Daily Archives: December 1, 2021

2021-12-01: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-12-01). Australian governments respond to Omicron with homicidal "herd immunity" policies. wsws.org Government officials and sections of the corporate media have said they hope the new mutation spreads, based on unsubstantiated assertions that it "may be" less lethal.

Jonathan Cook (2021-12-01). The tribal left's a mirror image of the tribal right. zcomm.org The biggest problem is not just that our thoughts are likely to be someone else's (often Rupert Murdoch's), it is that we don't even know that they belong to somebody else. That is how propaganda works.

Mario Gaona (2021-12-01). Muncie, Indiana, students protest censorship of BLM in school. liberationnews.org Students at Muncie Central High School marched from the school to Muncie City Hall Nov. 23 after their school's administration commanded a class to take down student posters that mention the Black Lives Matter social movement.

WSWS (2021-12-01). End censorship of WSWS articles on Kaiser union social media! wsws.org The unions' blatant acts of censorship are a desperate attempt to keep a lid on seething opposition from rank-and-file Kaiser workers.

Caitlin Johnstone (2021-12-01). We're Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War. zcomm.org There are no checks or balances on this insane agenda. It's supported by all mainstream parties and all mainstream media outlets…

WSWS (2021-12-01). As COVID-19 cases surge throughout Ohio, Republican-controlled state senate holds a hearing on antivaccine bill. wsws.org Following the trend in the Midwest and Upstate New York, cases are resurging through Ohio after a brief respite, and hospital admissions are once more climbing.

_____ (2021-11-30). 'Believing The Propaganda That The Government Follows The Law'. popularresistance.org Whistleblower David McBride faces life in prison for revealing war crimes in Afghanistan to the media. | Watch his story here. | David McBride, a former Australian military lawyer, tells journalist Michael West about alleged war crimes and a cover-up in Afghanistan. He faces trial for leaking hundreds of pages of defense force information to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (whose offices were then raided by federal police), offering insight on clandestine operations of Australia's elite special forces, including incidents of troops killing unarmed men and children.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-11-30). Prestigious Weaponry Expert Censored. zcomm.org Their agenda is clear in trying to poison the debate about Syria and defame dedicated scientists like Postol whose research casts important light on the deceptions underlying U.S. policy…

Editor2 (2021-11-30). North Korea: Beyond US Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Charles McKelvey — Nov 26, 2021 | The DPRK's struggle for independence and unification | The International Manifesto Group sponsored on November 21 a Webinar on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, seeking to look beyond the Western stereotypes of the East Asian nation as totalitarian, economically bankrupt, and a threat to world peace. | The International Manifesto Group, panelist Derek Ford observed, is indicative of a trend in the academic left, which he characterized as the emergence of "anti-Marxist Marxists." He noted that when neoliberalism emerged, Marxists and other leftists looked at neoli…

Staff (2021-11-30). Supreme Court Orders CNE to Suspend Vote Recount in Barinas & Hold New Election in January. orinocotribune.com Caracas, November 30, 2021 (OrinocoTribune.com)—This Monday, November 29, Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) Electoral Chamber issued a ruling requesting that the elections for governor in Barinas state be redone in January. Some analysts interpret that the ruling also stipulates that opposition (MUD) candidate Freddy Superlano is ineligible to hold public office, according to a comptroller's office administrative decision from August 17 of this year. | On Sunday, November 21, a few hours after regional and municipal elections were held in Venezuela, National Electoral Council (CNE) president, Pedro…

Prasad S Kulkarni, Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarsini, Johan Vekemans, Ashish Bavdekar, Madhu Gupta, Praveen Kulkarni, B S Garg, Nithya J Gogtay, Muralidhar Tambe, Sanjay Lalwani, Kiranjit Singh, Renuka Munshi, Sushant Meshram, T S Selvavinayagam, Krishna Pandey, Devi Madhavi Bhimarasetty, S R Ramakrishnan, Chetanraj Bhamare, Abhijeet Dharmadhikari, Rajeev Vadakkedath, Cyrille J Bonhomme, Madhuri Thakar, Swarali N Kurle, Elizabeth J Kelly, Manish Gautam, Nivedita Gupta, Samiran Panda, Balram Bhargava, Umesh Shaligram, Dhananjay Kapse, Bhagwat Gunale, COVISHIELD Study Group (2021-11-30). A phase 2/3, participant-blind, observer-blind, randomised, controlled study to assess the safety and immunogenicity of SII-ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (COVID-19 vaccine) in adults in India. thelancet.com SII-ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 has a non-inferior immune response compared to AZD1222 and an acceptable safety/reactogenicity profile. Pharmacovigilance should be maintained to detect any safety signals.

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