Rhoda Wilson (2024-03-05). Covid wasn't an accident — it was a crime. expose-news.com If SARS-CoV2 was leaked from a laboratory, by accident, then why did totalitarianism spring up all around us? Why did many countries almost simultaneously impose lockdowns, masking, censorship, political crackdowns, de-platforming and …

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-03-05). "Pay No Attention To That Genocide Right In Front Of Your Face" caitlinjohnstone.com.au "Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." | That's the constant message we're getting from the dominant institutions in this present-day dystopia. From our news media. From our political parties. From our government. From our mainstream culture of diversion and superficiality. | "Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." | We can see it happening. It's right there. A…

John Helmer (2024-03-05). The good Germans are blowing smoke. mronline.org There is a fraction of the Germans who, when speaking or writing in public, consider themselves the good Germans. Good Germans are to Germany as propaganda is to truth—negligibly fractional; sometimes truth-telling; always irrelevant to the outcome of the wars which Germany wages.

Patrick Lawrence (2024-03-05). The disease of concealment: An open letter to future historians. indybay.org We are afflicted with what I would call the disease of silence. We are confronted with the results of decades of propaganda, and with the insidious power of language when it is cynically misused. We look, but we don't recognize it. We hear, but we don't listen. The effectiveness of propaganda is so great that most of us are not even aware of our complicity in the genocide of a people.

jamanetwork (2024-03-05). Weight Loss Surgery Managed Blood Pressure for People With Obesity. jamanetwork.com People with obesity who underwent bariatric surgery controlled their blood pressure more effectively and took fewer medications at 5 years than those who only received antihypertensive medications, according to findings from a randomized clinical trial. The study involved 100 women and men living with obesity and hypertension who took an average of 3 blood pressure medications.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-03-05). Type 2 diabetes no longer a barrier to becoming a living kidney donor. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — People who are overall healthy and living with well-controlled Type 2 diabetes can donate a kidney, thanks to a change in national policy. Naim Issa, M.D. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network updated its living donor criteria. It makes some people with Type 2 diabetes eligible to donate a kidney. This marks a "significant shift" in criteria for living kidney donors, says Naim Issa, M.D., Mayo Clinic transplant nephrologist. "This policy change…

Henry A. Giroux (2024-03-04). Media Obsess Over Biden's Memory But Our Forgetting History Is the Real Crisis. truthout.org Memory currently occupies a large media presence, less as a tool of historical remembrance than as a source of political repression and regressive ignorance and thoughtlessness. In an act of elimination and erasure, far right GOP legislators such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are attempting to whitewash, censor and ban Black history. Memory is now administered, cleansed of its democratic… |

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-03-04). So They're Experimenting With Military Robots In Gaza Now. caitlinjohnstone.com.au Haaretz has a new article out titled "Gaza Becomes Israel's Testing Ground for Military Robots", which reports that "In an effort to avoid harming soldiers and dogs, the IDF has been experimenting with the use of robots and remote-controlled dogs in the Gaza War."

_____ (2024-03-04). So, They're Experimenting with Military Robots in Gaza Now. transcend.org 4 Mar 2024 – Haaretz has a new article out titled "Gaza Becomes Israel's Testing Ground for Military Robots", which reports that "In an effort to avoid harming soldiers and dogs, the IDF has been experimenting with the use of robots and remote-controlled dogs in the Gaza War [read Genocide]."

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-03-04). Type 2 diabetes no longer a barrier to becoming a living kidney donor. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — People who are overall healthy and living with well-controlled Type 2 diabetes can donate a kidney, thanks to a change in national policy. Naim Issa, M.D. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network updated its living donor criteria. It makes some people with Type 2 diabetes eligible to donate a kidney. This marks a "significant shift" in criteria for living kidney donors, says Naim Issa, M.D., Mayo Clinic transplant nephrologist. "This policy change…