(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). [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). [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.
(2023-01-13). Video: SGP rally against tank deliveries to Ukraine. wsws.org On Saturday, the Socialist Equality Party (SGP) held its first election rally in Berlin-Spandau. Top candidate Christoph Vandreier and honorary chairman Ulrich Rippert spoke against tank deliveries to Ukraine and for an international movement against war.
(2023-01-13). "Two World Wars are enough! Stop the warmongers!": Socialist Equality Party puts up over 6,000 election posters across Berlin. wsws.org The SGP is now visible throughout the German capital as the only party counteracting the hated war policy and social devastation that is being promoted at the federal and state levels.
(2023-01-13). "America made me a Black man" therealnews.com 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 carr…
(2023-01-13). Monday 1/16: 26th Annual MLK Celebration. indybay.org Alan Harvey Theater | 800 Magnolia Ave | Piedmont, CA 94611…
(2023-01-13). 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"
(2023-01-13). Diosdado Cabello: Workers' Salary is a Priority for President Maduro (+PCV). orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, January 11, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, stated that the salary of Venezuelan workers is the main concern of President Nicolás Maduro. During his program Con el Mazo Dando, the Chavista leader questioned the proclamations of opposition sectors of the country regarding the recent protests led by a group from the education sector that demand better salaries. | "Some gentlemen came out there talking about their support for the protests," he said, "but when the government was theirs, they endorsed the human rights violations that were committed…
(2023-01-13). 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…
(2023-01-13). 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…
(2023-01-13). 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)…
(2023-01-13). America's theater of the absurd. mronline.org 
Our political class does not govern. It entertains.
(2023-01-13). 41-year-old high-heeled male foot model attracts 1.2 million online followers. ecns.cn A 41-year-old man, a foot model for high-heeled shoes, has attracted over 200,000 followers on Chinese short video platform Douyin and his monthly trading volume reaches up to 6 million yuan (about $890,000).
(2023-01-13). Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR. mronline.org 
The worst crime the USSR committed, the one for which it will never be forgiven, was to have been a shared hope for a more just, more dignified and more humane society.
(2023-01-13). Should private property be abolished? Dublin students vote yes. mronline.org 
It was a packed room for the Trinity College Dublin Philosophical Society debate on whether private property should be abolished. I was the first speaker and spoke in an impassioned way for the motion. There was much expression of assent in the room.
(2023-01-13). The winds of the New Cold War are howling in the Arctic Circle: The Second Newsletter (2023). mronline.org 
In 1996, the eight countries on the Arctic rim—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States—formed the Arctic Council, a journey that began in 1989 when Finland approached the other countries to hold a discussion about the Arctic environment.
(2023-01-12). How Private Equity Amplifies the Abuse of Predatory Lending. inequality.org
(2023-01-12). Drivers license for all bill passes first Minnesota House committee. fightbacknews.org Saint Paul, MN – More than 100 people supporting the "drivers license for all" bill, House File 4, packed the House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee's morning and evening hearings at the Minnesota State Capitol on January 10. | Just a week after the start of the legislative session, the committee held the first hearing on the bill that would create drivers license equality in Minnesota regardless of immigration status, restoring a right that was taken away during the term of the last Republican governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, in 2003. | The committee heard hours of powerful and heartfelt testimo…
(2023-01-12). Historic Victory: After 3 Days on Strike, New York Nurses Win Deal With Hospitals. inequality.org
(2023-01-12). Oakland Education Association resolution: Fund education and health care not U.S. Wars! Disband NATO! workers.org 
This resolution was passed by the Oakland Education Association Representatives Council Jan. 9, Oakland, California. Join the protest Sunday, Jan. 22, 1 p.m., Lake Merritt Columns, Oakland. Whereas, the U.S. government has budgeted more than $1.7 billion on the U.S. military and wars around the world, rather than investing in . . . |
(2023-01-12). New Yorker takes aim at people who still think Covid is a problem. mronline.org 
There is an episode of the Fox animated series Family Guy where the family dog, Brian, is welcomed as a possible new contributor at the New Yorker.
(2023-01-12). "Do not forsake me, comrade" mronline.org 
The continuing relevance of High Noon.
(2023-01-12). Statement by Ana Belen Montes after her release from prison. mronline.org 
Here is an update and current image of Ana Belen Montes, after her release from prison … we share with you the only authorized statement she wanted to share and make public, sent through her lawyer Linda Backiel on Sunday, January 8, 2023.
(2023-01-12). Russian Army Destroyed One Of Few M109A5àñ Howitzers Supplied To Ukraine By Latvia (Video). southfront.org 
Latvian Soldiers ride in a military vehicle rendering a salute to the distinguished guests attending the traditional regional military parade of May 4 in Jekabpils, Latvia, on May 4, 2019. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) | The Russian military has destroyed one of few American-made M109A5àñ self-propelled 155 mm howitzers which were recently supplied to Ukraine by Latvia. | On January 11, a video showing the completely destroyed Ukrainian M109A5àñ surfaced online. The video was reportedl…
(2023-01-12). Russia's Mi-28NM Attack Helicopters Spotted With LMUR Missiles Over Ukraine Operation Zone. southfront.org 
A screengrab showing the LMUR missile carried by the Mi-28NM attack helicopter. | Russia's new Mi-28NM attack helicopters have been spotted over the special military operation zone in Ukraine for the first time. | On January 10, footage showing two Mi-28NM flying along the frontline surfaced online. One of the helicopters was armed with a Lightweight Multifunction Missile (LMUR), also known as the Izdeliye 305. The missile was loaded on a APU-L twin launcher. | The Mi-28NM is the latest upgrade to…
(2023-01-12). Meta allows targeted hate speech, violence, but only against U.S. rivals. mronline.org 
The U.S.-based tech giant overturns its decision to remove posts calling for the demise of Iran's leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei.
(2023-01-12). What progressive people should know about the "Twitter Files" mronline.org 
The "Twitter Files" are a set of internal communications including emails between company executives as well as with politicians, the FBI, Pentagon and other agencies.
(2023-01-12). Zelensky complicit in corporate takeover of Ukraine. mronline.org 
"Your money is not charity, it's an investment." That's what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address to the U.S. Congress while visiting Washington on Dec. 21.
(2023-01-12). Union organizing surged in 2022: Let's push for a radical labor movement in 2023. mronline.org 
More workers are forming independent unions, untethered from the AFL-CIO and other established labor groups.