2021-08-29: News Headlines

Juan Cole (2021-08-29). Biden got 117,000 Afghans Out: Contrast that Time Trump Abruptly Withdrew Troops from Syria and refused to Help Kurdish Allies. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Richard N. Ojeda, an Army vet and former West Virginia state representative tweeted out an observation that I would like to reinforce: I don't remember Donald Trump flying one Kurd to safety. He let Turkey slaughter them. They were our allies that served side by side with our troops. Where …

New Atlas (2021-08-29). Afghanistan: Chinese Reconstruction vs. US Sanctions. newatlas.report August 29, 2021 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — Beijing now has a key opportunity to demonstrate the stark contrast between its brand of foreign policy and Washington's through its own plan to aid in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. A Global Times piece titled, "China to offer 'genuine' aid in Afghanistan's economic reconstruction amid chaotic transition," in title …

Nino Pagliccia (2021-08-28). The International Community Must be on Alert to Defend Perú. orinocotribune.com By Nino Pagliccia — Aug 27, 2021 | We have sound and clear signals from Latin America that its people want progressive anti-imperialist governments that promote real democracy, sovereignty and well-being for all, and not only for a small minority of privileged oligarchs. They have realised that the US imposed capitalist-centred neoliberal model does not work. Peruvians have also joined recently in this left-wing movement, together with Mexicans, Argentinians, Cubans, Venezuelans, Bolivians, Nicaraguans, with the election of working class Pedro Castillo as president. If Washington was hoping to see a coup by…

Editor (2021-08-28). Nicaragua at a revolutionary crossroads and in imperialist crosshairs. mronline.org U.S. attack on Nicaragua targets its Black community.

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2021-08-28: News Headlines

Editor (2021-08-28). Nicaragua at a revolutionary crossroads and in imperialist crosshairs. mronline.org U.S. attack on Nicaragua targets its Black community.

_____ (2021-08-27). From Afghanistan to Central America, US Creates Refugee Crises. commondreams.org Bush & Cheney have gotten away with lying us into two wars & wildly enriching their friends; meanwhile, more people are dead & the media won't even ask the right questions. Will we ever learn?

2021-08-27: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-26). Nicaragua at a Revolutionary Crossroads and in Imperialist Crosshairs. libya360.wordpress.com Netfa Freeman U.S. attack on Nicaragua targets its Black community. There is a page in the playbook for U.S. imperialist regime change in Latin America that includes exploiting the identity politics of Blackness. A recent example was the unrest in Cuba a month ago that included a sophisticated attempt to paint the Cuban revolution, its government, and…

2021-08-26: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-26). Nicaragua at a Revolutionary Crossroads and in Imperialist Crosshairs. libya360.wordpress.com Netfa Freeman U.S. attack on Nicaragua targets its Black community. There is a page in the playbook for U.S. imperialist regime change in Latin America that includes exploiting the identity politics of Blackness. A recent example was the unrest in Cuba a month ago that included a sophisticated attempt to paint the Cuban revolution, its government, and…

2021-08-25: News Headlines

Rahman A, Vishnu K S. (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.

WSWS (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.

Richa Chintan (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

Internationalist 360 ∞ (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…

Stephen Sefton (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…

Stephen Sefton (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…

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2021-08-24: News Headlines

WSWS (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.

Rahman A, Vishnu K S. (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.

Richa Chintan (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

Internationalist 360 ∞ (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…

Stephen Sefton (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…

Stephen Sefton (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…

Ben Radford (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.

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