(2021-12-09). Selected Articles: Pfizer Smoking-gun "Secret Document": Their Deadly COVID Vaccine. globalresearch.ca By After publishing this article, I discovered that the gigantic Pfizer list of medical conditions was apparently not a report on logged cases of adverse events, …
(2021-12-09). Reason, Science and Empathy: Interrelated Foundations of American Survival. moderndiplomacy.eu "Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as it is of observation….-Jose Ortega y'Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958) Reason, anti-Reason and Mortality The distracting whispers must be rejected. To survive long-term, especially during times of growing biological peril, Americans …
(2021-12-09). Students Rally To Support Prison Moratorium. popularresistance.org Massachusetts – Smith College students marched through the streets of downtown Northampton backed by a chorus of honking cars as they chanted, "We don't want a prison nation, stop mass incarceration!" on Saturday, Dec. 4. | This march was in support of a moratorium on prison and jail construction within Massachusetts that was introduced in the Massachusetts state legislature. The bill was written by Families for Justice and Healing and the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, who, along with Massachusetts Peace Action, sponsored the walk. Smith students and volunteers from…
(2021-12-09). Striking Columbia Student Workers Demand Living Wage. zcomm.org In the largest strike happening right now in the United States, 3,000 student workers at New York City's Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike…
(2021-12-09). CFPE online meeting this Saturday: COVID-19 spreads through Australian schools—Lives before profit! Stop the pandemic! wsws.org Register in advance and promote the meeting among educators, students, colleagues and friends!
(2021-12-09). Australia: Sydney rail workers hold 24-hour strike. wsws.org In an expression of mounting anger in the working class, Tuesday's industrial action took place alongside strikes by teachers and bus drivers.
(2021-12-09). Sri Lankan public section workers stage strike seeking salary hike. peoplesdispatch.org After teachers and health workers, public sector workers in Sri Lanka struck working demanding higher wages in the face of repeated price hikes and an economic crisis…
(2021-12-09). UK teacher with Long COVID welcomes Global Workers Inquest into the pandemic. wsws.org "I absolutely support a global workers inquest. It's the only way to get out of this mess without causing more death and more comorbidities in the working class and children in state schools."
(2021-12-08). Striking Columbia Student Workers Demand Living Wage as School's Endowment Grows to $14 Billion. democracynow.org In the largest strike happening right now in the United States, 3,000 student workers at New York City's Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike. Today the student workers are calling on others to help them shut down the university. Striking student worker, Johannah King-Slutzky, accuses Columbia's administration of an "illegal form of retaliation" for threatening to replace the striking student workers who do not return to work by Friday. On Monday, many Columbia faculty members walked out of their classes in a show of solidarity. "Graduate student labor is the invisible labor of the university," s…
(2021-12-08). Colombian company tries to solve the digital gap problem. america.cgtn.com With the world's rapid technological advancement, the deficits in education, especially in developing nations, will only get bigger and put future generations at greater socio-economic risk. One company is trying to help bridge the gap in Colombia. Find out more.
(2021-12-08). Fidel Castro's Message against Nuclear War: "In a Nuclear War the 'Collateral Damage' would be the Life of All Humanity." globalresearch.ca A forceful message calling for World peace and the survival of humankind.
(2021-12-08). A Strong Economic Case for Federal Investment in Universal Preschool. inequality.org
(2021-12-08). This Holiday Season, Be Our Santa! Support Global Research. globalresearch.ca We are into the second year of this whole COVID-19 pandemic and instead of normalcy, "democratic governments" are sleep-walking into tyranny. People are stripped of their rights and freedoms. Those who resist the globalist agenda of mass vaccination suffer from …
(2021-12-08). Video: The Covid-19 Crisis Triggers Economic and Social Chaos Worldwide. globalresearch.ca V the Virus" is said to be responsible for the wave of bankruptcies and unemployment. That's a lie. There is no causal relationship between the (microscopic) SARS-2 virus and economic variables. | It's the powerful financiers and billionaires who are behind …
(2021-12-08). Boundary-pushing research projects boosted by President's Excellence Fund. imperial.ac.uk Projects making nanomagnetic computers, sustainable packaging, improved vaccine carriers, and cut-and-paste chemistry have won up to £250k each.
(2021-12-08). After a Year-Long Strike, Indian Farmers Score a Big Win. inequality.org
(2021-12-08). Firms need to tackle biases to drive research and development. imperial.ac.uk Businesses can make better choices about which R&D projects gain funding by managing bias and involving more people, according to new research.
(2021-12-08). "Collective Narcissism" and the "Dark Triad": Those Who Protest against the "Official" Covid-19 Narrative are Categorized as "Psychopaths". Is It A Witch Hunt? globalresearch.ca Note: | First published on August 26, 2020. Author's …
(2021-12-08). Omicron R-rate could be three times higher than current infection rate. thecanary.co The R-rate for the Omicron coronavirus (Covid-19) variant could be as high as 3.47, preliminary research suggests. The 'R-rate' High R: | Professor Alastair Grant, from the University of East Anglia, has predicted the reproduction rate of the new variant based on figures from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). He said the high figure for Omicron is due to "a mixture of it being good at transmitting itself and being a partial vaccine escape". A…
(2021-12-08). Video: Covid-19: Economic and Social Chaos. globalresearch.ca V the Virus" is said to be responsible for the wave of bankruptcies and unemployment. That's a lie. There is no causal relationship between the (microscopic) SARS-2 virus and economic variables. | It's the powerful financiers and billionaires who are behind …
(2021-12-08). Understanding Germany's 'traffic light' coalition. peoplesdispatch.org Germany's new coalition government is set to be voted in today. Pawel Wargan, organizer, researcher, and coordinator of the International Secretariat of the Progressive International, speaks on the contradictions of the coalition…
(2021-12-08). Egyptian court grants provisional release to human rights researcher Patrick George Zaki. peoplesdispatch.org Zaki was arrested in February 2020 after returning to Egypt from Italy where he was studying at the University of Bologna. He has since spent 22 months in pre-trial detention on various charges…
(2021-12-08). Rare Jurassic fossil reveals never-before-seen ammonite muscles in 3D. imperial.ac.uk For the first time, researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging.
(2021-12-08). Boxing, crime, and capitalism: Gerald Horne's 'The Bittersweet Science' reviewed. peoplesworld.org It is difficult to defend boxing. It is often brutal, and sometimes deadly. Its less odious, even admirable, traits involve skill, speed, tactics, concentration, and movement. In combination with the strictest safety precautions, and free of criminal control, dubious elements, and economic exploitation, it can be deemed a sport. But its very aggression mandates caution …
(2021-12-08). As Massachusetts COVID-19 cases rise sharply, public school infections at record high. wsws.org The case of one Boston public school, where 46 cases of COVID-19 were found across multiple grade levels, exposes the dangerous, anti-science approach taken by state officials to rising COVID-19 infection rates among students and staff.
(2021-12-08). Assange Judge is 40-Year 'Good Friend' of Minister who Orchestrated his Arrest. orinocotribune.com By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis — Dec 2, 2021 | Julian Assange's fate lies in the hands of an appeal judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan — the former foreign minister who called Assange a "miserable little worm" in parliament. | Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett, the judge that will soon decide Julian Assange's fate, is a close personal friend of Sir Alan Duncan, who as foreign minister arranged Assange's eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy. | The two have known each other since their student days at Oxford in the 1970s, when Duncan called Burnett "the Judge". Burnett and his wife attended Dunc…
(2021-12-08). Student workers strike at Columbia University. workers.org Columbia University, Dec. 1. The striking Student Workers of Columbia University marched Dec. 1 in New York City. The strike began Nov. 3 and is the second by the student workers in 2021. They are represented by United Auto Workers Local 2110, a technical, office and professional union, which also . . . |
(2021-12-08). As Columbia's Endowment Grows to $14 Billion, Student Workers Demand Living Wage. truthout.org In the largest strike happening right now in the United States, 3,000 student workers at New York City's Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike. Today the student workers are calling on others to help them shut down the university. Striking student worker, Johannah King-Slutzky, accuses Columbia's administration of an "illegal form of retaliation" for threatening to replace the striking student workers who do not return to work by Friday. On Monday, many Columbia faculty members…
(2021-12-08). Sri Lankan educators defend Lisa Diaz. wsws.org The Teachers-Students-Parents Safety Committee (TSPSC) in Sri Lanka condemns the threatening of Lisa Diaz in Britain with prosecution and the Family Court over her daughter's school attendance. These actions must be denounced by parents, teachers and students all over the world as they are a major attack on fundamental democratic rights and the basic parental instinct to protect one's children.
(2021-12-08). Students in Arizona Launch Hunger Strike to Pass Freedom to Vote Act. truthout.org This article was produced by Election reform legislation is stymied in the U.S. Senate, where three major voting rights bills this year have been blocked from advancing to a debate by Republican filibusters. | In Arizona, a grou…
(2021-12-08). COVID-19 spreads through New Zealand schools and childcare centres. wsws.org More than 145 schools and early childcare centres in New Zealand have reported COVID-19 cases since August, and a new survey shows half of preschool teachers do not feel safe at work.
(2021-12-08). Australia: NSW teachers hold first strike in ten years. wsws.org One teacher said: "I don't know why they have proceeded with the full reopenings. I think it has just been to get people back into work and kids back to schools for child-minding. We can't properly teach."
(2021-12-08). Detroit teachers organize sickouts to demand school safety and Covid protections. wsws.org Teachers and support staff at The School at Marygrove have been conducting a sickout since Monday to demand improved health and safety after the recent school shooting in Oxford, Michigan and the explosion of Covid cases in the state.