(2021-04-23). Video: "The Way You Design the World in Your Mind is the Way you Relate to It in the Real World": Dr. Vandana Shiva. globalresearch.ca Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental …
(2021-04-23). Video: Divide & Rule: The Plan of the 1% to Make You Disposable. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental …
(2021-04-23). Russia Begins Withdrawing Forces Near Ukraine's Border. Shelling of Donbass by Ukrainian Forces. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | Russian forces near Ukraine's border have been engaging in regularly scheduled …
(2021-04-23). Russia's Red Lines, Weaponizing Ukraine for War. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | Ukraine is a virtual US military base along Russia's border — …
(2021-04-23). [Research Paper] Psychiatric disorders among hospitalized patients deceased with COVID-19 in Italy. thelancet.com even where equal treatment is in place, the vulnerability of patients with a PD may reduce their chance of recovering from COVID-19. The promotion of personalised therapeutic projects aimed at including people with PD in the community rather than in non-psychiatric LTCFs should be prioritised.
(2021-04-23). COVID Natural Remedies Banned as DOJ and FTC Seek to Silence Doctors Promoting Vitamin D, C, Zinc, etc. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | When people in Europe started dying from fatal blood clots shortly …
(2021-04-23). Fake COVID Vaccines Discovered in Mexico and Poland. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | While scammers have been
(2021-04-23). Texas Ended Lockdowns and Mask Mandates. Now Locked-Down States Are Where COVID Is Growing Most. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | Early last month, Texas governor Greg Abbott announced he would end …
(2021-04-23). To Jab or Not to Jab. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | To Jab or Not to Jab | The topic of COVID-19 vaccination …
(2021-04-23). FDA Slams Troubled COVID Vaccine Manufacturer over Quality Control Issues as Shareholders Sue Company. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | A new FDA report said Emergent BioSolutions, which received millions in …
(2021-04-23). Pregnant Women With COVID-19 Face High Mortality Rate. eurasiareview.com In a worldwide study of 2,100 pregnant women, those who contracted COVID-19 during pregnancy were 20 times more likely to die than those who did not contract the virus. | UW Medicine and University of Oxford doctors led this first-of-its-kind study, published in JAMA Pediatrics. The investigation involved more than 100 researchers and pregnant women from 43 maternity hospitals in 18 low-, middle- and high-income nations; 220 of the women received care in the United States, 40 at UW Medicine. The research was conducted between April and August of 2020. | The study is unique because each woman affected by COVID-…
(2021-04-23). The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of "Positive Cases" are Meaningless. The Lockdown Has No Scientific Basis. globalresearch.ca One year later the WHO retracts. They don't say "We Made a Mistake". It's carefully formulated. While they do not officially deny the validity of their misleading January 2020 guidelines, they recommend RT-PCR "Re-testing" (which everybody knows is an impossibility).
(2021-04-23). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Spanish steelworkers at Tubacex in Alva province continue strike begun February against redundancies; UK bus strikes continue at Go North West in Manchester and London United over fire and rehire and attacks on pay and conditions; Italian students at high school in Naples refuse in person and online lessons over lack of Covid safety; delivery workers at Uber Eats and Deliveroo strike in Nantes, France over low pay…
(2021-04-23). COVID-Vaccinated & Recovered Mothers Sell 'Antibody Breast Milk' Online but Science is Still Murky. sputniknews.com Breastfeeding mothers were not part of COVID 'emergency use' vaccine trials in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, so it's not clear what kind of effects vaccination might have on infants whose mums have just received jabs.
(2021-04-23). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Should pregnant women be vaccinated for COVID-19? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: ?I am a teacher at a middle school that is teaching students in person. I have been vigilant about following safety guidelines, but now that I am pregnant, I worry even more about contracting COVID-19 and the risk to my baby. Our state is opening up COVID-19 vaccines to educators, and I am …
(2021-04-23). UK teaching unions stifle fight against pandemic and attacks on jobs and conditions. wsws.org The purpose of the conferences was to whitewash the role played for the NEU and NASUWT in creating this catastrophe, while signalling that the union bureaucracy would continue in the same corporatist role in support of the government.
(2021-04-23). West-Backed Color Revolution a 'Top Threat' to China's National, Political Security. orinocotribune.com 
By Yang Sheng and Chen Qingqing — Apr 15, 2021 | The sixth National Security Education Day falls on Thursday, with the Chinese national security agency releasing a series of cases related to the threat against China's political security. Experts on international intelligence and security said under the intensifying China-US competition, foreign hostile forces have increased efforts to target the political security of China rather than merely conducting regular espionage activities. | The law enforcement cases released by relevant national security agencies this year are different from the past, which specifi…
(2021-04-23). Why We Forget Epidemics and Why This One Must Be Remembered. juancole.com 
By Nina Burleigh | — The second Moderna shot made me sick — as predicted. A 24-hour touch of what an alarmed immune system feels like left me all the more grateful for my good fortune in avoiding the real thing and for being alive at a time when science had devised a 95% effective …
(2021-04-23). Whose agriculture drives disease? mronline.org 
We concur that linking land-use change science, ecology, and epidemiology is a critical step towards developing a more robust understanding of zoonotic diseases. Yet we are wary of the way the authors omit the historical specificities, political economy, and agroecological dynamics of land-use change, and their implications for disease ecologies. | April 23, 2021 | Commentary…
(2021-04-23). Why We Forget Epidemics and Why This One Must Be Remembered. counterpunch.org 
The second Moderna shot made me sick — as predicted. A 24-hour touch of what an alarmed immune system feels like left me all the more grateful for my good fortune in avoiding the real thing and for being alive at a time when science had devised a 95% effective vaccine in record time. To
(2021-04-23). Selected Articles: To Jab or Not to Jab. globalresearch.ca 
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(2021-04-23). Imperialism in the name of 'water preservation'. workers.org 
By Jason Cohen (City College of New York student) Vice President Kamala Harris, while appearing with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, made a stunning remark that illuminated the perilous future ahead due to climate change. Discussing the need for policies to bolster the crumbling infrastructure that is needed to provide adequate . . . |
(2021-04-23). DARPA'S Aerial Dragnet Hunts Drones With Drones. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing the Aerial Dragnet. | It is a system that provides a wide-area surveillance capability that uses sensors mounted on drones to detect, classify and track small drones in dense urban environments. | DARPA's Aerial Dragnet program aims to achieve the technically difficult goal of detecting and tracking small UAS in urban terrain. The program seeks innovative technologies to provide persistent, wide-area survei…
(2021-04-23). Virtual Bunny Hugging: Boasting About Climate Change Goals. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | He seemed frustrated. While Scott Morrison's international colleagues at the
(2021-04-23). William Shakespeare and the New World Order: "Hell is Empty and all the Devils are Here" globalresearch.ca William Shakespeare's birthday: he taught us never to despair in our resolve to confront the Lie. "to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light". War criminals in high office are celebrated as messengers of peace: "And thus I clothe my naked villany. And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." (Shakespeare, the words of King Richard III)…
(2021-04-24). Ancient Indigenous Forest Gardens Promote A Healthy Ecosystem. eurasiareview.com A new study by Simon Fraser University historical ecologists finds that Indigenous-managed forests–cared for as "forest gardens"–contain more biologically and functionally diverse species than surrounding conifer-dominated forests and create important habitat for animals and pollinators. The findings are published in Ecology and Society. | According to researchers, ancient forests were once tended by Ts'msyen and Coast Salish peoples living along the north and south Pacific coast. These forest gardens continue to grow at remote archaeological villages on Canada's northwest coast and are composed of native fr…
(2021-04-23). Climate 'Tipping Points' Need Not Be End Of World. eurasiareview.com The disastrous consequences of climate "tipping points" could be averted if global warming was reversed quickly enough, new research suggests. | Once triggered, tipping points may lead to abrupt changes such as the dieback of the Amazon rainforest or melting of major ice sheets. | Until now, crossing these thresholds has been assumed to be a point of no return, but the new study – published in the journal Nature – concludes that thresholds could be "temporarily exceeded" without prompting permanent shifts. | The research team, from the University of Exeter and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), s…
(2021-04-24). [Perspectives] Public health storytelling practice. thelancet.com Medicine is rich with storytelling, and scholars such as Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, and Arthur Frank have argued convincingly for the role of narrative in the health humanities. Literary non-fiction is frequently used in medical and public health education. Narrative interventions, such as one that Aline Gubrium and colleagues piloted to investigate and address reproductive health inequities among adolescent women of Puerto Rican descent, are proliferating in public health. The stories they generate find their way into advocacy, reporting, and fundraising.
(2021-04-24). [Perspectives] Faith Osier: inspirational immunologist. thelancet.com "There's never been a better time to be an immunologist. The entire world is acutely aware of the expertise and value we bring to help solve some of the world's most pressing health problems", says Faith Osier, who at the start of 2021 became Executive Director of the Human Immunology Laboratory at the non-profit scientific research organisation IAVI, based at Imperial College London, UK. There, Osier directs a team of researchers working on clinical immunology in line with IAVI's vaccine development partnerships.
(2021-04-24). US And Iranian Researchers Collaborate On Lake Urmia Restoration. eurasiareview.com In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a bold scientific study to restore one of the world's largest saline lakes. | Lake Urmia — a massive salt lake in Iran's northwest and a sister to Utah's Great Salt Lake — has lost nearly 95 percent of its volume over the last two decades. As water levels drop, salinity spikes, threatening the lake's brine shrimp population and the flamingos and other bird species that depend on the shrimp for food. Lake levels are so low that at some coastal resorts, tourism boats must be pulled a kilometer (0.6 mile) or mor…
(2021-04-24). Palm Oil: Malaysian Economic Interests And Foreign Relations — Analysis. eurasiareview.com By Felix K. Chang* | The relative importance of the factors that drive Malaysian foreign policy has long been opaque. Historically, decisions have been made within a small coterie of senior officials and without much debate or discussion of their policy options in civil society. As a result, observers are often left to guess as to what Malaysian leaders' true foreign-policy priorities are from their occasional public remarks. Among the factors that they most commonly talk about are Malaysia's economic interests, particularly those of its palm-oil industry. | Intuitively, palm oil's significance makes sense. In…
(2021-04-24). Violence-Legitimizing Verses In Religious Scriptures Increase Support For Lethal Violence. eurasiareview.com Extremist perpetrators of violence often quote verses from their religion's holy scriptures that authorize, or even prescribe, attacks on enemies of the faith. Abdullah H., the Syrian now on trial who stabbed a homosexual couple with a knife and killed a man in Dresden in October 2020, also testified that he had been inspired to commit the crime by a Quranic sura. However, whether the religious motivation that extremist perpetrators of violence emphasize is causally related to their actions is often doubted. Now, WZB researchers Ruud Koopmans and Eylem Kanol can prove for the first time that verses in religiou…
(2021-04-24). Students host rally for trans-inclusive housing. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – A group of transgender students and community members gathered on Florida State University's campus to demand changes to the campus housing policy for trans students. The student organization Gender Odyssey has been leading a campaign to adopt a new student housing policy that would, among other things, create an opt-in system for trans students to stay in dorms with fellow trans students, allow for students to change their name in the electronic housing registry system, and discipline students for transphobic harassment. | Student organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society, the Pri…
(2021-04-24). Guinea Pigs On Campus — OpEd. eurasiareview.com When I was in college, there was a place called Pharmaco in the same city as my university. At Pharmaco students could earn thousands of dollars for doing little. | Here is how it worked. Agree to take some experimental pharmaceutical and to be monitored some, and answer some questions, regarding how you feel. In return, receive a payment. | Some students took Pharmaco up on its lucrative offer. Many other students worked for months at regular jobs to earn the same amount of money, even though they knew of Pharmaco's easier path to income. | The offered income at Pharmaco had to be high to provide sufficient i…
(2021-04-23). World Book and Copyright Day celebrates 'fundamental importance' of literature. news.un.org At a period of global uncertainty and confinement, books open the door to freedom, transporting readers beyond time and borders, the head of the UN's educational and cultural agency, UNESCO, said on Friday.
(2021-04-23). SEIU calls off Sacramento school strike at last minute, allowing all schools to reopen. indybay.org With less than two months left in the school year, scrapping the current distance learning plans and building new hybrid education models and work schedules from scratch is disastrous for public health, academics and family life. Over 90 percent of the union's members had authorized the strike, demanding greater personal protective equipment (PPE) and accommodations for workers with young children at home.
(2021-04-23). Earth Day 2021: Hope Illusions and Daunting Realities. globalresearch.ca "We're here at this summit to discuss how each of us, each country, can set higher climate ambitions that will in turn, create good paying jobs, advance innovative technologies, and help vulnerable countries adapt to climate impacts. We have to …
(2021-04-23). Johnson halts travel to India as "there will be another wave" as UK sports venues and nightclubs reopen. wsws.org The coming fortnight will see large attendances at events as part of the government's Events Research Programme (ERP)—aimed at the full reopening of the economy by June 21—that will inevitably lead to more infections and deaths.
(2021-04-23). USDA May Allow Genetically Modified Trees To Be Released Into The Wild. popularresistance.org On August 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a petition by researchers at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) seeking federal approval to release their genetically engineered (GE) Darling 58 (D58) American chestnut tree into U.S. forests. Researchers claim the transgenic D58 tree will resist the fungal blight that, coupled with rampant overlogging, decimated the American chestnut population in the early 20th century. In fact, the GE American chestnut is a Trojan horse meant to open the doors to commercial GE trees designed for industrial…
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(2021-04-23). Mayo study finds colon cancer driven by hereditary gene mutations in 1 in 6 patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. –?A new Mayo Clinic study bolsters evidence that colorectal cancer is often imprinted in family genes and passed on from one generation to the next. In the study, published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, researchers within the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine found 1 in 6 patients with colorectal cancer had an …
(2021-04-23). Mayo researchers, collaborators identify 'instigator' gene associated with Alzheimer's disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators report the protein-coding gene SERPINA5 may worsen tau protein tangles, which are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, and advance disease. By combining clinical expertise, brain tissue samples, pathology expertise and artificial intelligence, the team clarified and validated the relevance of …
(2021-04-23). €2.5m ERC Advanced grant to make AI more accessible for health and law. imperial.ac.uk The European Research Council has awarded an Imperial College London researcher €2.5m to make AI more easily available in the areas of health and law.
(2021-04-23). Fossil fuels cause several million deaths each year. zcomm.org In 2018 alone more than 8 million people died from fossil fuel-related pollution, according to new research…
(2021-04-23). Does the NDP Want a War with Russia? globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | Does the NDP want to go to war with Russia? Unfortunately …
(2021-04-23). Joe Biden: Who is the "Killer President"? globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | On March 18th President Biden made the absurd accusation that President …
(2021-04-23). US Sanctions Against Venezuela Violate the Human Rights They Claim to Protect, Says UN Special Rapporteur on Sanctions. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | "You cannot claim to protect human rights by violating human rights," …
(2021-04-23). The Failure of Imperial College Lockdown Modeling Is Far Worse than We Knew. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | A fascinating exchange played out in the UK's House of Lords …
(2021-04-23). Video: Experimental Gene-based Injections: "An Urgent Warning to the World" by Dr. Mike Yeadon. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | Two of the experimental gene-based injections have been paused or halted, …
(2021-04-23). The Prospect of a Major False-Flag Operation in the Middle-East Grows by the Day: Remembering June 8th, 1967 the Day Israel Attacked the USS Liberty. globalresearch.ca All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the "Translate Website" drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). | *** | June 8th, 1967 is a date in history that …