(2020-09-05). [Articles] Once-daily, subcutaneous vosoritide therapy in children with achondroplasia: a randomised, double-blind, phase 3, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial. thelancet.com Vosoritide is an effective treatment to increase growth in children with achondroplasia. It is not known whether final adult height will be increased, or what the harms of long-term therapy might be.
(2020-09-05). [Correspondence] Deep anaesthesia — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank everyone for their interest in our study.1 We would like to reiterate that the Balanced Anaesthesia Study was an intention-to-treat randomised controlled trial designed to show a 2% absolute difference in mortality between groups. We aimed to confirm the finding from several observational studies that there is a roughly 20% increase in mortality in sick, older patients (aged ‚â•60 years) receiving deep anaesthesia.2…
(2020-09-04). How Fascism Works: Trump's "Law & Order" Is Lawlessness, Fueling Racist Violence & Chaos. democracynow.org 
As President Trump openly embraces the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon and promotes "law and order" while refusing to condemn armed followers of his who target antiracist protesters, we speak with Jason Stanley, Yale philosopher and scholar of propaganda, author of "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them." Stanley says Trump built a cult of personality within the Republican Party, as evident during the Republican National Convention, and has moved the United States steadily into authoritarianism during his term. "Fascism is a cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of supposed t…
(2020-09-04). Mainstream macroeconomics—pandemic edition. mronline.org 
Right now, the United States is mired in an economic depression, the Pandemic Depression, not dissimilar to what happened in the 1930s and again after the crash of 2007-08.
(2020-09-04). US' Theft Of Syrian Oil Has Very Little To Do With Money. popularresistance.org Near the end of July, one of the most important recent developments in U.S. foreign policy was quietly disclosed during a U.S. Senate hearing. Not surprisingly, hardly anybody talked about it and most are still completely unaware that it happened. | Answering questions from Senator Lindsey Graham, Secretary of State Pompeo confirmed that the State Department had awarded an American company, Delta Crescent Energy, with a contract to begin extracting oil in northeast Syria. The area is nominally controlled by the Kurds, yet their military force, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), was formed under U.S. auspices and…
(2020-09-04). Trump's "Law and Order" Is Feeding Racist Violence and Chaos. truthout.org As President Trump openly embraces the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon and promotes "law and order" while refusing to condemn armed followers of his who target antiracist protesters, we speak with Jason Stanley, Yale philosopher and scholar of propaganda, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Stanley says Trump built a cult of personality within the Republican Party, as evident during the Republican National Convention, and has moved the United States steadily into authoritarianism during his…
(2020-09-03). No joke zone: Twitter mob CANCELS Twenty One Pilots' frontman Tyler Joseph for visual pun on 'using platforms' for social issues. rt.com 
Tyler Joseph, member of the American pop band Twenty One Pilots, had to go through a round of self-flagellation for the crime of ridiculing the use of social media for public good, raising the ire of the online mainstream. | Joseph had employed a little bit of creativity to take a swipe at fans that apparently urged him to spread some socially-important message across various social media platforms. | The 31-year-old musician uploaded a pair of photos of himself wearing extremely high platform trainers. "You guys keep asking me to use my platforms. Feels good to dust these bad boys off," reads the caption to t…
(2020-09-03). The New York Times slanders left-wing opposition to Biden as "Russian propaganda" wsws.org The American intelligence agencies are at it again, instigating anti-Russian propaganda in the US media with reckless and entirely unsubstantiated claims that Moscow is intervening in the 2020 presidential election.
(2020-09-03). Oppose NUJ censorship of journalist Craig Murray! wsws.org The National Union of Journalist's actions are an attack on press freedom and the public's right to access information independently of the state-controlled and corporate media outlets.
(2020-09-03). Wisconsin man who says he marched with Rittenhouse in Kenosha was immersed in White Supremacist propaganda. mronline.org 
Ryan Balch, a 31-year-old Wisconsin man who joined Kyle Rittenhouse and a contingent of militia conducting armed patrols in Kenosha, used his social media accounts to link to a Nazi propaganda video.
(2020-09-02). New Normal Gleichschaltung or The Storming of the Reichstag Building on 29 August, 2020. dissidentvoice.org On March 21, 1933, the Nazi-controlled Reichstag passed a law making it a crime to speak out against the government. The "Regulations of the Reich President for Defense from Treacherous Attacks against the Government of the National Uprising" made even the slightest expression of dissent from Nazi ideology a criminal offense. This new law, among …
(2020-09-02). Attack by FAIR isn't about 'cancel culture' but injecting hate into the mainstream. splcenter.org …
(2020-09-02). Kenosha Journalist Quits Over Misleading Coverage of Jacob Blake Protests. truthout.org The mainstream media's role in perpetuating racism has come under increased scrutiny during the nationwide uprisings against injustice, leading to resignations and firings at news outlets across the country and calls for more diverse newsrooms. Daniel Thompson, the former digital editor at Kenosha News, says that's what led him to quit his job after his news outlet ran a misleading headline and article about a peaceful Jacob Blake protest that focused almost exclusively on one speaker's threat of v…
(2020-09-02). 'Absolutely History' in the Making: Advocates Applaud House Democrats for Scheduled Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalization. commondreams.org Drug policy reform advocates celebrated Tuesday after Democratic leaders confirmed that the U.S. House will take up legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level by removing it from the Controlled Substances Act. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
