(2021-05-01). [Articles] Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial. thelancet.com In hospitalised COVID-19 patients with hypoxia and systemic inflammation, tocilizumab improved survival and other clinical outcomes. These benefits were seen regardless of the amount of respiratory support and were additional to the benefits of systemic corticosteroids.
(2021-04-30). SEC's Gary Gensler Picks a 20-Year Wall Street Bank Defender for His Crime Chief. counterpunch.org 
The only thing worse than SEC Chairman Gary Gensler's pick for Director of Enforcement at Wall Street's so-called watchdog is the way corporate media is attempting to spin it. On April 22 Gensler announced that he had appointed Alex Young K. Oh to be his top Wall Street crime fighter. Reuters (and numerous other media
(2021-04-30). Eric Zuesse: Critics Of Biden As Being A 'Progressive' Are Mistaken. southfront.org 
U.S. President Joe Biden visits Section 60 to pay respect to nation's service members, veterans and their family members, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, April 14, 2021. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released) | Written by Eric Zuesse. | Understanding what 'progressive' means isn't so easy. | The difference between "progressive" and "liberal" gets to the core of what politics in the real world is actually about, and of whether the nation is being controlled by the…
(2021-04-29). Why "Securing Democracy" Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools. scheerpost.com By Matt Taibbi / TK News Review: Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro's Brazil My friend Glenn Greenwald has lately become a fixation of American propaganda, playing the role of the traitorous outcast, a cross of Emmanuel Goldstein and Satan. He's inspired a slew of " Whither Greenwald?" profiles, often penned in the same plaintive "Why does he hate us? |
(2021-04-29). Matt Taibbi: Why "Securing Democracy" Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools. scheerpost.com By Matt Taibbi / TK News Review: Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro's Brazil My friend Glenn Greenwald has lately become a fixation of American propaganda, playing the role of the traitorous outcast, a cross of Emmanuel Goldstein and Satan. He's inspired a slew of " Whither Greenwald?" profiles, often penned in the same plaintive "Why does he hate us? |
(2021-04-29). Reporting from Around the World, Reese Erlich Was a Beacon of Independent Journalism. counterpunch.org When Reese Erlich died in early April, we lost a global reporter who led by example. During five decades as a progressive journalist, Reese created and traveled an independent path while avoiding the comfortable ruts dug by corporate media. When people in the United States read or heard his reporting from more than 50 countries,
(2021-04-29). The January 6 Capitol Riot: A Local Perspective. counterpunch.org "Independent media bring issues to the boil; mainstream media inhale the steam." That's what Phyllis Kriegel, editor of New Directions for Women, told me back in the 1990s, and it remains true today. Cierra Hinton, publisher and editor of Scalawag, a publication covering the South, cited a recent example. Not long ago, Scalawag ran an investigation into local murdered and
(2021-04-29). The Modi Surge: COVID-19 Cases Overwhelm India's Healthcare System as Gov't Censors Critics. democracynow.org 
India has topped 18.3 million COVID-19 cases, after adding 1 million cases in just the past three days amid shortages in vital supplies and overwhelmed hospitals across the country. Makeshift mass cremation facilities have been set up in parks and parking lots, with rows of bodies being burned on funeral pyres. With hospitals overflowing, some patients have been turned away and left to deal with their infections on their own. "This is where Modi has led India," says Indian journalist Rana Ayyub, who says the prime minister "clearly has no plan" for dealing with the crisis ravaging the country's healthcare systems…
(2021-04-29). SDF 'Dismantled' Six Remote-Controlled IEDs In Northern Deir Ezzor. southfront.org 
by: sdf-press.com | On April 29, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) uncovered six improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor. | In an official statement, the SDF said that the IEDs were first uncovered by the locals. All six IEDs were placed on a road near the town of al-Kasrah."The six IEDs, which were prepared for detonation, were dismantled without causing any human or material losses … The SDF is now investigating and searching for the people who planted the [IED…
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(2021-04-29). The Resistance Never Ends! Join SouthFront In This Dark Age Of Censorship! southfront.org 
| : | THE DARK AGE OF CENSORSHIP AND GLOBALIST TOTALITARIANISM IS HERE. | : | In the first half of 2021, globalist forces carried out a new large-scale attack on the ves…
(2021-04-29). The Resistance Never Ends! Join SouthFront In This Dark Age Of Censorship! southfront.org | : | : | THE DARK AGE OF CENSORSHIP AND GLOBALIST TOTALITARIANISM IS HERE. | : | In the first half of 2021, globalist forces carried out a new large-scale attac…
(2021-04-29). DCU 'Astonished' Over Georgian and Ukrainian Embassy Complaints About Course. strategic-culture.org 
By Diarmaid FLEMING | Dublin City University says it is "astonished" over a complaint made by the Embassies of Georgia and Ukraine in Ireland about the university's teaching of a course on the geopolitics of the Caucasus and Ukraine. | The two embassies sent a joint letter to the President of DCU, Professor Dáire Keogh, and copied it to a number of senior DCU academics and a senior official at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin on 8 April. | The letter claimed the course was spreading "disinformation and Russian propaganda narratives" — a view flatly rejected by DCU, which says the criticism amount…
(2021-04-29). Eastern borders must be controlled against Indian COVID entry. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for the eastern borders of Iran to be meticulously controlled in order to stop COVID-19 from entering the country, so that it would not face a condition like that of the UK coronavirus.
(2021-04-29). SCOTUS Should Clarify Tinker in Favor of Free Speech, Not School Control. counterpunch.org In 1969, the US Supreme Court held, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." Schools may only prohibit, censor, or punish student speech which would "materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in
(2021-04-29). Book-burning comes to America. wsws.org In a major act of censorship, publisher W.W. Norton has announced its decision to "permanently" remove Blake Bailey's biography of American novelist Philip Roth (1933—2018) from print.
(2021-04-29). German actors provide fodder for far-right propaganda against lockdown measures. wsws.org Last Friday, 52 German actors posted short video statements cynically attacking the government's remaining measures to curb the virus. Their statements were immediately welcomed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), as well as leading politicians from all of the government parties.
(2021-04-29). Latest Bizarre Chapter of "War on Drugs": U.S. Special Forces Train Drug Cartel Enforcers Linked to Rape, Torture and Decapitation of Victims. covertactionmagazine.com Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) has become one of the most feared paramilitaries in Mexico over the last decade. Images of the group have become the standard depiction of the Mexican cartel writ large. Their propaganda videos often feature groups of masked men bristling with enough small arms to make them formidable against even conventional …