2022-08-06: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-08-06). Amnesty International report exposes Ukraine's violations of international law, deliberate use of civilians as human shields. wsws.org The report has dealt a significant blow to the relentless war propaganda in the media and has provoked a hysterical response by the Ukrainian government.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-06). First-in-human trial shows promise for hard-to-treat ventricular tachycardia heart rhythms. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A first-in-human multicenter trial involving Mayo Clinic used a new ablation technique for patients with ventricular tachycardia, an abnormally rapid heart rhythm that is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death worldwide. The trial tested needle ablation using in-catheter, heated, saline-enhanced, radio frequency energy, also known as SERF, to substantially increase heat transfer, compared to conventional ablation methods. The new process produces deeper, controllable lesion scars at sites inside the heart muscle….

WSWS (2022-08-06). University students and health worker condemn censorship of zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger. wsws.org "Dr Berger has been silenced by AHPRA because it works alongside the government and Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly to keep workers from knowing the truth about the pandemic." — Cindy, a health worker from Perth…

_____ (2022-08-05). The People in Hiroshima Didn't Expect it Either. popularresistance.org When New York City recently released a grotesque "public service announcement" video explaining that you should stay indoors during a nuclear war, the corporate media reaction was principally not outrage at the acceptance of such a fate or the stupidity of telling people "You've got this!" as if they could survive the apocalypse by cocooning with Netflix, but rather mockery of the very idea that a nuclear war might happen. U.S. polling on people's top concerns find 1% of people most concerned about the climate and 0% most concerned about nuclear war. | Yet, the U.S. just illegally put nukes into a 6th nation (and…

Ann Brown (2022-08-05). Fact Check: Huey P Newton Ordered A Hit On Kwame Ture (Formerly Stokely Carmichael). moguldom.com Two of the biggest figures in the Black power movement of the late 1960s were Huey P. Newton and Kwame Ture (who was formerly known as Stokely Carmichael). Ideally, two great forces working together would only push the movement forward. But the U.S. government went behind the scenes to spread mistrust among Black activists. The …

Fight Back (2022-08-05). Denounce Twitter censorship on Philippine revolutionary groups. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). | Social media giant Twitter, unceremoniously suspended today the various accounts of Filipino revolutionary organizations and individuals, including my account, that of the Philippine Revolution Web Central (PRWC), as well as other representatives of the CPP and the New People's Army in various parts of the country. In total, at least 14 accounts were taken down. | This is the second round of attacks by Twitter against the CPP in the span of two months. The suspension of the accounts was done simult…

_____ (2022-08-05). Poor Hunter Biden, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Father! journal-neo.org What goes around comes around, which may explain the perils of Hunter, like the Perils of Pauline — as in spite of massive censorship, Hunter Biden is catching it all ways. So much so that I am beginning to "really" feel sorry for him. The laptop story, or lap dancing, or the self-portraits "high and …

Editor (2022-08-04). Elite Lapdogs Always Welcome in Corporate Media. scheerpost.com Screenshot of CNN By Nolan Higdon / The return of Chris Cuomo to television is the latest reminder that there is little accountability to speak of in corporate news media. Chris was

Chauncey K. Robinson (2022-08-04). Racist Republican gerrymandering monster puts the bite on democracy. peoplesworld.org There is a massive fightback underway across the nation against open and criminal Republican attacks on democracy that are being exposed by the Jan. 6 Committee, the Justice Department, and journalists, among others. A more systemic but covert GOP push to subvert democracy, however, is not getting the attention it deserves from the corporate media …

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