2023-01-28: News Headlines

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-01-28). China-Latin America and Caribbean Ties To Enter New Era of Equality, Openness, Mutual Benefit. orinocotribune.com Taking the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as the lead, China and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have worked together to promote the high-quality development of economic and trade cooperation over the years, writing a new chapter for building a China-LAC community with a shared future. | When delivering a video address at the seventh Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said LAC countries are important members of the developing world and take an active part in global governance and make important contr…

Ralph Nader (2023-01-28). Drug Price Showdown Time for Chairman Bernie Sanders. dissidentvoice.org It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described "democratic socialist" from a safe seat in Vermont has long been a Big Pharma nemesis. He has issued detailed critiques of what others have called a "Pay or Die" industry coddled by …

Sandro Vento (2023-01-28). [Correspondence] Medicine should be learned in a conducive environment. thelancet.com Richard Horton argues that an academic health science system must possess societal goals and promote social cohesion and public trust.1 Indeed, medical education should help to promote better health outcomes for vulnerable populations and disadvantaged communities. However, to this end, it is essential that students learn medicine in a conducive environment of public hospitals, community clinics, and health posts.

Creativity Explored (2023-01-28). Thursday 1/26: RELOVE at Creativity Explored. indybay.org Creativity Explored and Online | 3245 Sixteenth Street | San Francisco, CA 94103…

ELEL (2023-01-28). [Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Schlaich MP, Bellet M, Weber MA, et al. Dual endothelin antagonist aprocitentan for resistant hypertension (PRECISION): a multicentre, blinded, randomised, parallel-group, phase 3 trial. Lancet 2022; 400: 1927—37—For this Article, the PRECISION investigators list has been updated. This correction has been made to the online version as of Jan 26,2023.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2023-01-27). Saturday 2/4: 23rd Annual, Rosa Parks Day in California – Transit Equity Day. indybay.org West Step – Traffic Circle – California State Capitol | Sacramento, California…

Betsey Piette (2023-01-27). Capitalist system cause of wealth inequality. workers.org In a study titled "Survival of the Richest," published Jan. 16 to coincide with the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam International reported that in 2020 and 2021, the wealthiest 1% of the world's population accumulated nearly two-thirds of all new wealth. In the previous decade, . . . |

jeffgang (2023-01-27). Take Action: Public Money for Public Good. inequality.org

SAM (2023-01-27). Must Larceny Always Overpower Honesty? inequality.org

WSWS (2023-01-27). Australian school year commences amid ongoing mass COVID infection, workload crisis, staffing shortages, and record inequality—Build rank-and-file committees to fight for a fully funded public education system! wsws.org Anger and oppositional sentiment must be organised in 2023! The Committee for Public Education urges educators to form rank-and-file committees in your schools.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-01-27). Israel's Racism Exposed in Ongoing Imprisonment of Ethiopian-Born Soldier Avera Mengistu. mintpressnews.com Israel's discriminatory behavior towards black people, including the lack of concern for captured Ethiopian-Israeli soldier Avera Mengistu, is rooted in the country's institutionalized racism towards African asylum seekers and Ethiopian Jews,…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-01-27). Black soldier's saga highlights racism in Israel. peoplesworld.org "For how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel?" These were the words, uttered in Hebrew, of a person believed to be Avera Mengistu, an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was captured by Hamas and held in Gaza in 2014. Footage of …

Chris Walker (2023-01-27). Virginia Democrats Defeat Glenn Youngkin's 15-Week Abortion Ban. truthout.org Virginia state Senate Democrats in an education and health subcommittee defeated a series of anti-abortion measures on Thursday, thwarting Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R) efforts to shorten the time frame in which Virginia residents can obtain the procedure by several weeks. Democrats were able to block several anti-abortion proposals largely as a result of winning a special election for a state Senate… |

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-01-27). "Chinese aggression" sure looks an awful lot like U.S. aggression. mronline.org Punchbowl News reports that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning a trip to Taiwan, which will be yet another incendiary provocation against Beijing if it occurs. The previous House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, sparked a significant escalation in hostilities with her visit last year, the consequences of which are still reverberating today.

Editor (2023-01-27). B61-12: new U.S. nuclear warheads coming to Europe. mronline.org In December, the United States is bringing new nuclear warheads to Europe. The B61-12 warhead is a more advanced warhead from the ones currently deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.

Editor (2023-01-27). U.S. Lawfare and the destabilization of Latin America. mronline.org Brazil-based reporter and author Brian Mier outlines the strategy of lawfare and how it has been used in Latin America, particularly in the Lava Jato investigation.

Vijay Prashad (2023-01-27). It was the workers who brought us democracy, and it will be the workers who establish a deeper democracy yet: The Fourth Newsletter (2023). mronline.org Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering.

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2023-01-27: News Headlines

Sandro Vento (2023-01-28). [Correspondence] Medicine should be learned in a conducive environment. thelancet.com Richard Horton argues that an academic health science system must possess societal goals and promote social cohesion and public trust.1 Indeed, medical education should help to promote better health outcomes for vulnerable populations and disadvantaged communities. However, to this end, it is essential that students learn medicine in a conducive environment of public hospitals, community clinics, and health posts.

ELEL (2023-01-28). [Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Schlaich MP, Bellet M, Weber MA, et al. Dual endothelin antagonist aprocitentan for resistant hypertension (PRECISION): a multicentre, blinded, randomised, parallel-group, phase 3 trial. Lancet 2022; 400: 1927—37—For this Article, the PRECISION investigators list has been updated. This correction has been made to the online version as of Jan 26,2023.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2023-01-27). Saturday 2/4: 23rd Annual, Rosa Parks Day in California – Transit Equity Day. indybay.org West Step – Traffic Circle – California State Capitol | Sacramento, California…

SAM (2023-01-27). Must Larceny Always Overpower Honesty? inequality.org

WSWS (2023-01-27). Australian school year commences amid ongoing mass COVID infection, workload crisis, staffing shortages, and record inequality—Build rank-and-file committees to fight for a fully funded public education system! wsws.org Anger and oppositional sentiment must be organised in 2023! The Committee for Public Education urges educators to form rank-and-file committees in your schools.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-01-27). Israel's Racism Exposed in Ongoing Imprisonment of Ethiopian-Born Soldier Avera Mengistu. mintpressnews.com Israel's discriminatory behavior towards black people, including the lack of concern for captured Ethiopian-Israeli soldier Avera Mengistu, is rooted in the country's institutionalized racism towards African asylum seekers and Ethiopian Jews,…

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-01-27). "Chinese aggression" sure looks an awful lot like U.S. aggression. mronline.org Punchbowl News reports that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning a trip to Taiwan, which will be yet another incendiary provocation against Beijing if it occurs. The previous House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, sparked a significant escalation in hostilities with her visit last year, the consequences of which are still reverberating today.

Creativity Explored (2023-01-27). Thursday 1/26: RELOVE at Creativity Explored. indybay.org Creativity Explored and Online | 3245 Sixteenth Street | San Francisco, CA 94103…

Editor (2023-01-27). U.S. Lawfare and the destabilization of Latin America. mronline.org Brazil-based reporter and author Brian Mier outlines the strategy of lawfare and how it has been used in Latin America, particularly in the Lava Jato investigation.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-01-26). years after Roe v Wade, what does reproductive justice look like in the US? peoplesdispatch.org On January 22, thousands of women gathered in rallies in different cities across the United States to commemorate the th anniversary of Roe v Wade and demand reproductive freedom and their right to bodily autonomy and equality.

rebekah (2023-01-26). Social Security Benefits Are Not a Gift, but a Sacred Contract With Working People. inequality.org

americanthinker (2023-01-26). African-American filmmaker accuses Hollywood of racism and sexism following Oscar snub. americanthinker.com Hollywood unleashes a monster upon itself.

Editor (2023-01-26). Honoring Dr. King's legacy: Speak out against racism, poverty and World War III. mronline.org A standing-room-only crowd packed St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York, for a "speak out to stop racism, poverty and World War III." The event honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on the weekend of the King Day holiday.

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-01-26). Can Cory Booker Be Trusted On Reparations? Senator Reintroduces Bill for Commission to Study Reparations. moguldom.com U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has reintroduced Senate legislation to create a reparations commission at the federal level. On Tuesday, Jan. 24, Booker announced the reintroduction of S.40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. "If we want to address the institutional bias & racism that has impeded generations of African Americans, we must …

Lee Camp (2023-01-26). Raided by The FBI for Being Socialist, with Omali Yeshitela. mintpressnews.com Lee Camp speaks with Omali Yeshitela, a man raided by the FBI for being a black socialist, to discuss the revolutionary black liberation movement, US imperialism, racism, and the corruption of the two-party system.

Editor (2023-01-26). Short video on the U.S. military and climate disaster. mronline.org Ireland has to stop collaborating with the U.S. military/industrial complex by allowing U.S. troops and in Shannon Airport (3 million and rising so far).

Margaret Kimberley (2023-01-26). Cop City kills before it opens. mronline.org What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police training ground that the community doesn't want? Someone could be killed, and that happened before Atlanta's awful Cop City project has even been built.

Newswire Editor (2023-01-26). Meta's decision on Trump is a huge distraction from thoughtful debate about content moderation and how to address the harms of Big Tech. commondreams.org Meta Discussions about online content moderation and what policies are needed to ensure human rights, free expression and safety are some of the m…

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2023-01-26). CovertAction Bulletin: What's Assange Charged With? Telling the Truth! covertactionmagazine.com On Jan 20, the Belmarsh Tribunal packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington, DC as thousands also watched online. Co-host Chris Garaffa was there to cover this historic event for CovertAction.

Speak Out Now (2023-01-26). Saturday 2/4: Workers in Britain Fight Back! (Online Townhall). indybay.org Online townhall, see website for details…

Staff (2023-01-26). Fight Over Trump Facebook Ban Called 'Huge Distraction' From Deeper Issues With Big Tech. commondreams.org Fight for the Future director Evan Greer argued Wednesday that the battle over whether former President Donald Trump should be banned from major social media platforms like Facebook is "a huge distraction" from broader Big Tech conversations that are urgently needed. "Discussions about online content moderation and what policies are needed to ensure human rights, …

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2023-01-26: News Headlines

Tanya Wadhwa (2023-01-26). Latin American and Caribbean leaders reaffirm commitment to regional integration. peoplesdispatch.org On January 24, Latin American and Caribbean leaders reaffirmed their commitment to advance in regional integration and unity at the 7th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). The summit was held in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. | During the summit, the leaders discussed common issues and how to overcome them through joint regional strategies such as consolidation of peace and democracy in the region, reduction of hunger and poverty, improvement of public health and education systems, advancement of sustainable development in the face of…

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2023-01-26). CovertAction Bulletin: What's Assange Charged With? Telling the Truth! covertactionmagazine.com On Jan 20, the Belmarsh Tribunal packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington, DC as thousands also watched online. Co-host Chris Garaffa was there to cover this historic event for CovertAction.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2023-01-25). Saturday 2/4: 23rd Annual, Rosa Parks Day in California – Transit Equity Day. indybay.org West Step – Traffic Circle – California State Capitol | Sacramento, California…

Peter Boyle (2023-01-25). Billionaires: We don't need them but they need us! greenleft.org.au Oxfam's annual report on global inequality is a damning indictment of the chronically inequitable capitalist system, argues Peter Boyle.

Luis Feliz Leon (2023-01-25). Workers at Hooters-style restaurant strike, protesting racist sexist manager. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Latino immigrant kitchen workers and a group of racially diverse women servers walked out at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Brentwood, Tennessee, on Saturday, Jan. 14. They say their employer is serving up of a toxic brew of racism and sexism. | "We went on strike to fire a manager because he is mistreating my co-workers verbally and physically," Juan Carlos Mendoz…

Frank Cappello (2023-01-25). Could ChatGPT Change The Education System? levernews.com Read the full story: | Sign up now to read the full story and get access to all paid posts. | Already have an account? |

Staff (2023-01-25). "Lacks Educational Value"? Critics Slam Florida's Rejection of AP African American Studies Course. democracynow.org Civil right advocates, educators and lawyers, like Ben Crump, are fighting Florida education officials who rejected a new advanced placement course for high school students on African American studies. Officials say the course "lacks educational value," and Republican Governor Ron DeSantis claims the course violates state law. Opponents object to the course's inclusion of works by scholar and former Black Panther Angela Davis, and of material on intersectionality, reparations and Black queer history, among other topics. Last year, Florida passed a so-called "Don't Say Gay" law…

Barbara Ortutay, Eric Tucker, Frank Bajak (2023-01-25). Justice Department sues Google over digital advertising dominance. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and eight states filed an antitrust suit against Google on Tuesday, seeking to shatter its alleged monopoly on the entire ecosystem of online advertising as a hurtful burden to advertisers, consumers and even the U.S. government. The government alleged in the complaint that Google is looking to "neutralize or eliminate" rivals …

Cira Pascual Marquina (2023-01-25). 'News from Nowhere' — building communal life in Venezuela. mronline.org Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina look at the Venezuelan communes as a key force in an extended process of national liberation and social emancipation.

Creativity Explored (2023-01-25). Thursday 1/26: RELOVE at Creativity Explored. indybay.org Creativity Explored and Online | 3245 Sixteenth Street | San Francisco, CA 94103…

Editor (2023-01-25). Book Review: 'No Equal Justice: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett'. mronline.org David Gespass has been on the editorial board of the National Lawyers Guild Review for over twenty-years including several years as Editor in Chief. He is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. David is doing his best to retire from the active practice of law with only moderate success.

Editor (2023-01-25). Red Traces, Part 1: Cave paintings and primitive communism. mronline.org Sean Ledwith begins a new monthly series that explores how the Marxist tradition seeks to explain the cultural peaks of human history.

JANET (2023-01-25). Jan 28: International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism. iacenter.org The International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Economic Coercive Measures Saturday, January 28 | 11am — 6pm The People's Forum & Online 320 W 37th St, New York, NY RSVP here to attend or tune in online After two years of dedicated organizing, we are excited to officially announce the launch of the International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Economic Coercive Measures. This project is a first ever international effort to build systems of accountability—rooted in global cross-movement solidarity—both within and outside of the…

Speak Out Now (2023-01-25). Saturday 2/4: Workers in Britain Fight Back! (Online Townhall). indybay.org Online townhall, see website for details…

The Tricontinental (2023-01-25). Dossier No. 60: The 1973 Durban strikes: Building popular democratic power in South Africa. mronline.org The 1973 Durban strikes were part of a wider political ferment in the city in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it became a generative site of political experimentation and innovation.

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