Daily Archives: March 21, 2021

2021-03-21: Social Media Postees

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The Latest Lies About Russia
David Swanson | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-21
Things that we now know are not actually true: Russia impacted the U.S. election results in 2016 or 2020. Russia hacked into U.S. election machines. The recent U.S. government report alleging election interference contained any evidence of anything. The report so much as alleged Russian involvement in the Biden-Ukraine-corruption story. Russia changed the GOP platform. …
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Tanks, Tanks, Tanks: Biden-Era Neoliberalism and the Suffocation of Syria
Thomas Pulliam | realprogressives.org | 2021-03-21
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” | Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations | It’s not difficult these days to find symbolism for America’s culture built on violence and colonialism. Party to party, politician to politician, oligarch to oligarch, everything appears to be an illusion which harms the world the more we believe in it. It was just last January that Joe Biden illegally ordered a missile strike targeted towards Syrian soil. It was aimed at an Iranian-backed militia, and wound up killing at least…
realprogressives.org/biden-era-neolibera…

We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-21
On January 13, one week before the inauguration of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth president of the United States and seven long days after the storming of the Capitol by an armed right-wing mob, it was easy enough to miss an article published in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science, despite its eye-catching title: “Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future.” The headline was itself a train wreck: six dully innocuous words piling up in front of a modifier more suitable to a 1950s horror comic than a sober, academic journal. But there it was: The 17 scientists who co-wrote the article, the…
popularresistance.org/were-hurtling-towa…

John Magufuli: Death of an African Freedom Fighter, Confronted Big Pharma and the Corrupt Covid Cabal
Celia Farber | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-21
In the Western world, African leaders are invisible, until that is, …
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Green Passes and Dark Inequalities: the Push for COVID Immunity Passports
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-21
Sensible, ideal, wonderful — if you happen to be in the European Union. This is the air of confidence surrounding the March 17 proposal for a digital COVID immunity passport, or what is officially being called the Digital Green Certificate. The Digital Green Certificate is actually a bundle of three: vaccination certificates stating the brand…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/21/green-passes…

Paraguayans rise in rage against mishandling of COVID-19
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-21
In this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes, we take a look at protests in Paraguay against the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a massive strike by bank employees in India and a protest by students in South Africa…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/21/paraguaya…

GLOBALink | China’s Red Line Should Never Be Crossed: Chinese Delegation
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-21
The governing status of the CPC and the security of China’s socialist system should not be damaged, and that is a red line that should never be crossed, said the Chinese delegations during the China-U.S. high-level strategic dialogue in Anchorage, U.S.
telesurenglish.net/news/GLOBALink–China…

Students workers in US universities mobilize for better work conditions
Anish R M | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-21
After student workers at Columbia University went ahead with a strike action, their counterparts at Illinois State University and New York University are also planning strike votes as negotiations with university administrations have hit a wall…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/21/students-…

Parisians March Against Systemic Racism And Police Brutality
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-21
Watch a live broadcast from central Paris where people are gathering on Saturday 20 March to march against “systemic racism and police brutality.” | Organised by several activist groups to mark the International Day Against Police Brutality (15 March) and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (21 March), people are demanding the creation of an independent entity to monitor the use of force by police officers and reparation for victims of police brutality. | One of the organisers is Assa Traore, whose brother Adama, 24, died in police custody in 2016 after he was stopped for an ID chec…
popularresistance.org/parisians-march-ag…

Asians are good at math? Why dressing up racism as a compliment just doesn’t add up
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-03-21
By Niral Shah | — The narrative that “Asians are good at math” is pervasive in the United States. Young children are aware of it. College students’ academic performance can be affected by it. On the surface, the “Asians are good at math” narrative sounds like a compliment. After all, what’s wrong with saying that …
juancole.com/2021/03/asians-dressing-com…

Carbon Offsets Offer A Fantasy Of Capitalism Without Crises
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-21
Governments, companies and sometimes entire sectors are increasingly proposing to use carbon offsets in response to the deepening climate crisis. In theory, offsetting allows organisations to compensate for their own emissions by paying towards low-carbon projects elsewhere, but the practice has been mired in scientific problems and scandals, and it has been widely critiqued in the social sciences. | With the UK government now seeking to turn London into a global hub for the carbon offset trade, it’s worth asking why it is still so prominent. My research on what I have called the fantasy of carbon offsetting help…
popularresistance.org/carbon-offsets-off…

How America’s Forever Wars and Interventions Fueled the Assault on the Capitol
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-03-21
B Kevin Tillman / TomDispatch Just about everyone was shocked by what happened at the Capitol building on January 6th. But as a former soldier in America’s forever wars, horrifying as the scenes were, I also found what happened strangely familiar, almost inevitable. I thought that, if only we had taken our country’s imperial history …
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There’s Only One State Where Falling Behind On Rent Could Mean Jail Time
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-21
Arkansas state Rep. Nicole Clowney, D-Fayetteville, introduced a bill Thursday that would repeal the state’s criminal “failure to vacate” statute. First enacted in 1901, the law allows landlords to seek criminal charges, which can result in jail time, for tenants who fall even a single day behind on rent and do not vacate a property within 10 days. Everywhere else in the U.S., evictions are exclusively a civil matter. | The legislation comes after a ProPublica and Arkansas Nonprofit News Network article in October revealed how criminal charges brought under the statute can snowball into arrest warrants and jail t…
popularresistance.org/theres-only-one-st…

Venezuela Suffers New Terrorist Attack Against Gas Pipeline
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-21
Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami denounced on Saturday a new terrorist attack against a gas pipeline of the state-owned company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). | RELATED: | Venezuela Reinforces Its Lawsuit Against US Sanctions | The minister announced that terrorist action damaged a gas pipeline section located in Tejero, northern Monagas state. | The plant is used to compress gas and inject it at high pressure into oil wells in El Tejero, La Leona, and La Urica areas.
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Suffer…

On Contact: America’s Secret Government
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-21
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the rise of America’s secret government with journalist and author David Talbot. David Talbot’s book is ‘The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government’.
popularresistance.org/on-contact-america…

“The Great Reset” Is Here: Follow the Money. “Insane Lockdown” of the Global Economy, “The Green Agenda”
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-21
The top-down reorganization of the world economy by a cabal of …
globalresearch.ca/great-reset-follow-mon…

Ecuador: First Presidential Debate To Take Place Tonight
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-21
Union for Hope (UNES) leftist presidential candidate Andres Arauz and right-wing Creating Opportunities (CREO) candidate Guillermo Lasso today will hold their first presidential debate of the April 11 runoff. | RELATED: | Ecuador: Third Health Minister Resigns in Less Than a Month | Given the resignation of journalist Andrea Bernal to be the moderator in the second round presidential debate scheduled this Sunday by the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador, journalist Claudia…
telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuador-First-Pr…

Money Is Made Up
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-21
Have you ever noticed how online capitalism cultists who condescendingly tell socialists they “just don’t understand economics” are always unable to lucidly defend their own understanding of economics? | If you’ve never pressed such a character to clearly and concisely explain what it is you “don’t understand” using their own words, I highly recommend that you try it, because it’s one of the funniest things in the world. If you keep interrogating them about each aspect of their belief system, demanding that they explain exactly what it is they know and how they know it, they will invariably end up getting frustra…
popularresistance.org/money-is-made-up/

Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-21
In June 2018, the Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and …
globalresearch.ca/walmart-amazon-colonia…

Enbridge Is ‘Funding And Incentivizing’ Police To Crack Down On Its Opponents
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-21
Park Rapids, MN – Jane Fonda’s trip to Minnesota has not gone exactly as planned. She expected attention from the media. She did not expect attention from the police. | The actress and climate activist told HEATED on Tuesday that her much-publicized press conference to oppose the Line 3 tar sands pipeline was delayed because of an extended interaction with the Minnesota State Patrol. On her way to the event, the vehicle leading her caravan was pulled over for failure to signal more than 100 feet before a turn. | “We pulled over to wait for them, it took a long time to process their identification, and they ended…
popularresistance.org/enbridge-is-fundin…

The Curse of White Supremacy Must Be Fought, Not Handed Over to a Committee
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-21
In recent years, the United States has once again begun to face a reckoning over its history and practice of white supremacy. In 2020, this reckoning became a raging fire that burned across the nation after Minneapolis police killed a Black man by choking him to death. This latest firestorm led to numerous commissions being…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/21/the-curse-of…

Demolition Of Palestinian Houses Continues
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-21
The report published on March 16 revealed that the monthly average of demolition of Palestinian houses by the occupying Israeli authorities has increased by 65% in 2021 as compared to 2020. In the month of February alone, at least 305 Palestinians, including 172 children, lost their homes and were displaced due to demolition of homes by the Israeli authorities.
popularresistance.org/demolition-of-pale…

Pasture Cropping — The Innovative No-Kill, No-Till System
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-21
Regenerative agriculture is a global farming revolution with rapid uptake and interest around the world. Five years ago hardly anyone had heard about it. It is in the news nearly everyday now. This agricultural revolution has been led by innovative farmers rather than scientists, researchers and governments. It is being applied to all agricultural sectors including cropping, grazing and perennial horticulture. | In previous articles we have described how regenerative agriculture maximizes the photosynthesis of plants to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to increase soil organic matter. Soil organic matte…
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UK Increases the Maximum Number of Reserve Nuclear Warheads
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-21
On Sunday, Russian Ambassador to London Andrei Kelin criticized the United Kingdom government’s decision to increase its reserve nuclear warhead storage limit by 40 percent. | RELATED: | UK Supported Coup in Bolivia to Gain Access to Lithium Reserves | “This violates the Non-Proliferation Treaty and many other agreements that state there should only be a reduction in the number of nuclear warheads,” said Kelin in an interview on LBC radio station. | This measure is based on th…
telesurenglish.net/news/UK-Increases-the…

Turkey Refuses to Give Up on Its Interests in Northeastern Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-21
Turkey and its proxies are rushing to defend Ankara’s interests in …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-refuses-give-up…

Standing up to anti-Asian violence and the struggle for full equality
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-21
San José, CA – For more than a year Asian Americans have seen a rising tide of violence aimed at individuals of Asian descent. Starting with a vicious knife attack on a father and his two sons, aged six and three years in Midland, Texas in March 2020 and now the murders of eight people, six of whom were Asian American women, near Atlanta, Georgia, thousands of attacks have been reported in the last year – and many more have not. | Modern violence against Asians goes back to the 1980s, when Vincent Chin was killed by two white Americans who blamed him for the rise of the Japanese auto industry, despite the fact th…
fightbacknews.org/2021/3/20/standing-ant…

Standing up to anti-Asian violence and the struggle for full equality
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-21
San José, CA – For more than a year Asian Americans have seen a rising tide of violence aimed at individuals of Asian descent. Starting with a vicious knife attack on a father and his two sons, aged six and three years in Midland, Texas in March 2020 and now the murders of eight people, six of whom were Asian American women, near Atlanta, Georgia, thousands of attacks have been reported in the last year – and many more have not. | Modern violence against Asians goes back to the 1980s, when Vincent Chin was killed by two white Americans who blamed him for the rise of the Japanese auto industry, despite the fact th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/3/20/standing…

Saudi Aramco’s 2020 profits plummet on lower crude prices
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-21
Saudi Aramco’s 2020 profits plummet on lower crude prices | Saudi Arabia’s cash cow posts a 44.4 percent slump in net profits after Covid-19 weighs heavily on global demand | MEE and agencies | Sun, 03/21/2021 – 16: 02 | Aramco was listed on the Saudi bourse in December 2019 following the world’s biggest initial public offering (Reuters) | Energy giant Saudi Aramco on Sunday posted a 44.4 percent slump in 20…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-aramco-…

Yemen: Houthis admit teargas fired by guards caused deadly fire at detention centre
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-21
Yemen: Houthis admit teargas fired by guards caused deadly fire at detention centre | Houthis say they have detained 11 men from the security forces and senior officials over fire that left 45 migrants dead | MEE staff | Sun, 03/21/2021 – 10: 29 | Members representing African communities in Yemen gather to speak in front of the offices of the International Organisation for Migration in Sanaa on 13 March 2021 (AFP) | Yemen…
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Pro-Kurdish MP briefly detained after four nights holed up in Turkey’s parliament
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-21
Pro-Kurdish MP briefly detained after four nights holed up in Turkey’s parliament | Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu was controversially expelled from his seat earlier this week as crackdown on HDP continues | MEE and agencies | Sun, 03/21/2021 – 09: 32 | Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu shows defiance after his dismissal from parliament (AFP) | Turkey briefly detained a pro-Kurdish MP who had been holed up in parliament sinc…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-arrest…

Egyptian feminist writer Nawal el-Saadawi dies aged 89
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-21
Egyptian feminist writer Nawal el-Saadawi dies aged 89 | A critic of taboos around women in society, Sadaawi clashed with Egyptian authorities throughout her life | MEE and agencies | Sun, 03/21/2021 – 16: 23 | Nawal el-Saadawi at a meeting of Egyptian writers in 2001 (AFP) | The Egyptian radical feminist writer Nawal el-Saadawi has died on Sunday aged 89 after a career challenging social and religious taboo…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/egyptian-femi…

Jordan makes new US defence agreement public
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-21
Jordan makes new US defence agreement public | Move, which allows free entry of US forces, aircraft and vehicles onto the kingdom’s territory, controversially bypassed parliament | MEE and agencies | Sun, 03/21/2021 – 18: 03 | A handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace on 19 October 2020 shows US-built M60 tanks during a military drill in Jordan’s eastern military zone (AFP) | Jordan on Sunday…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordan-makes-…

Pro-Kurdish MP detained after four nights holed up in Turkey’s parliament
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-21
Pro-Kurdish MP detained after four nights holed up in Turkey’s parliament | Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu was controversially expelled from his seat earlier this week as crackdown on HDP continues | MEE and agencies | Sun, 03/21/2021 – 09: 32 | Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu shows defiance after his dismissal from parliament (AFP) | Turkey has arrested a pro-Kurdish MP who had been holed up in parliament since being cont…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-arrest…

Biden’s Early Agenda Gives Hope, But Activist Pressure Must Not Cease
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
The dire challenges we face have no borders. Global heating, pandemics, disarmament will be dealt with internationally, if at all…
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The Movement for Black Lives Has Been Waiting for This Moment
Eli Day | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Racial justice organizers are preparing to take to the streets and the halls of power to push President Biden to meet their demands…
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The Movement for Black Lives Has Been Waiting for This Moment
Eli Day | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Racial justice organizers are preparing to take to the streets and the halls of power to push President Biden to meet their demands…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-movement-for-b…

The Biggest Amazon Union Drive Yet
Luis Feliz León | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Please Help ZNet Source: Labor Notes Photo by lev radin/Shutterstock The chilly early-morning scene at a gas station March 9 recalls the morning rush hour anywhere, as workers shuffle into a convenience store for coffee and cigarettes. But look closer–a yellow hanger on a Jeep’s rearview mirror is embossed Read…
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The Biggest Amazon Union Drive Yet
Luis Feliz León | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Please Help ZNet Source: Labor Notes Photo by lev radin/Shutterstock The chilly early-morning scene at a gas station March 9 recalls the morning rush hour anywhere, as workers shuffle into a convenience store for coffee and cigarettes. But look closer–a yellow hanger on a Jeep’s rearview mirror is embossed Read…
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Garment workers win billions in stolen wages
Loretta Graceffo | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
The PayUp campaign’s battle against wage theft has clawed back $22 billion from apparel companies during the pandemic, and they’re just getting started…
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Garment workers win billions in stolen wages
Loretta Graceffo | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
The PayUp campaign’s battle against wage theft has clawed back $22 billion from apparel companies during the pandemic, and they’re just getting started…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/garment-workers-wi…

Palestine Horizons: Winning the Long Game
Richard Falk | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
The reaction by Israel to the ICC decision rises to apoplectic levels of intensity. The fuming response of Netanyahu was echoed across the whole spectrum of Israeli politicians…
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Palestine Horizons: Winning the Long Game
Richard Falk | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
The reaction by Israel to the ICC decision rises to apoplectic levels of intensity. The fuming response of Netanyahu was echoed across the whole spectrum of Israeli politicians…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/palestine-horizons…

A People’s History of the Civil Rights Movement
Ron Jacobs | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Thomas C. Holt’s The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights, is a brief exploration of the people in the Movement who did not make it into the history books…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-peoples-history-…

Need Amid Plenty
Laura Ungar | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/need-amid-plenty/

A People’s History of the Civil Rights Movement
Ron Jacobs | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Thomas C. Holt’s The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights, is a brief exploration of the people in the Movement who did not make it into the history books…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-peoples-history-…

Need Amid Plenty
Laura Ungar | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/need-amid-plenty/

America The Usual
Jeffrey Sterling | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Such empathy from our justice system has never been the case for those of the wrong color, or right color to symbolize a threat to national security…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/america-the-usual/

America The Usual
Jeffrey Sterling | zcomm.org | 2021-03-21
Such empathy from our justice system has never been the case for those of the wrong color, or right color to symbolize a threat to national security…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/america-the-usual/

Tens of Thousands Protest “Crime Minister” Netanyahu in Israel as his Political Survival hangs in Balance
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-03-21
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Thousands of Israelis demonstrated Saturday at various places against Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is being tried for corruption, as the country goes to the polls Tuesday. This was the 39th consecutive weekly demonstration against the beleagured prime minister, who polls suggest faces an extremely close election. If he …
juancole.com/2021/03/thousands-minister-…

Milquetoast for all Three Meals: All’s Dumb in the United States of A
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-21
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. — aphorism There is dumb-downing, cancel culture (I’ve been cancelled since beginning in 1972 in high school, way before the trendy terminology), forced consent, manufactured bifurcation, false balance, triangulation, perception as reality, equivocation, a host of propaganda …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/03/milquetoast-f…

Pfizer Executive: Shift from Pandemic to Endemic. “Hiking Vaccine Price after Pandemic Wanes”
Kim Iversen | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-21
According to CBS report | Pfizer execs discuss hiking vaccine price after …
globalresearch.ca/pfizer-execs-discuss-h…

Starting Tonight (Sat): Online events w) Chomsky, McKibben, Frida Berrigan & many others
Towards increasing Networking | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
Here are some 17 online events taking place over the coming month (and starting tonight, Saturday, March 20), featuring people such as Noam Chomsky, Bill McKibben, Frida Berrigan, Thomas Piketty, Paul Mason, Hazel Henderson, and many others.
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Vaccine wars, ASEAN and the Quad
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-21
The COVID-19 pandemic demands that all nations cooperate to vaccinate the entire global population. The usual rules of which countries win and which ones lose do not operate in this civilizational crisis…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/21/vaccine-w…

Cuba: COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Soberana 02 Is Almost Ready
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-21
The biopharmaceutical group BioCubaFarma announced that an intervention study would begin with the Cuban vaccine candidate against COVID-19 Soberana 02 this Saturday. | RELATED: | Cuba: Abdala’s Phase III Clinical Trials To Start Monday | The State Center for the Control of Medicines and Medical Devices approved the trial to evaluate vaccination’s direct and indirect effects on population groups at high risk of infection, disease, and spread of the pandemic. | Sovereign 02 will be appl…
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The WHO and Big Pharma Rejected by Tanzania: President John Magufuli Says COVID-19 Vaccines Are “Dangerous and Unnecessary”
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-21
Update | President John Magufuli has passed away. The country has lost …
globalresearch.ca/world-health-organizat…

John Magufuli: Death of an African Freedom Fighter, Confronted Big Pharma and the Corrupt Covid Cabal
Celia Farber | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-21
With humor, cheek, and audacity, Magufuli had crossed a line–exposing the fraud and illegitimacy of the PCR testing apparatus that the WHO relied on to justify the global lockdown, the terror, and the vaccine rollouts.
globalresearch.ca/john-magufuli-death-af…

3/20 Lee Siu Hin: The Epoch Times, Trump’s Favorite Cult Propaganda Machine
Lee Siu Hin | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
The Epoch Times, the propaganda arm of the U.S.-backed Chinese cult Falun Gong, has built an unholy alliance among anti-China, anti-communist Republicans, far right domestic terrorists, and Donald Trump…
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Stop Racist Attacks! SF Chinatown Rally Against Murders, Systemic Racism & China Bashing
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
Hundreds of San Francisco rallied in San Francisco at Portsmouth Square to protest the racist murders in Atlanta and the growing xenophobia and terror attacks on Chinese and all Asian people.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/20/1884095…

Oakland City Council Voices Strong Support for Immediate Implementation of MACRO
Coalition for Police Accountability | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
The Tuesday, March 16th Oakland City Council began with overwhelming support during public comment for Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO), the alternative emergency response model that was developed to respond to a broad range of non-violent emergency calls without police. The votes to create a division within the fire department to house MACRO and to direct the city administrator to expeditiously implement the pilot was unanimous, as all city council members joined the resolution as co-sponsors.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/20/1884093…

Protest at Amazon’s New SF Warehouse Site
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
International Day of Protests in Support of Alabama Amazon Workers’ Union Drive…
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CA Abandons Its Commitment to Ethnic Studies under Right Wing Pressure–The Fight Continues
Arab Resource & Organizing Center | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
On March 18, 2021, the California State Board of Education (SBE) rubber-stamped a whitewashed Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) in the face of massive public backlash. This version of the ESMC was panned by teachers, students, community organizations, and Ethnic Studies scholars–including Angela Davis, Cornel West, and Marc Lamont Hill. In disgust, all 20 of the Ethnic Studies educators who drafted the original version of the ESMC demanded that their names be removed.
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HR 1976 Medicare for All Act of 2021
Socialized Medicine is What We Need | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
On March 17, 2021, Rep. Jayapal Pamila of Wash. state and Rep. Deborah Dingell of Michigan introduced this year’s version of the urgently needed Medicare for All Act of 2021 with a total of 112 sponsors, all Democrats, and it needs 218 to pass. See www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/hou…{%22search%22: [%22actionSessionCode: \%22117-1 | 1000\%22+AND+billIsReserved: \%22N\%22%22]}&r=9&s=4&searchResultViewType=compact…
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Sunday 3/21: The Great Labor Rebellion of the 1930s
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
Zoom meeting. Login info on our website: ICSSMARX.ORG
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/19/1884090…

Protest at Amazon’s New SF Watehouse Site
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
International Day of Protests in Support of Alabama Amazon Workers’ Union Drive…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/20/1884093…

Oakland Caravan, Traffic Jam, and Rally to Support Amazon Union Drive
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
Continuing Actions in Support of Alabama Amazon Workers’ Union Drive…
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Unemployment myth and “Migrantization” of precarity
Claudia Spengler, Johanna Neuhauser | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
Involuntary unemployment is afflicted with many prejudices, which impute a supposed lack of motivation and utility to those affected. Although these prejudices are easy to refute, politicians and representatives of the media cling to the neoliberal notion of individual guilt in unemployment. Unemployment has primarily structural causes and thus requires the assumption of political responsibility.
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Saturday 3/27: Mujer, Trabajo, Salud
Dance Brigade’s Dance Mission Theater | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
Dance Mission Theater | 3316 24th St. | San Francisco, CA 94110…
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Legal update from Mumia Abu-Jamal’s attorneys Judith Ritter and Sam Spital
Reposted by the Jamal Journal | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
Reprinted below is a short legal update from Judy Ritter and Sam Spital, the attorneys who are litigating Mumia Abu-Jamal’s conviction. On March 17th, they filed a response to DA Larry Krasner’s position on the issues that are being re-litigated, following Tucker’s ruling to reopen all appeals filed by Mumia’s attorneys between 1998 – 2012. Maureen Faulkner also filed a motion yesterday. Both filings are attached.
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BREAKING: March 20 Mumia Abu-Jamal Health Update from Dr. Ricardo Alvarez
The Jamal Journal | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
The Jamal Journal has just received this update from Mumia Abu-Jamal’s consulting physician Dr. Ricardo Alvarez. We want to send a special thanks to Mumia’s supporters around the world for the letters and phone calls! Please keep building the public pressure for Mumia, but as Dr. Alvarez explains, Mumia does not currently require hospitalization for his skin condition. So we now ask supporters to please remove the call for hospitalization from their “take action demands.”
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SF Judge Rules School District Must Vacate Renaming
Not to Be Missed | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
On March 18, 2021, Judge Ethan Schulman issued an Alternative Writ of Mandate in a lawsuit ordering the SF School District to either vacate the Board Resolution of January 26, 2021, the school renaming resolution, and dissolve the Renaming Committee, or show up in court on May 6, 2021 and explain why it has not complied with the order. See www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/upload…
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Friday 3/26: Rise Up With Asians March & Rally in San Franisco
Multiple community groups | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
Meet at Union Square, 333 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, then march down Powell & Market Streets to Embarcadero Plaza rally | MASKS & SAFETY DISTANCING REQUIRED; Peaceful protest event…
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WHY THOUSANDS OF TROOPS ARE STILL IN DC
Michael Webster | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
30,000 National Guard units summoned to the Capitol resembled an armed camp…
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International Dockworkers Council letter for Mumia Abu-Jamal to PA Gov Tom Wolf
!DC letter reposted by the Jamal Journal | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
This new letter from Spain was sent today to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf asking him to “reconsider Mumia’s release for a murder that we believe he did not commit and that is purely for political reasons.”
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Wednesday 4/21: Unity and Struggle: A Collective Inaugural Address
The San Francisco Public Library | indybay.org | 2021-03-21
Zoom Live…
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Eco-Fascism: Why It’s a ‘Veneer for Racist Beliefs’
Francisca Rockey | commondreams.org | 2021-03-21
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As Attacks Spike, Anti-Asian Violence Gets Lost in Translation
Tony Norman | commondreams.org | 2021-03-21
In America, everything is always about something else — even when it’s not. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Justin Trudeau’s New ‘Public’ Bank Delivers for Investors, not for Us
Linda McQuaig | commondreams.org | 2021-03-21
These public-private partnerships ultimately drive up the cost of the projects and leave municipalities with less control over their own infrastructure. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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West Papua: Rape The Women To Rape The Land
Daniel Raventós, Julie Wark | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-21
West Papua is often described as “remote”, a handy word conveying two meanings: a pristine place for an exotic holiday and too far away for most people to give a damn. The Jakarta Post gives as its first reason for visiting this wonderland, “Dive with Friendly Whale Sharks”. Number 8 on the list is gawking…
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National Day of Action March 27: Call It What It Is, a Hate Crime! Stop Anti-Asian Violence, Stop China-Bashing!
ANSWER Coalition | liberationnews.org | 2021-03-20
The following national call to action was issued by the ANSWER Coalition Join the Sat. March 27 National Day of Action! Endorse the national day of action here Organize an event in your city — register your event here Find local actions in your city: San Francisco, CA11 AM”Comfort Women” Column Of Strength Statue | St. …
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National Day of Action March 27: Call It What It Is, a Hate Crime! Stop Anti-Asian Violence, Stop China-Bashing!
ANSWER Coalition | liberationnews.org | 2021-03-20
The following national call to action was issued by the ANSWER Coalition Join the Sat. March 27 National Day of Action! Endorse the national day of action here Organize an event in your city — register your event here Find local actions in your city: San Francisco, CA 11 AM — 12 PM — A …
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Ontario government covered up massive coronavirus outbreak at Amazon’s Brampton warehouse
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
Ministry of Labour officials were on site at the Heritage Road fulfillment centre just two days before a local health official ordered the facility closed due to a massive COVID-19 outbreak.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/onaz…

Financial press fears Brazilians will be allowed to elect president of their choice
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2021-03-20
The Brazilian Supreme Court this month dismissed all charges against former President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva. A towering figure in national politics, Lula was the country’s president for eight years between 2003 and 2011. | MR Online | March 20, 2021 | Newswire…
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Cristina Fernandez Scores Major Win on Google’s Defamation Case
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-20
Argentina’s Supreme Court dismissed the appeal filed by Google against the ruling which forces the company to keep the defamatory information against Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. | RELATED: | Argentina Rejects UK Colonialist View on the Malvinas Islands | Last year, Cristina filed a petition with her country’s justice system demanding that U.S. tech giant Google preserve the data naming her as “Thief of the Argentine Nation.” | The nickname appeared on Google’s platform repla…
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What’s Behind The Biden Administration’s New $100 Billion Nuclear Missile System?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-20
One of the more important tasks that the Biden administration will undertake this year will be to review the Pentagon’s nuclear weapons budget and modernization strategy. | According to a 2019 Congressional Budget Office report, the U.S. is committed to spending $494 billion on its nuclear forces over the next decade, or about $50 billion per year. Over the next three decades, nuclear weapons modernization plans could cost as much as $1.5-$2 trillion. | This total includes investment in a $100 billion Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), a land-based nuclear missile, which is slated to replace the aging Minut…
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AFT President Randi Weingarten tells Texas teacher Michael Hull: “We’re not going to fight to keep the schools closed”
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
Hull raised critical points on the dangers of reopening schools, the role of the American Federation of Teachers in working with the Biden administration to implement this policy, and the underlying class issues involved.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/wein…

We Fight For Haiti Because We Are Haiti
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-20
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace positions of the radical black movement. We fundamentally oppose militarized domestic state repression; the policies of de-stabilization and subversion abroad; and the permanent war agenda of the U.S. state globally. | The reason we’re here today in front of the Haiti Consulate-General is simple: we stand in solidarity with the Haitian people against the corrupt and illegitimate regime of Jovenel MoàØse, which is propped up by the Joseph R. Biden administration, the United Nations, and…
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Biden’s Syria Deception: The Norwegian Connection
Gregory Wilpert | theanalysis.news | 2021-03-20
Contrary to the Biden administration’s claim, it seems that the recent missile strike in Syria was not carried out in consultation with at least one of the US’s main allies in the region: Norway. But why is Norway involved in the Middle East anyway? Greg Wilpert talks about the issue with Eirik Vold, a parliamentary advisor to Norway’s Red Party.
theanalysis.news/interviews/bidens-syria-deception-the-norwegian-connection/

A Brief List of Official Russia Claims That Proved to Be Bogus
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-03-20
Book Catalog / CC BY 2.0] By Matt Taibbi / TK News The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released a much-hyped, much-cited new report on ” Foreign Threats to the 2020 Elections.” The key conclusion: We assess that Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden’s… | Source…
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New York Times Debates When It Will Tell Readers that China Has the World’s Largest Economy
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2021-03-20
That seems to be the implication of a David Sanger piece commenting on the state of U.S. relations with Russia and China. At one point Sanger notes that China is a rising economic power: “Economists debate when the Chinese will have the world’s largest gross domestic product — perhaps toward the end of this decade” …
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Amid health care collapse, Brazil cannot bury its COVID-19 dead
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
Next week, Brazil is expected to reach the grim milestone of 300,000 COVID-19 deaths, 100,000 of which occurred in the first months of 2021.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/braz…

Turkish government moves to ban Kurdish-nationalist HDP
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
The Turkish government is initiating legal action to ban the HDP amid the COVID-19 pandemic and mounting expectations of US military intervention in Syria.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/turk…

Philadelphia school closed for COVID outbreak 10 days after reopening
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
Since reopening schools earlier this month, the city of Philadelphia has seen a 16 percent increase in the 7-day average of new infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/phil…

Bolivia: Judge Revokes Anez’s Transfer To a Medical Center
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-20
Bolivia’s de facto ex-president Jeanine Añez on Saturday early morning was transferred to the Miraflores Women’s Penitentiary Center in La Paz city. | RELATED: | Mexico Urges OAS Not To Interfere in Bolivia’s Internal Affairs | Anez’s defense has filed three different appeals to prevent her transfer to a prison. On the last occasion, her lawyers alleged that the defendant was going through a hypertension crisis, for which she would receive treatment at the Sur clinic in La Paz…
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La Organización de Estados Americanos y la injerencia proimperialista
Cristóbal León Campos | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-20
Un poco después de que se anunciara la detención de Jeanine àÅñez y demás golpistas bolivianos (políticos, civiles y militares) se comprobó sin mayor esfuerzo el contubernio entre los detenidos, la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) y el imperio…
globalizacion.ca/la-organizacion-de-esta…

No to anti-Asian racism and xenophobia!
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
The mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia this week, whose victims were predominantly Asian American, have thrown into tragic relief the surge in anti-Asian violence in the United States amid the demonization of China by the US government.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/pers…

Pandemic threatens to explode in Massachusetts as Baker administration forces schools open
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
Governor Baker’s unelected board voted to give Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeff Riley “full power of the law” to force open all state school districts amid dangers of a new surge.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/mass…

Detroit area, Keurig Dr Pepper/Seven-Up distribution workers strike over pay inequity
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
Some 90 drivers and warehouse workers at the Dr Pepper/Seven-Up Bottling Co outside of Detroit are continuing a strike begun March 11 amid escalating management provocations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/kdps…

Ukraine approves strategy to “recover” Crimea, threatening all-out war with Russia
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
The move of the Ukrainian government follows a series of anti-Russian political crackdowns and military buildups that have exacerbated the threat of a full-scale war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/ukra…

Fmr. Ambassador Robert Ford on the US role in Syria’s 10-year war
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2021-03-20
Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford speaks to Aaron Maté about the 10th anniversary of the Syrian war, the US role in the conflict, and why he now supports the withdrawal of US forces. Robert Ford served as US Ambassador to Syria from 2011 to 2014. On the tenth anniversary of the Syrian war, Ford speaks to Aaron Maté about the roots of the conflict; the US role; the current US sanctions that target Syria’s reconstruction; chemical weapons allegations …
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Dangerous Inspections: West Virginia Hospital Accused of Undermining Safety
Arvind Dilawar | progressive.org | 2021-03-20
Biomedical equipment technicians at Charleston Area Medical Center say management is putting patients and staff at risk.
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18 Years Ago The US War On Iraq Began
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-20
Friday, March 19, 2021 was the 18th anniversary of the U.S. government political decision to invade and occupy oil-rich, Arab/Muslim Iraq, a country of 32 million persons. U.S. elected officials and their advisors decided it would be in the U.S. national security interest to attack and overthrow the Iraqi government. We saw how the military attack on Iraq which was based on the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives, homes, infrastructure and culture and unleased a whirlwind of unintended (or sometimes intended) consequences that we are dealing with even now 18 year…
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Britain Threatens Humanity with Nuclear Winter without Explaining Why It Foresees War
Jay Janson | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-20
Both before the First World War and before the Second World War, the world public basically simply watched the arms build up and other preparations for war. This lackadaisical blandly interested public attitude seems to be present again. Criminally insane investors in war openly race forward with the inventing and manufacturing of ever new and …
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Starve The Pentagon, Feed The People
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-20
The budget for 2021 clocked in at more than $740 billion. Passed during the throes of the pandemic in mid-2020, Congress awarded $130 billion more than requested for the nuclear-armed Columbia class submarine program. While these same legislators whittled down the second round of stimulus payments to Americans to $600, they simultaneously lined defense contractor’s pockets. | These priorities, putting weapons before citizens, are clearly to the detriment of not just those living in the United States, but to those across the globe. The Pentagon intends to request more funding for nuclear weapons this year as part…
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The Ides of March 2011: NATO’s ‘Humanitarian’ War on Libya
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-20
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German Greens come out against Russian Gas Pipeline: “It ought not to Exist”
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-03-20
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Germany’s Green Party has come out strongly against the Nord Stream II Baltic natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. The pipeline’s construction is already advanced. Der Tagesspiegel reports, “Green Party leader Annalena Baerbock warned that the pipeline would undermine European sovereignty and pose an obstacle to a common European …
juancole.com/2021/03/against-russian-pip…

Aaugh! A Brief List of Official Russia Claims that Proved to be Bogus
Matt Taibbi | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-20
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released …
globalresearch.ca/brief-list-official-ru…

Demolition of Palestinian houses continues
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-03-20
The report, prepared by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories (OCHA), says that in the month of February alone, at least 305 Palestinians, including 172 children, lost their homes and were displaced due to demolition of homes by the Israeli authorities.
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/03/20/demolitio…

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/labo…

Destroying a Country’s Standard of Living: What Libya Had Achieved, What has been Destroyed
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-20
A historical reversal in Libya economic and social development has occurred. An entire country has been destroyed, its people driven into abysmal poverty.
globalresearch.ca/destroying-a-country-s…

The 2017 Raqqa Exodus: The US Coalition’s “Secret Deal” to Allow ISIS-Daesh Terrorists to Escape
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-20
US Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis confirmed in May Washington’s resolve to annihilate the ISIS-Daesh terrorists. | That was the “political narrative” of the Pentagon. The unspoken truth is that Uncle Sam had come to the rescue of the Islamic State.
globalresearch.ca/the-raqqa-exodus-the-u…

Millions of Australian workers forced to deplete their retirement funds amid pandemic
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
Many of those accessing their superannuation accounts were from low-paid and casualised employment in the retail and hospitality sectors, often leaving them with little or no retirement funds.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/supe…

Australian government uses misleading jobless figures to ramp up attack on working conditions
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
A closer examination of the data used points to the use of the mass unemployment caused by the global pandemic as a battering ram against the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/jobs…

Financial Press Fears Brazilians Will Elect President Of Their Choice
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-20
Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod is a member of the Glasgow University Media Group. His latest book, Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, was published by Routledge in May 2019.
popularresistance.org/financial-press-fe…

Off-duty Chicago police officer charged with shooting at two people sitting in their car
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
The accused has eight years as a Chicago police officer, and also teaches use of force at the Chicago police academy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/chic…

Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government unveils ‚Ǩ11 billion corporate bailout
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
The handout of billions of euros to Spanish corporations gives the lie to the European bourgeoisie’s absurd claim that “there is no money” to fund a shelter-at-home policy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/spai…

The emerging culture of compassion
Graham Peebles | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-20
“Take your brothers need as the measure for your actions.”
nationofchange.org/2021/03/20/the-emergi…

Is Facebook Collaborating with Turkey to Censor Free Expression?
ProPublica | juancole.com | 2021-03-20
By Jack Gillum | — ( ProPublica) — Facebook’s move to censor social media posts of a Syrian militia group in 2018 at the request of the Turkish government raises serious questions about the company’s commitment to free expression, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee wrote in a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
juancole.com/2021/03/facebook-collaborat…

In a historic victory over the fashion industry, garment workers have won billions in stolen wages
Loretta Graceffo | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-20
“If a brand is refusing to pay up, it’s likely they’re paying slave wages in the first place, not caring about the climate and burning billions of dollars of excess clothing every year.”
nationofchange.org/2021/03/20/in-a-histo…

At least six killed after factory owner calls in military in Hlaing Tharyar
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-03-20
Police publicly executed a woman who was the leader of the workers. | MR Online | March 20, 2021 | Newswire…
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How employers punish workers for forming unions
Tom Conway | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-20
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would better protect workers from illegal bullying and retaliation during the organizing process.
nationofchange.org/2021/03/20/how-employ…

Milwaukee protesters demand justice for police killing victim Joel Acevedo
Brandon Scharles, Julio Cesar Gumeta Ramos | liberationnews.org | 2021-03-20
On March 5, several dozen activists and community members gathered at Kosciuszko Park, going door-to-door in the neighborhood where Acevedo was killed, to inform the public about the upcoming trial.
liberationnews.org/milwaukee-protesters-…

Neoliberal Seattle mayor rejects federal funding, threatens eviction from hotel shelters to 130 people
Greg Plancich | liberationnews.org | 2021-03-20
The housing crisis in Seattle and the rest of the country is a symptom of capitalism, where homes are built for profit and not shelter.
liberationnews.org/neoliberal-seattle-ma…

Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it’s not a hate crime
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-03-20
By Pawan Dhingra | — Over the past year, attacks on Asian Americans have increased more than 150% over the previous year, including the March 16 murders of eight people, including six Asian American women, in Atlanta. Some of these attacks may be classified as hate crimes. But whether they meet that legal definition or …
juancole.com/2021/03/racism-american-vio…

Opposing UK Police Bill must be based on class, not gender or race
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
These draconian measures are aimed squarely at the working class and the political left.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/poli…

Peter’s Prayer Poem Shout at the Vernal Equinox
Peter Linebaugh | counterpunch.org | 2021-03-20
I am a revolutionary, I do declare. My planet makes revolution too around the sun. We are revolutionaries — it, thee, and me! Spring has sprung, hey ding a-ding! I vow to use every breath I take until I’m done To make the world over again, the kingdom come, Only on behalf of my fellow…
counterpunch.org/2021/03/20/peters-praye…

Senior U.S. Official Acknowledges Washington Has Spent $143 Billion to Destroy Its Own Government in Afghanistan
Martin Sieff | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-20
The U.S.-created and supported government of Afghanistan is on the brink …
globalresearch.ca/senior-us-official-ack…

The Housing Crisis: One Year After Lockdown
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-20
All the folks moving to Portland from California or New York and talking about how great the real estate prices are here may not know it (note: I was once one of them), but this city is the most rent-burdened city in the United States, and it exists within a country that, like this city, is undergoing multiple long-term crises, one of which is a housing crisis. The housing crisis, like so many other crises, got much worse one year ago this week, when the country, and much of the rest of the world, shut down. | Although this is a city that lost half of its Black population to the rise in the cost of housing betwee…
popularresistance.org/the-housing-crisis…

International Statement of Solidarity with Decolonial Academics and Activists in France
contributors | juancole.com | 2021-03-20
By Paola Bacchetta (Professor, University of California, Berkeley), Azeezah Kanji (Legal Academic and Journalist, Toronto) and David Palumbo-Liu (Professor, Stanford University) | — Earliest Signatories: 1. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University, USA 2. Gina Dent, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies. University of California, Santa Cruz 3. Angela Y …
juancole.com/2021/03/international-solid…

Sà£o Paulo teachers denounce health care collapse, defend “strike for life” against school reopenings
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
“This will be remembered as a great genocide. In the future, people will be shocked that there was so much neglect.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/saop…

Four years since the life imprisonment of 13 Maruti Suzuki workers
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
During the run-up to the March 18, 2017 sentencing of the Maruti Suzuki workers, the Indian government and judicial authorities, including the Haryana’s Congress Party chief minister, repeatedly urged that the workers be subjected to exemplary punishment to reassure international investors.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/maru…

California Ethnic Studies Curriculum imposes “critical race theory,” excludes Martin Luther King Jr
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
King’s call for integration of all the oppressed sections of the population is not welcome in California’s new identity-obsessed curriculum.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/ethn…

“Man Has Not Recognized Himself”. The Ideology of Power Threatens Humanity. Renouncing the Use of Violence
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-20
The title of this article is translated from German. | The concept of …
globalresearch.ca/man-has-not-recognized…

Chicago: Coalitions unite to issue joint ordinance on police accountability
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-20
Chicago, IL – An historic agreement has been reached by forces in the fight against police crimes in Chicago. Legislation for the strongest police accountability system of any city in the country has been negotiated between the coalition of forces led by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), backing the Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC), and the ordinance backed by the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability (GAPA). | Conditions were laid for this by the actions of Mayor Lori Lightfoot. She unleashed the Chicago Police Department to brutalize protesters in the re…
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/3/20/chicago-…

Why are hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-03-20
Largely missing from this ongoing discussion is the role of the police and the capitalist state. The media has done an excellent job at depicting these violent acts as interpersonal and individual attacks. | MR Online | March 20, 2021 | Newswire…
mronline.org/2021/03/20/why-are-hate-cri…

México — Drogas: Hacer historia
Pedro Miguel | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-20
En la Estrategia Nacional de Paz y Seguridad vigente está considerado un cambio de paradigma en materia de políticas públicas que incluya la regulación de la mariguana y de todas las drogas actualmente prohibidas, así como la sustitución de leyes…
globalizacion.ca/mexico-drogas-hacer-his…

What next in the airport workers struggle against the WISAG Group in Germany?
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
With the March 16 rally in front of the Hesse state assembly in Wiesbaden, the struggle of the airport ground workers against the WISAG Group has reached a crossroads.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/wisa…

Los ciberataques y la actual guerra mundial
Rodolfo Bueno | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-20
Medios estadounidenses reportan que EE.UU. planea llevar a cabo una serie de ciberataques contra las redes de Rusia. Sobre la base de las declaraciones de funcionarios estadounidenses no identificados, el diario The New York Times publicó que EE.UU. planea llevar…
globalizacion.ca/los-ciberataques-y-la-a…

150th anniversary of the Paris Commune marked by international webinar
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-20
On March 20, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) will be launching its six-week long global campaign to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune of March 18 to May 28, 1871. The “Paris Commune at 150” campaign (PC150) will be a global mass commemoration to refresh, revitalize and sustain interest in the Paris Commune: its historical context and impact in the past 150 years, its lessons and continuing validity for the current era. | In March of 1871, the working class of Paris rose up and took over the city. For months, workers controlled production and distribution of goods; by…
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150th anniversary of the Paris Commune marked by international webinar
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-20
On March 20, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) will be launching its six-week long global campaign to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune of March 18 to May 28, 1871. The “Paris Commune at 150” campaign (PC150) will be a global mass commemoration to refresh, revitalize and sustain interest in the Paris Commune: its historical context and impact in the past 150 years, its lessons and continuing validity for the current era. | In March of 1871, the working class of Paris rose up and took over the city. For months, workers controlled production and distribution of goods; by…
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‘Not in 2030 or 2050…now!’: Climate strikers worldwide demand urgent action
Jessica Corbett | nationofchange.org | 2021-03-20
“We strike because climate justice isn’t a myth, but a reality we intend to build.”
nationofchange.org/2021/03/20/not-in-203…

Dozens of Ontario schools forced to close, as government’s “open school” policy endangers lives
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
In the latest tragic incident produced by the government’s insistence on in-person learning, five teachers at a Peel Region elementary school have been sickened by the virus, with one now in a coma.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/oned…

Big Banks Make A Dangerous Bet On The World’s Growing Demand For Food
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-20
As global banking giants and investment firms vow to divest from polluting energy companies, they’re continuing to bankroll another major driver of the climate crisis: food and farming corporations that are responsible, directly or indirectly, for cutting down vast carbon-storing forests and spewing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. | These agricultural investments, largely unnoticed and unchecked, represent a potentially catastrophic blind spot. | “Animal protein and even dairy is likely, and already has started to become, the new oil and gas,” said Bruno Sarda, the former North America president of…
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Chicago: Coalitions unite to issue joint ordinance on police accountability
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-03-20
Chicago, IL – An historic agreement has been reached by forces in the fight against police crimes in Chicago. Legislation for the strongest police accountability system of any city in the country has been negotiated between the coalition of forces led by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), backing the Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC), and the ordinance backed by the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability (GAPA). | Conditions were laid for this by the actions of Mayor Lori Lightfoot. She unleashed the Chicago Police Department to brutalize protesters in the re…
fightbacknews.org/2021/3/20/chicago-coal…

Nuclear Fuel Buried 108 Feet from the Sea
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-03-20
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission) The most toxic substance on Earth is separated from exposure to society by Ω” of steel encased in a canister. — Paul Blanch, registered professional engineer, US Navy Reactor Operator/Instructor That eye-opener comes from renowned nuclear expert Paul Blanch in reference to spent fuel rods removed …
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‘Ticket and test’ scheme could help crowds return safely to live events
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-03-20
Researchers have proposed a model to support the safe return of crowds to live events, while reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
imperial.ac.uk/news/217953/ticket-test-scheme-could-help-crowds

Chomsky: Biden’s Early Agenda Gives Hope, But Activist Pressure Must Not Cease
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-03-20
Joe Biden’s first months in office have comprised a flurry of actions on the domestic front, including a historic stimulus bill. In this exclusive interview, the celebrated public intellectual Noam Chomsky shares his views on some key policies embraced by the Biden administration. Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. His latest books are Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving th…
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Garment Workers Win $22 Billion in Historic Victory Against Wage Theft
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-03-20
This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence. | In March 2020, Amanda Lee McCarty was laid off from her job. | For years, she had been working in the fashion industry as a buyer and product developer. But as COVID-19 cases surged and lockdown orders were implemented across the world, retailers were faced with a dramatic plummet in consumer demand for clothing. McCarty, who had…
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Animal Testing Is Useless for Determining COVID Vaccine Effectiveness in Humans
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-03-20
There have been concerted efforts on the part of primate researchers to convince the public and political leaders that more money and monkeys are needed for COVID-19 vaccine research. It’s not surprising that monkey researchers would attempt to exploit people’s fears about the pandemic to increase “supplies” and funding for their work. | What is surprising, however, is the complete lack of differing scient…
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Parties Charge A Lot for Committee and Leadership Roles. Corporations Benefit
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-03-20
This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge. | Federal campaign finance law lets lawmakers take money from PACs sponsored and administered by the corporations and special interest groups that lobby them on how they would like the laws to…
truthout.org/articles/parties-charge-a-l…

Some of the Wealthiest Counties in the US Have Seen the Biggest Rise in Hunger
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-03-20
This story also ran on USA Today and GateHouse Media. It can be republished for free. | “Oh, my God, it smells so good!” Sierra, 39, said of the bounty she’d just picked up at a food pantry, pulling out a ready-made salad and a container of soup. | Sierra unpacked the donated food and planned lunch for Rachell and her siblings, ages 9 and 2, as a reporter watched through FaceT…
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EU Threatens To Ban the Export of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine
telesurenglish.net | 2021-03-20
European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday threatened to block exports of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine if the European Union (EU) does not receive what it was promised. | RELATED: | Another Six European Nations Hit Pause on Astrazeneca Vaccine | The official said AstraZeneca has only delivered 30 percent of the 90 million vaccines promised to the EU by the first quarter of 2021. | The contract with the Swedish-British lab calls for the delivery of vaccines…
telesurenglish.net/news/EU-Threatens-To-…

Thousands of Liberty Steel jobs at risk as British unions and Labour put forward nationalist alliance with company
wsws.org | 2021-03-20
Liberty Steel workers must build their own organisations of struggle, independent of the unions, and based on a political programme which places their needs above the profits of the corporations and the interests of British imperialism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/03/20/lste…

Stephen Miller Watching the TV News
Calvin Trillin | thenation.com | 2021-03-20
Stephen Miller Watching the TV News…
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Biden Continues Conflict With China Through The Quad
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-20
On March 12, the heads of government of four countries, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and US President Joe Biden, met for a virtual meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, better known as the Quad. | Modi’s opening remarks illustrate the emptiness of the public agenda; he called the Quad “a force for global good” with no details beyond a list of areas of collaboration (“vaccines, climate change and emerging technologies”). There was no direct mention of China during the meeting. | In the details relating to the launch…
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The Coronavirus Vaccine: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020”. Vaccination as a Platform for “Digital Identity”
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-20
What is the infamous ID2020? It’s an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity. The program harnesses existing birth registration and vaccination operations to provide newborns with a portable and persistent biometrically-linked digital identity.
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-eff…

Saudi Arabia’s Adel al-Jubeir confirms no normalisation deal with Israel
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-20
Saudi Arabia’s Adel al-Jubeir confirms no normalisation deal with Israel | Minister of state for foreign affairs also says kingdom has made ‘great strides’ with regards to human rights | MEE staff | Sat, 03/20/2021 – 12: 45 | Jubeir, left, said relations with the United States were unlikely to change under President Joe Biden (AFP) | Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs, has said his countr…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-…

Anger as Turkey quits European treaty on violence against women
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-20
Anger as Turkey quits European treaty on violence against women | President’s decision to leave Istanbul Convention described as ‘deplorable’ amid growing cases of femicide in the country | MEE and agencies | Sat, 03/20/2021 – 09: 45 | Turkish women have regularly held protests against domestic violence (Laura Neumann/MEE) | Turkish campaigners fighting violence against women have called for protests on Satu…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-withdr…

Anger as Turkey quits European treaty on violence against women
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-20
Anger as Turkey quits European treaty on violence against women | President’s decision to leave Istanbul Convention described as ‘deplorable’ amid growing cases of femicide in the country | MEE and agencies | Sat, 03/20/2021 – 09: 45 | A protest against Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international accord designed to protect women, in Ankara, 20 March 2021 (Reuters) | Thousands protested…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-withdr…

Libya orders investigation after bodies found in Benghazi
MEE, agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-03-20
Libya orders investigation after bodies found in Benghazi | New prime minister says a cover-up could not be tolerated after bodies of more than a dozen people found shot dead | MEE and agencies | Sat, 03/20/2021 – 15: 50 | The main western and eastern factions that split apart in 2014 have publicly accepted Dbeibeh’s government (Reuters) | Libya has ordered an investigation after more than a dozen bodies wer…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-investi…

Will the Biden Administration Shine Light on Shadowy Special Ops Programs?
Nick Turse | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
Amid a broad review of American war-making policy, how and where commandos will be used in the coming years hangs in the balance…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/will-the-biden-adm…

The Dutch Elections and the Rising Waters
Mira Oklobdzija | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
The recent Dutch elections suggest that voters still long to return to an illusory pre-COVID status quo…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-dutch-election…

Poor People’s Campaign demonstrates for priorities in 30 state capitols
Callie McGrath | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
“We are here today because 64 million voters, nearly 1/3 of the electorate, are poor or low income…. Now, today, in many state legislatures, we have over 250 bills that are meant to deny the right to vote.”
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The Iraq War: 18 Years Later
Vincent Emanuele | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
I long ago forgave myself for participating in the war. I no longer lose sleep over it. These days, I lose sleep over our inability to develop political institutions capable of providing an alternative to capitalism and empire, racism and patriarchy, ecological devastation, and violence…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-iraq-war-18-ye…

The Alabama Workers Trying to Unionize an Amazon Fulfillment Center
Charles Bethea | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
South of Birmingham, warehouse employees are voting on whether to form a union. Their decision could have ripple effects around the country…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-alabama-worker…

Women are harmed every day by invisible men
Rebecca Solnit | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
When men harm women, we obscure their role. Instead, we blame women for the injustice that happens to them…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/women-are-harmed-e…

Women are harmed every day by invisible men
Rebecca Solnit | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
When men harm women, we obscure their role. Instead, we blame women for the injustice that happens to them…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/women-are-harmed-e…

Introducing the Art of Internationalism
Progressive International | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
The Progressive International introduces its art platform, Art of Internationalism…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/introducing-the-ar…

Charles Booker Eyes Running Against Rand Paul by Building Urban-Rural Coalition
Mike Ludwig | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
“We’re unified in our fight to heal, to take care of family, to take care of Kentucky, and that is a message that can build new coalitions, and I am excited to tell that story.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/charles-booker-eye…

Naomi Klein on overcoming doomism with climate action
India Bourke | zcomm.org | 2021-03-20
Klein’s new handbook-style account of the climate crisis is not only an attempt to help youth activists hone their voices, but a clarion call to her own generation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/naomi-klein-on-ove…

[World Report] Biden’s first legislative victory: $1 ∑9 trillion for COVID-19
Susan Jaffe | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
US President Joe Biden’s first legislative triumph will fund the COVID-19 response and economic recovery, and address social determinants of health. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00657-7/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Sustained neutralising antibodies in the Wuhan population suggest durable protection against SARS-CoV-2
Richard Strugnell, Nancy Wang | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
SARS-CoV-2 infections were first reported in Wuhan, China, in 2019,1 and quickly became a global pandemic, as declared on March 11, 2020.2 SARS-CoV-2 is highly infectious3 and COVID-19 is variable in its presentation, with many infected individuals, as detected by viral nucleic acid screening, being asymptomatic.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00434-7/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] COVID-19, community trials, and inclusion
Paramjit S Gill, Shoba Poduval, Jarnail S Thakur, Romaina Iqbal | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the research landscape with the emergence of platform trials. Platform trials are adaptive clinical trials in which patients with a single disease are randomly allocated to different treatments based on an algorithm to investigate whether various agents have clinical benefit.1 In The Lancet, the PRINCIPLE Trial Collaborative Group2 report no benefit of azithromycin compared with usual care (hazard ratio 1 ∑08, 95% Bayesian credibility interval 0 ∑95–1 ∑23) for suspected COVID-19 in older adults in the community.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00661-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Chris Butler: primary care research supremo
Richard Lane | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
As Professor of Primary Care in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, UK, and a practising general practitioner in south Wales, Chris Butler has a bird’s eye view of the potential impact of primary care research on clinical practice. Unsurprisingly, COVID-19 research is a priority, with Butler co-leading the PRINCIPLE trial to try and identify treatments for the alleviation of COVID-19 symptoms in community settings. “I am hopeful that our innovations in research methods will identify effective early treatment for the disease”, he says.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00583-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] Aid agencies turn attention to diabetes
Sharmila Devi | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
The rise in non-communicable diseases and their contribution to COVID-19 is prompting a shift in priorities. Sharmila Devi reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00658-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Human flourishing in a health-creating society
Nigel Crisp | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
The way we think about health and health systems needs to reflect the realities of the society we live in. There is no going back to the world before COVID-19. And, more fundamentally, it is time to finally leave behind the mindsets and practices of 20th-century medicine. COVID-19 is still doing terrible damage. Many countries are in the grip of a second or third wave of infections–in some cases worse than the first. COVID-19 vaccines bring optimism, but access to them is unequal for low-income and middle-income countries.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00585-7/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Control vaccine formulation
Peter Doshi, Kyungwan Hong, Tom Jefferson, Mark Jones, Anisa Rowhani-Farid | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
The Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) initiative is an international effort concerned with two fundamental problems in the scientific literature–many clinical trials are inaccurately or incompletely reported in journal publications and not all trials done are published. RIAT Support Center, funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, aims to address these problems by offering a methodology that allows other people to responsibly correct the record. We are writing with concerns about inaccurate and incomplete reporting in a trial published in The Lancet, and ethical concerns about the infor…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00382-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Articles] Seroprevalence and humoral immune durability of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Wuhan, China: a longitudinal, population-level, cross-sectional study
Zhenyu He, Lili Ren, Juntao Yang, Li Guo, Luzhao Feng, Chao Ma, Xia Wang, Zhiwei Leng, Xunliang Tong, Wang Zhou, Geng Wang, Ting Zhang, Yan Guo, Chao Wu, Qing Wang, Manqing Liu, Conghui Wang, Mengmeng Jia, Xuejiao Hu, Ying Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Rong Hu, Jingchuan Zhong, Jin Yang, Juan Dai, Lan Chen, Xiaoqi Zhou, Jianwei Wang, Weizhong Yang, Chen Wang | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
6 ∑92% of a cross-sectional sample of the population of Wuhan developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, with 39 ∑8% of this population seroconverting to have neutralising antibodies. Our durability data on humoral responses indicate that mass vaccination is needed to effect herd protection to prevent the resurgence of the epidemic.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00238-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Obituary] Dame Fiona Caldicott
Geoff Watts | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
Psychiatrist and UK leader in health information governance. She was born in Troon, UK, on Jan 12, 1941, and died of pancreatic cancer at home in Warwick, UK, on Feb 15, 2021, aged 80 years.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00586-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Documenting the struggle for reproductive justice and rights
Lisa Hallgarten | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
WHO promotes the right of people to choose the number, timing, and spacing of their children, the right to a family life, and relationships free from violence and coercion. Progress towards this aspiration is not linear. Campaigns are fought, won, and lost every day around the world against the co-opting, controlling, and brutalisation of women’s bodies.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00584-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Undoing supremacy in global health will require more than decolonisation
Keerti Gedela | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
I read with interest Seye Abimbola and Madhukar Pai’s Perspective.1 It provides an enlightening and hopeful vision of decolonised global health detangled from supremacy in its many forms. However, it left me feeling that the vast mark that colonisation has left on society, politics, and system hierarchy within low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been less considered. Without paying due consideration to the challenges of supremacy and oppression within LMICs, we cannot realistically equalise global health and progress to ensure that it upholds health equity and social justice.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00383-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Myanmar’s democracy and health on life support
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
A violent political crisis in Myanmar is escalating, which begs for more international attention and action before further lives are lost, democratic and health systems collapse, and the health of the people is further imperilled. In a coup on Feb 1, 2021, the military seized control from the newly re-elected National League for Democracy (NLD) government. NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint were placed in military detention. A day later, pro-democracy protests against the military’s seizure of power began.
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[Correspondence] Undoing supremacy in global health will require more than decolonisation
Pascale Allotey, Daniel D Reidpath | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
Seye Abimbola and Madhukar Pai1 describe eloquently how, for historical reasons, global health is operationalised as a saviourism model. To redress the balance of power between saviour and saved, they envision a utopic global health fuelled by respect and humility, and motivated by an adherence to values based on rights, equity, and justice.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00379-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Undoing supremacy in global health will require more than decolonisation — Authors’ reply
Seye Abimbola, Madhukar Pai | thelancet.com | 2021-03-20
We thank Keerti Gedela as well as Pascale Allotey and Daniel Reidpath for their responses to our Perspective on decolonising global health.1 We welcome and completely agree with the points they highlighted for additional emphasis: greater focus on the local dynamics of how supremacy creates health (in)equity within countries, and expansion of our disciplinary focus to include research methods to understand how the geopolitics of supremacy creates health (in)equity between countries and to incorporate the knowledge held by the intended beneficiaries of global health efforts.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(21)00373-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Advierten de que en 20 años se duplicó el endeudamiento de América Latina
Global Research | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-20
Eric Toussaint y Milan Rivié, especialistas del Comité para la Abolición de las Deudas Ilegítimas (CADTM) señalaron que en los últimos años se asistió a un aumento espectacular del stock y del servicio de la deuda en la región. | ´En…
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Mutual Aid, Abolition And Movements
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-03-20
When I first got involved in organizing, in the mid-1990’s in New York City, I wasn’t aware of the term “mutual aid” but mutual aid was a core part of what I saw around me in all the groups I was in. | Rudy Giuliani (or as we called him, Ghoul-iani) was mayor and his administration was attacking and targeting people on many fronts. He was going after taxi drivers, street vendors, unhoused people, queer bars and public meeting spaces, the sex work industry, people on welfare, and more. His administration’s brutality really “remade” the city in ways that are so visible today, increasing displacement and criminaliza…
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Welcome to the age of Modern Monetary Theory: It’s turning conventional economics upside down
Andrew Kordik | salon.com | 2021-03-20
Who cares about the deficit? Biden’s advisers embrace a hot new economic theory — whether they meant to or not…
salon.com/2021/03/20/welcome-to-the-age-…

Evangelicals are teaching false doctrine. Who says so? Jesus Christ
Nathaniel Manderson | salon.com | 2021-03-20
I’ve spent my life around evangelical theology — and most of it is exactly the hypocrisy Christ warned us about…
salon.com/2021/03/20/evangelicals-are-te…

How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder
Edward B. Westermann | salon.com | 2021-03-20
Music is supposed to transcend the horrific. Yet it has also served as an accompaniment to torture and punishment…
salon.com/2021/03/20/how-the-nazis-used-…

TikTok’s nature’s cereal: It’s natural, but is it cereal?>
Valerio Farris | salon.com | 2021-03-20
We dove headfirst into a bowl to investigate this bright, juicy breakfast…
salon.com/2021/03/20/tiktoks-natures-cer…

“Aretha” crowns the Queen of Soul in glory, thanks to star Cynthia Erivo’s own genius
Melanie McFarland | salon.com | 2021-03-20
The new bio series delivers soaring musical numbers & killer costumes worth tuning in for, even if insight is scant…
salon.com/2021/03/20/genius-aretha-revie…

My bath bomb gave me a UTI — and apparently I’m not the first
Nicole Karlis | salon.com | 2021-03-20
An attempt to indulge in self-care turned into a painful infection…
salon.com/2021/03/20/my-bath-bomb-gave-m…

The Nas generation of scholars: Finally, a Grammy for the hip hop artist who led me to liberation
Darryl Robertson | salon.com | 2021-03-20
His discography gave me a blueprint, unleashing a flood of curiosity about Black history and literature…
salon.com/2021/03/20/the-nas-generation-…

Joe Manchin’s filibuster demands might end up making Republican obstruction even worse
Igor Derysh | salon.com | 2021-03-20
There’s a very good reason Republican lawmakers “aren’t sweating a potential ‘talking filibuster’ reform”
salon.com/2021/03/20/joe-manchins-filibu…

For the love of all that is delicious, why don’t we eat duck more often in this country?
Dana McMahan | salon.com | 2021-03-20
Ariane Daugin, who founded the gourmet food purveyor D’Artagnan where duck is revered, teaches us how to cook it…
salon.com/2021/03/20/for-the-love-of-all…

Grief, with a side of baked ziti
Joelle Zarcone | salon.com | 2021-03-20
After unexpectedly losing her mother, one writer uses a beloved meal to connect the past, present and future…
salon.com/2021/03/20/grief-with-a-side-o…

Washington Has Resurrected the Specter of Nuclear Armageddon
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2021-03-20
During the 20th century Cold War with the Soviet Union, there …
globalresearch.ca/washington-resurrected…

Large Pro-Democracy, Anti-Netanyahu Pre-Election Protest in Jerusalem
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2021-03-20
Over 50,000 demand Benjamin Netanyahu resign for his indictments for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2021/03/20/large-p…

Estados Unidos y China: De Hawái a Alaska
Xulio Ríos | globalizacion.ca | 2021-03-20
El interés de la cumbre que EEUU y China celebrarán en Alaska los días 18 y 19 de marzo se centra en saber si hay o no fundamento para atisbar un relativo deshielo en la relación bilateral. Un encuentro similar,…
globalizacion.ca/estados-unidos-y-china-…

Blood clots & one death reported in Denmark after hospital staffers take AstraZeneca vaccine
rt.com | 2021-03-20
Two hospital staffers in Denmark experienced blood clots and cerebral haemorrhaging after they were vaccinated against Covid-19 with AstraZeneca’s jab. One has since died. | Denmark revealed on Saturday that both staffers experienced issues less than fourteen days after being vaccinated. However, details of the incidents are currently scarce. | The new report comes amid increasing concerns in the European Union over whether Astr…
rt.com/news/518691-blood-clots-astrazene…

‘We need to think more freely’: Bavarian PM mulls producing Sputnik V in Germany as Russian pharma announces investment plans
rt.com | 2021-03-20
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder has once again called for the speedy approval of Russia’s Sputnik V as his government considers vaccine production in the German state, and a Russian company plans to invest in it. | “Generally, we need to think more freely” when it comes to vaccination, Soeder told the German newspaper FAZ on Saturday, adding that this also “includes approving the Russian Sputnik V vaccine as soon as possible if it meets the requirements.” | According to the paper, the prime minister would also like to see the Russian vaccine produced in his state. Earlier, Bavaria’s Health Ministry issue…
rt.com/news/518708-bavarian-prime-minist…