(2021-08-24). Chicago area mechanics speak out about isolation of their struggle. wsws.org In contrast to the militancy of rank-and-file mechanics, the IAM leadership has acted throughout the struggle as strikebreakers on behalf of the NCDC.
(2021-08-24). Low-Intensity vs High-Intensity Walking Exercise for Walk Distance in Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease. jamanetwork.com To the Editor Walking exercise has long been a recommended management strategy for patients with PAD. The recent study by Dr McDermott and colleagues demonstrated the importance of higher-intensity walking exercise in managing PAD in contrast to existing literature. However, we would like to highlight some caveats when applying their findings to clinical practice.
(2021-08-24). Big pharma — Maximum earnings, minimum responsibilities. peoplesdispatch.org 
The contrast between the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives and livelihood of the working-class population and the soaring profits of big pharma companies in the corresponding period is abhorrent. | Despite the huge jump in revenues during the global crisis and a forecast for the continuation of the good run—owing to an assured market for vaccines, drugs and diagnostics in the years to come—big pharma is reportedly lobbying against the proposed
(2021-08-24). Nicaragua: The Right to Live in Peace. libya360.wordpress.com Francisco Dominguez Celebrations in Managua for the 42 years of the Sandinista revolution. Photo: Ben Norton/Grayzone "Sovereignty is not argued about, It is defended" — Cesar Augusto Sandino It is an irrefutable fact that the United States orchestrated, financed and unleashed the violent coup attempt in 2018 against the democratically elected FSLN government. Spokespeople of…
(2021-08-24). Nicaragua: Media Disinformation and Fraudulent Misreporting in Support of US Foreign Policy Interventionism. orinocotribune.com 
By Stephen Sefton — Aug 20, 2021 | No one need look further to explain US and allied foreign policy failures of recent years than the endless corresponding reporting failures of their governments and their media. They deliberately omit fundamental facts, systematically exclude inconvenient witness testimony, never give adequate context and seldom seriously question official data. The result is a kind of malevolent fantasy fiction projecting as if it were normal the demented world view of psychotic US and allied policy makers who are completely out of touch with reality. A good example of this is The Guardian…
(2021-08-24). Nicaragua: desinformación y denuncias falsas y fraudulentas en apoyo al intervencionismo de Estados Unidos. globalizacion.ca Para explicar los fracasos de la política exterior de Estados Unidos y sus aliados de los últimos años no hace falta buscar más allá de las crónicas deficiencias informativas de sus gobiernos y sus medios de comunicación. | Omiten deliberadamente hechos…
(2021-08-23). Learn From The East — A Major Lesson Of The Pandemic. popularresistance.org The world is now in the throes of another wave of Covid-19, with another surge in infections, sickness and deaths, this time due to the more infectious and apparently more lethal Delta variant. | Are there lessons to be learned from the previous waves of Covid-19 that might help us now? | There are, and they were evident long ago, but in the West, they have been largely ignored. Up to now, for example, the US has suffered over 617,000 deaths; China in contrast has suffered fewer than 5,000 deaths in a population four times as large as the US. Could there not be some lessons that might serve us in the West now and…
(2021-08-23). Vaccine inequity and the fight for a people's vaccine. greenleft.org.au As some of the world's wealthiest countries move closer towards fully vaccinating their populations against COVID-19, there could not be a starker contrast when looking at countries in the Global South, writes Ben Radford.