(2022-02-12). [Comment] Another piece in the COVID-19 treatment puzzle. thelancet.com A new study1 from the RECOVERY Collaborative Group adds another piece to the puzzle of severe COVID-19 therapy. The RECOVERY trials have been pivotal in providing evidence on the efficacy of compounds within current treatment guidelines for COVID-19, such as dexamethasone, tocilizumab, and the casirivimab and imdevimab combination.1—3 In previous randomised trials, these monoclonal antibodies4 were effective in preventing infection and clinical progression when given in the early phase of infection.
(2022-02-12). [Comment] New NICE guideline on chronic fatigue syndrome: more ideology than science? thelancet.com The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK published a new chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) guideline in October, 2021.1 The previous NICE 2007 guideline recommended cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) for people with mild or moderate CFS/ME based on evidence from randomised trials.2 Since then, more randomised trials and systematic reviews have provided additional evidence supporting these recommendations.3—8 No new or more effective interventions have been identified.
(2022-02-11). Beijing Winter Olympics: Front line in new cold war on China — with Carl Zha. multipolarista.com With a diplomatic boycott by Western governments, corporate media propaganda has demonized the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. China expert Carl Zha discusses the new cold war.
(2022-02-11). Shen Yun: The Falun Gong cult's anti-communist propaganda roadshow. peoplesworld.org 
From February 15-20, 2022, Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will host a sensational retelling of China's history spanning thousands of years. Shen Yun—the stunning production that has graced stages in a perpetual roadshow across North America since 2006—is returning to the U.S. capital. The advertising for this affair across 96 cities …
(2022-02-11). They Don't Just Lie to Us About Wars. They Lie to Us About Everything. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | The lion's share of propaganda goes not toward convincing us to accept new agendas of the powerful, but toward keeping us entranced in the status quo dream world which enables the powerful to have power in the first place. Toward normalizing status quo systems and training us to shape ourselves to fit into them like neat little cogs in a well-oiled machine. | And it's not even a grand, monolithic conspiracy in most cases. The giant corporations who indoctrinate us with their advertisements, their Hollywood movies and shows, their apps, their websites and their news media are all naturally i…
(2022-02-11). Beijing 2022 and China's challenge to sports imperialism. mronline.org 
In this essay, Charles Xu exposes these narratives for the new Cold War propaganda they are. At the same time, he draws from valuable left analysis of the Olympic movement's historical imbrication with white supremacy to explore China's fraught relationship with international sports.
(2022-02-11). Spotify Signed Joe Rogan for $100 Million But Won't Hold Him Accountable for Spreading Misinfo, Hate. democracynow.org 
Comedian Joe Rogan has come under fire for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, using racial slurs and other harmful rhetoric on his Spotify podcast. Musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music from the platform in protest of his $100 million contract reportedly paid by Spotify, raising questions how responsible audio platforms should be over hateful content. "He's made it clear that he doesn't have any intention of changing the lies and hate he spreads on his podcast, and it's far past time that Spotify came to the plate and actually moderated the content on its p…
(2022-02-11). Spotify Signed Joe Rogan for $100 Million But Won't Hold Him Accountable. truthout.org 
Image Credit: Joe Rogan Experience/YouTube | Comedian Joe Rogan has come under fire for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, using racial slurs and other harmful rhetoric on his Spotify podcast. Musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music from the platform in protest of his $100 million contract reportedly paid by Spotify, raising questions how responsible audio platforms should be over hateful content. "He's made it clear that he doesn't have any intention of changing the lie…
(2022-02-11). Second Declaration of Havana, 60th Anniversary. orinocotribune.com 
By Charles McKelvey — Feb 8, 2022 | Fidel speaks of the crisis of imperialism and the interest of humanity in socialism | It has been said of Fidel that he gave pedagogical discourses. This was illustrated on February 4, 1962, when Fidel offered a history lesson in a speech that came to be known as the Second Declaration of Havana, delivered to more than one million people in the Plaza of the Revolution, an event that was commemorated this past week in Cuba. In the historic discourse, Fidel presented an overview of world history that is a synthesis of Marxism-Leninism, written from the perspective of the rev…
(2022-02-11). Police Killed More Than 1,000 Americans In 2021, The Highest On Record. moguldom.com In 2021, police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide, the highest number on record, according to the Washington Post, which has been tracking fatal shootings by cops since 2015. By comparison, police shot and killed 1,021 people in 2020, and 999 in 2019. The police shootings of civilians are not broken down by race, …
(2022-02-11). Trump Took "Top Secret" Classified Material to Mar-a-Lago Estate. truthout.org 
A number of the documents that were recently retrieved by the National Archives from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate were clearly marked as classified — and some were also labeled "top secret," according to new reporting from The Washington Post. |
(2022-02-11). "American Reckoning": 55 Years After KKK Murder of Mississippi NAACP Leader, Case Remains Unsolved. democracynow.org 
This month marks 55 years since the assassination of an NAACP leader. The new documentary "American Reckoning" seeks justice in the cold case of murdered civil rights activist and local NAACP leader Wharlest Jackson Sr. in Natchez, Mississippi. No one was ever charged with his 1967 murder, despite evidence pointing to the involvement of the inner circle of the local Ku Klux Klan. It's one of many unsolved crimes targeting civil rights activists. "The fact that no one has been indicted for Wharlest's case or for these other cases shows the limits of the justice system," says co-…
(2022-02-11). Australia: COVID-19 swamps Northern Territory schools and Aboriginal communities. wsws.org Aboriginal medical organisations have condemned the Territory's Labor government for allowing the coronavirus to spread out of control.