(2023-01-15). NYC remembers Dr. King's Legacy. fightbacknews.org New York, NY — Around 60 people gathered in the historic Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem to honor the legacy of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. on what would have been his birthday weekend. Organized by Struggle-La Lucha, a panel of 11 speakers took part in the event that demanded: No war and sanctions, strop funding white supremacy in the Ukraine, shut down NATO, and stop racism, transphobia, union busting, and the attacks on women's rights, LGBTQ+ and immigrants. | The speakers included Margaret Kimberly of Black Agenda Report, Melinda Butterfield of Struggle-La Lucha and Omowale Cla, December…
(2023-01-15). Canadian 'LAV 6' Armoured Vehicles Spotted In Ukraine (Video). southfront.org 
File image. | Canadian-made LAV 6 Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSVs) have been finally spotted in the Russian special military operation zone in Ukraine. | On December 31, a video showing a ACSV moving near an unspecified front in Ukraine surfaced online. The vehicle was of the unarmed Troops/Cargo Vehicle (TCV) version. | The ACSV, which was developed by the Canadian branch of General Dynamics Land Systems, is powered by a Caterpillar C9 Turbo-charged six-cylinder Diesel with 4 hp. The vehicle has a maximum op…
(2023-01-14). [Perspectives] Kumanan Rasanathan: committed advocate of equity in health. thelancet.com Kumanan Rasanathan, public health physician and Executive Director of the Geneva-based Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, quotes the 19th-century physician and polymath Rudolf Virchow, who famously suggested that "medicine is a social science, and politics nothing more than medicine on a large scale". Rasanathan, in addition to his medical qualification, has a degree in politics and a master's in public health. In retrospect, he describes Virchow's aphorism as "one of the key principles of my career", explaining that "to have trained in medicine, politics, and public health has been a good preparati…
(2023-01-14). Sri Lankan government endorses arrest and detention of YouTuber. wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) condemns the arrest of Sepal Amarasinghe, demands his immediate release and the abolition of the draconian laws used to detain him.
(2023-01-14). President Maduro Announces 6 Lines of Work for 2023 in Annual Address to the Nation. orinocotribune.com 
On Thursday, January 12, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in his Annual Address to the Nation, announced the six lines of work his government will implement in 2023. | The lines are: | 1- Consolidate economic growth, diversification of the economy and generation of wealth with equality. | The president stated that progress must be made in "healing the wounds" and "the inequalities that have been created as a result of the economic war and illegal sanctions." | 2- Expand protection and social security to all the Venezuelan people, especially the victims of the economic blockade. | Misiones and Grandes M…
(2023-01-14). San Francisco State Administration Reaffirms Support for Racism. indybay.org The San Francisco State administration has openly supported the racist Zionist line that Judaism equals Zionism and being critical of Israel is "anti-semitic"
(2023-01-14). Chris Hedges Report: America Made Me A Black Man. popularresistance.org Boyah J. Farah fled the war in Somalia arriving in the United States as a refugee with his mother and siblings when he was fifteen. His romantic dreams of America quickly ran into the dark undercurrents of American racism. Living in a housing project in Bedford, Massachusetts he was forced to discover the curse of being Black in America, the daily humiliations and small, but insidious ways he was made to constantly feel an outsider by whites. He watched as other Somali families succumbed to the poison of American racism, writing that although they had survived the war in Africa, American broke them and carried th…
(2023-01-14). UN calls on Taliban to end worsening repression of women. tribune.com.pk 
Nearly a dozen UN Security Council members on Friday urged the Taliban to end repressive treatment of women in Afghanistan as the hardline Islamists push ahead with tightening restrictions. | The Taliban seized power in August 2021, promising a softer version of their brutal 1996-2001 rule that was infamous for human rights abuses. | But they have squeezed women out of almost all areas of public life, recently banning them from secondary and higher education, public sector work and from visiting parks and baths. | "We urge the Taliban to immediately reverse all oppressive measures against women and girls," sai…
(2023-01-14). Sunday 1/22: Stop US Wars! Disband NATO! Money for Jobs and Education Not for the Pentagon! indybay.org Gather at the Lake Merritt Columns, Oakland at 1 p.m. March to the Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Oakland…
(2023-01-14). Press Conference: Defend the African Community's Right to Economic Self-Determination. indybay.org What: Press Conference: Defend the African Community's Right to Economic Self-Determination, and Human and Civil Rights on this MLK Day! | When: Friday, January 13th, 2023 at 10am | Where: Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles, 3742 Grand Ave., Oakland, CA 94610 | Who: African People's Education & Defense Fund and Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles | Black Star Industries and Uhuru Foods and Pies…
(2023-01-14). Negotiated Solution – No Alternative! indybay.org NATO intervention seems unlikely so far, after U.S. President Biden ruled out direct military intervention even in the run-up to the war…Nevertheless, a further escalation of the war cannot be ruled out. At present, the powerless left has only the option of fighting for peace and of educational work: of emphasizing the survival necessity of a post-capitalist system transformation… (TKonicz)…
(2023-01-14). The Higher Education Labor Movement Runs Full Speed Ahead Into 2023. popularresistance.org At the end of 2022, workers in higher education had their eyes turned toward the weeks-long strikes at the University of California (UC) and The New School. These strikes were among the largest and longest that higher education in the U.S. has ever seen. In California, the striking unions represented about 48,000 workers. While the total number of striking faculty at The New School in New York was much smaller, they represented 87 percent of all teaching faculty at the university, showing the power of what a near-total shutdown of classes can do. | These strikes are part of a much bigger trend in the higher educa…
(2023-01-14). [Correspondence] Medical education reforms in China. thelancet.com Julio Frenk and colleagues1 put forward education for life as a guiding principle for health-professional education after the COVID-19 pandemic. We concur with the need for a radical rethink of medical education systems worldwide, and would like to share responses and reflections from China at a time that coincides with the 110th anniversary of the Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC; figure).
(2023-01-14). DADA NEW YEAR: Tristan Tzara's Boom, Boom, Boom. mronline.org 
I know I'm not the only one thinking that our world has lost its mind. It's not easy being some relatively sane person nowadays. At the best of times, politics is bankrupt. At its worst, it's toxic, dominated by demagogues, liars and cheats. Their falsehoods fly wholesale, rarely disgruntling masses of people, let alone damaging a demagogue's political career.
(2023-01-14). The French working class organizes to defeat Macron's pension reforms. mronline.org 
The Macron-led government is making a new bid to push controversial pension reforms, calling to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.
(2023-01-14). Shawn Fain and Ray Curry debate launches fraudulent UAW runoff election. wsws.org Two hand-picked candidates of the UAW bureaucracy, who each received less than 4 percent of the vote of the eligible membership, participated in an online debate Thursday.
(2023-01-14). Iran Executes Ex-Deputy Defence Minister Accused Of Spying For Britain. southfront.org 
Alireza Akbari, Iran's former deputy defence minister, speaks during an interview with Khabaronline in Tehran, Iran, in this undated picture obtained on January 12, 2023. Khabaronline/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/Files | British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari was hanged by Iran on charges of espionage and corruption, the Iranian judiciary-affiliated Mizan news outlet announced on January 14. | The outlet said that the former Iranian official was exe…
(2023-01-14). The California floods and the climate crisis. mronline.org 
The death toll from the ongoing storms and flooding across California and parts of Arizona, Nevada and Oregon rose to at least 18 on Wednesday.
(2023-01-14). The World Split Apart 2.0: Introduction and Part 1. mronline.org 
Nearly a decade ago I began warning that NATO expansion and the West's failure to understand that Russian national security interests not a Russian desire to 'recreate the USSR' or 'former Russian empire' would lead to a world split apart between the West and 'the rest' (Sino-Russian 'strategic partnership and those states oriented towards it).
(2023-01-14). [Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Vaduganathan M, Docherty KF, Claggett BL, et al. SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure: a comprehensive meta-analysis of five randomised controlled trials. Lancet 2022; 400: 757—67—In this Article, the Research in context panel has been corrected to clarify that SOLOIST-WHF included patients hospitalised for worsening heart failure, irrespective of ejection fraction. Also, the p value for the test for heterogeneity in Figure 2H has been corrected to 0 ∑0067. These corrections have been made to the online version as of Jan 12, 2023.