(2022-09-17). The Non-Mystery of a Smaller Labor Force. cepr.net It is bizarre how the media keep insisting that we have some big problem of missing workers, since we don't. The Washington Post has the latest entry in the search for non-missing workers. As with other pieces, it implies that an unusual large percentage of people are opting not to be in the labor market. …
(2022-09-17). [Articles] The clinical effect of point-of-care HIV diagnosis in infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis. thelancet.com Overall, the certainty of the evidence in this analysis was rated as high for the primary outcomes related to result delivery and treatment initiation, with no serious risk of bias, inconsistency, indirectness, or imprecision. In HIV-exposed infants, same-day point-of-care HIV testing was associated with significantly improved time to result delivery, time to antiretroviral therapy initiation, and proportion of HIV-positive infants starting antiretroviral therapy within 60 days compared with standard of care.
(2022-09-16). Zelensky quietly deletes photo of his bodyguard's pro-Hitler patch. thegrayzone.com The Ukrainian President published a photograph on his social media channels showing one of his security escorts bearing a patch referencing the personal bodyguard unit of Adolf Hitler. On September 13, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky made a surprise trip to the city of Izyum in the Kharkov Region for a photo op following his military's recapture of the town from Russian forces. During the visit, a soldier who appeared to be guarding Zelensky was photographed wearing a Nazi-inspired patch on …
(2022-09-16). The Fed's Secret Plan to Suck Workers Dry. mintpressnews.com Workers have the power right now, and corporate America does not. And now we have proof that corporate America — which owns our government – wants to turn this all around immediately.
(2022-09-16). Why 'learn to live' with COVID deaths? workers.org 
If you write for the New York Times, expect to be assigned articles condemning China for causing its people enormous inconvenience and discomfort to avoid massive deaths from the coronavirus. The Times clearly shares the capitalist-class viewpoint that the world's priority should be to get back to business as usual, . . . |
(2022-09-16). Ukraine — Dissecting Some War Propaganda News Items. popularresistance.org Last night a Reuters headline claimed: Mass grave of more than 440 bodies found in Izium, Ukraine -policeÔªø. | The Reuters headline was 100% false. That may have been because the editor misinterpreted what the Ukrainian police investigator said. Or it intentionally exaggerated the case to increase the propaganda value of that news item. I suspect the latter to be the case. | There is otherwise nothing unusual with that graveyard. During a war people on both sides die. Civilians suffer as much as soldiers while fighting around them is going on. The city had been heavily defended by the Ukrainian…
(2022-09-16). Statement condemning the OHCHR's 'Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement initiated by Friends of Socialist China. Freedom Road Socialist Organization is among the signers. | We strongly condemn the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of its Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. In the words of former OHCHR lawyer and human rights expert Alfred de Zayas, this document "should be discarded as propagandistic, biased, and methodologically flawed." | Based on substandard research methods and biased sources, the Assessmen…
(2022-09-16). United States Now Recognizes Alex Saab As Special Envoy Of Venezuela. popularresistance.org After more than two years questioning Venezuelan Alex Saab's diplomatic status, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has now conceded that he is a special envoy. The dramatic U-turn was made in a filing before Justice Scola on Tuesday, September 13, in a hearing that was held regarding Saab's motion to compel the DoJ to hand over certain documents, which his defense believes would be beneficial to his claim of diplomatic immunity. | Alex Saab's defense has been pushing the DoJ for some months now to make what are called "Brady disclosures." These require that information and evidence that is material to the guilt o…
(2022-09-16). Boyah J. Farah: A Somali Boy's Escape From Somalia's Harrowing Genocide Leads Him To His Dream Paradise—and the Brutality of American Racism. scheerpost.com 
: Boyah J. Farah seemed most struck by the beautiful green lawns…
(2022-09-16). Corporate Media Is Trying to Convince People Student Debt Forgiveness Is Bad. commondreams.org By trying to convince voters that debt relief will cost them, and that a more egalitarian society is impossible, corporate media are defending America's ruling class from an educated working class.
(2022-09-16). Oppose the reactionary smear campaign against Harvard Professor John Comaroff! wsws.org Should these reactionary forces succeed it would represent a major blow to academic freedom, democratic rights and serious scholarship.
(2022-09-16). L'offensiva del complesso militare-industrial. globalresearch.ca La recente avanzata ucraina è stata pianificata mesi fa dagli USA, che hanno fornito alle forze di Kiev in tempo reale le informazioni sugli obiettivi russi da colpire: lo rivela il New York Times in base a fonti ufficiali. Cià≤ …
(2022-09-15). DPRK's New Nuclear Doctrine. journal-neo.org 
On September 8, 2022 the DPRK passed a new law on the DPRK's Policy on Nuclear Forces, which was adopted at the 7th session of the 14th convocation of the country's Supreme People's Assembly. Although this news was portrayed in the media, including in Russia, as "the DPRK having declared itself as a responsible nuclear …