy is based on an inherent contradiction and fatal flaw. The aim of U.S. foreign policy is a U.S.-dominated world, in which the U.S. writes the global trade and financial rules, controls advanced technologies, maintains militarily supremacy and dominates all potential competitors. Unless U.S. foreign policy is changed to recognize the need for a multipolar world, it will lead to more wars, and possibly World War III. | The inherent contradiction in U.S. foreign policy is that it conflicts with the U.N. Charter, which commits the U.S. (and all other U.N. member states) to a global system based on…
(2023-04-22). Comment] State-to-state differences in US COVID-19 outcomes: searching for explanations. thelancet.com In the USA, there has been substantial variation in COVID-19 outcomes across states. In The Lancet, Thomas J Bollyky and colleagues1 explore the reasons for this variation. The authors used correlations and multiple regression to assess the independent contributions of socioeconomic status, income inequality, race, behavioural responses, policy mandates, and support for political candidates to SARS-CoV-2 infection rates, COVID-19 deaths, and educational and employment outcomes. Their analysis showed that wide variations in prepandemic population characteristics between states were strongly associated with COVID-1…
(2023-04-22). [Comment] State-to-state differences in US COVID-19 outcomes: searching for explanations. thelancet.com In the USA, there has been substantial variation in COVID-19 outcomes across states. In The Lancet, Thomas J Bollyky and colleagues1 explore the reasons for this variation. The authors used correlations and multiple regression to assess the independent contributions of socioeconomic status, income inequality, race, behavioural responses, policy mandates, and support for political candidates to SARS-CoV-2 infection rates, COVID-19 deaths, and educational and employment outcomes. Their analysis showed that wide variations in prepandemic population characteristics between states were strongly associated with COVID-1…
(2023-04-21). China mandates background checks on school staff. ecns.cn The Ministry of Education has asked schools and universities to conduct mandatory background checks on candidates who work on campuses for sexual crimes before they are hired, China Daily reported Friday.
(2023-04-21). The Imperative of Political Education in a Miseducated Society. libya360.wordpress.com Jasmine Butler Table of Contents Introduction Anti-Intellectualism in Pop Culture Anti-Intellectualism in "Revolutionary" Spaces My Experiences As an Educator Revisiting Pedagogy of the Oppressed Dialogue The Role of the Political Educator Overcoming Pessimism Sources Introduction Education is under attack. Book bans and ahistorical curriculum adjustments have been sweeping the nation yet again, ranging from…
(2023-04-21). Exploring Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks. independentmediainstitute.org "[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone," wrote bell hooks in the 1994 book Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. While her work builds on that of Black feminist scholars before her—like Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, …
(2023-04-21). The Need For A New US Foreign Policy. popularresistance.org U.S. foreign policy is based on an inherent contradiction and fatal flaw. The aim of U.S. foreign policy is a U.S.-dominated world, in which the U.S. writes the global trade and financial rules, controls advanced technologies, maintains militarily supremacy and dominates all potential competitors. Unless U.S. foreign policy is changed to recognize the need for a multipolar world, it will lead to more wars, and possibly World War III. | The inherent contradiction in U.S. foreign policy is that it conflicts with the U.N. Charter, which commits the U.S. (and all other U.N. member states) to a global system based on…
(2023-04-22). Comment] State-to-state differences in US COVID-19 outcomes: searching for explanations. thelancet.com In the USA, there has been substantial variation in COVID-19 outcomes across states. In The Lancet, Thomas J Bollyky and colleagues1 explore the reasons for this variation. The authors used correlations and multiple regression to assess the independent contributions of socioeconomic status, income inequality, race, behavioural responses, policy mandates, and support for political candidates to SARS-CoV-2 infection rates, COVID-19 deaths, and educational and employment outcomes. Their analysis showed that wide variations in prepandemic population characteristics between states were strongly associated with COVID-1…
(2023-04-22). [Comment] State-to-state differences in US COVID-19 outcomes: searching for explanations. thelancet.com In the USA, there has been substantial variation in COVID-19 outcomes across states. In The Lancet, Thomas J Bollyky and colleagues1 explore the reasons for this variation. The authors used correlations and multiple regression to assess the independent contributions of socioeconomic status, income inequality, race, behavioural responses, policy mandates, and support for political candidates to SARS-CoV-2 infection rates, COVID-19 deaths, and educational and employment outcomes. Their analysis showed that wide variations in prepandemic population characteristics between states were strongly associated with COVID-1…
(2023-04-21). China mandates background checks on school staff. ecns.cn The Ministry of Education has asked schools and universities to conduct mandatory background checks on candidates who work on campuses for sexual crimes before they are hired, China Daily reported Friday.
(2023-04-21). The Imperative of Political Education in a Miseducated Society. libya360.wordpress.com Jasmine Butler Table of Contents Introduction Anti-Intellectualism in Pop Culture Anti-Intellectualism in "Revolutionary" Spaces My Experiences As an Educator Revisiting Pedagogy of the Oppressed Dialogue The Role of the Political Educator Overcoming Pessimism Sources Introduction Education is under attack. Book bans and ahistorical curriculum adjustments have been sweeping the nation yet again, ranging from…
(2023-04-21). Exploring Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks. independentmediainstitute.org "[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone," wrote bell hooks in the 1994 book Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. While her work builds on that of Black feminist scholars before her—like Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, …
(2023-04-21). Workers to pay for AUKUS nuclear subs. greenleft.org.au Labor's commitment to tax cuts for the rich and the $368 billion submarine deal means that even more funding will be cut from already stretched health, aged care, education and welfare services. Darren Saffin reports.
(2023-04-21). The dire situation we are facing cannot be righted without restoring truth. expose-news.com Today's education, politics, science, medicine, and media have failed us. Pandemic policy has changed the rules and distorted the truth. Like you, I am always hopeful of better times ahead — changed …
(2023-04-21). Schools must do background checks on staff, ministry says. ecns.cn The Ministry of Education has asked schools and universities to conduct mandatory background checks on candidates who work on campuses for sexual crimes before they are hired.
(2023-04-22). Commentary: Why tropical Singapore sent an expedition to icy Antarctica. channelnewsasia.com Melting Antarctic ice could have catastrophic consequences for coastal cities. Seeing the massive ice shelves with his own eyes helped him grasp the scale of the problem, says NTU Earth Observatory of Singapore's Professor Benjamin P Horton.
(2023-04-22). Correspondence] Decentralised elements in clinical trials: recommendations from the European Medicines Regulatory Network. thelancet.com Clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) increasingly use procedures conducted outside the traditional clinical trial site—a concept referred to as decentralisation. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance and usefulness of decentralisation when visits to hospitals and other health institutions were restricted. In addition, interested parties, such as from the pharmaceutical industry, issued general plans to introduce more decentralised elements in clinical trials (eg, the Association of Clinical Research Organizations' decentralised trials toolkit1 and Trials at Home).
(2023-04-22). [Correspondence] Decentralised elements in clinical trials: recommendations from the European Medicines Regulatory Network. thelancet.com Clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (IMPs) increasingly use procedures conducted outside the traditional clinical trial site—a concept referred to as decentralisation. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance and usefulness of decentralisation when visits to hospitals and other health institutions were restricted. In addition, interested parties, such as from the pharmaceutical industry, issued general plans to introduce more decentralised elements in clinical trials (eg, the Association of Clinical Research Organizations' decentralised trials toolkit1 and Trials at Home).
(2023-04-21). A brutal system replaced socialist health care in Europe. peoplesdispatch.org Matthew Read, researcher at the IF DDR, talks to the People's Health Dispatch about similarities between East Germany's and Yugoslavia's socialist health systems and the lessons to be learned from these systems…
(2023-04-21). Universal public services: The power of decommodifying survival. mronline.org 
One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.
(2023-04-21). TV Writers Flex Their Union Power. independentmediainstitute.org Television has been experiencing a boom in the United States, the likes of which has never been seen before. Just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, there were 532 scripted TV shows that were broadcast or streamed the year before—an all-time high. In 2022, there were 599. In fact, according to FX Network Research, since 2012 …
(2023-04-21). Big oil firms touted algae as climate solution. Now all have pulled funding. nationofchange.org ExxonMobil, the last remaining proponent of green algae biofuel, ends research.
(2023-04-21). People with severe obesity and a genetic pathway variant have increased risk of hypertension, Mayo Clinic research finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic issues are a major health concern in the U.S. and internationally. According to a study published in 2017, 12% of the world's adult population was affected by obesity in 2016, double the percentage from 30 years earlier. With obesity comes an increasing risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. Fortunately, obesity is a multifactorial disease that results from an energy balance dysregulation…
(2023-04-21). Consumer Health: Recognizing the signs of irritable bowel syndrome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org April is IBS Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Research suggests that about 12% of people in the U.S. have irritable bowel syndrome, and it's more common among women than men and in people younger than 50, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic condition that affects the large intestine. Even though the digestive…
(2023-04-21). Pfizer MATISSE Trial Targets Pregnant Women for Bivalent RSV Vaccine. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). Poland's New Border Fence at Kalingrad and "Himars Academy" Escalates Tensions with Russia. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). U.S. Out of Africa: Voices from the Struggle. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). Scientists Still Warning of the "Next Pandemic" globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). High Court Turns Its Back on Australian Babies in Unprecedented Decision. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). New York City to Track Personal Food Choices to Reduce CO2 Emissions. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). U.S. House China Committee to War-game Taiwan Invasion Scenario. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). ICC's Putin Arrest Warrant Based on State Dept-funded Report that Debunked Itself. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). Worldwide "Big Money" Vaxx Operation: U.S. Government Green-lights Seventh COVID Shot, In the EU, 10 Additional Vaxx Shots Contemplated. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). COVID Crimes. When Will the Perpetrators be Prosecuted? globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). USAID Board Member Says 'New World Order' Will Continue Despite a Rising Multipolar World. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). Who Exactly Is Ukraine's Commander-In-Chief? "Is Zelensky being set-up as a Scapegoat?" globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). This Week's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca 
(2023-04-21). Selected Articles: BRICS De-dollarization Hype — But Will Reality Begin to Dawn, that Nothing New Is on the Table, Really? globalresearch.ca 
By The geopolitical situation today appears new and different because of the alleged upsca…
(2023-04-21). Arctic Ice Algae Heavily Contaminated With Microplastics. telesurenglish.net The alga Melosira arctica, which grows under Arctic sea ice, contains ten times as many microplastic particles as the surrounding seawater, according to a study led by the German Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and published on Friday. | RELATED: | "We have finally found a plausible explanation for why we always measure the largest amounts of microplastics in the area of the i…
(2023-04-21). Government Green-lights Seventh COVID Shot, as Pfizer Loyalty Card Meme Becomes an FDA Authorized Reality. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-21). Science Saturday: A big step forward, bringing DNA sequencing data to routine patient care. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In 2020, the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine set out to create a library of genomic sequencing data of 100,000 consented Mayo Clinic participants by the end of 2024 to advance research and improve patient care. The genomic sequencing study is a year ahead of the plan — reaching over 71,000 participants. "This is one of the largest population health studies of its kind," says ‚ÄØKonstantinos Lazaridis, M.D., the Carlson and Nelson Endowed Executive Director for Mayo Clinic's…
(2023-04-21). XBB unlikely to spread as quickly as before in China: experts. ecns.cn It is unlikely that XBB subvariants of Omicron will spread as quickly as before in China because of herd immunity in the country, said Sun Yamin, a professor at the Nankai University Research Institute of Public Health.
(2023-04-21). China to accelerate R&D in 6G, optical communication, quantum communication to support industry digitalization: MIIT. ecns.cn MIIT vowed to accelerate the research and development of core technologies in 6G, optical communication and quantum communication to support the country's industry digitalization.
(2023-04-21). Commentary: Travelling abroad? Don't be tempted to pay your way using your home currency. channelnewsasia.com Tourists may be offered the choice to pay in their home currency rather than the local one, but the fees can be exorbitant, say these researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
(2023-04-22). Life sciences software startup Benchling lays off 9% of workforce. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-04-22). Perspectives] Visual representation, medicine, and imperialism. thelancet.com In 1945, just as World War 2 had ended, anti-fascist Bengali writer Premendra Mitra published the first short story of what was to become his science fiction series, Ghana da. Set in 1939, the story, titled Mosha, literally mosquito in Bengali, narrates how the protagonist Ghanashyam Das, alias Ghana da, saved humanity from the scourge of a lethal mosquito designed by a Japanese entomologist named Nishimara, who altered the salivary glands of the mosquito, rendering it more poisonous than a snake.
(2023-04-22). Correspondence] Lessons learned from COVID-19 to stop future pandemics. thelancet.com The pharmaceutical industry delivered billions of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines at speed but, as highlighted by Els Torreele and colleagues,1 these vaccines did not reach lower-income countries quickly enough. Science delivered, but the equity challenge did not. To acknowledge this, we supported calls for greater sharing of vaccines.2…
(2023-04-22). [Perspectives] Visual representation, medicine, and imperialism. thelancet.com In 1945, just as World War 2 had ended, anti-fascist Bengali writer Premendra Mitra published the first short story of what was to become his science fiction series, Ghana da. Set in 1939, the story, titled Mosha, literally mosquito in Bengali, narrates how the protagonist Ghanashyam Das, alias Ghana da, saved humanity from the scourge of a lethal mosquito designed by a Japanese entomologist named Nishimara, who altered the salivary glands of the mosquito, rendering it more poisonous than a snake.
(2023-04-22). [Correspondence] Lessons learned from COVID-19 to stop future pandemics. thelancet.com The pharmaceutical industry delivered billions of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines at speed but, as highlighted by Els Torreele and colleagues,1 these vaccines did not reach lower-income countries quickly enough. Science delivered, but the equity challenge did not. To acknowledge this, we supported calls for greater sharing of vaccines.2…
(2023-04-21). Liu Cixin talks about AI: Some anxieties but accepting it. ecns.cn Chinese science-fiction writer Liu Cixin said on Thursday that if artificial intelligence (AI) could really replace writers and provide readers with better literary works, it's not necessarily a bad thing.
(2023-04-21). Science Saturday: COVID-19 — the pandemic that's forever changed laboratory testing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Like many people throughout the world, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic. "Those first few months of the pandemic will be forever ingrained in my memory," he says. For Dr. Binnicker, director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory, two important dates stand out above the rest. "One was Feb. 17, 2020, when Dr. (William) Morice and I were talking about whether the department should…
(2023-04-21). Chinese taikonaut introduces food and drink in space station. ecns.cn A group of students from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries were given the rare opportunity to talk to Chinese taikonauts on board the Tiangong space station on Thursday.
(2023-04-21). San Jose protesters denounce Republican-led attacks on mifepristone. fightbacknews.org San Jose, CA – On April 9, 15 protesters gathered in front of San Jose City Hall to denounce the Republican-led efforts to restrict the distribution and use of mifepristone, an abortion pill. | Speakers from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization spoke about the need for working-class political power to counter the reactionary politics of the capitalist state. They also established connections to attacks on women's and LGBTQ rights to that of attacks on democratic rights. | The organization Students for a Democratic Society declared abortion to be healthcare. They called out the hypocrisy of the U.S. for its fe…
(2023-04-21). Take action to Free Alex Saab! fightbacknews.org Grand Rapids, MI – The Committee to Free Alex Saab is calling all anti-war and international solidarity activists, community and immigrant rights organizers, labor unionists and students to join in an international week of action to Free Alex Saab. | Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat who has been illegally kidnapped and imprisoned by the U.S. government for his work securing food, fuel, medicine and other basic necessities in defiance of the U.S. sanctions on Venezuela. Saab has now been detained for more than 1000 days, unable to see doctors or family members, and his health is rapidly declining. The denial of…
(2023-04-21). Texas Republicans Pass Bill to Require Ten Commandments in Every Classroom. truthout.org Republicans in the Texas state Senate have passed a bill that would require teachers to post the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom — a move that many legal experts have said is a blatant attack on constitutional standards on religious freedoms and protections. Senate Bill 1515 would require all public elementary or secondary schools in the state to display "in a conspicuous place… |