2021-03-06: Social Media Postees

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Vaccine imperialism: China vs. the Western world
Lee Siu Hin | workers.org | 2021-03-06
Vaccine Racism: How wealthy nations stockpile life-saving vaccines while poor countries and poor people within these countries are ignored. How Western countries criticize China, despite China’s success in containing the virus and providing vaccines to the world. Feb. 23 China and Russia are among the first countries in the world . . . | Continue reading Vaccine imperialism: China vs. the Western world at Workers.org
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Drug Lobby Asks Biden to Punish Foreign Countries Pushing for Low-Cost Vaccines
Lee Fang | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06

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Urban Sun, the ultraviolet light that ‘cleans’ public spaces of Covid
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
Imane Rachidi Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- Vaccines against Covid-19 are the light at the end of the tunnel, but a mix of scientific and artistic creativity can lend a helping hand in times of pandemic. That’s where Urban Sun, a project by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, has stepped in, promising to reduce the …
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‘Shameful’: Millionaire senators vote against popular minimum wage raise that would lift millions out of poverty
Kenny Stancil | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-06
“It is baffling that any member of the U.S. Senate could look at the crisis this country is enduring and decide that tens of millions of low-income workers should not get a raise.”
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Tenant Organizers Protest The Re-opening Of Housing Court
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
New York City – Eviction proceedings resumed Monday at the NYC Housing Courts. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers have been unable to cover rent due to the pandemic and the economic crisis it has caused. Members of a variety of tenants’ organizations — including Crown Heights Tenant Union, Brooklyn Eviction Defense, Cosecha, DSA Housing Working Group, Met Council on Housing and and the PSL — rallied at Brooklyn Housing Court calling for cancellation of the rents. | Although the demonstrators tried to enter both Brooklyn Housing Court and Brooklyn Borough Hall, they were barred from doing so by a phalanx…
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How Biden is already being drawn into unwinnable Tit for Tat with Iraqi Militias
Reese Erlich | juancole.com | 2021-03-06
( 48hills.org ) — For the first time, the Biden Administration ordered a cross-border military attack in the Middle East. On February 26, seven US missiles slammed into a facility used by Iranian-backed militias in Syria. Washington was retaliating for the February 15 attack on a US base in northern Iraq. Biden is siding with …
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Iraqi Resistance Groups Announce Confrontation With US Occupiers Until Liberation
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
“The resistance sees confrontation as the only option that guarantees the freedom, dignity of this country after exhausting all the means that others have bet on with the occupation,” the coordinating body for the Iraqi resistance factions said in a statement on Thursday, according to the Iraqi media. | “We are facing a new page from the pages of the resistance, in which the weapons of the resistance will reach all the occupation forces and its bases in any part of the homeland,” they said. | Hailing the recent attacks against the “occupation forces”, the statement added that “the resistance has the legal and nat…
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Biden Acts with Impunity (to Send Iran a Message, by Attacking Iraqis in Syria)
Gary Leupp | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
On 2/25 Biden attacked three countries simultaneously to remind them that the U.S. “does not distinguish” between its Muslim foes but conflates Persians with Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites, terrorists and anti-terrorist militia…
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Rooftop Solar Forms An Alternative To Monopoly Utility Models
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
Since rooftop solar became possible, electric utilities have struggled to incorporate it into their outdated business model. In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants. In over 30 states, monopoly utilities submit plans for new power plants to public regulators without adequately considering how customers will serve themselves. | However, a new modeling approach from Vote Solar and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) might finally put distributed solar o…
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PM Khan wins vote of confidence vote from Pakistan parliament
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
Islamabad, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan won a vote of confidence in the lower of parliament on Saturday in a session boycotted by the opposition. Khan, who came to power in mid-2018, secured 178 votes, six more than needed to win the confidence of the 342-member house, according to National Assembly speaker …
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Senate passes $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill after marathon session
rt.com | 2021-03-06
The US Senate has passed a coronavirus relief bill worth a whopping $1.9 trillion. The bill passed after more than 24 hours of debate and amendments, in a narrow party-lines vote. | The bill passed by 50 votes to 49 on Saturday, wrapping up a day-long session of amendments and debate. Every Democrat present voted in favor of the bill, and every Republican against. Republican Dan Sullivan (Alaska) was absent, which meant that Democrats did not have to bring in Vice President Kamala Harris to break the Senate’s 50-50 tie. | BREAKING: Senate Democrats just passed the American Rescue Plan and big, bold COVID relie…
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‘No new directives, period’: New York lawmakers vote to strip Governor Cuomo of emergency Covid powers with veto-proof majority
rt.com | 2021-03-06
Legislators in New York have sent a bill to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s desk seeking to eliminate his “temporary” emergency pandemic powers, securing a veto-proof majority to impose stricter limits on the state government. | Both chambers of the state legislature approved the bill on Friday in a largely party-line vote, with most Republicans opposing the measure on the grounds that it does not go far enough in curbing Cuomo’s authorities. With sizable Democrat majorities in the State Assembly and Senate, however, the law passed with ease. | “Today, under this new legislation the governor will no longer be able to…
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Tough night shift: Senate passes an amendment to Covid bill… just to vote on an almost identical one later
rt.com | 2021-03-06
As Senators pulled an all-nighter to pass Joe Biden’s Covid-19 relief bill, they apparently didn’t care about time, as they voted on an amendment to extend unemployment pay, an hour after voting on an almost identical amendment. | The Senate voted on Friday night against adjourning business until Saturday morning, ensuring that senators would stay on Capitol Hill overnight voting on a flood of amendments to President Biden’s long-anticipated Covid-19 relief bill, a $1.9 trillion package that includes $1,400 stimulus checks for eligible Americans and bailouts for state and local governments. | Some of these ame…
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Biden says first stimulus checks will be mailed this month, after Senate passes bumper virus bill
rt.com | 2021-03-06
President Joe Biden has promised that eligible Americans will receive their $1,400 stimulus checks from this month onwards, after the Senate narrowly passed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill. | Speaking after the Senate passed the bill in a 50-49 party lines vote on Saturday, Biden boasted that the bill “puts us on a path to beating the virus.” While the bill does provide funds for hospitals, vaccines and testing, most Americans are likely awaiting their $1,400 cash payments first and foremost. | The president said that the first checks will start to go out this month, but that timeframe depends on the H…
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Ready to Work with Netanyahu: Mansour Abbas Splinters Arab Vote in Israel
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-06
At a glance, it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typical pattern of political and ideological divisions which have afflicted the Arab body politic for many years. This time, however, the reasons behind the split are quite different. As Israel readies for its fourth general elections …
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Pakistan’s Imran Khan wins confidence vote from parliament
yenisafak.com | 2021-03-06
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday won a vote of confidence in the lower house of Parliament, the speaker said.Khan won 178 votes in the 341-seat National Assembly, well above the 172 votes he needed to survive.On Wednesday, Khan announced to seek a vote of confidence from Parliament after his party’s unexpected defeat on a key Senate, upper house, seat from the capital Islamabad.Yousaf Raza Gilani, a joint candidate of the opposition alliance, won the seat in an embarrassing upset.The ruling party candidate, Hafeez Shaikh, lost despite having majority in the National Assembly — which indicates the…
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[Perspectives] Robin Shattock: novel vaccine developer
Udani Samarasekera | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Robin Shattock took an “unconventional route” into science. “Unlike most people who set off and went to university and did a PhD, I set off to the university of life and was more interested in being an actor or a rock star…A little bit later in life, I realised I actually needed to earn a living”, he admits. That realisation in the late 1980s led to laboratory work, including HIV diagnostics, at the UK’s Public Health Laboratory Service and further part-time study. In 1990, he joined St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, as a research assistant and did a part-time PhD, kick-starting a caree…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00510-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Single-dose Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine followed by a 12-week booster
Ivan F N Hung, Gregory A Poland | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infection are crucial for an effective global pandemic response. In The Lancet, Merryn Voysey and colleagues1 report the updated primary efficacy results for the Oxford–AstraZeneca ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine from three single-blind, randomised controlled trials in the UK and Brazil and one double-blind study in South Africa.2–4 The ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine was granted emergency use authorisation in adults by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency5 in December, 2020.
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[Comment] Thank you to The Lancet’s reviewers of 2020
The Editors of The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
In 2021, many of us are still looking back to 2020 and trying to make sense of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For those working in medicine and science, 2020 was unusual and difficult. The rapid research advances made to understand SARS-CoV-2, to describe the clinical course and long-term consequences of COVID-19, and to develop treatments and vaccines are incomparable. This incredible progress is a testament to the hard work and dedication of countless researchers and clinicians worldwide.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00459-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Department of Error] Department of Error
thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Voysey M, Costa Clemens SA, Madhi SA, et al. Single-dose administration and the influence of the timing of the booster dose on immunogenicity and efficacy of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine: a pooled analysis of four randomised trials. Lancet 2021; 397: 881–91–In this Article, in figure 3, some of the datapoints on the graphs and the key on the left panel have both been corrected. These corrections have been made to the online version as of March 4, 2021, and the printed version is correct.
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Dalai Lama receives first dose of Covid-19 vaccine in India
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
New Delhi, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, 85, received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday in India and urged the rest of the population to have the “courage” to do the same. The Dalai Lama was administered the vaccine at a hospital in the city of Dharamshala, in the …
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Cuba — a Solitary Voice Against Global Inequality
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2021-03-06
The inability of capitalist countries to provide equal access to healthcare is being challenged by Cuba — under blockade, boasting one of the best and most accessible healthcare systems. | There is no denying that the coronavirus pandemic has catapulted Cuba onto the world stage. A comprehensive approach at home, based upon the country’s emphasis upon education and healthcare access, has ensured nationwide care for Cubans while clinical trials are underway for the country’s production of vaccines — the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean to accomplish such a feat. | Meanwhile, Cuba has…
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Corona vaccines-nothing would work without public funding
Byorn Radke, J Bischoff, B Mueller | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
“The Covid 19 crisis is a perfect test of whether a more public health approach to innovation and production will prevail in the years ahead. Although recent vaccine news has raised hopes, it has also exposed the broken business model of the pharmaceutical industry and cast doubt on the prospects of getting a vaccine to people and achieving the concept of ‘health for all.'” (Ms. Mazzucato)…
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Covid vaccine-induced swelling can lead to false cancer diagnosis, doctors warn
rt.com | 2021-03-06
Cancer experts and radiologists in the US are warning Covid-19 vaccine recipients that an otherwise normal immune response can be mistaken for cancer if it appears on a mammogram or other cancer screening. | Prior to major offensives against infections and unwanted intruders, some of the body’s defense forces, the white blood cells, gather in lymph nodes. However, lymph nodes, especially in the armpit, can swell up following Covid-19 vaccinations. | As cancer screenings continue parallel to vaccination drives across the world, a scan conducted soon after vaccination may yield a false positive and cause unneces…
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What’s Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. “Human Guinea Pigs”?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
The Pharma giant Pfizer use an experimental technology known as gene editing, specifically mRNA gene-editing, something never before used in vaccines. Before we rush to get jabbed in hopes of some immunity, we should know more about the radical experimental technology and its lack of precision.
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“Fraudulent Marketing”: The Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Is an “Unapproved Product” which Is “Permitted for Use”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
Pfizer Inc, is currently involved in marketing its experimental mRNA vaccine …
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Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister threatens to resign his duties over economic crisis
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-06
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister threatens to resign his duties over economic crisis | Hassan Diab said he would stop performing his duties in order to pressure the formation of a new government | MEE and agencies | Sat, 03/06/2021 – 15: 03 | Lebanon’s caretaker premier Hassan Diab (3rd R) watches as actor Salah Tizani (aka Abu Salim al-Tabl) receives a dose of the Covid-19 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at the R…
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Covaxin trials: What 81% “interim efficacy” means
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-06
Bharat Biotech has claimed in a press release that its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Covaxin, showed 81% efficacy in the “first interim analysis” of phase-3 trials. Scientist Satyajit Rath here simplifies the science and process involved in clinical trials of vaccines.
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Venezuela Identifies Brazil Covid-19 Variant as China Donates 500,000 Vaccines
Rachael Boothroyd | venezuelanalysis.com | 2021-03-06
At least ten cases of the highly contagious strain have been recorded in Venezuela according to authorities.
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Malawi receives first batch of coronavirus vaccine
yenisafak.com | 2021-03-06
Malawi received its first batch of 360,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from the UN COVAX facility.”The vaccines will be distributed to all the 28 districts across the country to first support frontline health and social workers,” said Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda.She said the administration of the vaccines is expected to start on March 15.Malawi already received 360,000 syringes from UNICEF and 3,625 safety boxes that will be used for vaccinations.”After a year of discruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with more than 32,000 Malawians infected with the virus and 1,000 lives lost, the path for recovery fo…
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U.S. to continue using Guaido to rob Venezuelan assets abroad
teleSUR Desk | mronline.org | 2021-03-06
The continuation of the Trump administration’s aggressive policies toward Venezuela by the Biden administration is reflected in the recent meeting between the new U.S. Secretary of State and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
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También para Biden, Venezuela es una “emergencia nacional”
Geraldina Colotti | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-06
Como buen mayordomo, la Unión Europea abrió la puerta al terrateniente norteamericano, anunciando su llegada a través de la segunda ronda de medidas coercitivas unilaterales contra Venezuela, aplicada la semana pasada. Y ahora aquí vienen las de Biden, que prorroga…
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Biden Continues US War on Venezuelan Social Democracy
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
Let’s not mince words. | Biden and hardliners around him are like …
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El “embajador virtual” de Estados Unidos tiene una cumbre de golpistas antes del reconocimiento a Guaidó de Biden
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2021-03-06
Una cumbre a puertas cerrada de venezolanos insurrectos en Bogotá realza el papel de James Story como el administrador de Washington de la oposición radical. Entonces, øquién es el “embajador virtual” de los Estados Unidos ante Venezuela? James “Jimmy” Story, el embajador virtual de los Estados Unidos para Venezuela, prometió responder una serie de preguntas enviadas por The Grayzone el 24 de febrero. Pero luego de un intercambio por Whatsapp con esta periodista en la que Story ofreció explicar por …
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Venezuelan Armed Forces launch drills to bolster defense
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-03-06
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) — Venezuelan Armed Forces on Friday launched military exercises to bolster Venezuela’s defenses.
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Women in Afghanistan worry peace accord with Taliban extremists could cost them hard-won rights
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-03-06
Mona Tajali and Homa Hoodfar | — Three Afghan women who worked at a media company were gunned down in Jalalabad in early March. In January, unidentified gunmen killed two female Supreme Court judges in Kabul. These are the latest victims on a long list of assassinations and attempted assassinations of female politicians and women’s …
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Blinken discusses ‘Karabakh conflict’ with Armenian PM
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-03-06
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) — In a telephone conversation with the Armenian Prime Minister, the US Secretary of State discussed the importance of the “bilateral partnership” between Washington and Yerevan as well as the Karabakh issue.
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US Border Imperialism Is A Bipartisan Affair
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
The images of kids in cages will be one the more enduring legacies of the Trump administration. However, it is also the case that Democrat and Republican administrations both contributed to the militarization of the border and amped up deportation mechanisms of the state for the last several decades. | While, for example, former President Obama is widely known as the “deporter in chief” for deporting 3 million undocumented persons, there is a false sense among many that former President Trump and his administration is solely responsible for migration injustices. Part of this has to do with branding and image: Oba…
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The dark truth about conspiracy theories: They’re everywhere! Can they be stopped?>
Paul Rosenberg | salon.com | 2021-03-06
German scholar Michael Butter on how Trump and the Capitol riot leveraged an entire universe of conspiracy theory…
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GOP Embraces Trump and His Steal Elections Strategy
Max Elbaum | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
The Trump-provoked, Confederate-flag-waving assault on the Capitol Jan. 6 didn’t split the GOP. Rather, it revealed that from bottom to top the Republican Party has become even more Trumpified than it was while Trump was President…
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ICE to allow detainees to appeal arrest if they feel their detention does not ‘align’ with Biden’s immigration policy
rt.com | 2021-03-06
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has created an appeals process that will permit migrants to challenge arrests and deportations if they feel their treatment does not reflect the Biden administration’s own policies. | Overseen by a senior official in Washington, DC, the ICE Case Review Process is part of the White House’s wide-ranging immigration reforms. | In a statement, the agency said that the appeals process could be used by individuals who believe that their case does not “align with ICE’s enforcement, detention, and removal priorities.” | Shifting away from Donald Trump’s strict enforceme…
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Jacksonville travels to state capitol to fight repressive legislation on first day of session
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-06
Tallahassee, FL – On March 2, the first day of Florida legislative session, over 30 cars from Jacksonville joined with hundreds of protesters from around the state to rally against House Bill 1/Senate Bill 484, the repressive, anti-speech and racist legislation proposed by Governor Ron DeSantis and the right-wing Florida legislature. | Activists and groups under the banner of the “Florida Alliance” from the Jacksonville Community Action Committee, Tallahassee Community Action Committee, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Sound Miami, Black Lives Matter Alliance of Broward County, Pensacola Community Action…
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BLM backfire? US public opinion shifts on George Floyd’s death, law & order, as racial divide widens after summer of riots — poll
rt.com | 2021-03-06
US public opinion on the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody has shifted since the early days of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests, with trust in law enforcement growing after violent unrest in the streets. | Just 36 percent of respondents in a USA Today/Ipsos poll released on Friday described Floyd’s death as murder, down from 60 percent last June. The racial divide in how the May 25 tragedy is viewed is startling, wi…
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Who signed the pro-testing appeals?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-03-06
Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to receive waivers from the mandated federal testing.
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US Senate passes $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
Washington, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- The United States Senate approved on Saturday a $1.9 trillion package aimed at alleviating the economic distress caused by the coronavirus pandemic, marking the first legislative victory for Democratic President Joe Biden since he took office Jan. 20. Besides another round of direct payments to individual, the package includes extended unemployment …
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Calls for the Biden Administration to Prioritize Our Water Infrastructure
Shiney Varghese | commondreams.org | 2021-03-06
Newly introduced legislation would help counteract decades of underinvestment in water infrastructure that’s been plaguing America’s drinking water systems. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Video: Biden’s Quest to Middle East Domination? “Promises to Send More Troops to the Region”
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
The new leadership of the United States is attempting to position …
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Unmasking COVID: What Purpose does it serve? And for Whom?
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
“If they’re going to take the next step on their plan to re-engineer both the financial system and global governance with it, you needed all sorts of actions in the economy that would be very difficult to justify politically …
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The Cuban Revolution’s Commitment and Contribution to Worldwide Public Health Care
Franklin Frederick | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
‘They have discovered smart weapons. We have discovered something more important: …
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[Perspectives] Robin Shattock: novel vaccine developer
Udani Samarasekera | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Robin Shattock took an “unconventional route” into science. “Unlike most people who set off and went to university and did a PhD, I set off to the university of life and was more interested in being an actor or a rock star…A little bit later in life, I realised I actually needed to earn a living”, he admits. That realisation in the late 1980s led to laboratory work, including HIV diagnostics, at the UK’s Public Health Laboratory Service and further part-time study. In 1990, he joined St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, as a research assistant and did a part-time PhD, kick-starting a caree…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00510-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Single-dose Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine followed by a 12-week booster
Ivan F N Hung, Gregory A Poland | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infection are crucial for an effective global pandemic response. In The Lancet, Merryn Voysey and colleagues1 report the updated primary efficacy results for the Oxford–AstraZeneca ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine from three single-blind, randomised controlled trials in the UK and Brazil and one double-blind study in South Africa.2–4 The ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine was granted emergency use authorisation in adults by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency5 in December, 2020.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00528-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Thank you to The Lancet’s reviewers of 2020
The Editors of The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
In 2021, many of us are still looking back to 2020 and trying to make sense of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For those working in medicine and science, 2020 was unusual and difficult. The rapid research advances made to understand SARS-CoV-2, to describe the clinical course and long-term consequences of COVID-19, and to develop treatments and vaccines are incomparable. This incredible progress is a testament to the hard work and dedication of countless researchers and clinicians worldwide.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00459-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Department of Error] Department of Error
thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Voysey M, Costa Clemens SA, Madhi SA, et al. Single-dose administration and the influence of the timing of the booster dose on immunogenicity and efficacy of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine: a pooled analysis of four randomised trials. Lancet 2021; 397: 881–91–In this Article, in figure 3, some of the datapoints on the graphs and the key on the left panel have both been corrected. These corrections have been made to the online version as of March 4, 2021, and the printed version is correct.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00515-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Drug Lobby Asks Biden to Punish Foreign Countries Pushing for Low-Cost Vaccines
Lee Fang | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06

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Biden to call Erdogan ‘at some point,’ US says
yenisafak.com | 2021-03-06
US President Joe Biden will call Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “at some point,” the White House said Friday.The announcement comes after Biden spoke with several world leaders in his first month-and-a-half in office, including those of Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, China, Russia, the UK and France.Speculation has mounted as to when Turkey will join that list.”Certainly the president has many world leaders he still needs to call, and he will venture to do that in the coming weeks and months,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.
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WHO: COVID-19 Situation in Brazil “Extremely Risky”
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-06
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom on Friday called for “aggressive” measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil due to the exponential increase in cases over the past few weeks. | RELATED: | ‘Stop Whining’ Bolsonaro Says as Thousands of Brazilians Die | “If Brazil is not serious, it will continue to affect the whole world,” said Adhanom, who also declared that the situation in the South American country is “extremely risky” and that it was nece…
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Mass protests in Paraguay demand the resignation of President Mario Abdo Benítez
Zoe PC | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-06
The streets of Asunción were ablaze with indignation on the night of March 5. Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Plaza de Armas in the capital of Paraguay to demand the resignation of far-right president Mario Abdo Benítez over his poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the deepening economic crisis. | Protests raged on for hours and were met with heavy police repression. Paraguayan security forces shot protesters with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters. According to local media reports, one protester, 32-year-old Alejandro Daniel Florentín, was killed and eight were injured who are currently see…
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Texas Opens 100%. Mississippi Ends Mask Mandate and More
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
Covid related restrictions put in place since early 2020 caused infinitely …
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Privilegios de las vacunas de la OTAN
Umberto Mazzei | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-06
La Unión Europea, como es bien sabido, tiene un gran problema por la lenta fabricación de las vacunas contra la pandemia Covid-19. Tres vacunas aprobadas hasta ahora por el bloque se ven afectadas por el déficit de producción. Entonces, øpor…
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[Research Paper] Changes to the sebum lipidome upon COVID-19 infection observed via rapid sampling from the skin
Matt Spick, Katherine Longman, Cecile Frampas, Holly Lewis, Catia Costa, Deborah Dunn Walters, Alex Stewart, Michael Wilde, Danni Greener, George Evetts, Drupad Trivedi, Perdita Barran, Andy Pitt, Melanie Bailey | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
COVID-19 dysregulates many areas of metabolism; in this work we show that the skin lipidome can be added to the list. Given that samples can be provided quickly and painlessly, we conclude that sebum is worthy of future consideration for clinical sampling.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(21)00066-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Do we care about who cares?
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
International Women’s Day, on March 8, provides an opportunity to highlight the contributions of women around the world and reflect on the gains in gender equity that have been lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had a harmful effect on women, especially those who were already disadvantaged, and has widened health and social inequities. Rises in gender-based violence, child marriage, and school dropouts of girls, reduced access to sexual and reproductive health services, and economic insecurities due to job loss, withdrawal from the workforce, and stalled career progression are a blow to gender eq…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00518-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Obituary] Charles Kiggundu
Andrew Green | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Obstetrician and gynaecologist who advocated for reproductive health and rights. He was born on April 17, 1965, in Uganda’s Luwero District, and died from COVID-19 complications on Dec 29, 2020, in Kampala, Uganda, aged 55 years.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00513-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] Medical oxygen crisis: a belated COVID-19 response
Ann Danaiya Usher | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
More than a year into the pandemic, global health agencies have set up a taskforce to address the vast unmet demand for medical oxygen. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00561-4/fulltext?rss=yes

Non-essential businesses in Sao Paulo state close amid infection spike
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
Sà£o Paulo, Brazil, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- All non-essential shops and businesses in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s richest and most populous state, closed down on Saturday for the next few weeks due to a serious spike in cases and deaths from Covid-19, which have pushed the healthcare system to the verge of collapsing. With 46 million inhabitants, …
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SouthAm World Cup qualifiers postponed as clubs refuse to release players
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
Asuncion, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- The South American Soccer Confederation (Conmebol) announced Saturday that it was postponing World Cup qualifiers set for this month in the face of European clubs’ unwillingness to release players due to Covid-19. Conmebol shared the news after its top officials had their second video-conference in three days with FIFA head Gianni …
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SouthAm World Cup qualifiers postponed as clubs refuse to release players
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
Asuncion, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- The South American Soccer Confederation (Conmebol) announced Saturday that it was postponing World Cup qualifiers set for this month in the face of European clubs’ unwillingness to release players due to Covid-19. Conmebol shared the news after its top officials had their second video-conference in three days with FIFA head Gianni …
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Sanders Praises Passage of Covid Relief Bill to Address ‘The Myriad Crises That We Face’
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-03-06
Following a lengthy overnight session, the U.S. Senate passed the rescue bill 50-49 with no Republican support. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Mumia Health Update / March 6 Global Virtual Street Meeting
The Jamal Journal | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
On Saturday Mumia Abu-Jamal was hospitalized. When he put in a sick call slip and was seen by the SCI Mahanoy medical staff he was taken immediately to the hospital suffering chest pain and shortness of breath. Diagnosed with congestive heart failure he was given a battery of tests…At the hospital his seriology blood test was positive for Covid-19.
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Friday 3/5: Emergency Action: Mumia has Covid-19!
UCSC Mumia Abu-Jamal Support Collective | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Santa Cruz Clocktower (corner of Water St. and Pacific Ave.)…
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Corona and state. The winner is the one who defeats the pandemic
Angela Klein | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Societies in Europe have accumulated enormous wealth, but a few wealthy people have appropriated it. With this wealth, the comprehensive work break and all solidarity measures can be financed without any problems. That is why we demand the introduction of a Europe-wide Covid solidarity levy on high wealth.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/06/1884054…

Pope Visits Iraq Amidst COVID Crisis, Conflict, Soaring Poverty and Struggling Economy
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Shia Muslim Leader and Pope to Meet…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/05/1884052…

California gives green light for Disneyland reopening after Covid restrictions shutter theme park for 1 year
rt.com | 2021-03-06
Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California is preparing to welcome visitors for the first time in over a year after the iconic theme park was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. | California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly announced on Friday that the state’s amusement parks will be permitted to reopen with limited capacity starting on April 1. | Read more | | ‘Most inoculated place on Earth’? Disneyland to become Covid vaccination ‘super site’ in Anaheim, California | “We feel like now is the appropriate time to begin t…
rt.com/usa/517383-disneyland-reopen-apri…

Iran COVID-19 update: 8,212 cases, 82 deaths in 24 hours
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-03-06
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) — The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 8,212 COVID-19 infections and 82 deaths due to the disease in the past 24 hours.
en.mehrnews.com/news/170751/Iran-COVID-1…

Towards a “New Iron Curtain”? Senator Cotton’s Anti-China Containment Strategy
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
The office of Republican Senator Tom Cotton published a comprehensive containment …
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Pentagon ‘assessing systems’ after TENS OF THOUSANDS of servers compromised in global Microsoft hack… blamed on ‘Chinese hackers’
rt.com | 2021-03-06
The US military is reviewing its networks following a hacking spree linked to a vulnerability that gave backdoor access to tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers, in a massive attack the company has blamed on China. | “We are aware of the Microsoft threat intelligence center’s report. We are currently assessing our networks right now for any evidence of impact,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters at a Friday presser. “We’re also taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to the situation.” | Joint Force headquarters… is coordinating with the Nationa…
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The Heat: China’s Two Sessions
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2021-03-06
China’s Two Sessions continues as Premier Li Keqiang announces plans for the country’s economic growth and development.
america.cgtn.com/2021/03/06/the-heat-chi…

“Wuhan Lab” theory promoted by New York Times, Wall Street Journal
wsws.org | 2021-03-06
The corollary of the claim is that China is thus directly responsible for the pandemic and the deaths of more than 2.5 million human beings.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/06/wuha…

All Of Humanity’s Problems Are Caused By A Lack Of Awareness
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
I write about humanity’s problems as a species in all sorts of ways in this space, but really if you want to get straightforward about things all we’re ever actually talking about here is a lack of awareness of what’s true and the need to eliminate that lack. | A lack of awareness is the source of all our major problems, whether we’re talking about war, poverty, ecocide, corruption, exploitation, authoritarianism, prejudice, or even much smaller-scale problems like abusive family dynamics or the psychological suffering of the individual. | If there were sufficiently widespread and penetrating awareness of the con…
popularresistance.org/all-of-humanitys-p…

Women Lead, Resist And Thrive — Even In The Midst Of Crises
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
The past decade, particularly 2020 with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, has shone a light on the full extent of existing inequalities in the world. Ahead of this International Women’s Day, we would like to draw attention to ways that women — whether Indigenous, rural workers or those enduring an occupation — resist and mobilise in the face of multiple, long-term crises. Existing patriarchal systems, structural inequalities and discriminatory laws have long stalled meaningful progress towards gender equality and women’s rights. For women living in crises such as conflicts, facing recurrent envir…
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Pope Francis Preaches Tolerance in War Torn Iraq, and Even Militias Welcome Him
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-03-06
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Al Jazeera reports that Pope Francis began his unprecedented trip to Iraq on Friday, his first visit abroad since the beginning of the pandemic. No pope had ever visited Iraq, though the country once had a significant Christian population. Part of the reason for the pope’s visit is to give …
juancole.com/2021/03/preaches-tolerance-…

Washington Has Been Asking The Wrong Question On North Korea
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
Despite its devastating destructive toll, the Korean War has been dubbed the “Forgotten War,” for the lack of public awareness or understanding in the US. Many Americans might be surprised to hear calls for peace on the Korean Peninsula, because we’re rarely made aware that the conflict there is ongoing, much less the US role in it. | And, then again, we don’t very often hear the phrase “Korean Peninsula.” We’re more accustomed to seeing North and South Korea presented as natural antagonists, and North Korea as a virtual cartoon of an official enemy, about whom no claim is too grandiose. | Into this context of my…
popularresistance.org/washington-has-bee…

Is it still possible to prevent the collapse of Syria?
Middle East Monitor | juancole.com | 2021-03-06
By Marwan Kabalan | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Syrian intellectuals and activists from across political and intellectual spheres are busy searching for a way out of the disastrous situation their country has reached after ten years of violent conflict. The issue is not straightforward, and the exit is unclear, with everyone trying …
juancole.com/2021/03/possible-prevent-co…

[Comment] Mind your language: respectful language within maternity services
Sunitha Vimalesvaran, Jillian Ireland, Minesh Khashu | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Attentive communication and use of respectful language are important aspects of good quality clinical care in the intrapartum period, a particularly vulnerable time for women.1 Knowledge of the sociological aspects of childbirth has contributed to the development of a more person-centred and evidence-based approach in the care of childbearing women.2 However, negative attitudes towards women and childbirth persist. In some socio-political contexts, women may still be treated as baby-making machines.
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[Articles] Pirtobrutinib in relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies (BRUIN): a phase 1/2 study
Anthony R Mato, Nirav N Shah, Wojciech Jurczak, Chan Y Cheah, John M Pagel, Jennifer A Woyach, Bita Fakhri, Toby A Eyre, Nicole Lamanna, Manish R Patel, Alvaro Alencar, Ewa Lech-Maranda, William G Wierda, Catherine C Coombs, James N Gerson, Paolo Ghia, Steven Le Gouill, David John Lewis, Suchitra Sundaram, Jonathon B Cohen, Ian W Flinn, Constantine S Tam, Minal A Barve, Bryone Kuss, Justin Taylor, Omar Abdel-Wahab, Stephen J Schuster, M Lia Palomba, Katharine L Lewis, Lindsey E Roeker, Matthew S Davids, Xuan Ni Tan, Timothy S Fenske, Johan Wallin, Donald E Tsai, Nora C Ku, Edward Zhu, Jessica Chen, Ming Yin, Binoj Nair, Kevin Ebata, Narasimha Marella, Jennifer R Brown, Michael Wang | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Pirtobrutinib was safe and active in multiple B-cell malignancies, including patients previously treated with covalent BTK inhibitors. Pirtobrutinib might address a growing unmet need for alternative therapies for these patients.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00224-5/fulltext?rss=yes

Arsenal frustrated by Xhaka error, VAR in 1-1 draw at Burnley
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
Sports Desk, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- Arsenal on Saturday had to settle for a 1-1 draw at Burnley after a Granit Xhaka howler gifted the hosts an equalizer and two second half incidents involving the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) went against the Gunners. The visitors started strongly, taking the lead in the sixth minute when forward …
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Pope Francis holds inter-religious prayer after al-Sistani meeting
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
Ur, Iraq, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- Pope Francis met with several Iraqi religious leaders, including one of Iraq’s most senior Shia clerics, on Saturday, the second day of the first ever papal visit to the war-torn Middle Eastern country. After landing in the capital Baghdad on Friday, the pontiff traveled to the southern city of Ur, …
laprensalatina.com/pope-francis-holds-in…

Leaked document shows the UK ‘plans to cut aid to war-torn countries’
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2021-03-06
The UK plans to cut aid to some of the world’s most conflict-ridden countries by up to two thirds, according to a leaked document. | Aid to Syria would be cut by 67%, Libya by 63%, Somalia by 60% and South Sudan by 59%. This according to the Foreign Office report obtained by the openDemocracy website. | “Devastating”: | Labour said the reported cuts would “cause devastation” to some of the world’s most vulnerable people. | Preet Kaur Gill, shadow secretary for international development, said: This is a devastating reminder of the real world impact the Government’s politically motivated decision to abandon…
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Imposing sanctions against Iran ineffective: Jahangiri
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-03-06
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) — Iranian First Vice President said that the US government must follow the path of logic and rationality towards Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/170767/Imposing-san…

Taking War Personally
Robert Koehler | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
“For Washington, it seems that whatever the problem is, the answer is bombing.”
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Houston demonstration demands, “Fix our broken pipes, no more airstrikes!”
Caleb Granger | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
Texans need relief from the pandemic and from the damage caused by Winter Storm Uri now. End U.S. imperial warfare and use the resources to help suffering people…
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Rodney King: 30 Years After Brutal Beating, LAPD ‘Still Corrupt and Violent’
Sam Levin | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
Advocates who lived through the riots are now fighting to defund the police and dismantle unions that thwart accountability…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/rodney-king-30-yea…

Looney Tunes: Cartoon skunk Pepe Le Pew contributed to ‘RAPE CULTURE’, says New York Times columnist
rt.com | 2021-03-06
NYT columnist Charles Blow and his critics are trading rhetorical blows after the writer made Looney Tunes character Pepe Le Pew the latest target of the cancel mob, arguing that the skunk “normalized rape culture.” | “Right-wing blogs are mad because I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture,” Blow wrote Saturday, tweeting a scene from the Warner Bros. classic cartoon series. “Let’s see, he grabs/kisses a girl/stranger repeatedly, without consent and against her will. She struggles mightily to get away from him, but he won’t release her. He locks a door to prevent her from escaping.” | RW blogs are mad bc I sa…
rt.com/usa/517424-nyt-cancels-pepe-le-pe…

Scores killed in Yemen’s Marib over 24 hours
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-06
Scores killed in Yemen’s Marib over 24 hours | The UN warned of a humanitarian crisis as thousands are displaced by Houthi offensive | MEE and agencies | Sat, 03/06/2021 – 09: 47 | Armed Houthis at the funeral of another fighter killed during recent fighting in Marib (Reuters) | At least 90 combatants have been killed in fighting around Yemen’s Marib governorate over a single day, government sources said.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/90-killed-yem…

President rejects transitional gov’t talk in Afghanistan
yenisafak.com | 2021-03-06
Afghanistan’s president on Saturday categorically rejected rumors of plans to set up an extraconstitutional interim or transitional government in the country.Addressing a joint parliament session, Ashraf Ghani said the constitutional transfer of power through elections remains an “uncompromisable principle.””We are ready to talk about free and transparent countrywide elections under the supervision of the international community. We can discuss and agree on a date,” he said, describing the rejuvenated Afghan peace process as an “unprecedented” achievement.”Afghans are tired of war, but they do not want the peace…
yenisafak.com/en/news/president-rejects-…

Video: The Antibody Deception
Rosemary Frei | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
The world has been fixated for months on novel-coronavirus PCR testing, …
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[Comment] Offline: It’s time to ask questions and learn lessons
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
1 year on from WHO’s assessment, on March 11, 2020, that its Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) had evolved into a full blown coronavirus pandemic, what can we conclude? Many governments have decided not to conclude anything. They argue that it is still too soon to learn lessons. With over 2 ∑5 million deaths worldwide, and 1 million more predicted by June 1, this political deflection is no longer sustainable. Indeed, it is unconscionable. While governments resist accountability, countries are seeing unofficial inquiries spring up to fill the vacuum.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00571-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Protesters in Paraguay call for president’s resignation
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
Asuncion, Mar 6 (efe-epa).- Protesters, most of them young, clashed with police in the heart of Paraguay’s capital Asunción and demanded the resignation of President Mario Abdo Benitez over his government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The protests late on Friday were triggered after medical personnel and relatives of patients demonstrated this week against the …
laprensalatina.com/protesters-in-paragua…

Movie theaters reopen in New York City amid tight safety measures
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2021-03-06
New York City, US, Mar 5 (efe-epa).- Movie theaters in New York City reopened on Friday with tight safety measures and restrictions in place, almost a year after a coronavirus lockdown was imposed that brought the entire entertainment sector to a halt. Although most cinemas in New York state were granted permission to start operating …
laprensalatina.com/movie-theaters-reopen…

Even Tories are now sh*tting on the government’s ‘wrong’ 1% NHS payrise
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2021-03-06
A former Conservative health minister has said that it’s the “wrong time” to be restraining the pay of NHS workers who have gone “above and beyond” during the pandemic. | The “wrong time”: | In a sign that a Conservative rebellion over the government’s 1% pay rise recommendation may be brewing, MP Dr Dan Poulter has called for a rethink on the proposal. | Poulter has been assisting on the NHS front line during the pandemic. He said it’s “very valid” for ministers to turn their attention to paying back the £400bn borrowed during the coronavirus crisis — but it is the “wrong time to be making th…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2021/03/06/even-tor…

Should the state tax the rich for the common good?
yenisafak.com | 2021-03-06
A sense that some people are amassing more and more wealth while not doing their fair share to counter the issues facing society offends many people’s sense of justice.Figures recently released by international bodies paint a stark figure of ever-worsening inequality worldwide.A report by Oxfam International showed since coronavirus first appeared, it took just nine months for the fortunes of the top 1,000 billionaires to return to their pre-pandemic heights.Globally, amid the pandemic, billionaires’ wealth rose by a staggering $3.9 trillion.”Their total wealth now stands at $11.95 trillion, which is equivalent t…
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Anti-Communist Political Science: Propaganda for the Yankee Capitalist State
Bruce Lerro | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-06
Orientation I returned to college 20 years after dropping out in the late 1960s. After a couple of weeks in the political science class I was taking, I challenged the instructor by asking: “Where are the Marxists and anarchists in your presentation of political science?” Here is what I was told. “Marxists and anarchists are …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/03/anti-communis…

FRSO to hold International Women’s Day celebration
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-06
Minneapolis, MN – Freedom Road Socialist Organization will hold an online International Women’s Day celebration on March 6. | Tracy Molm, a leading member of FRSO, will be among the speakers. Molm states, “International Women’s Day s a day to celebrate our struggle. Women, including trans and non-binary people, play a vital role in fighting for revolutionary change. We are demanding and will fight for the liberation of women, and we want an end to all oppression and exploitation. We need political power. We need socialism.” | The event will take place Saturday, March 6, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Central Time. It can…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/3/6/frso-hold…

Rosa Luxemburg at 150: a revolutionary legacy
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-03-06
Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great leaders in the history of the socialist movement, was born in Poland (then a province of the Russian empire) 150 years ago this month, on 5 March 1871.
mronline.org/2021/03/06/rosa-luxemburg-a…

American Socialism in the Mid 20th Century
Jackie Fox | realprogressives.org | 2021-03-06
The year prior to Upton Sinclair’s loss in California, the US elected Franklin D. Roosevelt into office. For American socialists at the time, this was both a blessing and a curse. Roosevelt co-opted many socialist demands, halting any momentum the Socialist Party of America, or American socialists more broadly, had gained since the turn of the century. The Democratic Party also offered to let socialists to run for their party, like the aforementioned Sinclair. | Roosevelt was not a socialist in either the current definition or by the standards of the time. He reacted to a situation that unfettered capitalis…
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Support Rojava Libertarian Socialist territory in Syria
… | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Support Rojava a Libertarian Socialist territory involving millions of people in Syria that is happening NOW. Rojava is based on real grassroots democracy and a social ecological society influenced by Murray Bookchin’s Social Ecology.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/06/1884054…

Sunday 3/7: 150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg
World Socialist Web Site | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
International online streamed event.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/05/1884052…

Our Children are Crying
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-06
Children are the world’s most valuable resource, and its best hope for the future. — John F. Kennedy (“Re: United States Committee for UNICEF, July 25, 1963.”) ‚Ä¢ What President Kennedy said over half a century ago, is more valid today than ever. This world needs a generation that can lead us out of the …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/03/our-children-…

Todo el mundo está mirando
Editor | workers.org | 2021-03-06
“Un ataque contra uno es un ataque contra todxs.” Este famoso lema laboral, popularizado por los Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo hace más de un siglo, es más significativo hoy que nunca. Pero tiene un doble significado para los trabajadores de Amazon, donde la tasa de lesiones en el lugar de . . . | Continue reading Todo el mundo está mirando at Workers.org
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If Davos Man Views Lockdowns as ‘Quietly Improving Cities,’ Then Klaus Schwab and His Great Reset Cannot Be Trusted
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2021-03-06
Schwab’s happy talk about the lockdown regime is at the very least plain stupid and at the worst pure sinister, Robert Bridge writes. | As millions of citizens around the world are suffering the loss of employment, together with mental and physical breakdown due to the debilitating effects of pandemic lockdowns, the World Economic Forum celebrated by pointing to the environmental benefits the moment has created, like more accuracy in predicting earthquakes. | In a tweet that resonated with all the subtlety of an empty beer can being kicked down the road, the World Economic Forum (WEF) informed its 3.9 million fol…
strategic-culture.org/news/2021/03/06/if…

EU backs ICC after Netanyahu’s “anti-Semitism” smear
Ali Abunimah | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
After years-long delays and decades of waiting for justice, Palestinians are at last seeing their quest to hold Israel accountable and check its crimes bearing fruit…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/eu-backs-icc-after…

7 Afghan security forces killed in Taliban attack
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-03-06
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) — Seven Afghan army forces have been killed and four others injured in Balkh province on Saturday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/170762/7-Afghan-sec…

The Rockefeller Way: The Family’s Covert ‘Climate Change’ Plan
The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
First published in December 2016, this article is of relevance to an understanding of the ongoing debate on Climate Change as well the Green New Deal, largely controlled by the financial establishment. The Rockefellers also play a key role in …
globalresearch.ca/rockefeller-familys-co…

Video: The 2021 Worldwide Corona Crisis. “The Worst Crisis in Modern History”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
First released on February 22, 2021 | We bring to the attention of our readers this Global Research Video documentary produced by Ariel Noyola Rodriguez, featuring Prof. Michel Chossudovsky. | We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises …
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The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d’État and the “Great Reset”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.
globalresearch.ca/the-2020-worldwide-cor…

‘Disintegration’ Of Political System Helps Explain Rising Censorship
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
Increased social media and tech censorship must be understood in the wider context of the establishment desperately seeking to hold on to what used to be called “the vital centre”, a US-based author and economist tells Sputnik. | Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author, and founder of the non-profit Democracy At Work. Recent Facebook posts made by Democracy at Work were blocked from being shared via the social media platform, adding to the growing list of censorship and quasi-censorship that has become commonplace online. | Professor Wolff’s weekly s…
popularresistance.org/disintegration-of-…

Small Acts Can Become A Power No Government Can Suppress
Margaret Flowers | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
Examples of the tremendous power people have to force changes and create support networks in their communities when they organize together…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/small-acts-can-bec…

This Obscure Energy Treaty Is The Greatest Threat To The Planet
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
On 4 February the German energy giant RWE announced it was suing the government of the Netherlands. The crime? Proposing to phase out coal from the country’s electricity mix. The company, which is Europe’s biggest emitter of carbon, is demanding ‚Ǩ1.4bn in ‘compensation’ from the country for loss of potential earnings, because the Dutch government has banned the burning of coal for electricity from 2030. | If this sounds unreasonable, then you might be surprised to learn that this kind of legal action is perfectly normal — and likely to become far more commonplace in the coming years. | RW…
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Analysis: Some fracking companies are admitting shale was a bad bet–others are not
Justin Mikulka | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-06
Will the industry listen–or continue to gamble with shale gas and oil?>…
nationofchange.org/2021/03/06/analysis-s…

Texas grid failure: Electricity obeys laws of physics, not the market
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-06
The recent grid failure in Texas and the catastrophe that followed reveals the risks of de-regulation in the power sector which is a philosophy that has been adopted across the world…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/06/texas-gri…

Former State Dept aide arrested for participating in Capitol riots
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-06
Federico Klein was arrested on charges that include unlawful entry, violent and disorderly conduct, obstructing Congress and law enforcement, and assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon.
nationofchange.org/2021/03/06/former-sta…

The Radical Practicality Of Community Control Over Policing
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
In response to the persistent problem of state-sponsored violence against working class Black communities and the futility of police reforms, the contemporary calls for community control over police (CCOP) have garnered significant attention and support in Black communities. Consequently, the growing grassroots support for the concept of Black communities controlling their own security and safety has come under fire by a number of individuals and organizations advocating for the defunding and abolishing of police. | Pan-African Community Action (PACA), an organization operating in the DC-Maryland-Virginia metropo…
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Imagining Progressive Futures: An interview with Nicholas Powers
alexander | dsausa.org | 2021-03-06
Author and Democratic Left contributing editor Nicholas Powers writes speculative fiction that envisions what society could look like under progressive policies, offering an alternative to conservative dystopian futures.
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Approaching a Risky 1.5 ∞C Global Overshoot
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-06
A recent UN Assessment, as of February 26th, 2021, regarding progress or lack thereof by the 195 nations to the Paris 2015 climate agreement is starting to look like a big bust. As described in the report, nations are not meeting their voluntary commitments to decrease carbon emissions, especially based upon the Paris ’15 goals …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/03/approaching-a…

The Right to Land and Water: From the Murder of Berta Cáceres in Honduras to Dam Disaster in India
Don Fitz | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
March 2, 2021 was the five year anniversary of the murder …
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México — 4T y transición energética
Pedro Miguel | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-06
Uno de los caballos de batalla favoritos de la reacción en sus campañas contra la Cuarta Transformación es que el actual gobierno carece de conciencia ambiental, desprecia las energías limpias y no tiene el menor interés en impulsar la transición…
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The attack that never happened: Cuba and the US fantasy of sonic attacks
Rosa Miriam Elizalde | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-06
Renowned Cuban journalist Rosa Miriam Elizalde discusses the long-lasting impact of the US allegation that “sonic attacks” were carried out against US embassy staff…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/06/the-attac…

Another ‘Hour of Power’ at Chicago Transit Authority
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-06
Chicago, IL – The time for action is now. At least that is the opinion of workers at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Some of these workers formed the Justice Coalition, which held their second “Hour of Power” on February 23 at the Southside “L” Train 95th Street terminal. The demonstration called for hazard pay for CTA workers, no concession in the upcoming union contracts and safe working conditions. | “Safe working conditions means safe riding conditions,” said CTA bus driver Eric Struch. Struch is also a member of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 241. Struck stressed the importance of solidarity…
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The health which I see is disease (… if the Hierarchical Church so defines)
T.P. Wilkinson | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-06
Gates: The Fauci Project In the Spiritual Exercises, Ignatius Loyola, the man credited with the establishment of the Society of Jesus, to which the reigning Roman Catholic pontiff belongs, stipulated Rules to have the true sentiments, which we ought to have in the Church Militant. The thirteenth rule is: To be right in everything, we …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/03/the-health-wh…

Will 2021 be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment? Resolving the Devastation of the Lockdowns
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already …
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Read ‘Hamlet’ in Nepali; Enjoy Nepali Poetry in English
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
Before trekking through open Himalayan valleys, tourists might stroll along Thamel, …
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Chicago charter school educators demand safe reopening
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-06
Chicago, IL – It was a chilly morning. The temperature was in the low 30s as the educators from Chicago’s Passages Charter School gathered for their press conference, March 5. They were all wearing masks. They all were socially distanced. “We care about our students, we care about their families,” said paraprofessional educator Ann Stella Taylor. | Passages Charter School is as arrogant as they come. First they announced metrics for reopening such as deaths per 100,000 and test positivity rate. They said that they want to use the metrics of the Illinois Department of Public Health. The Chicago Teachers Union agre…
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Paraguay’s President Asks for His Entire Cabinet Resignation
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-06
Paraguay’s Information Technologies and Communication Minister Juan Manuel Brunetti on Saturday declared that President Mario Abdo Benitez asked all ministers to step down from their posts. | RELATED: | Paraguay: Health Minister Resigns To Avoid Further Scandal | Abdo stated his decision intended to comply with citizen claims during last Friday’s protests. However, the President’s resignation was the main request during the riots that were violently confronted by the police. | Senat…
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Doing Too Little In This Crisis Will Come Back To Haunt The US Economy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-06
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) is essential to a robust and equitable recovery. The risk of doing too little is far greater than the risk of doing too much, and the American Rescue Plan meets the scale of the crisis. | The overall size and components of the ARP have been carefully studied and considered. Given the balance of risks facing the economy and the danger of delay, passing the plan at its current scale and composition is the most prudent thing policymakers can do to ensure a rapid and fair recovery. Clearly, this is necessary. | As the Senate debates what belongs in the final relief bill th…
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[Perspectives] Mapping our common future
Gavin Francis | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
We used to search the skies for clues to the future, seeing in the wheel of the planets and constellations evidence of our fate. Other traditions made use of entrails (extispicy) or even arrows (belomancy). Such divination practitioners pursued a deeply human desire to discern aspects of the future through visual patterns in the present. We do things differently now, priding ourselves on evidence, science, and data. A promising way to approach the prediction of the future might well be to map it.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00511-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Social action to achieve a dignified life for people with disabilities in the occupied Palestinian territory
Shatha Abu Srour | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
When people with disabilities (PWDs) and civil society in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) exhausted their calls for basic human rights and dignity for PWDs in the absence of credible representative bodies and with the Palestinian Legislative Council dissolved in 2018,1 we decided to induce a turning point by taking social action. And we did.
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Blood-based host biomarker diagnostics in active case finding for pulmonary tuberculosis: A diagnostic case-control study
Flora Martinez Figueira Moreira, Renu Verma, Paulo Cesar Pereira dos Santos, Alessandra Leite, Andrea da Silva Santos, Rafaele Carla Pivetta de Araujo, Bruna Oliveira da Silva, Júlio Henrique Ferreira de Sá Queiroz, David H. Persing, Erik Sà∂dersten, Devasena Gnanashanmugam, Purvesh Khatri, Julio Croda, Jason R. Andrews | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
For active case finding in this high tuberculosis-burden setting, CRP and Xpert-MTB-HR did not meet TPP benchmarks for a triage test. However, Xpert-MTB-HR was highly sensitive in detecting individuals with medium or high sputum bacillary burden.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(21)00056-0/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Error, injustice, and physician wellbeing
Ian Sabroe, Sally Mather, Amy Wilson, Daniel K Hall-Flavin, Miranda Fricker, Lauren A Barron, Chris Millard | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
Health care is riddled with injustice and inequity. Clinicians strive to create better, more just systems, and experience deep moral distress when we are unable to do this. We care for the broken but expect perfection of ourselves. Increasing patient needs combined with imperfect systems, health professionals’ high expectations of themselves, and the difficulties of accepting personal vulnerability can lead to burnt-out and broken doctors. Ethics and justice are not only crucial in relation to patient care but are also important for the self-care of health-care practitioners and the systems in which they work.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00512-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Clinical Picture] Deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 diagnosed at 65 years of age
Gaà´lle Bourgeois, Mael Richard, Marie Danset, Laurent Pérard, Anne-Laure Breton, Emilie Berthoux | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
A 65-year-old woman presented to our unit with joint pain, intermittent fever, fatigue, and painful ulcers on her legs.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32660-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] The 2011 Tōhoku disaster: 10 years on
Justin McCurry | thelancet.com | 2021-03-06
A decade has passed since an earthquake and tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Japan, but health experts are still assessing the effects on health. Justin McCurry reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00560-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Egypt’s President Sisi in Sudan with Ethiopia’s dam on agenda
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-06
Egypt’s President Sisi in Sudan with Ethiopia’s dam on agenda | Egyptian leader’s visit continues diplomatic push for support and renewed talks on controversial mega-project | MEE and agencies | Sat, 03/06/2021 – 11: 14 | Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi meets with the head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Burhan, in Egypt in October (FILE/AFP) | Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has arrived in S…
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Sisi says Egypt, Sudan reject Ethiopian Nile dam ‘fait accompli’
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-06
Sisi says Egypt, Sudan reject Ethiopian Nile dam ‘fait accompli’ | On visit to Sudan, Egyptian president rejects Ethiopian policy of ‘unilateral measures without taking Sudan’s and Egypt’s interests into account’ over Blue Nile dam project | MEE and agencies | Sat, 03/06/2021 – 18: 51 | Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (L) is received by Sudan’s head of state General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan upon the fo…
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Argentina — Transformar drásticamente la Justicia
Agustín Bruera | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-06
Entre diciembre de 2015 y diciembre 2019 nuestro país fue devastado. Social, cultural, económica e institucionalmente. Esa hecatombe planificada, sin embargo, contó con un protagonista clave, que resultó un engranaje fundamental en el proyecto neocolonial de sumisión del país a…
globalizacion.ca/argentina-transformar-d…

Narcissism can be contagious — and the repercussions extend beyond relationships
Matthew Rozsa | salon.com | 2021-03-06
Narcissists can “infect” those they are close to — with devastating results for relationships as well as politics…
salon.com/2021/03/06/narcissism-can-be-c…

With basketball drama “Boogie,” Eddie Huang is finally “free of the shadow” of “Fresh Off the Boat”
D. Watkins | salon.com | 2021-03-06
Huang appeared on “Salon Talks” to discuss the duality of Black & Asian culture, Pop Smoke and basketball films…
salon.com/2021/03/06/boogie-eddie-huang-…

Tunisians protest for LGBT rights activist’s release
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-06
Tunisians protest for LGBT rights activist’s release | Rania Amdouni had been repeatedly targeted since protests began against police repression | MEE and agencies | Sat, 03/06/2021 – 15: 59 | Tunisian activist Rania Amdouni at a protest in January (AFP) | Hundreds of Tunisians demanded the release of an activist sentenced to six months in prison for allegedly insulting a police officer. | The incident for…
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The Private Health Insurance Industry: Should It Be Eliminated?
John P. Geyman | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
Over recent decades, its performance has been increasingly profit-driven to the point of now becoming unaffordable for patients, their families, employers and taxpayers…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-private-health…

House Rejects Cori Bush’s Amendment on Voting Rights for Incarcerated People
Mike Ludwig | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
“We will not stop fighting until we dismantle white supremacy in all of its forms”
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House Rejects Cori Bush’s Amendment on Voting Rights for Incarcerated People
Mike Ludwig | zcomm.org | 2021-03-06
“We will not stop fighting until we dismantle white supremacy in all of its forms”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/house-rejects-cori…

Sunday 3/7: KPFA Special Programming, Int’l Women’s Day
KPFA Women Producers | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
94.1 FM…
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2021 Sacramento Ghanaian Independence Day Celebration
Adapted from 2020 Celebration | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Sacramento Ghanaian Independence Day Weekend offers a sneak preview into an exciting new addition to the Farm to Fork Capitol in the Great State of California.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/05/1884053…

Cruising down West Sunset
Robert Maxim | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Reflections of driving down West Sunset Boulevard on a sunny afternoon. Past the Elliott Smith memorial wall, and through the Eyes mural at the Reuben Soto mural, located in the Silverlake district of Los Angeles.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/05/1884053…

Anti Police-Terror Project Files Liability Claim Against City of Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Police News | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
The Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP) has filed a liability claim against the City of Santa Cruz. “Claimant seeks damages resulting from an alleged violation of civil rights related to law enforcement action,” city staff states in an agenda report for the March 9 meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council. Other than the one quote from city staff, very few details have been released to the public about the claim, except that the incident in question occurred on May 29, 2020. The City Council is expected to discuss the claim during its closed session on March 9, and a motion to reject APTP’s claim has been placed by c…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/04/1884050…

ATTO MORTE si desta la civetta stai per andare lontano Entra pure
angelus mors | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
welcohome…
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Monday 3/8: Bread & Roses: Rally Demanding Care & Relief by Passing the American Rescue Plan Now!
The People’s Bailout & It Takes Roots | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Online/virtual rally via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/04/1884050…

Tuesday 3/9: Rally against the Temporary Outdoor Living Ordinance
Various groups | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Santa Cruz City Hall | 809 Center Street, Santa Cruz…
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Monday 3/8: Justice for George Floyd! Solidarity Rally San Jose City Hall
NAARPR, partners | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
San Jose City Hall, 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113 | MASKS and SAFE DISTANCING; Peaceful rally action…
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American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919–2021
WSWS repost | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
On February 24, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti died, one of the last significant surviving American artists who emerged in…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/05/1884053…

Like Minded Minds Think Alike
Robert Maxim | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Social Media and the dopamine addiction.It’s like the crack addiction.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/05/1884053…

Friday 3/5: “Call Center Blues”: Cruelity of Deportation Film and Q&A w/ Director Geeta Gandbhir
United We Dream | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/05/1884052…

Monday 3/8: International Women’s Day: Feminism and Social Justice
Human Agenda | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Zoom meeting ID: 872 8709 9495 | Passcode: 798372 | Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/87287099495
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Return of the Sleeping Ban and a Letter to Mayor Meyers
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
On February 23, City Council ignored dozens of speakers, silenced another two dozen, and passed the TOLO (Temporary Living Outside Ordinance) well after midnight. I filed a Brown Act complaint, noting the failure to provide adequate Agenda notice, requiring them to redo the item. I’m not holding my breath.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/05/1884053…

Current Animal Rights And Environment News
Pass It On | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
The consciousness of people everywhere is expanding.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/05/1884052…

Sunday 3/7: Gender Reveal Party (Like No Other) as part of an International Women’s Day event
Revolution Books | indybay.org | 2021-03-06
Gather in front of the Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave. Oakland, CA…
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Dystopian “Great Reset”: “Own Nothing and Be Happy”, Being Human in 2030
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
First published by Global Research on November 9, 2020 | The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, economists and other high-profile individuals to discuss global issues. …
globalresearch.ca/own-nothing-happy-bein…

Video: Pfizer $2.3 Billion 2009 Medical Fraud Settlement. US Department of Justice
US Department of Justice | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-06
This was originally published in September 2009. | ” Justice Department attorneys …
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Abolish Guardianship, Preserve the Rights of Disabled People, and Free Britney
Sara Luterman | thenation.com | 2021-03-06
Abolish Guardianship, Preserve the Rights of Disabled People, and Free Britney…
thenation.com/article/society/guardiansh…

Cancel the US Military
William Astore | thenation.com | 2021-03-06
Cancel the US Military…
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Cancel the US Military
William Astore | thenation.com | 2021-03-06
Cancel the US Military…
thenation.com/article/politics/military-…

Pope Francis meets Iraq’s top cleric Ali Sistani in ‘historic’ meeting
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-06
Pope Francis meets Iraq’s top cleric Ali Sistani in ‘historic’ meeting | Leaders of Catholic Church and Shia Islam call for religious tolerance in unprecedented meeting | MEE and agencies | Sat, 03/06/2021 – 09: 25 | A handout picture provided by the Vatican media office shows Pope Francis meeting top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in the Iraqi shrine city of Najaf (AFP) | Iraqis have hailed a ”
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Turkey: Erdogan’s human rights initiative raises eyebrows of beleaguered activists
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-06
Turkey: Erdogan’s human rights initiative raises eyebrows of beleaguered activists | Despite Ankara announcing the new initiative, the co-chair of Turkey’s Human Rights Association says the situation is worse than ever | Alex MacDonald | Sat, 03/06/2021 – 10: 00 | President of the Human Right Association (IHD) Eren Keskin speaks to journalists during a demonstration in front of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on…
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