Daily Archives: August 1, 2022

2022-08-01: 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 …

_____ (2022-07-31). Almost No One Trusts US Media, After Decades Of War Propaganda And Lies. popularresistance.org Very few people in the United States trust the mainstream corporate media. This is confirmed by a July survey from the major polling firm Gallup, which found that just 11% of North Americans trust television news, and a mere 16% have confidence in newspapers. | It's quite easy to understand why. The US media apparatus has repeatedly shown itself over decades to be completely unreliable and highly politicized. | The corporate media's treachery has been especially clear in the demonstrably false stories it disseminated to try to justify the US wars on Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. | This disgraceful…

_____ (2022-07-31). Condemn The FBI Raids In St Louis, MO And St Petersburg, FL! popularresistance.org On the morning of Friday, July 29th, the FBI conducted raids at multiple locations, including the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, the private residence of Omali Yeshitela in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as the Uhuru Solidarity Center, also in St. Louis. The FBI employed flashbang grenades and handcuffed Yeshitela and his wife while the house was raided. The FBI says that the raids are connected to the federal indictment of a Russian man, Aleksandr Ionov, alleging that he has been working to spread "Russian propaganda" in the United States. | The Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the National Alliance A…

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-30). Polls show almost no one trusts US media, after decades of war propaganda and lies. multipolarista.com The CIA has long manipulated the media, spreading disinformation to justify US wars. Today just 11% of North Americans trust television news.

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-30). Estadounidenses no confían en los medios, después de décadas de propaganda de guerra. multipolarista.com Por décadas la CIA ha manipulado los medios de comunicación para difundir desinformación para justificar las guerras de EEUU. Ahora solo el 11% de los norteamericanos confía en las noticias de televisión.

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…

Editor (2022-07-30). Noam Chomsky: Is U.S. Censorship Worse Than Soviet Russia? scheerpost.com By Russel Brand /

Project Censored (2022-07-30). Censoring How We Teach the Past Threatens our Present and Future; and Understanding Food Waste and Climate Change in a Global System. projectcensored.org This week on the Project Censored Show, Eleanor and Mickey begin the hour in conversation with esteemed historian Dr. David Goldfield, who is a long-time academic and author who has…

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.

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