Monthly Archives: July 2021

2021-07-12: News Headlines

teleSUR (2021-07-12). Russia, Nicaragua, Bolivia Reject Destabilization in Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that her country rejects attempts to destabilize the government of President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Cuba. | RELATED: | She qualified as "unacceptable the external interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state… and any other destructive action that foments the destabilization of the situation on the island". | The diplomat also expressed…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-07-12). New vaccine platform invented by Mayo enters COVID-19 clinical trial. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic lab member is purifying an adenovirus vector for preclinical testing. A novel single-cycle adenovirus vaccine platform developed by Mayo Clinic will be used to target multiple infectious diseases and cancer indications, beginning with a phase 1 clinical study using the platform as a vaccine for COVID-19. Developed to enhance the expression of target antigens, the single-cycle adenovirus platform is under investigation for its ability to amplify immune responses. In contrast to replication-defective…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-07-11). New vaccine platform invented by Mayo enters COVID-19 clinical trial. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic lab member is purifying an adenovirus vector for preclinical testing. A novel single-cycle adenovirus vaccine platform developed by Mayo Clinic will be used to target multiple infectious diseases and cancer indications, beginning with a phase 1 clinical study using the platform as a vaccine for COVID-19. Developed to enhance the expression of target antigens, the single-cycle adenovirus platform is under investigation for its ability to amplify immune responses. In contrast to replication-defective…

2021-07-13 03:21 | 21:21 EST | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0

2021-07-11: News Headlines

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-07-11). New vaccine platform invented by Mayo enters COVID-19 clinical trial. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic lab member is purifying an adenovirus vector for preclinical testing. A novel single-cycle adenovirus vaccine platform developed by Mayo Clinic will be used to target multiple infectious diseases and cancer indications, beginning with a phase 1 clinical study using the platform as a vaccine for COVID-19. Developed to enhance the expression of target antigens, the single-cycle adenovirus platform is under investigation for its ability to amplify immune responses. In contrast to replication-defective…

Editor2 (2021-07-10). Bringing the Voices of the Nicaraguan People to Congress. orinocotribune.com By Casa Baltimore-Limay and Friends of Latin America — Jul 8, 2021 | "These people do not have access to the US Congress or media — but their lives are heavily impacted by both. That is why we are bringing their voices to you… We are asking you to do no harm." | On June 30th two Maryland-based solidarity organizations began meeting virtually with members of the U.S. Congress to speak against adoption of the RENACER Act that would impose devastating sanctions on Nicaragua. Casa Baltimore/Limay is a sister community project that has maintained strong ties since 1985; Friends of Latin America has been w…

Editor2 (2021-07-10). Nicaragua — Varieties of Neocolonial Solidarity. orinocotribune.com By Stephen Sefton — July 6th 2021 | Just as in 2018, Nicaragua is once again the subject of the kind of mass international bad faith news coverage and perception management more usually associated recently with US and allied government offensives against Bolivia, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. In Nicaragua's case the current offensive is aimed at influencing the country's elections scheduled for next November 7th. Currently, all the opinion polls show that, should President Daniel Ortega stand again for election, he and his FSLN party will win easily with over 60% support against around 20% for the the cou…

Stephen Sefton (2021-07-10). Nicaragua — Varieties of Neocolonial Solidarity. orinocotribune.com By Stephen Sefton — July 6th 2021 | Just as in 2018, Nicaragua is once again the subject of the kind of mass international bad faith news coverage and perception management more usually associated recently with US and allied government offensives against Bolivia, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. In Nicaragua's case the current offensive is aimed at influencing the country's elections scheduled for next November 7th. Currently, all the opinion polls show that, should President Daniel Ortega stand again for election, he and his FSLN party will win easily with over 60% support against around 20% for the the cou…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-07-10). New vaccine platform invented by Mayo enters COVID-19 clinical trial. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic lab member is purifying an adenovirus vector for preclinical testing. A novel single-cycle adenovirus vaccine platform developed by Mayo Clinic will be used to target multiple infectious diseases and cancer indications, beginning with a phase 1 clinical study using the platform as a vaccine for COVID-19. Developed to enhance the expression of target antigens, the single-cycle adenovirus platform is under investigation for its ability to amplify immune responses. In contrast to replication-defective…

_____ (2021-07-10). Spare Us An Afghan Threequel, Joe! popularresistance.org Kandahar Airfield ("KAF") was as bizarre as it was dusty. You sort of tasted it before you smelled it — and smelled before you saw it. It's been a full decade since I first did. When the cavalry troop I'd commanded touched down as a final top-off to President Obama's Afghan surge, we gazed upon this weird way station of America's war effort with exhausted eyes. Fatigue breeds a certain stripped-down simplicity — "Just show me to my damn cot, already!" — so it took until morning to truly spy the strangeness. It was a place of curious contrasts. | Dry dirt roads, but plenty of civil and military t…

2021-07-11 19:12 | 21:12 EST | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0

2021-07-10: News Headlines

Editor2 (2021-07-10). Bringing the Voices of the Nicaraguan People to Congress. orinocotribune.com By Casa Baltimore-Limay and Friends of Latin America — Jul 8, 2021 | "These people do not have access to the US Congress or media — but their lives are heavily impacted by both. That is why we are bringing their voices to you… We are asking you to do no harm." | On June 30th two Maryland-based solidarity organizations began meeting virtually with members of the U.S. Congress to speak against adoption of the RENACER Act that would impose devastating sanctions on Nicaragua. Casa Baltimore/Limay is a sister community project that has maintained strong ties since 1985; Friends of Latin America has been w…

Editor2 (2021-07-10). Nicaragua — Varieties of Neocolonial Solidarity. orinocotribune.com By Stephen Sefton — July 6th 2021 | Just as in 2018, Nicaragua is once again the subject of the kind of mass international bad faith news coverage and perception management more usually associated recently with US and allied government offensives against Bolivia, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. In Nicaragua's case the current offensive is aimed at influencing the country's elections scheduled for next November 7th. Currently, all the opinion polls show that, should President Daniel Ortega stand again for election, he and his FSLN party will win easily with over 60% support against around 20% for the the cou…

Stephen Sefton (2021-07-10). Nicaragua — Varieties of Neocolonial Solidarity. orinocotribune.com By Stephen Sefton — July 6th 2021 | Just as in 2018, Nicaragua is once again the subject of the kind of mass international bad faith news coverage and perception management more usually associated recently with US and allied government offensives against Bolivia, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. In Nicaragua's case the current offensive is aimed at influencing the country's elections scheduled for next November 7th. Currently, all the opinion polls show that, should President Daniel Ortega stand again for election, he and his FSLN party will win easily with over 60% support against around 20% for the the cou…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-07-10). New vaccine platform invented by Mayo enters COVID-19 clinical trial. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic lab member is purifying an adenovirus vector for preclinical testing. A novel single-cycle adenovirus vaccine platform developed by Mayo Clinic will be used to target multiple infectious diseases and cancer indications, beginning with a phase 1 clinical study using the platform as a vaccine for COVID-19. Developed to enhance the expression of target antigens, the single-cycle adenovirus platform is under investigation for its ability to amplify immune responses. In contrast to replication-defective…

_____ (2021-07-09). Launch: 'Group Of Friends In Defense Of The United Nations Charter'. popularresistance.org We, representatives of Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nicaragua, the State of Palestine, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, and Venezuela to the United Nations, are pleased to announce the official launch and establishment of the "Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations". | We seize this opportunity to reaffirm that the Charter of the United Nations and its purposes and principles remain timeless, universal, and that they are all indispens…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-07-09). Uruguay: The Left Held Hostage. libya360.wordpress.com Jorge Capelán Uruguay is one of the countries with the most police per 100,000 inhabitants in Latin Latin America. Recently, the magazine Brecha de Uruguay published an "open letter" regarding Nicaragua signed by a number of personalities of the left wing of that country. Following the same script of NATO (and its U.S. owners), it…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-07-09). New vaccine platform invented by Mayo enters COVID-19 clinical trial. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic lab member is purifying an adenovirus vector for preclinical testing. A novel single-cycle adenovirus vaccine platform developed by Mayo Clinic will be used to target multiple infectious diseases and cancer indications, beginning with a phase 1 clinical study using the platform as a vaccine for COVID-19. Developed to enhance the expression of target antigens, the single-cycle adenovirus platform is under investigation for its ability to amplify immune responses. In contrast to replication-defective…

2021-07-10 19:53 | 15:53 EST | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0

2021-07-09: News Headlines

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-07-09). New vaccine platform invented by Mayo enters COVID-19 clinical trial. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic lab member is purifying an adenovirus vector for preclinical testing. A novel single-cycle adenovirus vaccine platform developed by Mayo Clinic will be used to target multiple infectious diseases and cancer indications, beginning with a phase 1 clinical study using the platform as a vaccine for COVID-19. Developed to enhance the expression of target antigens, the single-cycle adenovirus platform is under investigation for its ability to amplify immune responses. In contrast to replication-defective…

Stephen Sefton (2021-07-08). Nicaragua — Variedades de la solidaridad neocolonial. globalizacion.ca Al igual que en 2018, Nicaragua vuelve a ser objeto del tipo de una masiva cobertura informativa internacional de mala fe y del tipo de manipulación psicológica que se ha asociado más recientemente con las ofensivas de Estados Unidos y…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-07-08). New vaccine platform invented by Mayo enters COVID-19 clinical trial. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic lab member is purifying an adenovirus vector for preclinical testing. A novel single-cycle adenovirus vaccine platform developed by Mayo Clinic will be used to target multiple infectious diseases and cancer indications, beginning with a phase 1 clinical study using the platform as a vaccine for COVID-19. Developed to enhance the expression of target antigens, the single-cycle adenovirus platform is under investigation for its ability to amplify immune responses. In contrast to replication-defective…

2021-07-10 00:58 | 20:58 EST | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0

2021-07-08: News Headlines

Stephen Sefton (2021-07-08). Nicaragua — Variedades de la solidaridad neocolonial. globalizacion.ca Al igual que en 2018, Nicaragua vuelve a ser objeto del tipo de una masiva cobertura informativa internacional de mala fe y del tipo de manipulación psicológica que se ha asociado más recientemente con las ofensivas de Estados Unidos y…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-07-08). New vaccine platform invented by Mayo enters COVID-19 clinical trial. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A Mayo Clinic lab member is purifying an adenovirus vector for preclinical testing. A novel single-cycle adenovirus vaccine platform developed by Mayo Clinic will be used to target multiple infectious diseases and cancer indications, beginning with a phase 1 clinical study using the platform as a vaccine for COVID-19. Developed to enhance the expression of target antigens, the single-cycle adenovirus platform is under investigation for its ability to amplify immune responses. In contrast to replication-defective…

Editor2 (2021-07-07). NGOs and the New Plan Condor for Latin America. orinocotribune.com By Manuel Zelaya and Lois Pérez Leira — Jul 4, 2021 | Beginning in the 1980s, with the advent of the neoliberal model of exploitation, organizations began to appear that in theory were created to fill a vacuum that arose between the public and the private spheres. These non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which at first appeared to be impartial, became in essence self-proclaimed political agents of civil society, legitimizing the rise of globalization and the market. With the arrival of progressive governments, via elections in Latin America, as in the case of Nicaragua, where Daniel Ortega won by more th…

2021-07-09 04:49 | 00:49 EST | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0

2021-07-07: News Headlines

Editor2 (2021-07-07). NGOs and the New Plan Condor for Latin America. orinocotribune.com By Manuel Zelaya and Lois Pérez Leira — Jul 4, 2021 | Beginning in the 1980s, with the advent of the neoliberal model of exploitation, organizations began to appear that in theory were created to fill a vacuum that arose between the public and the private spheres. These non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which at first appeared to be impartial, became in essence self-proclaimed political agents of civil society, legitimizing the rise of globalization and the market. With the arrival of progressive governments, via elections in Latin America, as in the case of Nicaragua, where Daniel Ortega won by more th…

The Associated Press (2021-07-06). Nicaragua Arrests 6 More Opposition Figures; EU Weighs Move. latinorebels.com MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan police arrested a half dozen more opposition figures, including the sixth presidential hopeful to have been arrested in a crackdown that started last month.

WSWS (2021-07-06). Podemos launches baseless #MeToo attack on Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo. wsws.org Popular enthusiasm for Domingo's return to the stage contrasted sharply with the "left populist" Podemos party, which denounced his appearance as an insult to women.

2021-07-08 00:54 | 20:54 EST | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0