(2023-01-28). They Say: Fake news attemps to make people forget China's contribution to the global COVID-19 fight. ecns.cn
(2023-01-28). Burgerville Workers' Lessons For Independent Unions. popularresistance.org Self-organizing a union on a shoestring? Winning the supposedly unwinnable? Workers at a local burger chain out of Portland, Oregon, were doing it before it was cool. | The Burgerville Workers Union, which went public in 2016 and won its first contract in 2021, has recently been influencing and supporting independent union efforts in the region—and it has a few lessons to offer independent unions around the country. | While the union is affiliated with the Portland branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, it operates largely autonomously. | "What workers want is to form a union, not necessarily join a…
(2023-01-28). They Say: Fake news attemps to make people forget China's contribution to the global COVID-19 fight. ecns.cn
(2023-01-28). Burgerville Workers' Lessons For Independent Unions. popularresistance.org Self-organizing a union on a shoestring? Winning the supposedly unwinnable? Workers at a local burger chain out of Portland, Oregon, were doing it before it was cool. | The Burgerville Workers Union, which went public in 2016 and won its first contract in 2021, has recently been influencing and supporting independent union efforts in the region—and it has a few lessons to offer independent unions around the country. | While the union is affiliated with the Portland branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, it operates largely autonomously. | "What workers want is to form a union, not necessarily join a…
(2023-01-28). [Correspondence] Let research guide teaching in medical and public health. thelancet.com The pre-eminence of research over teaching in academic activity might be considered as an inheritance from the Enlightenment and, in the past few decades, from evidence-based medicine. Within this framework, teaching is secondary to research because the former is built, at least in part, on the latter. If teaching outweighs research,1 you might leave space for politics and beliefs, if not religion.
(2023-01-28). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…
(2023-01-28). Tyree Williams tased to death by police in North Carolina. fightbacknews.org Raleigh, NC – On January 17, Darryl Tyree Williams was tased to death by six Raleigh Police Department officers who have since been put on administrative leave, essentially a paid vacation. | The six officers named in the incident are C.D. Robinson, J.T. Thomas, D.L. Aquino, J.R. Scott, D.L. Grande, and B L. Ramge. As of writing, no bodycam or dashcam footage has been released to the public or the family. The preliminary police report attempted to smear Tyree Williams saying, "This location has a history of repeat calls for service for drugs, weapons and other criminal violations," a common police tactic against…
(2023-01-28). White House "discussing" sending US fighter jets to Ukraine. wsws.org Asked whether the "United States is willing to consider" sending US fighter Jets to Ukraine, White House National Security Adviser Jon Finer told MSNBC Thursday that the United States will be "discussing this very carefully."
(2023-01-27). Low Enrollment Plagues Many Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org The mainstream media has long made it seem like parents from coast to coast are frantically clamoring to get their kids into a "limited" number of charter schools. And because there is supposedly not enough space in these charter schools, students are put on a waiting list to get into the school. This neoliberal disinformation …
(2023-01-27). Pfizer executive goes thug on James O'Keefe after realizing he had been recorded boasting about 'mutating' Covid virus for profit. americanthinker.com Corporate media blackout of the story but the weirdness is compelling.
(2023-01-27). The best way to save forests is to legally recognize Indigenous lands. peoplesworld.org 
Recognizing and demarcating Indigenous lands leads to reduced deforestation and increased reforestation. That's according to a new study that looked at more than 100 Indigenous territories in Brazil's Atlantic Forest and found that legal recognition of those lands can have real, and measurable, impacts on centuries of deforestation. "Our study contributes to an emerging body of evidence …
(2023-01-27). US Says ISIS Leader Killed in Somalia Raid. news.antiwar.com Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday said that US forces conducted a raid in northern Somalia that resulted in the killing of a senior ISIS leader, Bilal al-Sudani, in a rare US operation in the country that didn't target al-Shabaab. A Biden administration official quoted by The New York Times said the raid also …
(2023-01-27). History class takes a holiday at The Washington Post. americanthinker.com A WaPo movie review seems to report Palestinian history as fact.