February 2022 Archives

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2022-02-18: News Headlines

Staff (2022-02-17). Headlines for February 17, 2022. democracynow.org NATO Defense Ministers Gather in Brussels, Dispute Russia's Claims of Troop Drawback, COVID-19 Pandemic Claimed 75,000 Lives Last Week, U.S. Centers for Disease Control Prepares to Roll Back Guidelines for COVID Restrictions, Hospitals in War-Ravaged Syria Forced to Close Amid Cuts in International Aid, U.N. Says 8 Million Yemenis Could Lose All Humanitarian Aid Next Month Due to Funding Shortages, Colombia Forced Displacement Crisis Worsened in 2021, Mexican Journalists Interrupt Congress to Demand Justice for Assassinated Colleagues, Amnesty International Condemns "Sham Trial" for Jailed Russi…

Staff (2022-02-17). Freedom Convoy protesters threatened with losing their pets. rt.com Protesters arrested as part of "enforcement actions" could have their pets taken into care, Canadian authorities have warned | Canadians taking part in demonstrations against Covid-19 mandates were threatened with inadvertently relinquishing their pets if arrested by the police, authorities warned on Thursday. | According to an announcement on the Ottawa-By-law Twitter account, anyone arrested at demonstrations as part of "enforcement actions" by the government could have their animals placed in "protective care" for a week if they are unable to look after them. | The suspect must pay for the animal's care. Af…

WSWS (2022-02-17). Canada's ruling elite applauds Trudeau's use of emergency powers against far-right Freedom Convoy. wsws.org If the ruling class is ready to use emergency powers to supress small far-right protests, how will it respond to the eruption of mass working class opposition to its criminal pandemic policy or a new round of capitalist austerity?

sputniknews (2022-02-17). Scientists Find Three New Coronaviruses That 'Could Represent Risk for Human Health'. sputniknews.com With the world already in the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the origins of the disease, which according to Johns Hopkins University has already killed 5.8 million people, remains a mystery. Different explanations are offered, including one suggesting the virus appeared due to a lab leak.

Staff (2022-02-17). Protests here to stay, Canadian radio host axed for pro-trucker comments tells RT. rt.com Kid Carson lost his job after speaking out against mandates, but insists the public are on his side | Vancouver-based radio host Kid Carson was "politely shown the door" this week after railing against vaccine mandates and supporting the ongoing truckers' protest in Ottawa, Canada, he told RT on Thursday. Carson believes that despite the best efforts of the mainstream media, the public is sick of the "corruption and craziness" of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, and the truckers parked on Parliament Hill aren't going anywhere. | Carson was dropped last week by Vancouver's Z95.3 FM, after an…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-17). Message from Mohawk Women from Grand River Concerning Vaccine Mandates and Freedom. libya360.wordpress.com The following is a message from Onkwehon: we Grand River Mohawk women from the Turtle, Wolf and Bear clans to the people standing up for freedom against vaccine mandates. "We send love and gratitude to all of the brave men and women who are holding the line, uniting together with kindness and compassion in their hearts…

Sarah Algherbawi (2022-02-17). Why Gaza must be vaccinated. electronicintifada.net I am devastated after my uncle died from COVID.

Steven Colatrella (2022-02-17). "When all you have is a hammer…": why Agamben's ideas were bound to lead to this. mronline.org He has founded an intellectual group opposed to the restrictions, public health measures, vaccination requirements and other actions taken by public officials to combat the spread of the virus and its lethality.

Ediz Tiyansan (2022-02-17). California ends statewide mask mandate. america.cgtn.com California is ending its statewide indoor mask mandate for those who are fully vaccinated.

ecns.cn (2022-02-17). Unvaccinated U.S. seniors dying from COVID-19 at incredibly high rates: The Atlantic. ecns.cn The vaccination rates of American adults aged 65 and older are still low, and the unvaccinated elderly have been dying from COVID-19 at incredibly high rates, The Atlantic magazine has reported.

teleSUR (2022-02-17). Vietnam To Resume Int'l Tourism From March 15. telesurenglish.net Vietnam will reopen borders for international tourism starting from March 15. Foreign travelers aged 12 and over must prove that they have been fully vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19, and show a negative test result as per requirements by local health authorities. | Photo taken on April 1, 2020 shows a tourist attraction in Hoi An ancient city in Vietnam's central Quang Nam province.

Mickey Z. (2022-02-17). Not-so-breaking-news: Lockdowns are useless and dangerous. dissidentvoice.org I've written dozens and dozens of articles and recorded several podcasts informing readers and listeners that they have been duped for nearly two years. The lockdowns, the masks, the social distancing, the PCR test, the jabs, and more — all of them are nothing more than manipulations and deceptions. Now comes some "official" news on …

_____ (2022-02-17). From Puerto Rico To Minnesota, Teachers Are Rising Up Again. popularresistance.org In the last two weeks, teachers in both Puerto Rico and Minnesota have taken to the streets. Though separated by thousands of miles, and a temperature difference of about 60 degrees, their demands are in many ways very similar: Like the teachers who went on strike in 2018, they are marching for better pay, better benefits, and greater funding for schools. However, these struggles are taking place in a period very different from 2018. The pre-pandemic strike wave was driven by decades of austerity and rising rank-and-file militancy born of frustration with do-nothing labor bureaucrats. The pandemic has since galva…

Jonathan Cook (2022-02-17). As Trudeau Cracks Down, the Left Drives Protesters Into the Arms of the Right Once Again. mintpressnews.com OTTAWA — If you were Canada's prime minister, what would you be prepared to do to enforce Covid restrictions on large swaths of your population? No one need ask that question any longer. Now we know the answer. | For the first time in the country's history, Justin Trudeau has invested his office with sweeping and undemocratic powers under the 1988 Emergencies Act in a bid to stop the so-called "Truckers' Protests" against Canada's pandemic restrictions. But, as one might expect, Trudeau has

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-17). Exposed: Why the Mad Rush to Jab Kids? libya360.wordpress.com Mickey Z. As always, follow the money Even if you still somehow believe the pandemic narrative, you surely recognize that the virus does not exactly threaten children. For example, in England, the child mortality rate from Covid-19 is 2 per million (0.0002%) across the whole population (assuming you also still somehow trust the insanely flawed PCR…

Staff (2022-02-17). Why the US trade war on China has been an economic disaster for Americans. rt.com Trump hailed his 2020 deal with Beijing as "transformative" for the US. He was right — it's made ordinary US citizens much poorer | At the end of January, the US-China 'phase one' trade deal made under Donald Trump expired. The agreement, struck in January 2020 at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and before ties with Beijing fell off a cliff, stipulated that China would purchase (ludicrously) over $200 billion in agricultural products from the US per annum in order to end Trump's trade war. It was more like a one-sided extortion, placing huge demands on Beijing with very little compromise on t…

Fight Back (2022-02-17). Denver SDS kicks off campaign to demilitarize campus police. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – On February 10, students gathered outside Tivoli Commons on Auraria Campus to demand the disarmament of Auraria Campus Police Department (ACPD) and the end to their involvement in the Pentagon 1033 Program. Denver Students for a Democratic Society began their "Defund, Disarm, Demilitarize" campaign, joining many student and community organizations around the country in the struggle against police injustice. | "The money being put into ACPD's budget is being misused. We don't need rifles or SWAT vehicles; we need tuition relief for students suffering from housing insecurity in a pandemic!" said SDS s…

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-17). Imperial receives Queen's Anniversary Prize for 'world-class' COVID-19 response. imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London has been recognised for its response to the COVID-19 pandemic at a Queen's Anniversary Prize presentation this week.

Staff (2022-02-17). Back to Normal? Many Immunocompromised People Feel Left Behind as U.S. Lifts Pandemic Measures. democracynow.org As U.S. health guidelines start to loosen as COVID-19 cases fall from record-high levels of infection, we look at how there there are still millions of immunocompromised people who face acute risk of illness and feel they have received little to no guidance on how to stay safe in a prolonged COVID-19 world. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong of The Atlantic spoke to immunocompromised people for his new report and says, "While a lot of the world opens up, their world shuts down, and they feel left behind and abandoned by the government, by their friends, by their workplaces." Yong notes immu…

WSWS (2022-02-17). The criminal role of the Swedish government in the pandemic: Testimony from anti-COVID-19 activist Keith Begg—Part 2. wsws.org This interview is about the experience of the pandemic in Sweden, the birthplace of the homicidal "herd immunity" strategy which the Social Democratic government has ruthlessly pursued since March 2020.

WSWS (2022-02-17). COVID-19 deaths continue to rise among children in the US. wsws.org A comparative analysis among flu-related and COVID-19-related deaths among children shows that COVID-19 deaths among children not only far outpaced flu-related deaths but continue to rise sharply.

Staff (2022-02-17). Cuba reporta 733 nuevos casos de COVID-19 y cinco fallecidos. cubadebate.cu Cuba confirmó al cierre de este miércoles 733 casos positivos a la COVID-19, cinco fallecidos y 924 altas médicas, informó en su reporte habitual el Ministerio de Salud Pública (Minsap).

teleSUR (2022-02-17). Last Native Speaker of Chile's Yaghan Indigenous Language Dies. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, 93-year-old Chilean Cristina Calderon, the last native speaker of the Yaghan Indigenous language, died to COVID-19 in a hospital in the Magallanes region. | RELATED: | "I have deep regret for not being with you when you passed away. Be sure that everything I do is in your name and in that of our people," tweeted Calderon's daughter Lidia Gonzalez, who is Vice President of the Constitutional Convention.

teleSUR, JGN (2022-02-17). Rep. Dominicana suspende medidas de restricción por la Covid-19. telesurtv.net "Desde ahora, a todos nos tocará cuidarnos, con responsabilidad, pero sin restricciones", destacó el presidente Abinader.

WSWS (2022-02-17). The UK anti-vax movement is not an "ally" against Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. wsws.org The people confronting Starmer were in London that day on a protest "to end all the jab mandates and the jab programmes in the United Kingdom and the world… to end all the COVID regulations," in the words of their leader Piers Corbyn.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-17). As Trudeau Cracks Down, the Left Drives Protesters into the Arms of the Right — Again. libya360.wordpress.com Jonathan Cook Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution If you were Canada's prime minister, what would you be prepared to do to enforce Covid restrictions on large swaths of your population? No one need ask that question any longer. Now we know…

WSWS (2022-02-17). Medical officials estimate Long COVID affects 1 million in Spain. wsws.org This is the result of the official policy, shared by all Europe's major governments, embracing mass COVID-19 infections under cover of declaring the virus "endemic."

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2022-02-17). Chile reporta mayor cifra de hospitalizados por Covid en seis meses. telesurtv.net Chile registró 37 fallecimientos la última jornada por lo que el país acumula 40.735 decesos desde el inicio de la pandemia.

WSWS (2022-02-17). The war that must be waged is the war on COVID-19. wsws.org While no cost is too great for the American ruling elites to wage imperialist war, there has been a full-scale capitulation to COVID-19 during the Omicron surge.

WSWS (2022-02-17). COVID cases surge in South Korea as virtually all public health measures ended. wsws.org The steps taken by the Moon Jae-in administration are meant to ensure big business will continue to make record profits.

teleSUR -mcs -HIM (2022-02-17). Suiza eliminará algunas restricciones contra la Covid-19. telesurtv.net Las autoridades suizas precisaron que el contexto pandémico en el país mejora paulatinamente, por lo cual es pertinente levantar algunas restricciones sanitarias.

WSWS (2022-02-17). VIDEO — Australia: Striking New South Wales nurses speak out. wsws.org "Over the last two years with COVID, we just dealt with it, right? We just toughed it out. But it's been two years, and I think we've been through enough that it's about time we speak up."

WSWS (2022-02-17). New Zealand right-wing, pseudo-lefts urge government to "engage" with far-right protesters. wsws.org The media, including liberal and pseudo-left commentators, and opposition politicians, are seeking to sanitise the protest at parliament, which is demanding the removal of all COVID-19 public health measures.

sputniknews (2022-02-17). Simple DNA Test May Make Breakthrough in Diagnosing Genetic and Neurological Diseases, Study Says. sputniknews.com Scientists say in some cases it is diagnosis and not the cure that plays a crucial role — patients can spend years suffering from certain symptoms and still be unaware of what ailment they have. The new method is expected to rectify this problem and help treat diseases in their early stages.

teleSUR- lvm -HIM (2022-02-17). Bolivia recibe más de 1.300.000 dosis de vacunas Pfizer. telesurtv.net Desde el 29 de enero de 2021 arribaron al país un total de 23.815.500 dosis de vacunas contra el Sars Cov-2…

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2022-02-17: News Headlines

Sarah Algherbawi (2022-02-17). Why Gaza must be vaccinated. electronicintifada.net I am devastated after my uncle died from COVID.

J.N. (2022-02-16). Every weakness is claimed as strength. canadiandimension.com Worker in protective gear near the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Photo courtesy Chinatopix/AP. | | Social Contagion: and Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China: | Chuang | Charles H. Kerr, 2021 | The following review is reprinted from the website of the

Staff (2022-02-16). Headlines for February 16, 2022. democracynow.org NATO, U.S. Express Doubt over Russian Troop Pullback as Putin, Biden Say Diplomatic Path Still Open, Sandy Hook Families Reach Historic $73 Million Deal with Remington, Prince Andrew Settles Sexual Assault Lawsuit with Survivor Virginia Giuffre, Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández Arrested for Drug Trafficking, U.N.: Pollution Causes More Premature Deaths Than COVID-19, U.S. Coastal Sea Levels Will Rise Another Foot by Mid-Century, Climate Change-Fueled "Megadrought" in Western U.S. Worst in 12 Centuries, Flooding and Mudslides Kill at Least 34 People in Petrópolis, Brazil, Israeli Forces Kil…

Staff (2022-02-16). NZ protests swell, defying police ultimatum. rt.com Anti-vaccine mandate demonstrators have ignored a warning from the authorities to leave voluntarily | Hundreds of protesters defied a police ultimatum to leave the area around Wellington's 'Beehive' parliament on Wednesday, with the crowd continuing to swell. The authorities have described the ongoing demonstration as "orderly." | Inspired by the 'Freedom Convoy' in Canada, activists have blocked several roads in the capital with trucks, vans and motorcycles for nine days. Protesters have also been camping on the grounds outside the distinctive parliament building. | Had a bird's eye view of the protest in Wel…

Staff (2022-02-16). Covid vaccines during pregnancy impact newborns — study. rt.com Immunity can be passed from jabbed mothers to babies, according to new research | Babies born to mothers who took the Covid-19 vaccine during their pregnancy are likely to have some form of immunity against the virus, according to the latest research from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published on Tuesday. | Researchers analyzed data from 379 hospitalized infants — 176 suffered from Covid-19 and 203 were admitted for other reasons. The children were all under six months old between July 2021 and January 2022. | Their study found that hospitalization risks were reduced by 61% in…

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-16). Podcast: Debating vaccines, LGBTQ+ history month, and humans of health research. imperial.ac.uk In this edition: A scientist countering vaccine misinformation, members of Imperial's LGBTQ+ network, and the people behind an impactful asthma trial.

teleSUR (2022-02-16). Worsening COVID-19 Situation in the Americas -PAHO Director. telesurenglish.net Carissa F. Etienne, PAHO Director, warned that the relaxation of containment measures regarding the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worrying scenario with the new Omicron variant spreading quickly throughout the region. | RELATED: | COVID-19 infections turned 31% this week, however, deaths are still up 5.6%. Many deaths in the latest surge occurred among those yet to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. | COVID-19 spread can…

WSWS (2022-02-16). Far-right anti-vaccine protests in Australia's capital promoted by corporate media. wsws.org Prime Minister Scott Morrison praised the right-wing rabble as "speaking up for the things they feel strongly about," while making common cause with their attacks on state vaccine mandates.

WSWS (2022-02-16). Pandemic and vaccine inequality have exacerbated global inequality. wsws.org While it does not say so explicitly, an International Labour Organisation report makes clear that the refusal to implement an elimination strategy, using both vaccines and stringent public health measures on the basis that it would cost too much, has worsened economic prospects.

_____ (2022-02-16). Democrats, The More Effective Evil. popularresistance.org 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 less than 5% of the world's population — when the stock market fluctuates on wild rollercoaster rides of highs and lows, when what little help the government offered to the labor force — half of…

WSWS (2022-02-16). Parents and teachers in Germany support students protesting mass infection pandemic policy. wsws.org One parent wrote: "How many students have been left behind by this stressful situation because they received no support and could not get the assistance they required? How many students will leave school without a qualification?"

teleSUR (2022-02-16). Caravan in Solidarity With Cuba To March in Seattle Streets. telesurenglish.net On February 27, caravans will march in Seattle streets demanding the lifting of the U.S. blockade against Cuba and to show solidarity with the Caribbean Island. | RELATED: | "Help us spread that it is time to stop punishing the Cuban people for making a revolution. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to stop smothering the people of the island," stated the call for the caravans. | The initiative…

WSWS (2022-02-16). The criminal role of the Swedish government in the pandemic: Testimony from anti-COVID activist Keith Begg. wsws.org This is the first of a two-part interview on the experience of the pandemic in Sweden, the birthplace of the homicidal "herd immunity" strategy which the Social Democratic government has ruthlessly pursued since March 2020.

WSWS (2022-02-16). UK High Court bans pickets at Great Ormond Street Hospital: A frontal assault on the right to strike. wsws.org The High Court's injunction against GOSH workers takes place amid a wave of strikes and pay disputes sparked by rising inflation and fuelled by the bitter experience of workers during the pandemic.

Isaac Nellist (2022-02-16). Video: Nurses and midwives strike outside NSW parliament. greenleft.org.au Thousands of nurses and midwives went on strike after years of unsafe staffing levels were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Isaac Nellist reports.

Editor (2022-02-16). Unite our class to fight COVID-19. workers.org Private industries in the imperialist countries of North America and Europe have superexploited the COVID-19 crisis. And the governments have managed it so poorly that the disaster created an opening for ultraright groups to mobilize. The so-called truckers' revolt in Canada illustrates the danger. In the U.S., the pro-Trump gang . . . |

TASS (2022-02-16). Weekly COVID-19 mortality up 4% worldwide – WHO. tass.com The number of new infections decreased by 19%…

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2022-02-16). Cuba presentará en marzo dossier de vacunas anticovid a la OMS. telesurtv.net El anuncio fue hecho por el funcionario cubano en rueda de prensa durante la convocatoria al Congreso Internacional Bio Habana 2022.

Global Research News (2022-02-16). Selected Articles: The COVID Mandates Are Leaving Europe. globalresearch.ca By Many of the European countries have announced that they will move forward treating Covid as just another endemic disease. Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, and the …

WSWS (2022-02-16). Scientists protest Johnson government ripping up UK COVID restrictions. wsws.org Since the detection of Omicron in Britain on November 27, just 11 weeks ago, a staggering 8.2 million people have been recorded infected with COVID and 14,880 more people have died from the disease.

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2022-02-16: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-16). "Endemic" COVID-19 may lead to 250,000 deaths each year in the US. wsws.org Public health officials and policymakers have little stomach to discuss what the so-called "new normal" will look like when the coronavirus is allowed unimpeded access to every home across the country.

Anand Naidoo (2022-02-16). The Heat: U.S. Coronavirus pandemic latest. america.cgtn.com The United States is inching closer to a staggering milestone: one million deaths as the pandemic rages into a third year.

TASS (2022-02-16). Weekly COVID-19 mortality up 4% worldwide – WHO. tass.com The number of new infections decreased by 19%…

Staff (2022-02-16). Woman beats HIV using novel treatment. rt.com The American became the fourth person ever to be cured of the virus | A New York woman who had undergone a risky treatment for HIV appears to have been cured of the disease. She finished her medication a year ago, and now doctors say they are unable to find any trace of the virus in her system. | The woman, known only as the "New York patient," was diagnosed with HIV in 2013, and developed leukemia in 2017. Her situation seemed hopeless, but it also made her a perfect candidate for a rare and extremely risky stem-cell treatment. | Due to its high fatality rate, the procedure is only being offered to HIV patien…

WSWS (2022-02-16). Australian teacher speaks out against reckless reopening of schools. wsws.org "We have to rid the world of the virus permanently, but the media never raises this because the measures required would impact on profits."

WSWS (2022-02-16). Australian university union blocks debate on dangerous reopening of campuses. wsws.org There is widespread concern among staff and students about the infections that will be spread by cramming students into classrooms.

Staff (2022-02-15). Headlines for February 15, 2022. democracynow.org Russia Withdraws Some Troops from Ukraine Border, Says It's Open to More Diplomacy, California Will Keep Mask Mandate for Schools as Universal Mask Mandate Ends, Canadian PM Invokes Emergency Powers as Police Say Anti-Vaccine Protesters Plotted Violence, Thousands of Nurses Go on Strike as Australia Suffers Its First COVID-19 Surge, Civil Society Groups Demand Moderna Drop Vaccine Patent Filings in South Africa, Sudanese Forces Kill Two More Protesters Demanding End to Military Rule, Israeli PM Meets Bahrain's Crown Prince in First-of-Its-Kind Visit, Mexican Media Workers Demand End to Impunity for Th…

WSWS (2022-02-15). As COVID-19 surges, Sri Lankan apparel workers support Global Workers Inquest. wsws.org The Rajapakse government's "profits before lives" policy has resulted in thousands of apparel workers being infected with the coronavirus.

Ann Brown (2022-02-15). NYC Cop Mayor Eric Adams Fires 1,400 Workers For Not Getting Vaccine Jab. moguldom.com Some 1,430 New York City workers are out of a job after being fired by Mayor Eric Adams for failing to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Cop Mayor Adams, who spent 20 years on the New York City Police Department before entering politics, fired the government workers on Feb. 14. Among the axed workers are …

The Socialist Program (2022-02-15). The Fraud of Capitalist Democracy. liberationnews.org The panel discusses Johnson & Johnson's decision to halt vaccine production, the attempted lynching of a Black FedEx driver, more racist disenfranchisement, and other stories showing the hollow nature of so-called democracy under U.S. capitalism…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-15). 5 Million French Citizens Become 'Unvaccinated' Overnight. libya360.wordpress.com The unboosted are now excluded from bars, cinemas and other public venues The French government rescinded the vaccine passports of up to five million of its people today, effectively banning them from much of French society. From 15 February, French citizens must have received a booster jab within four months of their second dose in order…

Kerry Smith (2022-02-15). Anti-vax protesters take over Canberra city. greenleft.org.au About 10,000 anti-vaccination protesters from around the country converged on Parliament House on February 12. Kerry Smith reports.

Munch MW, Granholm A, Perner A. (2022-02-15). Dexamethasone and Number of Days Alive Without Life Support in Adults With COVID-19 and Severe Hypoxemia—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Drs Zhao and Ma express concern that the emergence of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 during the enrollment period of our study may have changed the effect of dexamethasone because this variant may be more resistant to interventions. To our knowledge, there are no data supporting this hypothesis. Importantly, dexamethasone has anti-inflammatory effects and is unlikely to have antiviral effects. Regarding the concern expressed by Zhao and Ma about the different treatment locations of patients enrolled, we assessed the interaction of intervention effect between patients enrolled in India and in Europe in a…

WSWS (2022-02-15). Sharp swings in Australian by-elections underscore political instability. wsws.org The by-elections were the first electoral test of the government decisions made to scrap most pandemic safety restrictions.

WSWS (2022-02-15). Governments across the globe are pressing to declare the pandemic over. wsws.org Since the WHO declared the Omicron strain a variant of concern at the end of November 2021, more than 140 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported with almost 600,000 deaths.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-15). Cuba is Moving Closer to Controlling the Pandemic. libya360.wordpress.com Alejandra Garcia photo: Ismael Batista Two years ago, when COVID-19 broke out, we had no idea that it would be the most traumatic experience that every country in the world would have to live through, and that it would hit especially hard those nations with low resources, such as this small Caribbean island. As soon…

Staff (2022-02-15). Backed by AOC & Bernie, House Candidate Greg Casar Says "Big Progressive Change" Is Possible in Texas. democracynow.org Two competitive congressional races are heating up in Texas. Former labor organizer Greg Casar and immigrant human rights lawyer Jessica Cisneros have both gained national endorsements from progressive lawmakers like New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who traveled to the state to campaign for them this past weekend. "We have a real opportunity for big progressive change here in the heart of the state where we've seen so many oppressive laws be pushed through the pandemic," says Casar, who is running in Texas's 35th Congressional District, which covers eastern Austin and east…

WSWS (2022-02-15). French COVID-19 deaths reach highest level since the winter of 2021. wsws.org A new rise in daily deaths has not stopped the Macron government from seeking to remove all remaining health measures against COVID-19.

Brittani Banks (2022-02-15). How Young Workers Are Being Exploited in the COVID-19 Economy. independentmediainstitute.org The newcomer to Bob Garrou's high school wrestling program had won his first match, and was growing in confidence, when he abruptly quit the team. It sickened Garrou to learn why. A local store summarily fired the teen when he balked at working more than the 16 hours he already put in each week, leading …

Abouir K, Calmy A, Lorenzini K. (2022-02-15). Dexamethasone and Number of Days Alive Without Life Support in Adults With COVID-19 and Severe Hypoxemia. jamanetwork.com To the Editor We have some questions regarding the data presented in the COVID STEROID 2 trial. A close review of the baseline patient characteristics reveals there was no significant difference in median weight between the high-dose vs low-dose dexamethasone groups, and an analysis stratified by body mass index or weight was not presented in the article. However, studies have demonstrated that patients with COVID-19 and overweight or obesity require more assisted ventilation and are more frequently admitted to intensive care units.

WSWS (2022-02-15). UK schools inspectorate blames COVID-19 "bubble mentality" for pupil absences. wsws.org That the body responsible for maintaining standards in educational facilities expresses no concern whatsoever with the health and wellbeing of those whose welfare it is supposedly supporting is criminal.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-15). The Covid Regime Has Fooled Us All. libya360.wordpress.com Jacob Siegel Did mass formation psychosis make us easy to deceive? In the late stages of the American Covid regime, "The Science" has become dramatically less important to the ruling class. Notably missing from a new debate about masking policy, in which President Biden has cast doubt on the recent decision by seven Democratic governors…

Rubin R. (2022-02-15). COVID-19 and Blood Donation. jamanetwork.com Using laboratory tests to screen routine blood donors for COVID-19 isn't recommended, according to recently updated information from the FDA.

WSWS (2022-02-15). Temporary layoffs extended at US Ford auto plants, expand to other automakers. wsws.org Ford and other automakers have cut production in the US due to shortages, while COVID continues to spread through the plants left open.

WSWS (2022-02-15). Omicron rages in German hospitals and nursing homes. wsws.org Every week there are hundreds of virus outbreaks in hospitals and nursing homes where sick and frail people are cared for.

Bhatt DL, Lopes RD, Harrington RA. (2022-02-15). Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndromes. jamanetwork.com This review discusses current evidence regarding epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, and prognosis of acute coronary syndromes.

Pitrak D, Nguyen CT, Cifu AS. (2022-02-15). Guidelines Synopsis: Diagnosis of Lyme Disease. jamanetwork.com This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the diagnosis portion of a 2020 practice guideline on Lyme disease.

Brittani Banks (2022-02-15). Can Eating Organic Help Prevent Parkinson's Disease? independentmediainstitute.org Agricultural workers in the United States currently use more than 400 different pesticides on their crops to ensure "higher yields and improved product quality." These pesticides, however, threaten the health of people who work with them on farms or agricultural land and of those who live near these areas. Two of the most dangerous pesticides …

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2022-02-15: News Headlines

Kerry Smith (2022-02-15). Anti-vax protesters take over Canberra city. greenleft.org.au Around 10,000 anti-vaccination protesters from around the country converged on Parliament House on February 12. Kerry Smith reports.

WSWS (2022-02-14). As US COVID-19 deaths continue to surge, corporate media maintains near blackout. wsws.org COVID-19 deaths continue at pandemic highs. However, all efforts are in place to hide these figures and return to a state of normalcy.

Staff (2022-02-14). Headlines for February 14, 2022. democracynow.org High-Level Diplomatic Talks Continue as U.S. Warns Russia Could Invade Ukraine at Any Time, Canadian Police Clear Trucker Convoy from Ambassador Bridge as Protests Spread to More Countries, Pfizer's Vaccine for Under 5s on Hold; Study Finds Even Mild COVID Cases Up Risk of Heart Disease, Afghan Central Bank, Aid Groups Condemn U.S. Move to Seize and Redirect Billions in Afghan Assets, Honduran Court Releases Environmental Activists Who Protested Open-Pit Mining Project, Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon Reached Record Levels Last Month, U.S. Judge Restores Protections for Gray Wolves; Australia Declares Koa…

_____ (2022-02-14). Ottawa Trucker Protests Do Not Represent The Working Class. popularresistance.org Ottawa truckers have been blocking roads, airports, and border crossings from the U.S. to Canada to protest coronavirus restrictions and vaccine requirements. Despite the many illegal activities associated with the right-wing protests, they have not been attacked or sabotaged by police — in stark contrast to the many Indigenous protests over access to ancestral land and water. Q. Anthony Omene, columnist for The Globe and Mail & co-host of TheKulture.TV, joins The Freedom Side to explain more about what's going on.

teleSUR (2022-02-14). Canada: Ontario To Lift Vaccine Passport Restriction. telesurenglish.net The Canadian province of Ontario moves to end the proof of vaccination system, becoming effective on March 1 according to the statement made by Premier Doug Ford on Monday at a news conference. He also announced that the second phase of the COVID-19 reopening program will crank up on Thursday. | RELATED: | The announcement disclosed that despite the removal of the vaccine passport system, businesses and other setti…

_____ (2022-02-14). Ottawa Under Right-Wing Occupation: Progressives Push Back. popularresistance.org For more than 10 days, truckers opposed to vaccine mandates at the Canadian and U.S. borders have mobilized thousands of supporters to disrupt and terrorize the people of Ottawa. While beginning as a protest against vaccine mandates, the thousands who have poured into Ottawa have escalated the situation into a major occupation threatening the safety and well being of Ottawa residents. Ottawa's mayor and police have finally been forced to declare a state of emergency after refusing to take measures for more than a week to quell the violence that has escalated in the nation's capitol. Here in the United States, rig…

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-14). Cuban Band Buena Fe Postpones Concerts in Canada Defending Cuban Vaccines. orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 13, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—Kawsachun News posted a video on its YouTube channel from the world renowned Cuban duo Buena Fe (with English subtitles) where the two singers explain the reason behind the cancellation of their concerts that were supposed happen this year across various Canadian cities. | Buena Fe is a Cuban pop band formed in Guantánamo in 1999, with strong Trova influence, which is a style of Cuban popular music dating back to the 19th century. Its core members consist of Israel Rojas and Yoel Martínez Rodríguez, who in just 10 years have released 10 albums, the most recent…

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-14). Report estimates economic and social benefits of booster roll-out in Indonesia. imperial.ac.uk Rolling out a booster vaccination campaign would benefit Indonesia by US$381 billion in the next year according to the latest Imperial report.

Sandipan Talukdar (2022-02-14). Researchers examine molecular factors that provide some variants the edge. peoplesdispatch.org One of the worrying aspects of the pandemic is the emergence of new variants with characteristics that sometimes become more threatening. New variants have shown a trend of outnumbering the previous ones. For example, when the Delta variant emerged, it outnumbered the original strain within a short period and became the dominant form worldwide. The Delta led to more disease severity coupled with its rapid spreading. At this moment, Omicron has become the dominant variant worldwide. However, the Omicron is characterized by lesser hospitalization of the infected. | Scientists have been trying to decipher the molecu…

Dean Baker (2022-02-14). With Living Standards Up, Increasing Reports on Struggling Families is a Media Call, not a Reflection of Reality. cepr.net If news outlets are giving more coverage to struggling families today than they did before the pandemic, that is a result of their editorial policy, not a reflection of reality.

Staff (2022-02-14). Conviasa Announces Direct Flights from Tehran to Caracas. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's national airline is ready to start direct flights between Caracas and Tehran in March 2022. The flights will benefit tourists, commerce, and industry. | Ramón Velázquez, Venezuelan vice minister for air transport and president of the Venezuelan national airline, Conviasa, announced direct flights between Tehran, Iran, and Venezuela's capital. The announcement occurs in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which remains relatively controlled in both countries, due to the approach of each country's government. | In an exclusive interview for HispanTV, Velázquez said that "joining Tehran with Caracas is a…

Moderator (2022-02-14). Hedges: Democrats, the More Effective Evil. scheerpost.com "Let's Make a Deal," an original work by Mr. Fish. | By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | 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 less than 5% of the world's population — when the stock market fluctuates on wild rollercoaster rides…

Ediz Tiyansan (2022-02-14). Super Bowl brings in big bucks to LA. america.cgtn.com See how the economic benefits of the Super Bowl are helping the region amid COVID pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-14). Young workers in Australia speak on dire working conditions amid pandemic. wsws.org "I guess the government is looking at it as 'We saved enough people, it's time to just move on and whoever suffers now, it's too bad.' It's so depressing."

Staff (2022-02-14). V-Day to Earth Day: How Women in 70+ Countries Are Rising to End Violence Against Women & Our Planet. democracynow.org Valentine's Day kicks off a campaign by feminist leaders in 70 countries across the world to celebrate One Billion Rising, an initiative by V-Day to end violence against women — cisgender, transgender and gender nonconforming — girls and the planet. "COVID has ushered in a very strange and perplexing time for women. We are on the frontlines everywhere," says V-Day founder V (formerly Eve Ensler). The campaign seeks to resist "the broken systems of capitalism and neoliberalism," as well as the fascist governments upholding these broken systems, says Monique Wilson, global…

Tom Engelhardt (2022-02-14). Tomgram: Belle Chesler, Teaching in a World No Student Deserves. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Honestly, it's been hell on earth for grown-ups. Thanks largely to Donald Trump and crew, we're in the country with by far the highest Covid-19 death rate of any wealthy nation on earth. The U.S. has already left …

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WSWS (2022-02-14). German federal government preparing abolition of coronavirus safety measures. wsws.org The ruling class is responding to this wave of infections by announcing even more comprehensive steps to reopen and even promising an end to all remaining pandemic safety measures.

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2022-02-14). Cuban Band Buena Fe Postpones Concerts in Canada Defending Cuban Vaccines. orinocotribune.com Caracas, February 13, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—Kawsachun News posted a video on its YouTube channel from the world renowned Cuban duo Buena Fe (with English subtitles) where the two singers explain the reason behind the cancellation of their concerts that were supposed happen this year across various Canadian cities. | Buena Fe is a Cuban pop band formed in Guantánamo in 1999, with strong Trova influence, which is a style of Cuban popular music dating back to the 19th century. Its core members consist of Israel Rojas and Yoel Martínez Rodríguez, who in just ten years have released 10 albums, the most recen…

WSWS (2022-02-14). SEP (Australia) meeting on NSW nurses strike provokes lively discussion on role of unions, fight against pandemic. wsws.org The meeting, addressed by a health worker in the US, a nurse in Sydney and Socialist Equality Party leaders, opened up a discussion on the burning need for workers to form rank-and-file committees throughout the health sector.

WSWS (2022-02-14). Historic Rotterdam bridge to be cut up to make way for Bezos' mega-yacht. wsws.org There is no limit to how far capitalist governments will go to satisfy the indulgences of the super-rich, who have profited immensely from mass death during the pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-14). COVID-19 surges in New Zealand. wsws.org New Zealand has reported a record 981 cases of Omicron today, as infections soar due to the Labour government abandoning its previous elimination strategy.

TASS (2022-02-13). Probability of hostilities outbreak between Russia and Ukraine extremely low – expert. tass.com Russian leaders confirm absence of any aggressive plans regarding Ukraine at all levels during several months, head of the Russian International Affairs Council Andrey Kortunov added…

ecns.cn (2022-02-13). Interview: UN refugee agency official says China's contribution helps alleviate dire situation in Afghanistan. ecns.cn The resources provided by China to Afghanistan are helping the internally displaced Afghans to weather the harsh winter and COVID-19 pandemic, while China's engagement in political levels would facilitate a long-term solution to the situation.

Florence CGTN (2022-02-13). U.S. states begin rolling back mask mandates as COVID-19 cases fall. america.cgtn.com Children in many K -12 schools across the United States have been wearing masks to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. But with coronavirus case numbers on their way down again, from a national peak in mid-January, some states are deciding to roll back …

Florence CGTN (2022-02-13). Lunar New Year celebrations return in New York. america.cgtn.com Big public celebrations for the Lunar New Year have returned in New York after many were cancelled last year during the coronavirus pandemic. The festivities saw crowds fill the streets of Manhattan's famous Chinatown. But with more and more Asian American families moving out to residential …

F. William Engdahl (2022-02-13). "We are Human Guinea Pigs": Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action. globalresearch.ca Official US and EU data confirm alarming numbers of deaths and permanent paralysis as well as other severe side effects from the experimental mRNA vaccines. It is now clear that we are being asked to be human guinea pigs in an experiment that could alter the human gene structure and far worse.

Mary Triny Mena (2022-02-13). COVID-19 vaccine boosters available in Venezuela. america.cgtn.com Venezuela has started administering booster vaccinations against COVID-19, as the country continues its efforts to keep the pandemic under control. For the boosters, Venezuela is using China's Sinopharm and Russia's Sputniklight vaccines. One of those getting a booster is Augusto Mancini. He went to a vaccination center in …

Dan Williams (2022-02-13). Truckers block U.S.- Canada border to protest against COVID-19 rules. america.cgtn.com The protests in Canada, originally sparked by COVID-19 vaccine mandates, has broadened into a backlash against all restrictions. The truckers 'freedom convoy' blocks roads and key infrastructure including one of the most crucial bridges between the U.S. and Canada. Friday, the Canadian Province of Ontario declared a state …

Dr. Roxana Bruno (2022-02-13). 57 Top Scientists and Doctors Release Shocking Study on COVID Vaccines and Demand Immediate Stop to All Vaccinations. globalresearch.ca Important article first published …

Gérard Delépine (2022-02-13). High Recorded Mortality in Countries Categorized as "Covid-19 Vaccine Champions". The Vaccinated Suffer from Increased Risk of Mortality. globalresearch.ca This "health strategy" based on false simulations, lies, promises never kept, propaganda and the fear campaign has become unbearable. In turn it has been followed by the extortion of consent to be vaccinated, by outright blackmail.

Karina Huber (2022-02-13). Moderna begins human clinical trials for mRNA HIV vaccine. america.cgtn.com It's been almost 40 years since scientists discovered HIV is the cause of AIDS. Since then, scientists have tried to develop a vaccine to protect against HIV, without success. But clinical trials for a new HIV vaccine using mRNA technology are now underway and …

ecns.cn (2022-02-13). Thousands of New York City workers set to lose jobs over vaccine mandate. ecns.cn Around 3,000 New York City employees could lose their jobs Friday for failing to follow COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

_____ (2022-02-13). Class Struggle And Freedom Beyond Colonial Borders. popularresistance.org The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief how truly interconnected our world is, how superficial colonial borders are, and thus how the struggle for freedom must link localized organizing to broader global insurgencies. Of course, this is not new. Though our epoch offers unique challenges, problems, and articulations of the dialectic between repression and resistance, history doesn't repeat itself—but it rhymes. | In a world structured by racial capitalism, white supremacy, and imperialism, Blackness has often been the antithesis of freedom. After legal emancipation from racial slavery, fre…

Paulo Cabral (2022-02-13). COVID-19 pandemic batters Latin America's economy. america.cgtn.com Latin America is still struggling underneath crippling economic conditions brought or worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. And for many of the region's citizens the solution has been looking for opportunities elsewhere.

Adele Welsh (2022-02-13). Unionist: 'When we dare to struggle, we dare to win'. greenleft.org.au Adele Welsh argues that no matter how it is dressed up, the 'let it rip' approach to the pandemic has caused untold harm to families, workplaces and communities.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-13). The Cover-up Begins: Philip Zelikow's Questionable Role in Proposed Bipartisan COVID-19 Commission. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov Philip Zelikow's Role in Proposed Bipartisan COVID-19 Commission Raises Serious Doubts About its Credibility Zelikow was Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission which suppressed evidence and misrepresented facts A bipartisan group of senators, led by Patty Murray (D-WA) and Richard Burr (R-NC), has developed legislation to create a commission to investigate the origins…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-02-13). Philip Zelikow's Role in Proposed Bipartisan COVID-19 Commission Raises Serious Doubts About its Credibility. covertactionmagazine.com Zelikow was Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission which suppressed evidence and misrepresented facts A bipartisan group of senators, led …

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2022-02-13). Corrupt Judges and Elected Politicians in Lockstep with Covid Mandate. A Power-Grab at Levels Never Before Seen in the History of the World? globalresearch.ca Different methods in choosing and employing judges form a possible factor in the contrasting judicial reception to schemes for mandatory injections in the United States and Canada. | The fact that some judges in the United States are elected, might make …

Rabbi Hillel Handler (2022-02-13). Stop the Covid Holocaust! Open Letter. globalresearch.ca

JANET (2022-02-13). Labor-Indigenous solidarity spotlighted. iacenter.org February 11, 2022 On Jan. 20, hours before members of Boston School Bus Drivers, United Steelworkers Local 8751, were scheduled to take a strike vote, the drivers' transnational, private employer Transdev and its City of Boston client came to the negotiating table with substantially more wages than the union was officially demanding. But even in this unprecedented situation, the 1,000-strong Local 8751 made another pass which emphasized solidarity with the communities the union serves. Paid job training to recruit young drivers from the communities, COVID-19 protections, benefits for elder retirees and correcting…

sputniknews (2022-02-13). Selfie Care: New AI Medical Program Can Spot Genetic Disease With a Single Picture. sputniknews.com A new AI medical program developed by a team of researchers at the University of Bonn called GestaltMatcher can spot rare genetic diseases with a single picture. The technology will help clinicians quickly diagnose ailments and help in the discovery of new genetic disorders, according to the project's abstract.

_____ (2022-02-13). Flaws Plague a Tool Meant to Help Low-Risk Federal Prisoners Win Early Release. strategic-culture.org By CARRIE JOHNSON | Thousands of people are leaving federal prison this month thanks to a law called the First Step Act, which allowed them to win early release by participating in programs aimed at easing their return to society. | But thousands of others may still remain behind bars because of fundamental flaws in the Justice Department's method for deciding who can take the early-release track. The biggest flaw: persistent racial disparities that put Black and brown people at a disadvantage. | In a report issued days before Christmas in 2021, the department said its algorithmic tool for assessing the risk that…

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Rabbi Hillel Handler (2022-02-13). Stop the Covid Holocaust! Open Letter. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-02-12). Propagandist For Syria Terror Proxies Compromised Amnesty International. popularresistance.org This December, The Grayzone exposed how a shadowy communications firm, Valent Projects, enlisted a prominent YouTube influencer to front a covert state-sponsored influence operation designed to undermine critics of London's pandemic policies. That company was founded by Amil Khan, a veteran of long-running and lavishly funded UK Foreign Office information warfare operations in Syria.

Staff (2022-02-12). Thousands of protesters swarm Australian parliament (VIDEOS). rt.com The demonstrators, who have been in Canberra over a week, want an immediate end to Covid restrictions | Protesters gathered at Parliament House in the Australian capital, Canberra on Saturday, demanding an end to coronavirus measures. The demonstrators, who arrived by truck, car, and bus over the last week, had Video footage of the demonstration showed crowds of people streaming into the city and assembl…

Staff (2022-02-12). WATCH Canadian truckers defy court injunction, maintain border blockade. rt.com Anti-vaccine mandate truckers refused to back down despite the threat of impending arrests and fines | Canadian protesters opposing Covid-19 curbs and vaccine mandates have defied a court injunction and government warnings to maintain their days-long blockade of the Ambassador Bridge, which has paralyzed trade and traffic at the busiest land border crossing into the US. | According to videos circulating on social media, demonstrators overwhelmingly voted to continue occupying access roads to the bridge minutes before Friday's order by the Ontario Superior Court took effect at 7pm local time. The protesters can…

_____ (2022-02-12). Africa Is Bringing Vaccine Manufacturing Home. popularresistance.org African countries continually find themselves at the back of the vaccine queue, but two developments could begin to change this narrative. Last week, researchers at a company in South Africa said that they have nearly completed the process of reproducing Moderna's mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. Working with the WHO's technology-transfer hub, the researchers at Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines in Cape Town made very small quantities of vaccine, based on Moderna's data, but without the company's involvement. The WHO advised them to copy Moderna's vaccine in part because the company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts,…

Sam Egger, Garry Egger (2022-02-12). [Correspondence] The vaccinated propor-tion of people with COVID-19 needs context. thelancet.com We read the Correspondence by Gàºnter Kampf1 with surprise, as it appears to argue that the base-rate fallacy2 is, in fact, not a fallacy. In the context of COVID-19 vaccines, the base-rate fallacy is often described as the illusion that vaccines are ineffective because, in highly vaccinated populations, the majority of COVID-19 cases occur among vaccinated people. For example, if a population is 99% vaccinated against a hypothetical virus and 51% of infected individuals have been vaccinated, the base-rate fallacy (falsely) implies that the vaccine is ineffective at preventing infection.

Henry A. Giroux (2022-02-12). Convoy Movement Isn't a Struggle Over Freedom, It's an Attempt to Kill Democracy. truthout.org The "Freedom Convoy" movement, consisting of hundreds of trucks, has ground to a halt the busiest border crossing between Canada and the United States and occupied Ottawa, Canada's capital, effectively blockading the city and disrupting daily life for most residents in the core of the city. The convoy participants reject all vaccine requirements and mandates and support a decidedly anti-government discourse reminiscent of far-right ideology in the United States. | The convoy participants lac…

Staff (2022-02-12). New Zealand uses unusual tactics to flush out anti-mandate protesters. rt.com The parliament speaker used sprinklers and blasted annoying music to scare away demonstrators camping outside | Hundreds of anti-vaccine mandate protesters camped outside New Zealand's parliament in the capital city of Wellington throughout Saturday, despite the authorities' unconventional techniques to flush them out. | The parliament speaker, Trevor Mallard, said he ordered the sprinkler system to be turned on to flood the lawn where the protesters set up camp. The use of sprinklers in addition to heavy rain turned the lawn outside the parliament into a muddy field, videos from the scene show. | "I ordered t…

Peter Koenig (2022-02-12). Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario. globalresearch.ca It's an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector.

Global Research News (2022-02-12). U.K. Vaccine Crime Investigation. Metropolitan Police and International Criminal Court (ICC). globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on January 28, 2022 | . | This is an important article. | . | UK Law Enforcement procedures have been initiated against the architects of the Covid-19 crisis. | This initiative sets a precedent Worldwide. | Should a Criminal Investigation …

Staff (2022-02-12). Possible link between Covid vaccines and menstrual disorders prompts investigation. rt.com The European Medicines Agency has decided to reassess its own conclusions following multiple reports and scientific findings | The European health watchdog has The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Friday that its safety committee (PRAC) "is assessing reported cases of heavy menstrual bleeding…

Staff (2022-02-12). Nadal's uncle delivers GOAT snub to Djokovic. rt.com Toni Nadal claimed his nephew Rafael would be the undisputed GOAT in tennis without so many injuries | Tennis ace Rafael Nadal's uncle claimed his nephew would be the sport's undisputed greatest of all time were it not for so many injuries, as he also snubbed Novak Djokovic and criticized the world number one for his Australian visa and vaccine scandal. | After Djokovic was denied the right to defend his Australian Open crown in Melbourne despite receiving a medical exemption, Nadal went on to beat Daniil Medvedev in the final and therefore surpassed Djokovic and Roger Federer on 21 Grand Slam wins. | Accordin…

sputniknews (2022-02-12). SCOTUS Again Rejects NYC Teachers' Appeal to Block COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate in Public Schools. sputniknews.com Public school employees in New York City are facing termination on Monday, February 14, unless they waive their right to continue litigation or drop their objection to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. As of Friday, almost 3,000 NYC municipal workers (0.8% of a roughly 370,000-person workforce) were eligible for layoffs.

Arthur L Caplan (2022-02-12). [Correspondence] Stigma, vaccination, and moral accountability. thelancet.com Gàºnter Kampf1 argues that use of the term pandemic of the unvaccinated by officials in Germany is both overly simplistic and dangerous. The danger he says arises from "engender[ing] negative experiences by stigmatising parts of the population…I call on high-level officials and scientists to stop the inappropriate stigmatisation of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens".1 I leave it to epidemiologists to comment on whether the description that Kampf condemns is simplistic.

Industrial Workers of the World (2022-02-12). Dill Pickle Co-op Workers Walk Out Over Unsafe Conditions. itsgoingdown.org Report on recent job actions from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) workers in so-called Chicago. Last month, workers at the Dill Pickle Food Co-op in Chicago walked out over unsafe working conditions related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Workers at the grocery store are organized as the Dill Pickle Worker's Union with the Industrial…

WSWS (2022-02-12). UAW, Detroit Democrats facilitate brutal exploitation of temp workers as pandemic decimates Stellantis workforce. wsws.org Detroit, once the center of the automotive industry, has become a focal point of predatory hiring by automakers, abetted by the UAW and Democratic Mayor Mike Duggan.

Richard Horton (2022-02-12). [Comment] Offline: Complacency threatens progress against COVID-19. thelancet.com Hans Kluge, WHO's Regional Director for Europe, has been reported as saying that European nations could soon be entering a "long period of tranquillity" as the pandemic abates. Pointing out that mortality from COVID-19 seemed to be plateauing, he suggested the continent was approaching a "plausible endgame" and an "enduring peace". As WHO's chief spokesperson for the 53 countries that make up his regional responsibility, Kluge was no doubt seeking to strike an optimistic and encouraging note. But it is disappointing that he took such a narrow geographical perspective about a global pandemic.

Lisa V Adams, Dalee Sambo Dorough, Executive Committee of the Lancet Commission on Arctic, Northern Health (2022-02-12). [Comment] Accelerating Indigenous health and wellbeing: the Lancet Commission on Arctic and Northern Health. thelancet.com Arctic Indigenous communities and adjacent Indigenous peoples considered Northern or Circumpolar in distribution recognised the threat posed by COVID-19 to their communities. Despite inhabiting many of the world's most resourced countries, the health of Arctic Indigenous peoples lags behind their non-Indigenous counterparts across many indicators,1,2 and many communities remember the devastating consequences of the 1918—19 influenza pandemic on their communities.3 Swift action by Arctic Indigenous leaders limited COVID-19 cases in many communities, protecting their vulnerable groups from the worst outcomes…

WSWS (2022-02-12). The collapse of the "mitigation" strategy exposes the class issues in the fight against the pandemic. wsws.org The significance of the dismantling of mitigation measures throughout the world is that it expresses, in the form of pandemic policy, the lining up of class forces.

Allen Forrest (2022-02-12). The Story of Cathy Complier. dissidentvoice.org Once upon a time, there was a delightful little girl called Cathy. People would frequently praise her to Cathy's parents: "She is such a good girl, so obedient." Then came a viral cloud. The government's scientists called it Covid and said the cloud was life threatening. But the scientists said, "Don't worry, we have the cure, and you must take it."

Matthew J.L. Ehret (2022-02-12). A Memorial for Dr. Luc Montagnier and the Coming Revolutions in Optical Biophysics. dissidentvoice.org On February 8, 2022, Nobel Prize winning virologist Dr Luc Montagnier passed away. Since the earliest moments of COVID-19's appearance, Montagnier was slandered and ridiculed for his challenges to the underlying assumptions of the disease's causes and remedies despite the constant slings and arrows of the deep state which sought to shut the door on …

RECOVERY Collaborative Group (2022-02-12). [Articles] Casirivimab and imdevimab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial. thelancet.com In patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, the monoclonal antibody combination of casirivimab and imdevimab reduced 28-day mortality in patients who were seronegative (and therefore had not mounted their own humoral immune response) at baseline but not in those who were seropositive at baseline.

Editor (2022-02-12). °La solución a la desigualdad global es el socialismo! workers.org En todo el mundo, miles de millones de personas están sufriendo pérdidas increíbles como consecuencia de la incapacidad y la negativa del capitalismo a abordar seriamente la pandemia del COVID-19. Millones han perdido la vida o a sus seres queridos. Las familias se han quedado sin casa. Los trabajadores se . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-12). Covid-19 and Democracy — Nicaragua v Canada. libya360.wordpress.com Stephen Sefton Nicaragua 2018 — police officer Gabriel de Jesús Vado Ruiz, tortured, murdered and set on fire by opposition thugs in Masaya in 2018 (Photo from opposition social media video) From 2018 onwards, Canada's government has denounced Nicaragua in international forums as a repressive dictatorship and followed the US authorities in imposing illegal unilateral…

WSWS (2022-02-12). Under pressure from the White House and big business, Trudeau vows to do "whatever it takes" to end far-right Canada-US border blockades. wsws.org With the far-right Convoy having served as a bludgeon to ram through the ending of all anti-COVID-19 restrictions, powerful sections of Canadian and US big business now want quick action to shut it down.

teleSUR, mcs, MER (2022-02-12). Francia anuncia nueva flexibilización de medidas contra Covid-19. telesurtv.net Los contactos de casos positivos a la Covid-19 solo deberán realizar un test de diagnóstico luego de dos días de ser confirmado el vínculo.

WSWS (2022-02-12). Department of Homeland Security leaks security bulletin warning of far-right "trucker" protest culminating in occupation of Washington D.C. wsws.org Promoted by Fox and far-right politicians, the goal of the nascent trucker convoy is to rally fascists and militia members to abolish the few remaining COVID mitigation measures and occupy Washington D.C. sometime in March.

teleSUR, jaa, MER (2022-02-12). OMS expone condición para que fase aguda de pandemia acabe este año. telesurtv.net La OMS subrayó que es una tarea global que se logre el objetivo de vacunar a cerca de tres cuartos de la población.

Joachim Hagopian (2022-02-12). Reaching COVID-19 "Turning Point of Critical Mass": Is Nuremberg 2 Next? London Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation. globalresearch.ca Not only is Britain's largest police force actively involved in the probe, the Hammersmith Police alongside the ICC are working together in what's being called the world's largest international crime investigation.

Anonymous015 (2022-02-12). U.S. Has 940 Times As High Death-Rate From Covid As China Does. southfront.org by Eric Zuesse | America has had 2,819 covid-19 deaths per million residents, versus China's 3 covid-19 deaths per million residents. That's 940 times higher. | America has had 237,119 covid-19 cases (diagnosed instances of the active disease), versus China's 74 covid-19 cases (diagnosed instances of the active disease). That's 3,204 times higher. | Although America has been more than 3 times as successful at treating the disease as China has been (3,204/940), China has been 3,204 times as successful at preventing the disease as America has been. | China has done this while almost consistently having a lower u…

Cristina Mussini, Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri (2022-02-12). [Comment] Another piece in the COVID-19 treatment puzzle. thelancet.com A new study1 from the RECOVERY Collaborative Group adds another piece to the puzzle of severe COVID-19 therapy. The RECOVERY trials have been pivotal in providing evidence on the efficacy of compounds within current treatment guidelines for COVID-19, such as dexamethasone, tocilizumab, and the casirivimab and imdevimab combination.1—3 In previous randomised trials, these monoclonal antibodies4 were effective in preventing infection and clinical progression when given in the early phase of infection.

WSWS (2022-02-12). Modi blames losses from COVID-19 lockdown on Indian opposition parties. wsws.org By attacking lockdowns, Modi is trying to justify the policy of mass infection that his government is pursuing.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2022-02-12). If the US Gov't Can Swing into Action on Covid, why Can't it provide us Universal Health Care? juancole.com ( Othwerwords.org ) — There has been a Jekyll and Hyde quality to American health care over the past two years. One the one hand, the federal government has been actively intervening to help people avoid COVID-19 or recover from it. On the other, it's standing by as Americans struggle with other ailments, exposing the …

ecns.cn (2022-02-12). In pics: Winter Games mascot fever popularizes Chinese crafts. ecns.cn Traditional crafts endow the Games with a new form of expression.

Bertil Lintner (2022-02-12). China's submarine diplomacy reaching deep and wide. asiatimes.com CHIANG MAI — China's delivery of two promised submarines to Thailand, now being assembled in Wuhan, may never actually reach the kingdom as Germany refuses to sell related engines to China because the boats will be sold on to a third country. Export restrictions aside, the real reason could be that Germany, as well as …

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WSWS (2022-02-11). White House leads charge by states to end masking. wsws.org In a campaign initiated by the Biden administration and coordinated by the White House, Democratic state governors are systematically dismantling all measures to save lives from the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed nearly 1 million Americans.

Michael Hatrick (2022-02-11). COVID-19: Calls grow to release people from prison. greenleft.org.au Prisons in New South Wales are rife with COVID-19. Michael Hatrick reports activists are demanding the government follow its own laws and release prisoners to keep them safe.

WSWS (2022-02-11). Germany: Omicron sweeping through workplaces. wsws.org A wave of the coronavirus Omicron variant is sweeping through workplaces and factories in Germany. Workers are paying a heavy price. The death toll from the virus in Germany is nearing 120,000.

WSWS (2022-02-11). Australia: COVID-19 swamps Northern Territory schools and Aboriginal communities. wsws.org Aboriginal medical organisations have condemned the Territory's Labor government for allowing the coronavirus to spread out of control.

William Denselow (2022-02-11). NYC workers protest COVID vaccine mandate. america.cgtn.com An estimated up to 3,000 workers could lose their jobs in New York City on Friday due to the vaccine mandate. On Monday, hundreds of people crossed the Brooklyn Bridge calling on the city's mayor to scrap a requirement for city workers. See the latest.

Dan Williams (2022-02-11). Demonstrations threaten border crossings between Canada and U.S. america.cgtn.com Some auto plants along the U.S.-Canadian border are cutting back on production because of truck-driver protests against vaccine mandates. The truckers have been blocking key border crossings for several days. See the latest.

WSWS (2022-02-11). Hundreds of anti-vaccine mandate protesters rally at New Zealand parliament. wsws.org The small far-right rally, inspired by similar events in Canada and elsewhere, is being used by sections of the political and media establishment to shift official politics further to the right, and to justify policies that will lead to mass infection of the population with COVID-19.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-11). Cuban Music Duo Buena Fe Postpones Concert in Canada in Defense of Cuban Vaccines. libya360.wordpress.com With the government of Canada üá®üá¶ refusing to recognize Cuba's vaccines, Cuban music duo Buena Fe was asked to be vaccinated with shots recognized by Canada in order to play their concerts. Here was their response. Revolutionary Medicine: Cuba's Vaccine Journey Why are Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela Managing So Well in the Fight Against Covid-19?…

Staff (2022-02-11). Headlines for February 11, 2022. democracynow.org WaPo: Trump Took "Top Secret" Documents to Mar-a-Lago Resort, Anti-Vaccine Truckers Block Three Ports of Entry Along U.S.-Canada Border, Biden Urges U.S. Citizens to Leave Ukraine as Russia and NATO Continue Troop Buildup, Biden to Split $7B in Frozen Afghan Assets Between 9/11 Families and Humanitarian Relief, Pace of Civilian Killings in Yemen Has Doubled Since U.N. Disbanded Monitoring Group, Biden Admin Approves Billions in New Arms Deals to Middle East and Indonesia, At Least Six Killed in Mogadishu Blast, Heber López Becomes 5th Journalist to Be Killed in Mexico in 2022 , Historic Rights Trial B…

IGD Worldwide (2022-02-11). An Anarchist Rejection of the Covid Culture War. itsgoingdown.org | Submitted anonymously | At the beginning of the pandemic the state claimed masks were futile, but this was due to shortage and the government's refusal to regulate the free market to ease the pain of the pandemic. Once companies managed to catch up with demand, the narrative changed. Many people likely died unnecessarily as a result of this. | Wearing masks can help save lives, but it is not a political statement in and of itself as some seem to think. Wearing your mask is not meaningfully coun…

Allen Forrest (2022-02-11). Lemmings Rush to the Proverbial Cliff. dissidentvoice.org Do talking heads know the science, just talk as if they know the science, or even worse know the science and lie about it? When every randomized control trial, the gold standard of science, finds no statistically significant protection from mask wearing compared to no masking, one ought to ask why the mask mandates and why the compliance of so many people. See Dennis Rancourt's "Masks Don't Work: A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy."

Ann Brown (2022-02-11). Donald Trump: America Is 'Going To Hell' Fast With Inflation And Covid. moguldom.com Former President Donald Trump, who is already preparing for a potential presidential run in 2024, claims the U.S. is going to "hell" due to inflation and the covid-19 pandemic. Trump held his first major campaign rally of 2022 in Florence, Arizona, where he promised to "Make America Great Again, Again." The Jan. 15 Save America rally was …

WSWS (2022-02-11). Australia's Macquarie University deepens job cuts, aided by the union. wsws.org Since the pandemic began, up to 90,000 jobs have been destroyed at Australian universities, while the unions have blocked calls for strikes and opposed any unified national action.

Kevin Mwanza (2022-02-11). Scientists: Severe Illness With Covid Has A Lot To Do With Vitamin D Deficiency. moguldom.com Severe illness and death from covid-19 have been connected to vitamin D deficiency, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Vitamin D is important for every system in the body including immune function and bone health. It may also protect against a range of diseases and conditions, such as type 1 …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-11). Working class in the UK gears up to protest the cost of living crisis. peoplesdispatch.org The rise in energy prices, cuts in wages and pensions, along with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has made the working class households across the UK reel under a devastating cost of living crisis.

José Luis Granados Ceja (2022-02-11). United States: Using COVID-19 powers, Biden begins expelling Venezuelan migrants to Colombia. greenleft.org.au Despite promises by the Biden administration to respect the right to seek asylum, Washington has been denying migrants that right by invoking a provision that allows it to limit travel under the pretext of mitigating COVID-19, writes José Luis Granados Ceja.

sputniknews (2022-02-11). 'That's a World War': Biden Tells Americans to Leave Ukraine, Shoots Down Reports of Evacuation. sputniknews.com On Thursday, the US Department of State released a 'Level 4: Do Not Travel' advisory warning Americans against venturing to Ukraine "due to the increased threats of Russian military action and COVID-19." The department also urged Americans in Ukraine to "depart now via commercial or private means."

Staff (2022-02-11). Spotify Signed Joe Rogan for $100 Million But Won't Hold Him Accountable for Spreading Misinfo, Hate. democracynow.org Comedian Joe Rogan has come under fire for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, using racial slurs and other harmful rhetoric on his Spotify podcast. Musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music from the platform in protest of his $100 million contract reportedly paid by Spotify, raising questions how responsible audio platforms should be over hateful content. "He's made it clear that he doesn't have any intention of changing the lies and hate he spreads on his podcast, and it's far past time that Spotify came to the plate and actually moderated the content on its p…

Staff (2022-02-11). Kremlin explains extra-long table at Putin-Macron meeting. rt.com The French side declined to exchange fresh Covid-19 test results, Russia says | The Kremlin confirmed on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron sat alone at opposite ends of an unusually long table during their talks this week because Macron refused to take a Covid-19 test in Moscow. | "Some leaders follow their own rules and don't interact with the host party in terms of exchanging the tests," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian media. "It's a normal practice around the world. However, in this case, an additional protocol of simultaneously protecting t…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-11). Cuba Battles COVID, Defying 60-Year U.S. Blockade. libya360.wordpress.com Struggle — La Lucha Presentation by Sharon Black, writer for Struggle-La Lucha and national spokesperson of the Socialist Unity Party, at the Europe for Cuba online forum Feb. 9, 2022. End the U.S. blockade of Cuba It has been 60 years this month since U.S. President John Kennedy first proclaimed Executive Order 3447, prohibiting "the importation into…

WSWS (2022-02-11). Australia to treat COVID like the flu amid mass school infections, record deaths. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has learned that this week, at least 6,888 students and 600 staff in Victorian schools have tested positive for COVID-19. Last week, 4,514 students and 800 staff tested positive.

Staff (2022-02-11). Anti-doping officials explain mystery Valieva test delay. rt.com Officials at RUSADA have issued a statement after figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance | Information about the positive doping test result for Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was delayed because of issues caused by Covid-19 at a Stockholm laboratory, according to an explanation provided to the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). | It was announced on Friday that Valieva had tested positive for a banned heart medicine which was detected in a sample taken on December 25 at the Russian national championships in St. Petersburg. | The statement from the International Testing Age…

Amy Goodman (2022-02-11). Spotify Signed Joe Rogan for $100 Million But Won't Hold Him Accountable. truthout.org Image Credit: Joe Rogan Experience/YouTube | Comedian Joe Rogan has come under fire for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, using racial slurs and other harmful rhetoric on his Spotify podcast. Musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music from the platform in protest of his $100 million contract reportedly paid by Spotify, raising questions how responsible audio platforms should be over hateful content. "He's made it clear that he doesn't have any intention of changing the lie…

WSWS (2022-02-11). AFT President Randi Weingarten calls for "off-ramp" to end mask mandates in schools. wsws.org Weingarten's support for ending mask mandates in schools is part and parcel of the coordinated ruling class effort to end one of the few public health measures still in place to slow the spread of COVID-19.

deweylaura (2022-02-11). Organize our way out of this crisis! cpusa.org Never in my entire life have I seen and heard so many good solid people, unionists, progressives of various stripes, activists, and fighters verbalizing feelings of extreme frustration, inadequacy, and complete powerlessness. Between COVID, complete legislative gridlock, a Supreme Court packed with conservatives, and Trump's continuing influence over large sections of white people influenced …

_____ (2022-02-11). US Deaths Among Those Without Housing Are Surging. popularresistance.org The number of Americans dying while homeless has surged dramatically in the past five years, an exclusive analysis by the Guardian in conjunction with an academic expert at the University of Washington has shown. | An examination of 20 US urban areas found the number of deaths among people living without housing shot up by 77% in the five years ending in 2020. | The rise from 2016 through 2020 was driven by many factors, including ever-rising numbers of people living on the street and the growing dangers they face, such as violence, untreated disease and increasingly deadly illicit drug supplies. | From 65-year-o…

imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-11). E-mobility transition and DNA disease clues: News from the College. imperial.ac.uk Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.

Ed Rampell (2022-02-11). Melancholy Danes: A Scandinavian 'Sunset Boulevard' in Bille August's 'The Pact'. peoplesworld.org

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imperial.ac.uk (2022-02-11). E-mobility transition and DNA disease clues: News from the College. imperial.ac.uk Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.

Ed Rampell (2022-02-11). Melancholy Danes: A Scandinavian 'Sunset Boulevard' in Bille August's 'The Pact'. peoplesworld.org

WSWS (2022-02-10). Continuing US-led economic blockade provokes North Korean missile tests. wsws.org North Korea's economy has suffered from years of sanctions, now compounded by the global pandemic.

WSWS (2022-02-10). Right-wing racialists mount campaign against Asian entertainer Awkwafina's use of a "blaccent" wsws.org Amid threats of war between nuclear-armed powers, the ending of COVID-19 public safety measures and the danger of fascism, the hue and cry over the supposed use of "black speech" is preposterous and diversionary.

ecns.cn (2022-02-10). CDC reviews wastewater data to monitor levels of coronavirus. ecns.cn The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun listing crucial information on how prevalent the coronavirus is in local wastewater to help determine whether levels of the virus are rising or falling in hundreds of communities nationwide.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-10). Canadian Trucker: Why We Are Not Going Anywhere. libya360.wordpress.com On January 15, the Canadian government announced a vaccine mandate for long-haul truckers. Over the days that followed, a convoy of unvaccinated and vaccinated truckers drove in solidarity across the country to protest against the measures. The convoy gathered in Ottawa on January 29 with a rally at Parliament Hill and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau…

sputniknews (2022-02-10). New Zealand Police Arrest 120 Demonstrators Against Vaccine Mandate. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – New Zealand Police have arrested 120 people at the convoy protest on Parliament grounds on Thursday amid vaccine mandate demonstrations, Wellington District Commander Superintendent Corrie Parnell said.

Global Research News (2022-02-10). Selected Articles: Brian Peckford, Signatory of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, on Trudeau and the COVID-19 Mandates. globalresearch.ca By Watch Brian Peckford speaking to a crowd in December 2021 on Trudeau's vaccine mandate and the …

sputniknews (2022-02-10). Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' Threatens to Spread to US, DHS Warns. sputniknews.com Thousands of truckers and tens of thousands of their supporters descended on Ottawa starting late last month to protest Covid vaccination mandates. Police have called in reinforcements and begun a campaign of fines and pinpoint arrests of protesters, seizing fuel and blocking millions of dollars' worth of funding raised online.

Mike Walter (2022-02-10). The Heat: COVID-19, Trucker Protests & Mask Mandates. america.cgtn.com Another grim milestone as global COVID-19 cases pass 400 million.

WSWS (2022-02-10). Canada's governments implement key elements of far-right Freedom Convoy's pandemic policy. wsws.org Even as Ottawa remains under siege, Canada's federal Liberal and provincial governments have adopted in its essentials the far-right Convoy's demand that all remaining anti-COVID mitigation measures be scrapped.

ecns.cn (2022-02-10). Chinese scientists develop prototype tool to test COVID-19 in 4 mins. ecns.cn Chinese scientists have developed a molecular system that can provide COVID-19 testing results in less than four minutes.

ecns.cn (2022-02-10). Devaluing China's zero-COVID approach disregards facts. ecns.cn As the omicron strain still rages worldwide, lashing China's "dynamic zero-case policy" becomes the groupthink that is often hyped up by some Western media.

Anonymous103 (2022-02-10). The Truckers Take Abuse in Ottawa: COVID Crimes Committed Behind the Cover of "Emergency Measures" southfront.org Written by Prof. Anthony J. Hall; originally published on Global Research In the name of a supposed health emergency, governments…

ecns.cn (2022-02-10). Japan's COVID-19 advisory panel approves extension of emergency measures amid concerns over new virus sub-variant. ecns.cn The Japanese government's advisory panel on COVID-19 measures has approved the extension of quasi-emergency restrictions currently in place in 13 prefectures that are set to expire on Sunday amid concerns over a new virus sub-variant.

Staff (2022-02-10). Headlines for February 10, 2022. democracynow.org CDC Continues to Recommend Indoor Masking as More States Roll Back COVID Restrictions, GOP Rep. Hal Rogers Apologizes for Telling Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty, "Kiss My Ass", Russia Opens Joint War Games with Belarus as U.S. Troops Mobilize to Romania and Poland, Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Peter Navarro, Who Boasted of Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election, Biden Administration Unveils $5 Billion Plan to Fund Electric Vehicle Charging Stations, Climate Experts Detail Misinformation by Fossil Fuel Cos. as Oil CEOs Refuse to Testify to Congress, Youth Climate Activists Sue Virginia for Violating The…

The Global Research Team (2022-02-10). Know Your Truth and Stand for It. Let Global Research Help You. globalresearch.ca The COVID-19 crisis has tightened the noose on truth-tellers. Ongoing developments on COVID mandates reinforce the interplay between the Deep State and the Global Elite which dictates the global COVID narrative under the guise of fact-checking. | Independent voices are the …

WSWS (2022-02-10). From "herd immunity" to "endemic": The ruling class policy of perpetual mass death. wsws.org Throughout the world, capitalist politicians are scrapping all remaining public health measures that slow the spread of COVID-19 by falsely claiming that the virus has become "endemic."

WSWS (2022-02-10). German politicians and media attack students opposing herd immunity COVID policies. wsws.org The popular petition against deliberate mass infection policies in schools has been subjected to a foul campaign of slanders.

Sandipan Talukdar (2022-02-10). Drug-resistant bacteria killed more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria in 2019; needs policy attention. peoplesdispatch.org A Lancet study found that in 2019 alone, 4.95 million people died from diseases where Anti-Microbial Resistant (AMR) bacteria played a role. Of these, 1.27 million deaths were ascribable to direct results of AMR…

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-10). Yemen: January Saw Highest Civilian Casualties in Saudi Air War Since 2016. news.antiwar.com A monthly summary from According to the data, 139 civilians were killed by Saudi air raids, and another 287 were wounded. It was the highest number of civilian casualties recorded in a single month since October 2016. | The deadliest air raid of the month hit a migrant detention facility in Sadaa on January 21st, which killed at least 91 civilians and wounded at le…

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WSWS (2022-02-10). Continuing US-led economic blockade provokes North Korean missile tests. wsws.org North Korea's economy has suffered from years of sanctions, now compounded by the global pandemic.

Staff (2022-02-09). WHO wants rich states to contribute to Covid-19 plan. rt.com ACT-Accelerator initiative requires $16 billion to end the pandemic | The World Health Organization (WHO) has appealed to the leaders of the world's richest countries, asking them to pay their fair share of the funding needed for the agency's program to end the global Covid-19 pandemic as soon as possible. | The body announced on Wednesday that it needed more than $16 billion to bridge the funding gap for its ACT-Accelerator program, and said it could end the pandemic as a global emergency in 2022. | The Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) is the WHO-led initiative that unites leading agencies in a bi…

Kit Klarenberg (2022-02-09). Propagandist for Syria terror proxies compromised Amnesty International, leaked docs show. thegrayzone.com Amnesty International was listed as a client of a professional propagandist for Syrian terror groups backed by the UK and US governments — the same militias once condemned by Amnesty. This December, The Grayzone exposed how a shadowy communications firm, Valent Projects, enlisted a prominent YouTube influencer to front a covert state-sponsored influence operation designed to undermine critics of London's pandemic policies. That company was founded by Amil Khan, a veteran of long-running and lavishly funded UK Foreign Office information …

WSWS (2022-02-09). White House seeks to fabricate lower COVID-19 hospitalization numbers. wsws.org The Biden administration is moving to slash the official number of COVID-19 hospitalizations by 50 percent or more by changing the standard for who is counted as a COVID-19 patient, implementing a central demand of Donald Trump and other advocates of "herd immunity."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-09). The Great Covid Class War. libya360.wordpress.com Alex Gutentag A panhandler in Genoa, Italy during lockdown. (photo: John Perivolaris / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The pandemic has created the perfect pretext for enacting economically destructive policies. On January 19, 2020, Washington state reported the first US case of coronavirus. By the end of March, 245 million Americans were under stay-at-home restrictions to "flatten the curve."…

Preston Wood (2022-02-09). Ontario under right-wing occupation: Progressives push back. liberationnews.org For more than 10 days, truckers opposed to vaccine mandates at the Canadian and U.S. borders have mobilized thousands of supporters to disrupt and terrorize the people of Ottawa.

WSWS (2022-02-09). Virginia public universities drop vaccine mandates. wsws.org Amidst threats from state Republicans, the school system dropped vaccine requirements despite the current caseload being at a pandemic high.

Preston Wood (2022-02-09). Ottawa under right-wing occupation: Progressives push back. liberationnews.org For more than 10 days, truckers opposed to vaccine mandates at the Canadian and U.S. borders have mobilized thousands of supporters to disrupt and terrorize the people of Ottawa.

_____ (2022-02-09). Drug Decriminalization Is Working In Oregon. popularresistance.org As COVID-19 continues to rage, another health crisis persists — one that is decades long. In the first year of the pandemic, the United States hit the devastating milestone of 100,000 overdose deaths, a nearly 28.5 percent surge from the record numbers we saw the previous year. Now, fentanyl is the leading cause of death in Americans ages 18-45. The reaction from many of our leaders has been to call for more arrests and criminalization, but this response is rooted in fear, not science. We have spent the last 50 years trying to treat a public health issue with a criminalization response, yet people are dying…

WSWS (2022-02-09). Boston University epidemiologist Dr. Eleanor Murray speaks on COVID-19 and endemicity. wsws.org Part two of a two-part interview on the COVID pandemic and the claims that COVID has become endemic.

Editor (2022-02-09). Class struggle and freedom beyond colonial borders. mronline.org The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief how truly interconnected our world is, how superficial colonial borders are, and thus how the struggle for freedom must link localized organizing to broader global insurgencies.

Brittani Banks (2022-02-09). The Pandemic Has Created an Opportunity for Black Artists in Oakland to Reshape the City's Economy. independentmediainstitute.org In recent years the impacts of gentrification have displaced many BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) communities in cities across the United States. Oakland, California, had the highest rate of gentrification in the country according to a recent national study, detailed in the 2020 San Jose Mercury article, "Oakland, S.F. neighborhoods fastest gentrifying in …

Jackie Kriz (2022-02-09). Pandemic hits privatised aged care system hard, urgent reform needed. greenleft.org.au Aged residents in care are dying at alarming rates from COVID-19, while the PM wastes precious time trying to convince us that the system is not in crisis. Jackie Kriz argues for a complete overhaul.

Mei Mei Chan (2022-02-09). Oakland students fight for COVID safety in schools. liberationnews.org On Friday, Jan. 21, striking students in the Oakland Unified School District held a public town hall to address the urgent COVID safety needs of school communities. Less than a week later, the Oakland Education Association and the OUSD came to a tentative agreement in support of all of the students' demands.

WSWS (2022-02-09). COVID cases explode in Russia and Ukraine amid war crisis. wsws.org One in five cases in Russia occur among children as the virus rips through the population virtually unchecked.

WSWS (2022-02-09). Two right-wing figures to contest South Korean presidential election. wsws.org The candidates from the two main parties are both determined to further open the economy despite the surge of COVID-19 cases and have backed the US war drive against China.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-09). Why We Should Oppose COVID-19 Mandates. libya360.wordpress.com Leila Mechoui&Alexander McKay Moral appeals for mandates only mask the brutal coercive power of the capitalist class. "In ancient times, when persuasion played the role of public force, eloquence was necessary. Of what use would it be today, when public force has replaced persuasion. One needs neither art nor metaphor to say such is my…

WSWS (2022-02-09). Petition in Germany gathers more than 125,000 signatures opposing deliberate mass infections in schools. wsws.org The only way to stop the herd immunity policy is the international struggle for a Zero COVID policy.

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2022-02-09). Cuba alcanza el tercer lugar del mundo en vacunación anti-Covid-19. telesurtv.net Cuba apostó por la producción de vacunas nacionales, las cuales alcanzan un elevado por ciento de efectividad.

William Rivers Pitt (2022-02-09). Having Learned Nothing From 900,000 Deaths, Governors Lift Mask Mandates. truthout.org We've been here before, you and I, right here at the fulcrum between controlling COVID-19 and letting it run wild. Here we are again, swaddled in the dented surety that doing the same thing over and over will bring about a different conclusion, just because we really really want it to… wait, strike that: Just because capitalism really, really wants it to. The rest of that "we" is most of us, baggage stacked down in the dripping darkness of steerage, waiting for the next viral iceberg to smack thi…

Staff (2022-02-09). Headlines for February 9, 2022. democracynow.org Heads of State Hold More Talks as U.S. Threatens Sweeping Sanctions Amid Russia-Ukraine Tensions, NY Drops Indoor Mask Mandate; Pfizer Projects Over $50 Billion in Revenue from COVID Treatments, Canadian Truckers Shut Down Bridge Linking to U.S. as "Freedom Convoy" Grows, Israeli Soldiers Shoot Dead 3 Palestinians in West Bank City of Nablus, Millions in Horn of Africa Face Severe Hunger After Years of Drought, U.S. Approves $100 Million Military Sale to Taiwan, Outrage Mounts over School Hijab Ban in Indian State of Karnataka, Ex-Pope Benedict Asks for Forgiveness for Church's Sexual Abuse But…

WSWS (2022-02-09). Student petition calls for reinstatement of COVID safety policies at Baylor. wsws.org Baylor has repudiated remaining safety measures, even as students are demanding basic safety measures, including an option for virtual learning, in the midst of mass infections at the university.

WSWS (2022-02-09). More than 300 children infected on first day back at school in Australian state of Queensland. wsws.org Premier Palaszczuk's government sent teachers, staff and students back into classrooms under unsafe conditions, declaring that it would lead to further COVID-19 outbreaks and hospitalisations.

WSWS (2022-02-09). As far-right Ottawa occupation continues, Canadian authorities move to shred all anti-COVID measures. wsws.org Even as the capitalist establishment feuds over how to end the fascist-led Ottawa occupation, it is being used to shift Canadian politics further to the right.

teleSUR- jaa, JL (2022-02-09). Confirman tendencia baja en cuarta ola de Covid-19 en México. telesurtv.net El subsecretario de Salud resaltó que solo el 2.9 por ciento de los casos se encuentran activos.

Staff (2022-02-09). Alzheimer's may be prevented with toothpaste, researchers suggest. rt.com A protein present in human gums may help combat a bacterium causing neurodegenerative diseases, particularly if added to a toothpaste, Canadian researchers say | A protein called SCPPPQ1 that normally makes gums adhere to teeth may prove effective in combating a bacterium called P. gingivalis, which could cause Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, a research team from the University of Montreal, Canada, has The study led by…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-02-09). Fact Check: Biden And Democrats To Hand Out Crack Pipes To Promote Racial Equity, Prevent Infection. moguldom.com The Biden Administration is providing funding to fight against drug addiction and crack pipes are among the supplies included on the approved equipment list. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has included the pipes as one of 20 items in its planned safe smoking kits, which will be distributed through the department's …

WSWS (2022-02-09). Stop the infection of Berlin transport workers! wsws.org Berlin's mayor has announced that "infected people without symptoms should continue to work in exceptional cases."

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WSWS (2022-02-09). Stop the infection of Berlin transport workers! wsws.org Berlin's mayor has announced that "infected people without symptoms should continue to work in exceptional cases."

Staff (2022-02-08). Scientists invent '4-minute' Covid test. rt.com The new electromechanical sensors are as precise as PCR lab tests and show results in four minutes, researchers say | Scientists at Fudan University in Shanghai have come up with a new method for coronavirus testing, which they say is as sensitive but much quicker than PCR lab testing. | The new method involves electromechanical sensors capable of detecting, with high precision, SARS-CoV-2 RNA in human genetic material, according to the study published Monday in Nature Biomedical Engineering science journal. | "We implemented an electromechanical biosensor for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 into an integrated and…

WSWS (2022-02-08). Democratic governors in the US northeast dropping school mask mandates. wsws.org While coronavirus cases have hit record levels among children, and hospitalizations and deaths overall continue to rise, the Democrats, like the Republicans are implementing the policy of profits over lives demanded by corporate America.

WSWS (2022-02-08). Omicron wave devastates US nursing home residents and staff. wsws.org In the week ending January 23, there were 42,584 resident cases, according to CDC data. This number surpassed the record set during last winter's surge, when vaccines were just becoming available.

Xiaolu Sun (2022-02-08). NFL to host vaccination clinic at Super Bowl. america.cgtn.com This year, the NFL is working with the local department to host a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for fans. And they're also offering free tickets to the Super Bowl experience for anyone who receives any dose of the vaccine at the on-site clinic. Find out more.

Doctors for COVID Ethics (2022-02-08). 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.

Sandipan Talukdar (2022-02-08). Research bolsters studies on Omicron's triple vaccine-evading capacity. peoplesdispatch.org Recent research bolsters earlier studies which showed that Omicron has an extraordinary capacity of evading vaccine protection. The Omicron variant is far more expert in evading vaccine immunity than Delta…

Global Research News (2022-02-08). U.K. Vaccine Crime Investigation. Metropolitan Police and International Criminal Court (ICC). globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on January 28, 2022 | This is an important article. | . | UK Law Enforcement procedures have been initiated against the architects of the Covid-19 crisis. | This initiative sets a precedent Worldwide. | Should a Criminal Investigation be …

C.J. Atkins (2022-02-08). Canada convoy protest a truckload of anti-vax and white supremacist BS. peoplesworld.org

From Embers (2022-02-08). From Embers: A Transportation Worker Speaks on the "Freedom Convoy" itsgoingdown.org From Embers speaks with a transportation worker about their view on the ongoing far-Right convoy protests against vaccine mandates. We spoke with a transportation worker about the so-called Freedom Convoy currently occupying capital cities and border crossings across Canada. Links: Naujawan Support Network Canadian Anti-Hate Network Punch Up Collective (Ottawa) Ottawa Trip Report Three Way…

sputniknews (2022-02-08). Canadian Protesters Against Vaccine Mandate Block Bridge on US-Canada Border, Police Says. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Canadian protesters demanding an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates have blocked the Ambassador Bridge linking the US city of Detroit and the Canadian city of Windsor, the Ontario Provincial Police said on Tuesday.

John Knefel (2022-02-08). Homeland Security's Attempts to "Combat Misinformation" Are Suspect. truthout.org During Donald Trump's campaign for president, claims of Russian misinformation and disinformation were ubiquitous on cable news, Twitter and op-ed columns. Public discussion of misinformation has since skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, usually focusing on harmful anti-vaccination media coverage on, for example, Fox News and Joe Rogan's popular podcast. There are, of course, no shortage of Fox News segments praising anti-vaxxers until they die, generally by hosts who themselves have gotten the vac…

Liberation Staff, NYC (2022-02-08). Times Square action says:'Fight racism, not Russia!'. liberationnews.org It wasn't Russia that was forcing us to go back to work during a global pandemic so our bosses could grind out a little extra profit … It was Wall Street.

WSWS (2022-02-08). UK rail cleaners strike against poverty pay. wsws.org During the pandemic, rail cleaners have braved hazardous conditions to protect the public from infection. But outsourced cleaners have been paid a pittance and were even denied sick pay.

WSWS (2022-02-08). Australian nurse speaks out about worsening conditions on the front lines of the pandemic. wsws.org "We sometimes look at each other and are gobsmacked and ask, is this really happening? Do we really have three patients on trolleys in the corridor right now with no beds? What if a medical episode happened with that patient?"

WSWS (2022-02-08). Turkish health workers strike as COVID-19 pandemic, living costs surge. wsws.org As COVID-19 cases explode and real annual inflation exceeds 110 percent in Turkey, many layers of the working class are increasingly taking strike action.

_____ (2022-02-08). Boston Demands 'Free Leonard Peltier'. popularresistance.org Jericho Movement Boston, United American Indians of New England (UAINE), and Boston BDS called for a standout in front of the JFK Federal Building in Boston on Monday, February 7, 2022 at 4: 00 pm to call attention to international calls to free Native American prisoner Leonard Peltier, now 77 and ill with COVID-19. | Known internationally as the most famous and longest-serving Native American political prisoner in the US, Peltier has been imprisoned since 1976 on charges that he shot two FBI agents on Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Peltier was framed up for a crime he did not commit. Witnesses perjured themselve…

WSWS (2022-02-08). Right-wing majority on Colorado school board fires superintendent to attack COVID mitigations. wsws.org The ousting of superintendent Corey Wise was an outcome of back-room plotting driven by a campaign against mask mandates and bogus claims about the teaching of Critical Race Theory.

teleSUR (2022-02-08). US National Cathedral Tolls Bell for 900,000 COVID-19 Victims. telesurenglish.net The Washington National Cathedral tolled its funeral bell 900 times, once for every 1,000 people who had died from COVID-19 in the United States. The mourning, also livestreamed on social media, took nearly 90 minutes. | RELATED: | "I remember when this particular sad tradition began in 2020, when 50,000 and 100,000 seemed horrible and unthinkable. Here we are. Soon, no doubt, one million," tweeted Susan B. Glasser, a f…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-08). Ecuador court upholds Indigenous rights against oil, mining projects and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we look at a major ruling by Ecuador's Constitutional Court protecting Indigenous peoples' rights to block resource extraction projects on their lands; another round of mass mobilisations against the military coup in Sudan as protestors reject negotiations with the junta; the deployment of troops to health centers amid a worsening COVID-19 crisis in the aged care sector; and an agreement reached between President Xiomara Castro's Libre Party and dissenting lawmakers to resolve the political crisis in the Honduran Congress.

Editor (2022-02-08). Canada: The Left is nowhere on COVID. And that's a big problem. mronline.org They have failed to step into the current political climate and counter far-right protests, and get workers the income, housing and other social support they need.

Staff (2022-02-08). Policing on Trial: Attorney Ben Crump on Fed Case Against Three Cops Involved in George Floyd Murder. democracynow.org The Minneapolis judge who signed the no-knock warrant that led to the fatal police shooting of 22-year-old Black man Amir Locke also presided over the trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-police officer convicted for the murder of George Floyd. The trial of three officers facing lesser charges — Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng — is currently underway after being delayed when one of the defendants tested positive for COVID. The trial will show the importance of accountability even from police who are bystanders to murder, says Benjamin Crump, part of the legal team for George Floyd's famil…

WSWS (2022-02-08). More than 200,000 American children have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19. wsws.org The staggering figure of 200,000 children deprived of their caregivers represents an incalculable social and personal loss, which will impact all those affected for their entire lives.

WSWS (2022-02-08). New Zealand government to re-open borders amid escalating Omicron outbreak. wsws.org The dangerous border re-openings are the next stage in the New Zealand Labour-led government's pro-business strategy to end public health restrictions and let COVID run.

WSWS (2022-02-08). Australian ruling elite steps up "let it rip" program amid mass school infections, aged care deaths. wsws.org Governments falsely claim that the worst of the crisis has passed as they impose policies that will cause further surges of illness and death.

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