February 2022 Archives

Monthly Archives: February 2022

2022-02-28: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-28). UK workers and youth speak in support of "Fight Covid! Save lives! Stop the drive to World War III !" webinar. wsws.org "Everyone should condemn the war against Ukraine while opposing the NATO contribution to the current war. All the mainstream media are trying to rally people into a bloody war with Russia, which could be catastrophic for the entire planet."

WSWS (2022-02-28). Three international studies of the origins of coronavirus refute the fabricated Wuhan "lab leak" claim. wsws.org Three just-released studies provide substantive evidence for the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2, with Huanan market in Wuhan, China the location of the first zoonotic (animal to human) transfer.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-28). Down with US Empire! Long live Revolutionary Internationalism and Socialism! (w/Luna Oi!). anchor.fm In this episode the amazing Luna Oi joins us all the way from Vietnam to discuss her country's history and the struggles they've endured, but more broadly we also go into a discussion about what is stopping the "Left" from within the US Empire and the west, generally, from being able to build a movement capable of combatting these different stopping-blocks that seem to have us stagnant. We discuss misinformation about the virus and vaccines, we talk about organizing and how to help your community and comrades, we discuss isolation, US Imperialism, the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, and elsewhere, as well as Revolu…

WSWS (2022-02-28). CDC tells Americans to take off their masks as COVID-19 death toll approaches 1 million. wsws.org Discouraging the use of masks has no basis in science or public health. Rather, it is a politically motivated decision bound up with the ruling-class strategy of forcing workers to "live with the virus."

sputniknews (2022-02-28). Poll: Biden's Approval Rating Still Below 40% as Midterms Near, Raising Chances For Republicans. sputniknews.com Biden surely has a lot of problems that are keeping his approval numbers low, such as his handling of the Ukraine situation, the pandemic response, a border crisis, and low ratings for personal qualities like leadership, crisis management, and mental sharpness.

Lucrecia Franco (2022-02-28). Mini carnival kicks off in Brazil. america.cgtn.com The top samba schools in Rio de Janiero won't be taking part in the usual Carnival parade. | It's been postponed from March to late April due to the pandemic. Meanwhile, a scaled down version took place over the weekend.

WSWS (2022-02-28). Aerosol physicist Lidia Morawska calls for long-term measures to combat COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org Acclaimed scientist and long-standing advisor to the World Health Organization, Morawska played the key role in exposing and correcting the international health body's mistaken claim that SARS-CoV-2 was not an airborne virus.

sputniknews (2022-02-28). Biden Believes COVID-19 Is What Stops Americans From Feeling Happy About 'Fastest Growing Economy'. sputniknews.com In just over a year in office, the president has faced many crises, both domestically and internationally. The failure of the Democratic Party to advance some of Biden's key sweeping bills on their agenda has also sown seeds of discontent even among his loyal voters.

WSWS (2022-02-28). Tower auto parts workers penalized for following COVID safety protocols during Omicron surge. wsws.org Workers at Tower Automotive in Chicago, a parts supplier for the Chicago Ford Assembly Plant, recently spoke out about unsafe conditions during the Omicron surge.

WSWS (2022-02-28). Omicron wave overwhelms health system in Hong Kong. wsws.org The distressing scenes at hospitals are a distinct contrast with the systemic actions repeatedly being taken by the Beijing government to suppress COVID-19 outbreaks.

Staff (2022-02-28). Headlines for February 28, 2022. democracynow.org Ukraine Demands Ceasefire as Casualties Mount, Ukrainian and Russian Delegations Meet in Belarus, Belarus Could Join Russian Invasion as Putin Puts Nuclear Forces on High Alert in Latest Escalation, 500,000+ Ukrainians Become Refugees as Families Torn Apart by War, International Community Send Military Assistance, Up Sanctions on Russia
| , Protests Around the World Condemn Invasion of Ukraine; Russian Police Arrest Thousands, U.S. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Accepts Historic Supreme Court Nomination, U.N. Report Warns Climate Crisis Is Driving Hunger, Poverty, Disease and Species Loss, El Salvador Ex-Presid…

Staff (2022-02-28). Bill McKibben on Dire IPCC Climate Report & How Oil and Gas Are Fueling Putin's Ukraine Invasion. democracynow.org We speak with climate author, journalist and movement leader Bill McKibben upon the release of the highly anticipated U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2022 report, which finds the impacts of the climate crisis are already worse than predicted, driving poverty, hunger, disease and species extinction. McKibben also speaks about how global dependency on oil and gas empowers autocrats like President Vladimir Putin and is helping fuel the Russian war in Ukraine. Renewable energy could help defeat fascism and deter some of "the worst people on Earth" if deployed at scale, he says.

WSWS (2022-02-28). Anti-Russian fever takes hold of entertainment, music and sports world. wsws.org The stampede to denounce everyone and everything Russian is hypocritical and dangerous.

sputniknews (2022-02-27). UK to Keep Secret Names of Thousands of Firms After Billions in COVID-19 Loans Lost – Report. sputniknews.com The UK government estimated recently that the bounce-back scheme, which granted loans up to 50,000 pounds ($67,000) to small firms during the COVID-19 pandemic, cost it approximately 4.9 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) in fraud.

sputniknews (2022-02-27). COVID-Hit Queen Elizabeth II Postpones Key Diplomatic Reception. sputniknews.com On 20 February, Buckingham Palace announced that UK Queen Elizabeth II had tested positive for coronavirus, but that she would continue performing some duties at her Windsor Palace home while receiving medical care.

sputniknews (2022-02-27). Miami Beach Will Restrict Alcohol Sales to Prevent Last Spring's Calamity – Reports. sputniknews.com In March last year, Miami Beach, Florida authorities declare a state of emergency due to an influx of tourists who had been partying by the sea during the coronavirus pandemic.

ecns.cn (2022-02-27). Chinese FM calls for stronger vaccine support for developing countries. ecns.cn Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday said it is impossible to be completely safe as long as there is an immunization "gap" in the world, calling for stronger vaccine support for developing countries.

Staff (2022-02-27). Thousands of 'ghost flights' left UK during pandemic. rt.com Near-empty planes were flown between March 2020 and September 2021, new figures reveal | Nearly 15,000 flights with less than 10% of the seats sold departed from the UK during 19 months of the pandemic, according to official figures revealed earlier this month. | The data — released by the aviation minister Robert Courts on the UK Parliament website — shows that the near-empty flights departed from 32 UK airports. The note accompanying the release defines ghost flights as those with no more than 10% of seats occupied. | The highest number of international ghost flights — 4,910 — departed fr…

teleSUR- hvh, JL (2022-02-27). Chile supera los 3 millones de contagios por Covid desde 2020. telesurtv.net El país suramericano reporta un total de 42.070 fallecidos a causa del virus.

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2022-02-27: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-26). German workers speak out on war in Ukraine: "The only war we need is the war against the Coronavirus!" wsws.org "Russians and Ukrainians have a common history. The vast majority of people certainly do not want a war, which at most will benefit the gas and oil magnates in West and East, the billionaires, arms dealers and oligarchs."

Hiam Chemaitelly, Laith J Abu-Raddad (2022-02-26). [Comment] Waning effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. thelancet.com In The Lancet, Peter Nordstrà∂m and colleagues1 report the effectiveness of several COVID-19 vaccines and different vaccine schedules against any documented SARS-CoV-2 infection and against severe COVID-19, for up to 9 months of follow-up. Data for 842‚Äà974 matched pairs of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in this retrospective cohort study were retrieved from the Swedish national registers. These registers track health outcomes for all registered individuals nationwide. Both cohorts had a median age of 52 ∑7 years (IQR 37 ∑0—67 ∑5) and included mostly women (500&s…

Steve Penner (2022-02-26). Protest Canadian rulers' Emergencies Act attack on workers' protests, rights! themilitant.com MONTREAL — "The sweeping police operation carried out under the anti-working-class Emergencies Act against the three-week protest in Ottawa, Canada's capital, by truckers and others opposed to vaccine mandates is an assault on the political rights of all working people," said Philippe Tessier, Communist League candidate in a Quebec provincial by-election in the riding of Marie-Victorin. "It is one of the largest acts of police repression in modern Canadian history and should be opposed by all unions and supporters of democratic rights. | "As of today — Feb. 22 — even though the cops have shut do…

Richard Horton (2022-02-26). [Comment] Offline: There is no right to lie. thelancet.com Perhaps the most curious aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the flourishing of anti-science movements, despite the demonstrable triumphs of science in producing life-saving antivirals and vaccines. Mistrust of science is spreading well beyond COVID-19. Political challenges to climate action, notably the goal of net zero emissions, are growing, especially as economic stress impoverishes millions. 5G remains a target for many science sceptics. And libertarian politicians condemn scientists as unelected threats to democratic freedoms.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-26). Communist Party of Russia Calls for Increased Nationalization, Dedollarization, an End to Digital ID and Mass Vaccinations. libya360.wordpress.com "The answer to external pressure should be a radical change in domestic policy". The 2014 coup d'état in Ukraine was carried out with the support of the United States and the European Union. It brought to power extremely reactionary forces imbued with the poison of Banderite Nazism and Russophobia. The burning of people in the…

_____ (2022-02-26). 'Queremos Vivir': The Workers Who Wouldn't Die For The Pentagon. popularresistance.org Workers in the Mexican border city of Mexicali, many of them young migrant women, were fighting for their lives. It was the deadliest point of the pandemic in 2020 in one of the hardest-hit states in Mexico, Baja California. | By May 2020, a local news outlet reported that 432 of the 519 Covid-19 fatalities to date had been workers in maquiladoras—assembly plants on the border that mostly supply the United States.

WSWS (2022-02-26). Chinese translation of "2022: Year Three of the pandemic and the emerging global class struggle" wsws.org The perspective outlines a socialist and internationalist perspective for the global working class and is of immense relevance to workers and young people in China, as well as the millions around the world who also read Mandarin.

teleSUR, lvm, JGN (2022-02-26). Túnez recibe donación de vacunas anticovid enviadas por China. telesurtv.net El 25 de marzo de 2021 llegó a Túnez el primer lote de vacunas enviadas por el país asiático.

Ann Danaiya Usher (2022-02-26). [World Report] The global COVID-19 treatment divide. thelancet.com Experts warn of huge global inequities in access to new treatments for COVID-19. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.

teleSUR- lvm -HIM (2022-02-26). ONU reflexiona sobre desigual acceso a la vacunación anticovid. telesurtv.net El presidente de la Asamblea de la ONU apostó por la defensa de la acción colectiva y en la solidaridad de los países.

teleSUR- hvh, JL (2022-02-26). Chile supera los 3 millones de contagios por Covid desde 2020. telesurtv.net El país suramericano reporta un total de 42.070 fallecidos a causa del virus.

WSWS (2022-02-26). Omicron surge in Indonesia tops record for daily cases. wsws.org The death toll is climbing fast, increasing to 257 COVID fatalities on Tuesday from single figures three weeks ago. Over 100 people died every day for the past two weeks, mostly in the capital.

WSWS (2022-02-26). San Mateo County Community College District students and faculty speak out against unsafe return to campus. wsws.org A student asked, "How are we meant to put our focus on education if we are fearful and stressed out about contracting this potentially deadly virus? How are teachers meant to teach us to the best of their abilities if they are constantly put at risk?"

The Lancet (2022-02-26). [Editorial] Our commitment to help accelerate progress against cancer. thelancet.com Cancer affects everyone, regardless of age, gender, or social status, and represents a tremendous burden for patients, families, and societies. In 2020, one in six deaths were caused by cancer, accounting for 10 million premature deaths worldwide. Cancer has been a leading cause of mortality since the 1970s, but only in 2016 did it become part of the UN global agenda, as part of Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4, aiming to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases. This step has helped raise the profile of cancer worldwide and led to an increased political commitment to accelerate cancer res…

Giovanni Ostuzzi, Corrado Barbui (2022-02-26). [Comment] Preventing relapse in schizophrenia needs better evidence. thelancet.com Given the considerable contribution of schizophrenia spectrum disorders to the global burden of disease, implementing evidence-based treatments is a global health priority.1,2 Building on a previous network meta-analysis of randomised trials of antipsychotics for acute symptoms of schizophrenia,3 Johannes Schneider-Thoma and colleagues4 assessed 32 oral and long-acting injectable antipsychotics for 14 different efficacy and tolerability outcomes in a systematic review and network meta-analysis published in The Lancet.

teleSUR (2022-02-26). Argentine: Massive Fire Devastation in Corrientes. telesurenglish.net The scarce rainfall in the last few hours and the firefighters deployed on the ground are insufficient to stop the numerous active outbreaks in the province, declared an environmental disaster. | RELATED: | The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, noted that all forces had been allocated to address this issue. The government has sent firefighters, security forces, hydrants and helicopters to fight the fires…

WSWS (2022-02-26). The campaign against Russian conductor Valery Gergiev: Middle-class hysteria in the service of war. wsws.org The announcement by New York City's Carnegie Hall that Gergiev would no longer be conducting the Vienna Philharmonic on Friday is the product of war fever whipped up by the US government with the help of the pliant capitalist press.

Nicholas J White, Nicholas P J Day, Elizabeth A Ashley, Frank M Smithuis, Francois H Nosten (2022-02-26). [Correspondence] Have we really failed to roll back malaria? thelancet.com The World Malaria Report (WMR) 2021 estimates that there were 241 million (95% CI 218—269) malaria cases in the world in 2020, which is the same number as in 2000 (241 [226—260] million).1 Has the global burden of malaria really not changed over 20 years, after spending more than US$30 billion on malaria control activities, and after distributing more than 2 ∑5 billion insecticide-treated bednets, 3 billion rapid diagnostic tests, and 3 ∑5 billion artemisinin combination treatments?

sputniknews (2022-02-26). Merging Waltz: Caltech Finds Two Supermassive Black Holes Set to Collide, Warping Space & Time. sputniknews.com The object in space that showed evidence of the future collision is called a quasar. Quasars are galaxies' active cores, where a supermassive black hole sucks material from a disk that surrounds it. The supermassive black hole in some quasars produces a jet that travels at almost the speed of light.

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2022-02-26: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-25). "We can't let nuclear war break out": US workers respond to conflict in Ukraine. wsws.org Workers across the United States are responding with anxiety and apprehension to the outbreak of war in Ukraine, while voicing skepticism about the hysterical war propaganda being stoked by the Biden administration and the corporate media.

WSWS (2022-02-25). Hundreds reported dead in first day of Russia-Ukraine war. wsws.org Ukraine is in the grips of a full-scale war after Russia launched large-scale bombing raids early Thursday morning local time, in the biggest military operation by Russia since the Afghanistan war.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-25). At least 5 million children have lost a caregiver from COVID-19, study suggests. imperial.ac.uk At least 5 million children have experienced the death of a parent or caregiver due to COVID-19 since March 2020, new figures suggest.

Staff (2022-02-25). Ukrainian Peace Activist: My Country Has Become a Battlefield for Major Powers. End the War Now. democracynow.org As officials in Moscow threaten to replace the democratically elected Ukrainian government and Russian forces appear set to overpower Ukrainian defenses, is this the end of an independent Ukraine? We speak with Ukrainian peace activist Nina Potarska, who fled the country after Russian troops entered Ukraine on Thursday, even as her 11-year-old daughter with COVID-19 had to stay behind. She is participating in CodePink's international emergency online rally on Saturday to advocate against war and against NATO membership for Ukraine. "I feel that my country now is like a battlefield for all other countr…

WSWS (2022-02-25). Germany: What next in the fight against the herd immunity policy? wsws.org While students, parents and teachers are protesting in their tens of thousands against unsafe learning conditions, the federal and state governments have decided to lift the last safety measures and give the deadly coronavirus free rein in schools.

ecns.cn (2022-02-25). Beijing Winter Olympics a great success: president of MNOC. ecns.cn The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have been a "great success" amid the difficult time of the coronavirus pandemic, said Choijgavaa Naranbaatar, president of the Mongolian National Olympic Committee (MNOC).

Graham Peebles (2022-02-25). The Keep Africa Poor and Dependent Project. dissidentvoice.org Exploited and abused for generations by white colonial powers and manipulative economic structures, there is a growing feeling of solidarity within parts of the African continent, as exemplified by the #NoMore movement. Covid vaccine inequality and environmental injustice, together with recent events in Ethiopia, have galvanized people. Ideas of African unity and rage against former …

WSWS (2022-02-25). COVID pandemic continues mass killing, notably focused on US and Russia. wsws.org As world war threatens in Europe, the global pandemic continues to take a huge daily toll.

Jim Spellman (2022-02-25). Biden's COVID-19 response so far. america.cgtn.com President Biden promised to competently address the COVID pandemic after the chaotic Trump era, see how Americans assess his response to the crisis.

WSWS (2022-02-25). North Carolina prison inmates initiate hunger strike against inhumane treatment and grossly inadequate pandemic response. wsws.org The strike came to light nearly two weeks ago after family members of one of the inmates contacted the non-profit law firm, North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services.

_____ (2022-02-25). Britain Forgets Its Recent History Of Unleashing War In Europe. popularresistance.org In the early hours of Thursday morning, in what will perhaps finally result in the COVID-19 mainstream media narrative being permanently banished from the headlines, almost nine years of Western provocations via its Eastern European proxy state Ukraine would culminate in Russia launching a military intervention into its Western neighbour — with attempts to resolve the situation peacefully by Moscow over the past several months ultimately proving fruitless due to Kiev failing to implement its side of the Minsk Agreements, which would see a federalisation solution in which the breakaway pro-Russian Republics…

_____ (2022-02-25). The American Political Process Is Disconnected From Economic Reality. popularresistance.org The growing disconnect between the capitalist system and the economic realities plaguing the United States is now nearing completion. On the ground, the accumulated problems of U.S. capitalism undermine its empire and challenge its very future. Meanwhile, the ever-deepening inequalities of wealth and income conjure up images of ancient Egypt's pharaohs. Three economic crashes opening the new century (2000, 2008, and 2020) have shaken the system; so have the two wars America lost against very poor countries in the Middle East: Afghanistan and Iraq. The worst public health crisis in a century during the COVID-19 pa…

Ann Brown (2022-02-25). Video: Amazon Calls The Police On Union Organizers In New York, Union Workers Handcuffed. moguldom.com Officers from the New York City Police Department arrested two Amazon warehouse workers along with Christian Smalls, a former Amazon assistant manager who was fired after fighting for unionization in 2020 over unsafe working conditions during the covid-19 outbreak. The arrests took place outside Amazon's largest New York City warehouse on Feb. 23. Video footage obtained by Motherboard shows the …

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-25). Congressional Hearing Highlights Need for IMF Policy Change to Support an Equitable Global Recovery. cepr.net On February 17, 2022, the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy held a virtual hearing titled "The Role of the International Monetary Fund in a Changing Global Landscape." The hearing addressed critical issues facing developing countries in their efforts to recover from the fallout of the COVID-19 …

WSWS (2022-02-25). Quebec government scraps remaining COVID-19 mitigation measures. wsws.org Health authorities have pointed to their estimate that 3 million Quebecers have been infected with COVID-19 since last December as a welcome development, callously ignoring the almost 2,500 additional deaths and Long COVID's debilitating impact on many of the infected.

Global Research News (2022-02-25). Selected Articles: What's Behind the New AIDS Scare? globalresearch.ca By While Prince Harry's fame is milked for all its worth to get people to start thinking about getting HIV-tested, the discovery of a new HIV variant …

WSWS (2022-02-25). Singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan dies at 57. wsws.org The singer, who gained fame as a member of the Screaming Trees in the 1990s, had recently endured a long and harrowing battle with COVID-19.

WSWS (2022-02-25). Australian Education Union promotes misinformation over Victorian teachers' agreement. wsws.org The union is concerned not only to prevent an informed examination of its sell-out agreement but also to block a discussion in which educators connect the question of their working conditions with the ongoing COVID crisis, against the AEU's insistence that these are entirely separate issues.

Staff (2022-02-25). Cuba confirma 626 nuevos casos de COVID-19 y 646 altas médicas. cubadebate.cu Al cierre de este jueves 24 de febrero, Cuba reportó 626 nuevos casos de COVID-19 y ningún fallecido. En el día se registraron 646 altas y hay actualmente 2 586 casos activos. En terapia intensiva son atendidos 32 pacientes, siete de ellos críticos, y 25 graves, informó el Minsap.

teleSUR, mcs, JDO (2022-02-25). Argentina registra 79% de población vacunada contra la Covid-19. telesurtv.net La nación suramericana sobrepasa la media tanto a nivel regional como internacional.

sputniknews (2022-02-25). Doctors on Alert After 12 Cases of Rare Paralytic Disease 'Guillain-Barre Syndrome' Emerge in India. sputniknews.com Experts say that Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) is a rare disease that weakens one's immune system and attacks the nervous system which eventually leads to paralysis.

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2022-02-25: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-25). COVID pandemic continues mass killing, notably focused on US and Russia. wsws.org As world war threatens in Europe, the global pandemic continues to take a huge daily toll.

Staff (2022-02-24). Headlines for February 24, 2022. democracynow.org Russian President Vladimir Putin Launches "Full-Scale Invasion" of Ukraine, World Leaders Strongly Condemn Russia over Ukraine Invasion, Sanofi and GSK Ask for Approval of Vaccine That Showed 100% Efficacy Against Severe COVID-19, WHO Expands Vaccine Program, Repeats Calls on Drugmakers to Share Technology, Manhattan Prosecutors Leading Trump Criminal Fraud Probe Resign, Trucker Caravan Opposing COVID-19 Mandates Departs California for Washington, D.C., Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Calls Gender-Affirming Surgery for Trans Teens "Child Abuse", Wanton Endangerment Trial Begins for Ex-Cop in No-Kno…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-24). Venezuela to Offer Booster Shots Every 4 Months. orinocotribune.com With positive statistics in terms of vaccinating the population with initial doses and booster doses, the Venezuelan government is maintaining control over the COVID-19 pandemic, commented the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, while observing the operations of vaccination centers. | The president reiterated a call for all people who, for one reason or another, have not received the necessary doses, to join the campaign in which the healthcare system offers the complete program of vaccines and appropriate booster shots. | President Maduro recalled that February 18 marked one year since the national vaccination plan w…

Doctors for COVID Ethics (2022-02-24). J'Accuse! The Gene-based "Vaccines" Are Killing People. Governments Worldwide Are Lying to You the People, to the Populations They Purportedly Serve. globalresearch.ca The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the 'Covid' vaccine programme be halted immediately.

Hendrik Sybrandy (2022-02-24). See why this scientist insists on wearing a mask. america.cgtn.com As mask mandates are being dropped in the U.S., many are still wondering if masks are necessary. An aerosol and bioaerosol science at the University of Denver tells the truth.

Ann Brown (2022-02-24). Is Vladimir Putin Crazy? Former Russian Government Official Suggests He Changed During Pandemic. moguldom.com Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered his country to launch a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes and shelling. The attacks are leaving some to wonder if Putin is insane while others, including some U.S. conservatives, praise him as a genius. Putin ignored global condemnation and threats of …

WSWS (2022-02-24). Life insurance companies report a sudden rise in non-COVID-related deaths. wsws.org New light is being shed on the colossal human impact of the pandemic, not from government health reports, but from the financial accounts of giant corporations.

WSWS (2022-02-24). Mental health crisis among Canada's youth exposes failure of Trudeau governments' pandemic response. wsws.org The cynical lies from politicians and the media about their desire to keep schools open at all costs to protect kids' "mental health" have left many young people feeling like their lives are worthless as far as the ruling class is concerned.

Hannah Gais, Megan Squire (2022-02-24). Far-Right Livestreamer Who Attended Capitol Insurrection Got Federal Pandemic Relief Funds. splcenter.org The federal government program intended to support businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic awarded more than $20,000 in forgivable loans to a far-right livestreamer and treasurer for a white nationalist nonprofit, Hatewatch found.

Dan Williams (2022-02-24). See how a Chicago hospital helps the black community fight COVID. america.cgtn.com The New Roseland Community Hospital is situated on Chicago's far South Side and the area is 95% Black. CGTN's Dan Williams enters the hospital to find out how it's doing after another year of COVID.

The Global Research Team (2022-02-24). Don't Let Your News be Silenced. Support Global Research. globalresearch.ca Global Research has been reporting on pressing issues on a daily basis — from the COVID-19 crisis, democratic erosion, human rights abuses, climate change, oil and gas crisis, to the Ukrainian conflict. | However, we have been particularly affected by the …

WSWS (2022-02-24). Australia: 46-year-old teacher in NSW dies from COVID. wsws.org The tragic death of Michelle Hayes last week is an indictment not only of governments and education departments, but also of the teacher unions that enforced the dangerous school reopenings.

WSWS (2022-02-24). UNESCO report: 10 million arts jobs lost in 2020 due to COVID-19. wsws.org The study reports that in 2020, "the income drawn by creators fell by more than 10 percent, or more than 1 billion euros. What was already a precarious situation for many artists has become unsustainable, threatening creative diversity."

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-24). Lateral flow tests may be missing 'substantial' number of COVID-19 infections. imperial.ac.uk Lateral flow tests appear to miss a substantial number of COVID-19 infections, particularly for people without symptoms, experts have warned.

Fight Back (2022-02-24). Uranium miner's daughter breaks the trail for victims of toxic aluminum dust 'treatment'. fightbacknews.org Toronto, Canada – A decade-long campaign led by the daughter of a deceased uranium miner has led to victory for workers struck by Parkinson's disease after being subjected to aluminum dust inhalation "treatments" in their jobs. | Supported by her union, the United Steelworkers (USW), and other worker advocacy organizations, Janice Martell waged a relentless campaign to compel Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to recognize Parkinson's as an occupational disease linked to the use of so-called McIntyre Powder in mining and other industries. | McIntyre Powder was an aluminum-based inhalant used be…

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2022-02-24: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-23). Fed-up, Frustrated and Disenfranchised: Why Indigenous Canadians Joined the Freedom Convoy. libya360.wordpress.com Ashley Frawley We are encouraged to believe that different experiences mean that some groups can never unite. The Freedom Convoy shows us the opposite is true. Since a movement dubbing itself the 'Freedom Convoy' emerged at the end of January and headed to Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates for border crossings, labour leaders, the media…

Doctors for COVID Ethics (2022-02-23). J'Accuse! The Gene-based "Vaccines" Are Killing People. Governments Worldwide Are Lying to You the People, to the Populations They Purportedly Serve. globalresearch.ca The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the 'Covid' vaccine programme be halted immediately.

WSWS (2022-02-23). COVID surge accelerates in New Zealand. wsws.org As Omicron cases and hospitalisations reach record numbers, far-right, anti-vaccination groups continue to dominate media coverage and receive support and encouragement from capitalist politicians.

Victoria Torres (2022-02-23). Venezuela reports 701 New COVID-19 Cases and 7 Deaths on Monday. orinocotribune.com This Monday, February 21, Venezuelan health authorities reported 701 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours. Of these, 697 were due to community transmission and 4 imported. In addition, seven deaths were reported. This was announced by the Minister of Communication and Information, Alfred Nazareth àëáñez, via Twitter. | With this update, Venezuela has reached a total of 511,772 infections and 5,616 deaths after almost two years of the pandemic. Of these, 10,417 represent active cases, 9,328 receiving treatment in public healthcare centers (5,836 with Supervised Community Care) and 1,089 in private hos…

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-02-23). Mexico's economy struggles to bounce back after pandemic recession. america.cgtn.com As countries around the world seek to bounce back from the economic devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing mixed results.

Amit Sengupta (2022-02-23). The Indian media and Covid — Part One: Locked up during Lockdown. countercurrents.org Note: In this series of articles senior journalist Amit Sengupta examines the role of the Indian media during the two years of the Covid pandemic. Part One: Locked up during Lockdown Even as the affluent and the middle classes were rejoicing the banging of thalis and utensils on their balconies to beat an incipient virus which had just arrived in

WSWS (2022-02-23). Australia: The way forward for New South Wales nurses. wsws.org Rank-and-file committees must be formed to fight for the unification of all workers in an industrial and political struggle for real improvements to pay, safe working conditions, a high-quality public health system and an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-23). Southern US teachers discuss the fight to eliminate COVID-19 and stop the threat of war. wsws.org Teachers across the southern US met Sunday to discuss the coverup of the pandemic and the threat of war with Russia.

Staff (2022-02-23). Headlines for February 23, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. Imposes Sanctions, Ukraine Calls for Stronger Action After Russian Recognition of Breakaway Areas, Jury Finds Ahmaud Arbery's 3 Murderers Guilty of Federal Hate Crimes, Trial for Ex-Cop Brett Hankison, Who Shot into Breonna Taylor's Home During Fatal Raid, Starts in KY, U.N. Report Warns of Climate Disaster-Fueled "Global Wildfire Crisis", Mining Companies, Foreign Investors Driving Destruction of Amazon, Violation of Indigenous Rights, Hong Kong to Conduct Mass COVID Testing on Entire Population; U.K. Removes All Pandemic Restrictions, Israeli Forces Kill 14-Year-Old Palestinian; Isr…

Nayvin Gordon (2022-02-23). WIZARDS, PLAGUES, AND SNIFFLES (THE MAGICIAN WHO TURNED A PANDEMIC INTO THE COMMON COLD)—. indybay.org (THE MAGICIAN WHO TURNED A PANDEMIC INTO THE COMMON COLD)—A Parable…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-02-23). Stock Bubbleheads Clobbered By 80 Percent Roku Crash: 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com Shares in Roku Inc., a TV streaming platform operator that sells hardware products to help customers stream to their favorite devices, tumbled after the company reported its fourth-quarter revenue had missed expectations. The company gave an even gloomier outlook for 2022 as covid-19 restrictions ease and subscribers decline. Silicon Valley-based Roku, which had more than …

WSWS (2022-02-23). Bipartisan congressional war consensus emerges, bringing together progressive "left" and Republican right. wsws.org The emerging ruling class consensus is part of an attempt by the Biden administration to effect a new "national unity," particularly aimed at distracting from growing inflation and a daily US COVID-19 death toll of over 2,000 people.

WSWS (2022-02-23). Dozens of US colleges and universities end efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19. wsws.org The drive to end all mitigation measures and normalize mass infection and death in perpetuity is being pursued by both Democratic and Republican politicians alike.

Anis Chowdhury (2022-02-23). Financialization at heart of economic malaise. mronline.org COVID-19 has exposed major long-term economic vulnerabilities. This malaise—including declining productivity growth—can be traced to the greater influence of finance in the real economy.

John Whitehead (2022-02-23). Perpetual Tyranny: Endless Wars Are the Enemy of Freedom. mintpressnews.com Two years after COVID-19 shifted the world into a state of global authoritarianism, just as the people's tolerance for heavy-handed mandates seems to have finally worn thin, we are being prepped for the next distraction and the next drain on our economy.

WSWS (2022-02-23). COVID deaths and hospital admissions on the rise in Germany. wsws.org While the federal and state governments claim there is a "break in the Omicron wave" and continue to ease protective measures, hospitalisations and deaths are on the rise.

WSWS (2022-02-23). Omicron is proving to be deadly serious for children in the US. wsws.org According to the CDC data tracker, pediatric COVID deaths have doubled since November 2021, underscoring the deadly consequences from all variants of the SARS-CoV-2 for this population.

_____ (2022-02-23). Can Argentina Escape The Plague Of IMF-Imposed Austerity? popularresistance.org The crush of people began at the 9 de Julio subway stop downtown, less than a block from the Buenos Aires obelisk, the city's most recognizable monument. By 5: 00 p.m. on February 8, thousands from over 100 trade unions, human rights organizations and student groups had blocked the main thoroughfare to protest a preliminary agreement between the Peronist, center-left government of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández and the International Monetary Fund. Amid a cacophony of competing drumbeats, demonstrators along Roque Saenz Peña bore signs that read "With the IMF, we return to the bottom," "The IMF is poverty…

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_____ (2022-02-22). Who's Behind The 'People's Convoy' To Washington DC? popularresistance.org Thousands of truckers are being hijacked by anti-vax loonies and encouraged to parade through red state America in search of any remaining Covid-19 restrictions to protest. The so-called "People's Convoy" is scheduled to leave Barstow, California, on Wednesday, February 23, and meander eastward, picking up truckers as they go for a final jamboree and road-blocking in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 — the day of Joe Biden's first State of the Union address. | Are these the same organizers that brought us Canada's "Freedom Convoy," blocking the streets of the capital, Ottawa, for weeks and blocking…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-22). The Green Party of the United States Black Caucus Supports the Freedom Convoy. libya360.wordpress.com The Green Party of the United States Black Caucus (GP-BC) has announced its support for the Freedom Convoy, an educational effort to help the public learn more about vaccine mandates and the best way to respond to government overreach. "We are calling on all people to unite in solidarity." says Philena Farley, National Media Co-Chair…

Jake Watkins (2022-02-22). Indiana Communists make ending mass incarceration a key area of work. peoplesworld.org The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over for those who are incarcerated. The coronavirus mortality rate in prisons is more than double that of the general population of the United States. The increase in death may continue to escalate as both the state and federal corrections departments fail to implement policies to alleviate the unsafe …

_____ (2022-02-22). Has Elizabeth Truss Decided to Help Washington Enrich itself at the Expense of Afghanistan? journal-neo.org At the end of December 2021, the Biden administration, in another of its now blatantly false propaganda campaigns, tried to convince the world of the supposedly "humane treatment of the people of Afghanistan." It should be recalled that at the time the matter concerned the delivery of one million doses of coronavirus vaccine produced by …

sputniknews (2022-02-22). Queen Elizabeth II Cancels Virtual Engagements For This Week After Positive COVID Test. sputniknews.com The 95-year-old monarch, who has reportedly been vaccinated three times, received the positive test last week. It came after Queen Elizabeth met with her son and heir to the throne Prince Charles, who also tested positive for COVID-19. Royal officials said the monarch is experiencing mild symptoms.

teleSUR (2022-02-22). Biden Extends National Emergency as States Ease Restrictions. telesurenglish.net More states and major cities across the U.S. are lifting their vaccination and mask mandates as the rate of COVID-19 infections drops, but health experts have warned dropping pandemic protocols too soon may worsen the spread of the virus. | RELATED: | California, the most populous U.S. state, unveiled a milestone plan last week, as Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state would become the first in the nation to treat the coronaviru…

Audrey Huff (2022-02-22). Richland, Wa. school board defies COVID regulations; community fights back. liberationnews.org On Feb. 15, the School Board of Richland, Washington voted to make masks optional for students and staff, in violation of Washington's statewide mask mandate.

Audrey Huff (2022-02-22). Richland, Wash., school board defies COVID regulations, community fights back. liberationnews.org On Feb. 15, the School Board of Richland, Washington voted to make masks optional for students and staff, in violation of Washington's statewide mask mandate.

Hendrik Sybrandy (2022-02-22). Black health amid the COVID-19 pandemic. america.cgtn.com It's Black History Month in the U.S. This year's theme, as designated by one African American research organization is Black health and wellness. It's a long-standing and critically important issue, one that's received a lot of attention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-22). US Centers for Disease Control withheld critical statistics on COVID-19 for more than a year. wsws.org The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has kept back large volumes of essential data on the pandemic that state and local public health departments could have used to save lives and reduce infections.

WSWS (2022-02-22). Johnson government adopts "dying with COVID" strategy for the UK. wsws.org The super-rich view any public health response to the pandemic as a state-subsidised interruption of the flow of profits, which must end. Their "new normal" does not mean doing away with the virus, but with the victims of the virus who will be forcibly exposed in their workplaces.

sputniknews (2022-02-22). Canada's Largest Trade Union Boycotts Nordic Flag Carrier SAS Over 'Unacceptable Labour Practices'. sputniknews.com In the course of the pandemic, the Scandinavian flag carrier SAS has pink-slipped 5,000 employees and, upon receiving several tranches from the Danish and Swedish states, embarked on a controversial reorganisation to alleviate the looming threat of bankruptcy.

WSWS (2022-02-22). Damning Auditor General report exposes failure of Canada's government to protect migrant farm workers from COVID-19. wsws.org The report is yet another exposure of the fraudulent "pro-migrant" pretensions of the Trudeau government, which has enabled big business to make massive profits during the pandemic while workers get sick and die from COVID-19.

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-22). "It's certainly not over" warns Imperial academic as COVID-19 restrictions lift. imperial.ac.uk As the UK Government announces an end to all remaining COVID-19 restrictions, a leading Imperial expert has warned the pandemic is not over.

William Rivers Pitt (2022-02-22). Mask Mandates Lift While Uncertainty About New Subvariant BA.2 Hangs in the Air. truthout.org As the world crouches in anticipation of whatever fresh hell is preparing to jump from the Russia/Ukraine border, some seem to have forgotten that COVID-19 is not yet over. There have been more than 28,000 COVID deaths in the U.S. over the last two weeks, and more than 1.2 million new infections over that same span. The fact that this represents significant progress in the fight against the virus only underscores the horror of the body count. Were this pandemic a shooting war, those number…

Editor (2022-02-22). Glenn Greenwald: The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West. scheerpost.com Police in Canada deployed to dislodge the final truckers and protesters from downtown Ottawa, aimed at bringing an end to three weeks of demonstrations over Covid-19 health rules. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images) | By Glenn Greenwald / When it comes to dis…

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Staff (2022-02-21). Headlines for February 21, 2022. democracynow.org Possible Biden-Putin Summit Announced Amid High Tensions, Unrest in Eastern Ukraine, California to Start Treating COVID-19 as Endemic Disease, Queen Elizabeth Tests Positive for Coronavirus; Canadian Police Clear Ottawa of "Freedom Convoy", 6 African Countries to Receive mRNA Technology as Part of WHO Program to Expand Vaccine Production, Al-Shabab Claims Bomb Blast That Killed at Least 13 in Somalian City of Beledweyne, Clashes on Malian Border Kill Dozens as France Announces Gradual Withdrawal, Iran Nuclear Deal Could Be Revived as Talks Enter Final Stretch, Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor Is Most De…

Paul Haeder (2022-02-21). There will be blood, and, yes, we do need stinkin' badges. dissidentvoice.org This is a little soft-shoe pissed off blathering from me, so apologies up front. No big news on the Ukraine Invasion front, or the Gates Owning All the Farms front, or the Climate-Wall Street-Chronic Illness front. Nothing related to the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank) front. Just plain old burnt toast and spilled milk from a radical who …

sputniknews (2022-02-21). Sputnik Light May Become Universal Booster Shot as China Approves Mix&Match COVID Vaccination. sputniknews.com The mix&match approach to coronavirus vaccination was pioneered by the makers of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine and has proven its effectiveness in creating a stronger and more durable immunity, including against the Omicron variant.

WSWS (2022-02-21). Stop the drive to World War 3! wsws.org Amid a pandemic that has killed nearly one million people in the US and continues to kill more than 2,000 every day, the Biden administration is focusing all attention on an increasingly hysterical campaign for war against Russia.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-21). Has the Left Abandoned the Working Class? libya360.wordpress.com Nita Palmer As a life-long left wing writer and activist, I have watched the Left's response to the truckers' Freedom Convoy with a mixture of fascination and horror. Truckers in Canada and their supporters have sparked a national and global movement against the government's Covid policies, in particular vaccine mandates. Proof of vaccination is required…

Adriaan Alsema (2022-02-21). ELN announces economic shutdown throughout Colombia. colombiareports.com Guerrilla group ELN announced its first economic shutdown since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The "armed strike" that will begin on Wednesday, the ELN said on a guerrilla website…

WSWS (2022-02-21). War plotters at Munich Security Conference hear call for surrender to COVID-19. wsws.org Openly embracing the pseudoscientific theory of "herd immunity," the fourth-richest man in the world, a key White House ally, called mass infection with Omicron a "type of vaccine" against COVID-19.

Staff (2022-02-21). Australia reopens to tourists after 2-year ban. rt.com The nation has become "Covid-confident," Canberra said | Australia on Monday allowed foreign tourists into the country for the first time in nearly two years. | All fully vaccinated foreigners can enter without staying at quarantine hotels upon arrival. Travelers who have not received their shots must still apply for exemptions. | People can visit all regions except Western Australia, which will reopen on March 3. | Nearly 60 flights were scheduled to land in the country in the first 24 hours following the reopening of the border, according to 7NEWS. Australian TV has aired clips of emotional reunions between…

WSWS (2022-02-21). Amazon announces end of mask requirements, while COVID-19 remains widespread in warehouses. wsws.org The ending of mask requirements for vaccinated employees follows state and federal efforts to fraudulently declare an end to the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-21). Democratic governors in Oregon, Washington and California set to end statewide mask requirements. wsws.org Politicians and public health officials across the region are claiming that as cases and hospitalizations temporarily recede, masks should come off, even as the United States approaches an official death toll of 1 million.

WSWS (2022-02-21). Retail workers at Kroger affiliated chains describe conditions fraught with danger and abuse. wsws.org Former employees describe how the pandemic has made abusive conditions even more intolerable at the giant food conglomerate.

WSWS (2022-02-21). 10,000 New Zealand healthcare workers vote to strike. wsws.org The strike vote by allied health workers across New Zealand is part of the growing militancy of healthcare and other workers internationally, in response to the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-21). Resistance: Rupture and Rebirth. libya360.wordpress.com Paul Cudenec One of the most sickening aspects of the Covid scam has been the fanatical support for the operation from the entity that calls itself "the left". I have been writing about this since April 2020 and there are various articles on the Winter Oak site seeking to discover exactly why "official" left/anarchist positions align so closely to…

Staff (2022-02-21). Scrapping Covid restrictions 'a moment of pride' — Boris Johnson. rt.com The prime minister is expected to announce the end of the requirement to self-isolate | UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed his decision to make sweeping changes to Covid-19 requirements as a proud moment. The PM made the comments in a statement ahead of his announcement expected on Monday afternoon in Parliament, and later to the nation. | "Today will mark a moment of pride after one of the most difficult periods in our country's history as we begin to learn to live with Covid," Johnson said in a Downing Street statement. | The prime minister praised the work of the NHS, which delivered "life-saving" v…

WSWS (2022-02-21). Tyson Foods lifts mask mandate as states abandon COVID health measures. wsws.org Tyson's decision comes after similar announcements by Walmart and Amazon, and as states move to abandon all COVID restrictions.

Byul Ryan-Im (2022-02-21). The Weekly Round-Up: restrictions, refugees and the right to privacy. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce the removal of the last remaining COVID-19 restrictions this afternoon. It is expected that the legal requirement to self-isolate after testing positive will be scrapped alongside free PCR and lateral flow tests. Mr Johnson is set to announce the end of restrictions to be a …

Staff (2022-02-21). A leading scientist says the world went mad over Covid. rt.com Lockdowns did way more harm than good is the key point of a new book by a professor who advised the UK government on Covid | Mark Woolhouse is professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland,

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-21). Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 — 17 Oct 1849). transcend.org The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, he was the author of two polonaises…. In the summer of 1849, Ludwika Jedrzejewiczowa, the eldest sister of the composer, came from Warsaw to take care of her ill brother. On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendà¥me. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

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Global Research News (2022-02-20). Ottawa: The Freedom Convoy. Evidence of Police Violence and Brutality. globalresearch.ca The latest developments suggest that the COVID-19 narrative is crumbling amidst major protests worldwide. | A mass movement against COVID mandates is unfolding coast to coast across Canada in solidarity with the Freedom Convoy movement. | All COVID mandates must be immediately …

_____ (2022-02-20). European Union Prefers Corporate Profits Over Global Health. popularresistance.org As the summit between the African Union and European Union (EU-AU summit) came to a close on February 18, the EU's dedication to ensuring equitable access to Covid-19 products remained murky. While Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, stated that the two unions had a very constructive discussion on the TRIPS waiver, the meeting resulted in little more than a tepid statement and a new deadline for reaching an agreement on intellectual property rights during the pandemic. Von der Leyen also stated, "We share the same goal. We have different ways to reach that goal." | In reality, it would see…

Rebekah Entralgo (2022-02-20). Campaign Seeks to Abolish the Subminimum Wage in 25 States by 2026. truthout.org As the economy recovers from a global pandemic, many business owners are pointing to labor shortages caused by the "Great Resignation" as a source of frustration. | The term refers to the more than

Allen Forrest (2022-02-20). COVID-inspired Dance Steps. dissidentvoice.org

Staff (2022-02-20). UK's Queen Elizabeth has tested positive for Covid-19. rt.com The 95-year-old monarch is experiencing "mild cold-like symptoms," Buckingham Palace has announced | UK's Queen Elizabeth II has contracted Covid, with a recent test yielding a positive result, Buckingham Palace said in a statement released on Sunday. The 95-year-old monarch is said to be experiencing only "mild cold-like symptoms," and is expected to continue performing "light duties" in the coming days. | Last Thursday, the Queen's eldest son, Charles, Prince of Wales, tested positive for Covid, too. According to the BBC, he had met his mother two days prior. However, the Queen reportedly did not show any sy…

Aditi Ramaswami (2022-02-20). WEEKEND READER: Profit-Driven Health Care Will Not Save Us. dailyposter.com

LJ Dawson (2022-02-20). 3 Incarcerated Women Die of COVID After Requesting Compassionate Release. truthout.org Rory Adams did not know that Christmas in a small rural hospital in West Virginia would be the last time he saw his wife alive. She'd entered prison in early January 2021 to serve a 42-month sentence for failure to collect payroll taxes. She was supposed to return to North Carolina, their two adult children, and their quilting business this summer. | But when he saw her, she was heavily sedated. A ventilator was helping her breathe as she struggled with COVID-19. Rebecca "Maria" Adams, 59, die…

sputniknews (2022-02-20). High Rate of Ticks Infected With Rare Virus Potentially Lethal for Humans Found Lurking in US Park. sputniknews.com The recent discovery was made during routine testing carried out by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) as part its five-year pilot active tick surveillance program, launched in 2018.

_____ (2022-02-20). On Contact: John Brown, Abolitionist. popularresistance.org The painter Jacob Lawrence, in his 22-piece series 'The Legend of John Brown', first exhibited in 1941, chronicles in each of his panels a seminal stage in the life of the abolitionist John Brown. The first panel depicts Brown as Christ nailed to a cross, blood flowing from his nailed feet to the ground. The next scenes portray Brown as a man of exceptional religious conviction, willing to suffer financial failure and hardship in his fight for abolition. The middle compositions tell the story of Brown's plans to free slaves, including his raids that massacred pro-slavery settlers in Kansas, his failed attack on t…

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Chris Hedges (2022-02-19). Hedges: Democrats, the More Effective Evil. orinocotribune.com By Chris Hedges — Feb 14, 2022 | The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire and the primary business is war. | When all else fails, when you are clueless about how to halt a 7.5% inflation rate, when your Build Back Better bill is gutted, when you renege on your promise to raise the minimum wage or forgive student debt, when you can't halt the Republican suppression of voting rights, when you have no idea how to handle the pandemic which has claimed 900,000 lives — 16% of the world's total deaths although we are les…

Abdul Rahman (2022-02-19). European Union prefers corporate profits over the health of people across the world. peoplesdispatch.org By showing reluctance on the patent waiver on COVID-19-related products even after the majority of its population is vaccinated, the EU leadership has once again taken the side of Big Pharma and perpetuated vaccine apartheid…

Jon Rappoport (2022-02-19). Vaccine shedding spreads disaster to unvaccinated pregnant women? globalresearch.ca Since the COVID vaccines were authorized, MANY women have posted reports of disrupted and unusual menstrual cycles, heavy bleeding, and miscarriages. | What's more, some of these women state they haven't received the COVID vaccine, but they've been in close contact …

ecns.cn (2022-02-19). More than 3.06b COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on Chinese mainland. ecns.cn The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on the Chinese mainland has reached over 3.06 billion on Wednesday, data from the National Health Commission showed Tuesday.

Allen Forrest (2022-02-19). Ethical Considerations and Experimental Vaccines. dissidentvoice.org

ecns.cn (2022-02-19). China kicks off mixed doses of booster vaccination. ecns.cn China will provide heterologous booster shots to people who have been fully vaccinated for at least six months amid the rapid spread of highly transmissible Omicron, officials said at a press conference on Saturday.

ecns.cn (2022-02-19). China approves sequential booster vaccinations. ecns.cn China's health authorities are rolling out sequential COVID-19 booster vaccinations following the approval of the State Council inter-agency task force for COVID-19 response, a health official said on Saturday.

Jessamy Bagenal (2022-02-19). [Perspectives] A public health manifesto. thelancet.com The way that societies divide and manage our resources and treat our planet is not working. This failure is the starting point of a number of books that have been published during the COVID-19 pandemic, including GO BIG: 20 Bold Solutions to Fix Our World by Ed Miliband. This book, partly based on Miliband and Geoff Lloyd's podcast Reasons to Be Cheerful, identifies what is wrong with our political and multilateral systems and sets out solutions to fix our world. "In saying we need to 'go big' I am advocating not just the consideration of ideas that promise significant change but for politics to rediscover its se…

sputniknews (2022-02-19). Biden Extends State of Emergency in US Amid Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Joe Biden has announced his decision to extend the state of emergency, which was declared in the country almost two years ago, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has been causing significant risk to the public health.

WSWS (2022-02-19). Minneapolis, St. Paul teachers vote to authorize strike. wsws.org Teachers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, have voted to authorize a strike, part of growing opposition among teachers and workers in the US to inequality and deadly pandemic conditions.

ecns.cn (2022-02-19). WHO chief calls for cooperation, financing to end COVID-19 pandemic. ecns.cn The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday called for cooperation and collaboration in the face of common threats from the COVID-19 pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-19). UK teacher Kathleen Munro speaks of "devastating" effects of Long COVID. wsws.org In her testimony to the Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kathleen bears witness to the devastating effects of Long COVID on her own health and livelihood, and that of her 13-year-old niece, Ellie, who caught COVID-19 on her first day at school last September.

Dongsheng News (2022-02-19). News on China | No. 87. dissidentvoice.org How a COVID outbreak in Hong Kong is being managed; a shift in Germany's position toward China, as it classifies China as a "systemic rival"; a look at relationships in China; Red Star over China author Edgar Snow passed away 50 years ago.

Daniel Alan Bey (2022-02-19). The Maoist 'Exceptionalism' at the Heart of China's COVID Strategy. mronline.org Arguably the best known contemporary proponent of Chinese exceptionalism in the English-language is Martin Jacques, best known for his 2009 bestseller 'When China Rules the World', a tour-de-force in the repackaging of orientalist tropes for the 21st-century.

sputniknews (2022-02-19). Australia Accuses Chinese Guided-Missile Destroyer of Aiming Laser at Its Surveillance Aircraft. sputniknews.com The incident comes amid strained ties between Australia and China over Prime Minister Scott Morrison demanding an international enquiry into the origins of COVID-19 and an ongoing trade war between the two nations. China, Australia's largest trading partner, is also unhappy about Canberra's membership of US-led alliances such as Quad and AUKUS.

teleSUR- lvm -HIM (2022-02-19). Ecuador y Perú reabren paso fronterizo cerrado por la Covid-19. telesurtv.net La Cancillería ecuatoriana precisó que esta acción permitirá la recuperación y reactivación económica.

WSWS (2022-02-19). California's "endemic plan" sets the stage for unending COVID-19 infections and deaths. wsws.org The propaganda campaign is driven not by science, but by the demands of the corporations and financial elite. The aim is to fabricate a narrative that COVID-19 is harmless in order to maximize profits under the guise of a "return to normalcy."

Mickey Z. (2022-02-19). The Truth About Ivermectin. dissidentvoice.org A very recent article on The Defender began: "A peer-reviewed study published last month found the prophylactic use of ivermectin reduced COVID mortality by 90 percent among more than 223,000 study participants in a town in Southern Brazil. The study, published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science, also found a 44 percent reduction in COVID cases among those …

WSWS (2022-02-19). COVID-19 disaster intensifies across the Pacific. wsws.org COVID-19 numbers are escalating as Pacific island governments adopt the "living with the virus" policies put forward by capitalist elites globally.

Richard Horton (2022-02-19). [Comment] Offline: A lie at the heart of public health. thelancet.com The John Snow Society describes their illustrious namesake as "the pioneer of epidemiological method". His identification of the source of cholera in Soho, London, and the removal of the handle of a water pump in Broad Street in 1854 is celebrated annually with the Pumphandle Lecture. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine named a lecture theatre after Snow. Indeed, the epidemiology community has deified Snow as a founding father of public health. But, as Jim Downs argues in his searching reappraisal of the origins of epidemiology, Maladies of Empire, western epidemiologists have invented a comforting…

ecns.cn (2022-02-19). Mainland experts attend meeting on Hong Kong's epidemic prevention, control work. ecns.cn The mainland experts attended a meeting of the epidemiologists task force and received an in-depth introduction to the epidemiological investigations and analyses in Hong Kong.

Diederik van de Beek, Matthijs C Brouwer, Uwe Koedel, Emma C Wall (2022-02-19). [Correspondence] Steroid use in non-pneumococcal and non-Haemophilus bacterial meningitis — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Dominic Heining and Aiden Plant for their comments on our Seminar,1 whereby they raised the question on whether adjunctive dexamethasone therapy should be continued for 4 days in patients with community-acquired bacterial meningitis caused by pathogens other than Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Aarathi Prasad (2022-02-19). [Perspectives] Samuel K Roberts: illuminating history, racial bias, and public health. thelancet.com In 2009, Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr's first book, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation, was published. "The book itself is about how racialism is baked into the kernel of modern public health practice here in the USA. Some of the most foundational moments in public health sit adjacent to or are ones that play a role in our history of race and racialisation. Even the way we collected data in the 19th and early 20th century was not just racially biased, but often racialised in their methods.

Anonymous103 (2022-02-19). China Frustrated With Pakistan As Terrorism Threatens To Delay CPEC's Second Phase. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageTerrorism continues to plague Pakistan and its economy. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Despite only one Pakistani athlete participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022, Prime Minister Imran Khan, with an entourage of six ministers, arrived in the Chinese capital just as a series of terror attacks ripped through Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, key provinces in the $60+ billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Following Khan's meeting with Ch…

Staff (2022-02-19). China highlights metaverse risks. rt.com The virtual space network is the primary target of scammers and fraudsters, regulator warns | The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission warned on Friday about the associated risks the emerging metaverse technology could bring as the virtual space fever sweeps the world. | The watchdog said in a statement published on its website that some companies were engaging in illegal fund-raising, fraud, and virtual real estate speculation. | "Beware of being duped, and if you find clues of suspected illegal crimes, please actively report this to the relevant local departments," it said. | The official warnin…

WSWS (2022-02-19). Deadly BA.2 subvariant of Omicron spreading in more than 74 countries. wsws.org As the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron accounts for a growing proportion of new cases globally, recent evidence points to its increased infectivity, higher virulence and greater immune-evading capacity.

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2022-02-19: News Headlines

Allen Forrest (2022-02-19). Ethical Considerations and Experimental Vaccines. dissidentvoice.org

WSWS (2022-02-19). California's "endemic plan" sets the stage for unending COVID-19 infections and deaths. wsws.org The propaganda campaign is driven not by science, but by the demands of the corporations and financial elite. The aim is to fabricate a narrative that COVID-19 is harmless, in order to maximize the production of profits under the guise of a "return to normalcy."

Staff (2022-02-18). Headlines for February 18, 2022. democracynow.org Biden Claims Russia Is Plotting a "False Flag" Operation as Pretext for Ukraine Invasion, COVID-19 Cases Hit Record Highs in Asian Countries as Omicron Variant Surges, Donald Trump, Trump Jr. and Ivanka Ordered to Testify in New York Civil Fraud Probe, Florida Lawmakers Advance Bill to Ban Abortions After 15 Weeks, More Than a Quarter of World's Women Worldwide Have Experienced Domestic Violence, Haitian Sweatshop Workers Strike to Demand $15 a Day, Death Toll in Brazil Landslides Rises to 117, with 100+ Still Missing, Canadian Police Investigating Sabotage of Coastal GasLink Pipeline Worksite,…

Kit Klarenberg (2022-02-18). Was the hacking of Ottawa trucker convoy donors a US-Canadian intelligence operation? thegrayzone.com Aubrey Cottle, the hacker claiming credit for stealing convoy donor info, has boasted of work with the FBI and Canadian law enforcement. The data was published by DDoSecrets, an anti-Wikileaks non-profit which has targeted states in the crosshairs of US intelligence. On February 13th, the names and personal details of almost 100,000 individuals who donated sums to support the Canadian truckers' protest against vaccine mandates through the crowdfunding site GiveSendGo appeared online via Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), an online …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-18). Behind the Headlines: Trudeau Cracks Down on Trucker Convoy. libya360.wordpress.com Join Behind The Headlines correspondent Dan Cohen and independent journalist Kelli Kieley for a discussion on the Freedom Trucker Convoy protesting vaccinate mandates in Ottawa as Canadian authorities move to break up the protest. We'll be joined by trucker O'Jay Laidley, who is currently in the protest. Join @BTHeadline correspondent @dancohen3000 and independent journalist Kelli…

Jake Johnson (2022-02-18). EU Chief Calls Patents "Precious" as Hundreds of Millions Lack Vaccine Access. truthout.org The head of the European Commission on Friday defended coronavirus-related intellectual property protections as "precious" after South Africa's president reiterated his support for a temporary patent waiver, arguing the step is necessary to ramp up vaccine production on the African continent. | Speaking at the E.U.-African Union summit in Brussels, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen argued that instead of suspending vaccine-related intellectual property protections, world leade…

WSWS (2022-02-18). CDC director spouts anti-mask rhetoric as thousands of Americans die daily. wsws.org Dr. Rochelle Walensky made the remarkable statement that people need a "break" from wearing masks even while she acknowledged more than 2,200 people are dying from COVID-19 every day.

Distroism Now! (2022-02-18). Distroism Now! #3: FTP Distro Reports from DC. itsgoingdown.org On this episode of Distroism Now!, hosts from the FTP Distro discuss their project, give us their thoughts on what distroism is, interview some mutual aid groups that they work with, read from some texts, and also discuss the past two years of pandemic and revolt. Another great meal share with our friends & neighbors…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-02-18). CDC Starts To Turn Against Mask Mandates: 7 Things To Know. moguldom.com Since the dawn of the covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised mask-wearing as an important way to combat the deadly virus. Now that guidance may be shifting, according to recent remarks from the agency's director. Here are seven things to know about the CDC changing course on mask mandates. …

TASS (2022-02-18). CAS finds WADA explanations about Valieva doping test delays unconvincing. tass.com The Panel also did not find compelling the fact that the Stockholm laboratory blamed the processing delay on staffing problems caused by the pandemic…

Ediz Tiyansan (2022-02-18). Golf cashes in on growing popularity as pandemic pastime. america.cgtn.com Golf was seen as one of the safer sports to play, especially during the pandemic. That led to a jump in golf club memberships, and a subsequent surge in equipment sales and hours spent on the course. See how the pandemic redefined the game.

WSWS (2022-02-18). Germany's federal and state governments decide to scrap pandemic measures. wsws.org At the high point to date of the Omicron wave, the representatives of the German "traffic light" federal coalition government and the state minister presidents have agreed to eliminate all remaining restrictions apart from mask mandates in certain public places.

_____ (2022-02-18). How We Turned The Tables On Starbucks Union-Busters. popularresistance.org Let me set the stage for you: A single cheese pizza cut into sixteenths, a small group of chairs awkwardly arranged to a circle, and corporate level managers trying to chat baristas up like we were best friends. | Our store had closed at noon that Tuesday, so that the company could hold four consecutive "store meetings," each with a group of around six employees. A few weeks before, five workers had to go into isolation due to Covid and the store had barely modified operating hours—but for these meetings we could shut down for almost the entire day. | These were Starbucks' "listening sessions," or corporate…

WSWS (2022-02-18). Australia's state and federal governments lifting handful of remaining COVID restrictions. wsws.org Governments are implementing profit-driven policies identical to those that resulted in the Omicron explosion over December—January.

WSWS (2022-02-18). New Zealand rail workers highlight unsafe conditions as COVID-19 surge continues. wsws.org While the media provides round-the-clock coverage of a small anti-vax protest outside New Zealand's parliament, there is growing anger and opposition to the Labour Party-led government's policy of allowing COVID-19 to spread.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-18). ICC throws out petition to investigate Evo Morales for crimes against humanity. peoplesdispatch.org Evo Morales described the ICC verdict as a "victory of truth over falsehood." Jeanine àÅñez's coup-installed government had blamed Morales and union and farmer leaders for COVID-19 deaths after the 2020 general strike…

Juan Cole (2022-02-18). A Republican Genocide of Quackery: COVID-19 has Killed as many Americans as all our Wars combined. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The CDC now estimates that there have been 1,045,389 excess deaths since January 1, 2020, because of COVID-19. PBS estimates that roughly 1,100,000 Americans have died in all US wars in history. That is, the death toll from COVID-19 is just about as great as the toll of all our …

WSWS (2022-02-18). Health experts declare Sri Lanka is being hit by a tsunami of Omicron infections. wsws.org President Rajapakse has made clear that his government will take no action to stem the rising number of Omicron infections.

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