Monthly Archives: July 2022

2022-07-31: News Headlines

Esha Krishnaswamy (2022-07-31). "These are animals, not people": Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military. thegrayzone.com Once condemned by Ukrainian officials and imprisoned for sadistic torture and the rape of minors, leaders of the notorious Tornado Battalion are free under Volodymyr Zelensky's orders. After banning virtually his entire political opposition, publishing a blacklist of foreign journalists and academics accused of advancing "Russian propaganda," and ramming through a law exempting 70% of Ukrainians from workplace protections, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy has freed from prison fascist militants convicted of some of the most heinous crimes the country has …

Puja Mehta, Boghuma K Titanji (2022-07-30). [Comment] Baricitinib in COVID-19: a coming-of-age from artificial intelligence to reducing mortality. thelancet.com Immunomodulatory therapies targeting excessive host immune responses,1 vaccination, and immunity from natural infection have changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the rapid emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants has stymied progress towards ending the pandemic. An unmet need remains for accessible therapies that reduce mortality. In The Lancet, the RECOVERY Collaborative Group assessed the use of baricitinib, a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, for the treatment of patients hospitalised with COVID-19, in the randomised, controlled, open-label platform trial (Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy [RECOVE…

Americanthinker (2022-07-30). Propaganda and Disinformation in the Information Age. americanthinker.com It's simple to understand: control the information an opponent uses to make his decisions, and you can control the decisions he makes.

Francisco Ramírez Varela (2022-07-30). El terrorismo del "Fake News": Chile y la Nueva Constitución. globalizacion.ca Quieren destruir los emblemas patrios, nos expropiaran los fondos de pensiones, ya no seremos propietarios de nuestras casas, los indígenas tendrán otro sistema de justicia o destruirán la institución de carabineros, son solo algunas de las informaciones que circulan en…

WSWS (2022-07-30). WSWS readers defend Zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger. wsws.org "It is Orwellian, the control these government groups have in terms of censorship and the amount of power they wield over the professionals they regulate."

Staff (2022-07-30). Two Iranian border guards martyred in northwest. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 30 (MNA) — Two Iranian border guards were martyred on Saturday when they were patrolling an area in the border Salmas County in West Azerbaijan Province.

Mark Taliano (2022-07-30). Katie Has a Story to Tell. marktaliano.net READ MORE: British Funeral Director Tells RFK, Jr. About Fear, Propaganda and COVID Vaccine Deaths During Early Days of Pandemic Member of European Parliament Labels COVID Vaccine Coercion "Worst Crime Ever Committed on Humanity" Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre for Research on Globalization Shocking: UK Government Admits COVID Vaccinated Children Are 4423% More Likely …

RECOVERY Collaborative Group (2022-07-30). [Articles] Baricitinib in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial and updated meta-analysis. thelancet.com In patients hospitalised with COVID-19, baricitinib significantly reduced the risk of death but the size of benefit was somewhat smaller than that suggested by previous trials. The total randomised evidence to date suggests that JAK inhibitors (chiefly baricitinib) reduce mortality in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 by about one-fifth.

Atul Deodhar, Filip Van den Bosch, Denis Poddubnyy, Walter P Maksymowych, Désirée van der Heijde, Tae-Hwan Kim, Mitsumasa Kishimoto, Ricardo Blanco, Yuanyuan Duan, Yihan Li, Aileen L Pangan, Peter Wung, In-Ho Song (2022-07-30). [Articles] Upadacitinib for the treatment of active non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (SELECT-AXIS 2): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. thelancet.com Upadacitinib significantly improved the signs and symptoms of non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis compared with placebo at week 14. These findings support the potential of upadacitinib as a new therapeutic option in patients with active non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis.

Olivia Riggio (2022-07-30). Corporate Media Fails to Connect Gas Price Surge and Climate Crisis. commondreams.org This silence perpetuates inaction that poses climate solutions as lofty, unattainable pipe dreams, and suggests the only mitigation for fuel shortages is relentlessly drilling more of this harmful and nonrenewable resource.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-29). If Telling the Truth Puts Me on Ukraine's 'Russian Propagandist' Blacklist, I'll Wear that Proudly. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter When it comes to fact-based analysis, I'll take so-called 'Russian propaganda' over 'Ukrainian truth' every day. In 1997 I flew into Kiev, on-mission with the United Nations Special Commission to seek the assistance of the Ukrainian government in investigating the activities of a Ukrainian citizen suspected of illegally selling ballistic missile components and…

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2022-07-30: News Headlines

Yves Engler (2022-07-30). Time to Acknowledge Hateful Leader of "anti-hate" Group. dissidentvoice.org What do you call an "antiracist" group led by an open ethnic/religious supremacist? Last year Israeli human rights group B'tselem published "A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid." The landmark report provides mainstream Jewish Israeli endorsement of what's long been clear to Palestinians and the internationalist …

Gerald Sussman (2022-07-30). Russia-Ukraine conflict: the propaganda war. mronline.org What the mainstream media fail to see in the coverage of the current Ukraine crisis is that there is no text (narrative) without context. Long before the mainstream U.S. (and UK) media launched a worldwide propaganda war against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, the CIA had laid the foundations of the conflict in the early years following the Second World War—the Cold War.

Francisco Ramírez Varela (2022-07-30). El terrorismo del "Fake News": Chile y la Nueva Constitución. globalizacion.ca Quieren destruir los emblemas patrios, nos expropiaran los fondos de pensiones, ya no seremos propietarios de nuestras casas, los indígenas tendrán otro sistema de justicia o destruirán la institución de carabineros, son solo algunas de las informaciones que circulan en…

WSWS (2022-07-30). WSWS readers defend Zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger. wsws.org "It is Orwellian, the control these government groups have in terms of censorship and the amount of power they wield over the professionals they regulate."

RECOVERY Collaborative Group (2022-07-30). [Articles] Baricitinib in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial and updated meta-analysis. thelancet.com In patients hospitalised with COVID-19, baricitinib significantly reduced the risk of death but the size of benefit was somewhat smaller than that suggested by previous trials. The total randomised evidence to date suggests that JAK inhibitors (chiefly baricitinib) reduce mortality in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 by about one-fifth.

Brett Wilkins (2022-07-30). GOP Introduces Bill That Makes It Easier to Fire Workers at Federal Agencies. truthout.org U.S. Rep. Chip Roy's introduction Friday of a bill to make federal bureaucratic personnel at-will employees further stoked fears that marginalized workers will suffer discriminatory firings under a future Republican administration or even GOP-controlled Congress. | The

Puja Mehta, Boghuma K Titanji (2022-07-30). [Comment] Baricitinib in COVID-19: a coming-of-age from artificial intelligence to reducing mortality. thelancet.com Immunomodulatory therapies targeting excessive host immune responses,1 vaccination, and immunity from natural infection have changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the rapid emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants has stymied progress towards ending the pandemic. An unmet need remains for accessible therapies that reduce mortality. In The Lancet, the RECOVERY Collaborative Group assessed the use of baricitinib, a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, for the treatment of patients hospitalised with COVID-19, in the randomised, controlled, open-label platform trial (Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy [RECOVE…

Olivia Riggio (2022-07-30). Corporate Media Fails to Connect Gas Price Surge and Climate Crisis. commondreams.org This silence perpetuates inaction that poses climate solutions as lofty, unattainable pipe dreams, and suggests the only mitigation for fuel shortages is relentlessly drilling more of this harmful and nonrenewable resource.

Staff (2022-07-30). Two Iranian border guards martyred in northwest. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 30 (MNA) — Two Iranian border guards were martyred on Saturday when they were patrolling an area in the border Salmas County in West Azerbaijan Province.

Atul Deodhar, Filip Van den Bosch, Denis Poddubnyy, Walter P Maksymowych, Désirée van der Heijde, Tae-Hwan Kim, Mitsumasa Kishimoto, Ricardo Blanco, Yuanyuan Duan, Yihan Li, Aileen L Pangan, Peter Wung, In-Ho Song (2022-07-30). [Articles] Upadacitinib for the treatment of active non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (SELECT-AXIS 2): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. thelancet.com Upadacitinib significantly improved the signs and symptoms of non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis compared with placebo at week 14. These findings support the potential of upadacitinib as a new therapeutic option in patients with active non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-29). If Telling the Truth Puts Me on Ukraine's 'Russian Propagandist' Blacklist, I'll Wear that Proudly. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter When it comes to fact-based analysis, I'll take so-called 'Russian propaganda' over 'Ukrainian truth' every day. In 1997 I flew into Kiev, on-mission with the United Nations Special Commission to seek the assistance of the Ukrainian government in investigating the activities of a Ukrainian citizen suspected of illegally selling ballistic missile components and…

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