(2023-04-29). Correspondence] Gender inclusivity in India's National Family Health Survey. thelancet.com India's National Family Health Surveys (NFHSs), the most recent of which was done in 2019—21 (NFHS-5),1 have provided rich insights into women's wellbeing and agency and the progress made in enabling women to claim their rights. The NFHSs have allowed policy makers, programme implementers, and researchers to track over time women's nutritional status, access to institutional delivery services, educational status, and agency—namely, participation in household decision making, freedom of movement, control over resources, freedom from spousal violence, and other indicators reflecting voice and choice.
(2023-04-29). Amid Attacks From Right, Racial Justice Curricula Gain Momentum in Blue States. truthout.org "The far right and MAGA adherents are stoking fear and diminishing our students' freedom to learn and our teachers' freedom to teach," says Becky Pringle, the president of the 3 million-member National Education Association (NEA). But Pringle emphasizes that these right-wing attacks are just one part of what is happening in the field of education. Teachers, administrators and students, she says… |
(2023-04-29). FSU SDS statement on the administration's silence on HB 999. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Florida State University Students for a Democratic Society. | On February 28th, House Bill 999 (HB999) was introduced in the Florida Legislature. Officially titled "Postsecondary Educational Institutions", this bill would drastically change the state of public education in Florida. HB999 explicitly attacks ethnic studies, multicultural student groups, tenured faculty, and more. Ethnic and multicultural studies were only instituted after hard-fought victories by student organizations in the 60's and 70s'. The bill's proposals will preve…
(2023-04-29). State Bills Would Eliminate Long-Term Job Security In Higher Education. popularresistance.org Last Tuesday, Republican legislators in the North Carolina state house of representatives proposed H.B. 715, the so-called "Higher Ed Modernization and Affordability Act." Its actual purpose is to destabilize academic jobs and exert political surveillance over North Carolina's sixteen public universities and 58 public community colleges. Last Thursday, the Texas state senate passed a similar bill, S.B. 18. | The North Carolina bill has several provisions, but the prospective elimination of tenure is getting the most attention. Under this provision, the tenure system would be eliminated for all new hires from July…
(2023-04-30). Book launch of The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations book series. ecns.cn On April 27, the Research and Conservation Center for Unearthed Texts, Tsinghua University, together with Tsinghua University Press, and XuetangX held a book launch in celebration of the publication of the first volume in the book series, The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations "ÄäÊ∏ÖËèاßÂ≠∏ËóèÊà∞ÂúãÁ´πÁ∞°"ÄãÁ îÁ©∂ËàáËã&…
(2023-04-30). Arma di Guerra: La Cancellazione della Storia | Grandangolo — Pangea. globalresearch.ca Le guerre divampano dal Sudan all'Ucraina. Cresce di conseguenza la spesa militare mondiale. L'Europa ha speso nel 2022 in armi e operazioni militari il 13% in più rispetto al 2021, registrando il più forte aumento da 30 anni a questa …
(2023-04-29). Correspondence] Gender inclusivity in India's National Family Health Survey. thelancet.com India's National Family Health Surveys (NFHSs), the most recent of which was done in 2019—21 (NFHS-5),1 have provided rich insights into women's wellbeing and agency and the progress made in enabling women to claim their rights. The NFHSs have allowed policy makers, programme implementers, and researchers to track over time women's nutritional status, access to institutional delivery services, educational status, and agency—namely, participation in household decision making, freedom of movement, control over resources, freedom from spousal violence, and other indicators reflecting voice and choice.
(2023-04-29). Amid Attacks From Right, Racial Justice Curricula Gain Momentum in Blue States. truthout.org "The far right and MAGA adherents are stoking fear and diminishing our students' freedom to learn and our teachers' freedom to teach," says Becky Pringle, the president of the 3 million-member National Education Association (NEA). But Pringle emphasizes that these right-wing attacks are just one part of what is happening in the field of education. Teachers, administrators and students, she says… |
(2023-04-29). FSU SDS statement on the administration's silence on HB 999. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Florida State University Students for a Democratic Society. | On February 28th, House Bill 999 (HB999) was introduced in the Florida Legislature. Officially titled "Postsecondary Educational Institutions", this bill would drastically change the state of public education in Florida. HB999 explicitly attacks ethnic studies, multicultural student groups, tenured faculty, and more. Ethnic and multicultural studies were only instituted after hard-fought victories by student organizations in the 60's and 70s'. The bill's proposals will preve…
(2023-04-29). State Bills Would Eliminate Long-Term Job Security In Higher Education. popularresistance.org Last Tuesday, Republican legislators in the North Carolina state house of representatives proposed H.B. 715, the so-called "Higher Ed Modernization and Affordability Act." Its actual purpose is to destabilize academic jobs and exert political surveillance over North Carolina's sixteen public universities and 58 public community colleges. Last Thursday, the Texas state senate passed a similar bill, S.B. 18. | The North Carolina bill has several provisions, but the prospective elimination of tenure is getting the most attention. Under this provision, the tenure system would be eliminated for all new hires from July…
(2023-04-30). Book launch of The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations book series. ecns.cn On April 27, the Research and Conservation Center for Unearthed Texts, Tsinghua University, together with Tsinghua University Press, and XuetangX held a book launch in celebration of the publication of the first volume in the book series, The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations "ÄäÊ∏ÖËèاßÂ≠∏ËóèÊà∞ÂúãÁ´πÁ∞°"ÄãÁ îÁ©∂ËàáËã&…
(2023-04-30). Arma di Guerra: La Cancellazione della Storia | Grandangolo — Pangea. globalresearch.ca Le guerre divampano dal Sudan all'Ucraina. Cresce di conseguenza la spesa militare mondiale. L'Europa ha speso nel 2022 in armi e operazioni militari il 13% in più rispetto al 2021, registrando il più forte aumento da 30 anni a questa …
(2023-04-30). Nicaragua: A History Of US Intervention And Resistance. popularresistance.org The latest book by labor and human rights attorney, Daniel Kovalik, Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance (2023, Clarity Press, 292 pages), is a worthy addition to the author's collection of works on countries targeted by US imperialism, such as Venezuela, Russia, and Iran. While giving readers a thoughtful and much fuller picture than one can glean from the corporate media, this volume tells an engaging tale based on personal experience and extensive research. | Dan Kovalik's love for Nicaragua is not only palpable, but very important in the telling of his story from a perspective shared by many…
(2023-04-30). 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…
(2023-04-30). 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…
(2023-04-30). Commentary: Why menstrual leave could be bad for women. channelnewsasia.com Period leave policies not only fail to address the problems they set out to solve, but have also resulted in discrimination against female workers, says a King's College London researcher.
(2023-04-29). Bush Family Links to Nazi Germany: "A Famous American Family" Made its Fortune from the Nazis. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). US accounts for nearly 40% of global military spending. stephensemler.substack.com 
If you find these notes useful, you can support this newsletter and SPRI, here. Subscribe now Share New research by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute finds that global military spending reached $2.3 trillion in 2022, a 3.7 percent increase over 2021. European expenditures shot up 13 percent—the biggest year-to-year increase since the end of …
(2023-04-29). Will the malaria vaccine approved by Ghana be a game-changer? peoplesdispatch.org Immunologist Dr. Satyajit Rath talks about the R21 malaria vaccine recently approved by Ghana. He explains the unique aspects about the vaccine and the way it was developed and approved, as well as what lies ahead for research in the area.
(2023-04-29). Russia's Electronic Warfare Capabilities. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). The Military Situation In The Ukraine. Jacques Baud. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
(2023-04-29). West Sends Depleted Uranium Weapons to Ukraine: MEP to Warmongers — "You Make Me Sick!" globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 "Victim Nations" Since World War II. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.
(2023-04-29). We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite's 'Great Reset': Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively? globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). Disbelief as "Green King Charles" Gives Royal Assent to New Gene Breeding Technology. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). The Pfizer Vaccine: A Tale of Two Reports. "Money vs. Mortality" globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). WHO's Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). The Democrats Plan to Steal Another Election? globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). Not a Green Bone in Their White Bodies. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-29). Bodybuilders Collapsing and Dying Suddenly. More Suspicious High Level Athlete Deaths. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-30). Has Nicolás Maduro Become a Neoliberal? orinocotribune.com By Thierry Deronne — Apr 28, 2023 | In various sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, in the mainstream media or in the usual middle-class "political science trotskyist" circles, a new chant is circulating. The slow exit from the Western blockade is due to the fact that Nicolas Maduro has finally "embraced capitalism" or "taken a neoliberal turn." For Alberto Barrera Tyszka of the New York Times (1), neoliberalism is even the economic arm of Maduro's "dictatorship." | The "evidence" varies: from images of posh neighborhoods in Caracas with ostentatious stores, restaurants and luxury casinos, to job offers on…
(2023-04-30). 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…
(2023-04-29). China to Regulate Artificial Intelligence. dissidentvoice.org This week's News on China in 2 minutes. | ‚Ä¢ China to regulate Artificial Intelligence | ‚Ä¢ CATL's new condensed matter Battery | ‚Ä¢ China increases exports to the Global South | ‚Ä¢ Journey to the West, low-budget science fiction…
(2023-04-29). Correspondence] Moving towards a precision approach for prevention of severe COVID-19. thelancet.com Replication of results in science is always reassuring, so we were pleased to see that Utkarsh Agrawal and colleagues,1 using data from all regions of the UK, identified nearly identical risk factors as we did for severe COVID-19 despite vaccination among a nationwide cohort of US veterans.2 An advantage of our study was the analysis of multiple subgroups, which allowed estimation of absolute risks on the basis of age and specific details about immune-compromised status. Advantages of the study by Agrawal and colleagues include the use of a variable that summarises the number of severe comorbidities at the patien…
(2023-04-30). German Economy Stagnates in Q1. telesurenglish.net On Friday, , the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said that Germany's economy stagnated in the first quarter (Q1) of 2023, with its gross domestic product (GDP) showing zero growth when adjusted for price, seasonal and calendar effects compared to the previous quarter. | RELATED: | Analyzing the data of Destatis, Timo Wollmershaeuser, head of forecasts at the ifo Institute, said consumption and manufacturing send contrasting impulses for t…
(2023-04-30). Striking Workers At U. Michigan Are Building Powerful Solidarity. popularresistance.org The morning of April 28, I was stumbling around making coffee, checking the strike news on Twitter. It's been about a month now since my graduate student instructor colleagues voted overwhelmingly to strike, facing down the legal and financial powerhouses at the University of Michigan. I only had to scroll for a second, then I just sorta had to sit down. | There was a picture of about 20-30 people in a beer garden on a gray springy afternoon, fists raised and smiling. The message was from grad students, lecturers, and faculty from UC Santa-Cruz; they had held a fundraiser and were donating $600 to the University…
(2023-04-29). It's the Class War, Stupid: An Evening With Noam Chomsky. strategic-culture.org By Anthony DIMAGGIO | In mid-April, we hosted renowned linguist, political analyst, and activist Noam Chomsky for a speaking and Q&A event at Lehigh University as part of the Douglas Dialogues forum. The event was attended by hundreds of students, faculty, and staff, and provided the Lehigh University community an opportunity to engage in contemporary political issues with Professor Chomsky, as related to the rise of global and domestic extremism. This reflection looks at some of Chomsky's insights, and what they tell us about the state of democracy in America today. | It's been over two years since the January…
(2023-04-29). Grad student workers at University of Minnesota win union election by 97% majority. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On Friday, April 28 over 4100 graduate student workers' votes were counted in a union election at the University of Minnesota. The vote was held over three days. When the votes were counted, the grad students turned out to have cast 2487 ballots in favor of forming a union and 70 ballots against, for a 97% majority. The grad students began signing union cards in February and turned in a strong majority on cards in March to trigger this vote. | The new bargaining unit will include graduate student workers at the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses of the university and will be represented by the Unit…
(2023-04-30). What China Is Really Playing at in Ukraine. strategic-culture.org Beijing is fully aware the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is the un-dissociable double of the U.S. war against its Belt and Road Initiative. | Imagine President Xi Jinping mustering undiluted Taoist patience to suffer through a phone call with that warmongering actor in a sweaty T-shirt in Kiev while attempting to teach him a few facts of life — complete with the promise of sending a high-level Chinese delegation to Ukraine to discuss "peace". | There's way more than meets the discerning eye obscured by this spun-to-death diplomatic "victory" — at least from the point of view of NATOstan.
(2023-04-30). Southern Worker School Charts Path For Building Workers Movement. popularresistance.org "We heard from the rail workers. We heard from the truckers. We've got the longshoremen in the house, too," said Leonard Riley, a longshore worker with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) Local 1422 and member of the SWA Coordinating Committee, addressing a packed house at the Teamsters Local 71 union hall during the opening program of the 2023 Southern Worker School. | "The reason I bring that up is because of the power that's in this room. We've got bus drivers over there, teachers over here. There's power in this room. It's going to take strategy, planning, coming together, and finding out where…
(2023-04-29). Thousands of Brazilian teachers stage national strike against low wages, pro-corporate high school reform. wsws.org The unions have done everything they can to isolate and break a series of teacher strikes as they try to channel a growing movement of the Brazilian working class behind the Lula government.
(2023-04-29). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Tamil Nadu childcare workers demand pay rise; Australia: Cleanaway garbage collectors in Queensland strike for pay rise; New Zealand teachers take further industrial action…