Daily Archives: September 15, 2022

2022-09-15: News Headlines

Brenda Norrell (2022-09-15). Poisonous Green: Navajoland Freight Rail Scam — Nuclear Industry leads Energy Transition. indybay.org Poisonous Green: The Navajo Nation freight rail scam follows the announcement that the atomic bomb industry is heading energy transition in the Four Corners. The United States government has long deemed the Four Corners a sacrifice zone. It remains strewn with radioactive tailings from uranium mining. Coal fired power plants on the Navajo Nation have left a trail of suffering, disease and death.

____ (2022-09-15). China's annual COVID-19 vaccine production capacity exceeds 7 bln doses. ecns.cn

____ (2022-09-15). WHO warns future waves of COVID-19 infection as deaths drop. ecns.cn The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that future coronavirus waves are expected and that governments across the world need to remain vigilant and ready to respond to any threat that may emerge.

Fight Back (2022-09-15). Greece: All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) Solidarity with the Nurses' Strike in Minnesota and Wisconsin. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the influential Greek labor organization, the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME). | PAME that represents the class unions of Greece, expresses its solidarity with the strike of thousands of nurses in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the USA who are demanding 27% wage increases. | Health workers both before and during the pandemic have been on the front line of protecting the lives and health of the people. But governments and business groups that treat health as a commodity on the one hand treat the sick as customers who must pay to get well and on the…

WSWS (2022-09-15). Oppose the right-wing smear campaign aimed at silencing Canadian anti-COVID activist and former teacher Ryan Imgrund! wsws.org Imgrund, who built up a large following among workers in Ontario thanks to his advocacy for COVID-19 public health measures, has been targeted by a rabid alliance of far-right anti-vaxxers, COVID deniers, and "left" proponents of identity politics.

TeleSUR, ysm, JCM (2022-09-15). OMS pronostica que se acerca fin de la pandemia de Covid-19. telesurtv.net Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus aseguró que el mundo "nunca ha estado en una mejor posición para poner fin a la pandemia de la Covid-19".

Editor (2022-09-14). NYT Scolds China for Not 'Learning to Live'—or Die—With Covid. scheerpost.com By Jim Naureckas / FAIR Four and a half million people. That's how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results. Instead, China has had 15,000 deaths from Covid—most of these from an outbreak in …

TeleSUR -ysm, DRL (2022-09-14). Presidente ruso espera reunirse con homólogo chino en cumbre regional. telesurtv.net El evento marcará el primer viaje al extranjero del mandatario chino desde el inicio de la pandemia de la Covid-19.

_____ (2022-09-14). Fear And Misinformation Dominate Discourses Of Brazilian Right. popularresistance.org Brazil is less than a month away from historic elections. Over 156 million Brazilians will go to the polls on October 2 to cast their vote for the president of the republic, State governors, 27 senators, 513 federal deputies, and State and district deputies. The elections take place amid an acute political, economic, and social crisis in the country. The past several years have seen a dramatic increase in hunger, homelessness, unemployment, and the prices of basic commodities. The currency, the Real, has tumbled. Above all, the colossal number of deaths due to COVID-19 continues to cast a shadow on the lives of m…

Emanuel Pastreich (2022-09-14). 9/11 versus Covid: 21 Years of Wandering in the Fog after 9/11 Has Opened the "Gates of Hell" globalresearch.ca

Dr. Suzanne Burdick (2022-09-14). All Eyes on Gov. Newsom as California Looks to Pass Nation's First Law to Punish Doctors for COVID 'Misinformation'. globalresearch.ca

Contributing Writers (2022-09-14). Video: The Corona Crisis: "We're Dealing with Homicide, Maybe Even Murder", Forced Vaccines in Nursing Homes/ By Peter Koenig and Reiner Fuellmich. marktaliano.net

Staff (2022-09-14). WHO says end of Covod-19 era in sight. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic…

_____ (2022-09-14). Activists Unlawfully Arrested In Raids On Palestine Action Camp. popularresistance.org Yesterday, 14 activists were unlawfully arrested after manning the Palestine Action Camp for the past two weeks. The activists were arrested under the pretext of "conspiracy to commit criminal damage", despite no evidence given for these claims. It would appear the arrests were part of an attempt to remove activists, ahead of an event outside the factory that called for mass mobilisation. During the raid, devices were seized, equipment damaged deliberately and packed up by police, who then cordoned the whole camp off, marking it a "crime scene". Those arrested were released in the early hours of today. | Although…

Owen Fairclough (2022-09-14). Monkeypox outbreak slowing in the U.S. america.cgtn.com U.S. health leaders defended the federal response to the worldwide monkeypox outbreak after the second reported death from the virus. Although cases are declining in the U.S., there's concern that the virus is now disproportionately hitting minority communities. And authorities are under pressure to …

Richard Eskow (2022-09-14). Covid-19 and 9/11: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Cares. commondreams.org Washington must address the ongoing Covid crisis now.

Suheir Sheikh (2022-09-14). Top issues expected at UNGA agenda. america.cgtn.com The United Nations General Assembly has opened in New York with full, in-person official meetings happening for the first time since the pandemic. Global education is among items top of the agenda, as are global food and fuel crises. Caroline Malone reports from UN …

WSWS (2022-09-14). Federal judge rules HIV prevention drug coverage unconstitutional on "religious freedom" grounds. wsws.org Since their approval in the last decade HIV PrEP treatments have become one of the necessary measures required to prevent further transmission of the virus, with the US CDC crediting its use with the decline in HIV diagnoses.

Anand Naidoo (2022-09-14). The Heat: New vaccines target COVID-19 and variants. america.cgtn.com With fall and winter on the way, the United States rolls out new vaccine boosters in hopes of staving off a surge in Covid cases.

Staff (2022-09-14). Cuba reporta 21 nuevos casos de COVID-19 y ningún fallecido. cubadebate.cu Cuba confirmó al cierre de este martes 21 casos positivos a la COVID-19, ningún fallecido y 26 altas médicas, informó en su reporte habitual el Ministerio de Salud Pública (Minsap). Se encuentran ingresados 196 pacientes, de ellos 87 sospechosos y 109 confirmados.

Fight Back (2022-09-13). Strikes are brewing in Tallahassee. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On September 5, Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) and Serenity's Bartenders United called strikes. SBWU demanded delayed back pay and Serenity's Bartenders United wanted the reinstatement of a fired manager. | The Starbucks on North Monroe in Tallahassee was the first Starbucks in the state of Florida to file and win their union. This happened just over a month after the first store in the country was unionized. Ollie Carter, a Starbucks partner for seven years, explained how the pandemic spurred the organizing at the store and how quickly the "ugliness came" from corporate management. While none…

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