(2021-11-23). Headlines for November 23, 2021. democracynow.org Jury to Decide Fate of Three White Men Charged With Murdering Black Jogger Ahmaud Arbery, Yemeni Protesters Condemn U.S. Support for Saudi-Led War and Blockade, Senators Move to Block Biden's Planned $650M Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia, U.S. COVID-19 Cases Surge Ahead of Thanksgiving Holiday, Israel Arrests Relatives of Palestinian Man Behind Jerusalem Attack, El Salvador President Plans "Bitcoin City" as Government Cracks Down on NGOs, Driver of SUV That Plowed into Wisconsin Parade Has Record of Domestic Violence, Trump Allies Roger Stone and Alex Jones Subpoenaed by January 6th Panel, U.S. Added to List of "Bac…
(2021-11-23). Coronavirus pandemic in Austria runs out of control. wsws.org The unscrupulous policies of Austria's ruling parties in recent months have led to mass coronavirus infections and high death rates.
(2021-11-23). Europe's fascistic policy of mass infection: People will be "vaccinated, recovered or dead," German health minister says. wsws.org As the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic comes to a close, it is clear that governments across Europe and the world have no policy to halt mass deaths.
(2021-11-23). Video: The pandemic is a bonanza for Australia's billionaires. wsws.org "The 200 richest people in Australia increased their wealth by 40 percent, from $341.8 billion in May 2019 to $479.6 billion in May this year."
(2021-11-23). Australian university union calls for "consensus" with employers on pandemic reopening. wsws.org The return to campus push will endanger the health and lives of students and staff alike, and add to risk of wider community transmission.
(2021-11-23). An early winter storm of COVID-19 hits Michigan. wsws.org Michigan's COVID-19 surge reaches pandemic highs. Admission to state hospitals for COVID-19 are rapidly stressing health care systems once more.
(2021-11-23). Amid "enormous economic uncertainty," Biden reappoints Powell as Fed chair. wsws.org Having boosted the stock market to record highs by pouring trillions of dollars into the financial system, Powell received strong support from Wall Street with gushing praise for his management of the pandemic crisis.
(2021-11-23). Educators and a scientist react to Canadian government's belated admission COVID-19 is mainly transmitted through aerosols. wsws.org Prior to the November 12 statement from Canada's chief public health officer, the federal government had spent close to two years insisting that respiratory droplets are the main source of COVID-19 infections.
(2021-11-23). The deadly impact of COVID-19 in Peru: A health expert's perspective. wsws.org "Everything is being prepared to accept death. This is terrible. Why did I study medicine only then to accept death? Why would I do that?"
(2021-11-23). Emails reveal Australian state government rejected health officer's advice. wsws.org The NSW government refused to implement an adequate lockdown at the height of a Delta outbreak, while imposing draconian measures in working-class areas.
(2021-11-22). Documents show Bill Gates has given $319 million to media outlets to promote his global agenda. thegrayzone.com A look at the database of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation reveals how the oligarch influencing the global pandemic response has bankrolled hundreds of media outlets to the tune of at least $319 million. This article was originally published by Mint Press News. Read The Grayzone's investigation into Bill Gates' global public health empire and propaganda machine here. Up until his recent messy divorce, Bill Gates enjoyed something of a free pass in corporate media. Generally presented as a …
(2021-11-22). Hepatitis A alert for thousands of Starbucks customers. rt.com 
Health officials in Camden County, New Jersey are urging people to get vaccinated against Hepatitis A after a Starbucks employee tested positive for the virus. Thousands of customers may have been infected. | The county health department reported last week that a food handler employed at a Starbucks restaurant in Gloucester Township was working for some time while infectious. People who were there on the correspondent dates are encouraged to get immunized "out of an abundance of caution," and the department is offering free shots. | "Our highest priority is ensuring everyone involved remains safe and healthy,"
(2021-11-22). Headlines for November 22, 2021. democracynow.org Wisconsin Jury Acquits Kyle Rittenhouse For Killing 2 People, Injuring a Third | , Serial Rapist Who Pleaded Guilty To Sexually Assaulting 4 Teenagers Avoids Any Jail Time, White Missouri Police Detective Found Guilty in Fatal Shooting of Black Man, SUV Plows Through Christmas Parade in Waukesha, WI, Killing 5 People, Wounding At Least 40 | , Europe Sees Massive Protests Against COVID Restrictions As Cases Surge, U.S. Regulators Approve COVID Boosters For All Adults as Officials Warn of Possible Winter Surge | , Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok Reinstated As Teenager Killed in Ongoing Anti-Coup Protests | ,…
(2021-11-22). COVID-19 now the leading cause of death in Arizona. wsws.org Between mid-March 2020 and mid-October 2021, just short of 21,000 Arizonans succumbed to the coronavirus.
(2021-11-22). Herd immunity policy leads to four-digit COVID-19 incidence levels in German schools. wsws.org The catastrophic rise of coronavirus cases among largely unvaccinated school students is a result of the criminal herd immunity policy being followed by governments at federal and state levels.
(2021-11-22). 'Ideological Fanatacism': The Folly of Seeing Human Systems as Hardware. strategic-culture.org The 'meme-politics of lockdown and vaccine mandates' may be fading, but the inflation meme and the economic aftermath meme has only just begun. | Fifteen years ago, a man who was head of the GW Bush White House bio-terrorism study group, and a special adviser to the President, unexpectedly found himself propelled into becoming the 'father' of pandemic planning, after Bush had come to his bioterrorism people to demand some huge plan to deal with some imagined calamity. "We need a whole-of-society plan. What are you going to do about foreign borders? And travel? And commerce?". From his perch of influence — s…
(2021-11-22). US 2021 COVID-19 death toll now tops 2020. wsws.org Despite the development and distribution of vaccines, the Delta variant and the reopening of schools and workplaces have exacted a terrible human cost.
(2021-11-22). Economic Update: Chris Hedges & US Prisons. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on how South Dakota is leading the US to become world's number-two tax haven; how the pandemic's economic shock was cut by very "uncapitalistic" means; why employers want the government to pay workers to go back to work; and how libertarians mistake puppets for puppeteers. | The second half of the show features an interview with Chris Hedges on lessons for us from US prisons and prisoners. | You can support this show on
(2021-11-22). Huntington West Virginia hospital strike enters third week. wsws.org Staff at the hospital are maintaining 24-hour picketing at the hospital battling short staffing and unsafe working conditions in the midst of the expanding pandemic.
(2021-11-22). For a Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. wsws.org This Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, falsifications and misinformation that have been deployed to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions since the initial detection of SARS-CoV-2.
(2021-11-22). We need to out mobilise the far-right conspiracists. greenleft.org.au There are valid concerns about pandemic lockdowns. But, as Zane Alcorn argues, so-called 'freedom' protestors have never marched for other's rights nor been concerned about keeping people safe from COVID-19.
(2021-11-22). COVID Antiviral Pill Success Hinges on Access to Speedy and Accurate Tests. truthout.org 
Within a few weeks, perhaps before many Americans finish decorating for the holidays, the U.S. could have access to a new antiviral pill from Merck expected to alter the deadly trajectory of the covid-19 pandemic — with a second option from Pfizer to follow shortly after. | Now under federal review, both pills are being hailed by infectious-disease doctors not prone to superlatives. | "This is truly a game changer," said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an expert on infectious diseases and immunology…
(2021-11-22). A Rock and a Hard Place in India. dissidentvoice.org Prior to the COVID-related restrictions and lockdowns, I had spent a substantial part of every year in India since 1995 (25 consecutive years). Much has happened in that time and I have been observing, analysing and commentating extensively on developments there, especially the devastating agrarian crisis. While veteran rural affairs reporter P Sainath has described …
(2021-11-22). "The electoral laws are to stop and silence opposition to the reopening" — SEP electoral members oppose Australia's anti-democratic measures. wsws.org "My sister's daughter, who is a nurse, got COVID-19. She can't walk more than 50 metres and it's been six months!" — Tony…
(2021-11-22). Canadian Tire Fire #20: Floods in Southern BC, Raids on Wet'suwet'en Territory, #AllOutForWedzinKwa Solidarity Actions Spread. itsgoingdown.org 
Cover image: @Gidimten / @M_Tol In this week's column, we present an update on the recent wave of repression and arrests on Wet'suwet'en territory by the RCMP, as well as a roundup of solidarity actions across so-called Canada and beyond. Be sure to listen to a recent interview with Sleydo' of the Gidimt'en on a…
(2021-11-22). Raids, Arrests and Death Threats: Israel's Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders. dissidentvoice.org 
On October 21, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations'. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a socialist political group that Israel considers, along with most Palestinian political parties, …
(2021-11-22). The win-wins of climate and biodiversity solutions. nationofchange.org We need all efforts, big and small, to solve the biodiversity and climate crises.