(2022-03-05). [Perspectives] Apartheid logic in global health. thelancet.com "All my friends were dead by then and I knew I was dying too. The doctors said less than a year. But they started me on the new drugs anyway. That was 1989…y ahora, I'm still here with my twelve cats——los doce discípulos, I call them, because they follow me everywhere", Manuel laughs and leans in as if to tell a secret, "even though they say I'm not supposed to have them because they can make people with HIV sick". Manuel spoke these words in Chicago, USA, in 2014, a quarter of a century after he was expected to have died.
(2022-03-05). Biden Takes Advantage of the Levers of Power to Protect his Family Business in Ukraine. journal-neo.org 
It is no secret that members of the current US political elite and their closest relatives are fairly quick to gain business shares in all countries invaded by US occupation forces. This has been commonplace since the Iraqi wars and the destruction of Yugoslavia. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, for example, had a business …
(2022-03-05). News on China | No. 89. dissidentvoice.org China criticizes NATO expansion, supports national sovereignty. It calls for both sides, Russia and Ukraine, to end the war. China restates its opposition to unilateral economic sanctions. The de-dollarization of China-Russia trade is about to increase. China is the world leader in transitioning to clean energy. The rate of urbanization slows down.
(2022-03-05). For African and Colonized Peoples, to Understand Ukraine: De-Center Europe and Focus on Imperialism (Statement). orinocotribune.com
(2022-03-05). Jewish Pro-Israel Group Attacks Pro-Palestinian Activists. dissidentvoice.org The following is an email I wrote on February 20 to a group of progressive political activists from Syracuse, NY, a city less than one hour's drive east from where I live. For the last three years the Jewish Federation of Central New York (JFCNY) has sent a series of letters to the Syracuse Peace …
(2022-03-05). The hysterical anti-Russian campaign and the US-NATO drive to war with Russia. wsws.org Media outlets, academics, and scientists who ought to know better have lapped up the pro-war propaganda of the imperialist powers, according to which the world was a peaceful paradise until Putin sent Russian troops into Ukraine.
(2022-03-05). [World Report] International Women's Day: dismay at alcohol and arms ties. thelancet.com Health advocates are concerned at the corporate capture of International Women's Day, with the alcohol industry and arms manufacturers backing a popular website. Sophie Cousins reports.
(2022-03-05). Critical race theory: US right-wing wages a culture war, the people fight back. peoplesdispatch.org Conservatives are going after a new boogeyman, "critical race theory", or any attempt at teaching youth about the history of US racism…
(2022-03-05). Turkey ends remaining pandemic measures as over 200 die every day. wsws.org This ending of public health measures is based not on science and protecting the health of the population but on the profit interests of the ruling capitalist class.
(2022-03-05). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Delhi childcare workers still on strike; Jammu water conservation workers walkout; 25,000 Bangladeshi public servants strike; Australian train maintenance workers strike for job security in NSW; New Zealand pallet workers on indefinite strike…
(2022-03-05). [Comment] Offline: Ukraine and the lessons of Alexander Herzen. thelancet.com A pandemic. And now war. A war, the UK's Ukraine Ambassador wrote last week "on the whole of the civilised world". The burden of war falls mostly on women and children. 10 million children younger than 5 years died in conflicts between 1995 and 2015. Women and children will now be dying from preventable causes in Ukraine. The health and humanitarian crisis afflicting Ukraine has received far too little attention. Consider those forcibly displaced. Although hard to predict, as many as 5 million people, up to three-quarters of whom will be women and children, are likely to become refugees.
(2022-03-05). Australian Education Union uses anti-democratic delegates' meetings to promote sellout agreement. wsws.org High school teacher and Committee For Public Education member Will Marshall exposed the union's claims on workload, wages, and provisions covering Education Support staff.
(2022-03-05). [Comment] Prioritise research on vaccines for pregnant and breastfeeding women. thelancet.com Pregnant women, their fetuses, and infants are at increased risk of severe disease and death from many vaccine-preventable diseases, including COVID-19.1,2 However, they are typically excluded from pre-implementation vaccine research aimed at generating robust data in support of evidence-informed decision making. This was initially the case with COVID-19 vaccines. In 2019, the PREVENT Working Group published 22 recommendations on how to include pregnant and breastfeeding women in vaccine research and implementation for emerging infections.
(2022-03-05). New Zealand court bans strike by 10,000 health workers. wsws.org The decision to ban the health workers' strike points to the increasingly anti-democratic measures being used against the working class, as COVID spreads out of control and the cost of living soars.
(2022-03-05). Why Don't We Treat All Refugees as Though They Were Ukrainian? independentmediainstitute.org It was inevitable that when brown-skinned Afghan refugees fleeing war were turned away from European borders over the past few years, the callous actions of these governments would come back to haunt them. A whopping 1 million people have fled Ukraine from Russia's violent invasion in the span of only a week. They are being …
(2022-03-05). Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzohkhar Tsarnaev. wsws.org The 6—3 ruling, divided between the conservative and moderate liberal justices, reversed a 2020 federal appeals court decision that would have kept Tsarnaev imprisoned for life.
(2022-03-05). [World Report] Ukrainian health workers respond to war. thelancet.com Ukraine's civilian health workers are having to postpone usual care and focus instead on treating casualties following Russia's invasion. Salehya Ahsan reports.
(2022-03-05). [Comment] Gefapixant for chronic cough. thelancet.com Chronic cough is responsible for a decrease in quality of life. Chronic cough affects approximately 5—10% of the global population1,2 and might be complicated by incontinence, cough syncope, and dysphonia, leading to social embarrassment and subsequent social isolation and depression or anxiety.3,4 In some people, cough is associated with a treatable underlying disease such as allergic rhinitis, asthma, or gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Many of these individuals might respond to treatments targeting the primary cause.
(2022-03-05). APWU postal union claims contract ratification despite widespread ballot problems. wsws.org Only 18 percent, or 36,032 of 200,000 APWU members, voted to ratify the 2021—2024 Tentative Agreement with USPS, according to the official count released by the union.
(2022-03-05). [Perspectives] Sally Grantham-McGregor: pioneer in early childhood development. thelancet.com "I can still be horrified by the poverty in the world and how it affects children's development", says Sally Grantham-McGregor, Emeritus Professor of International Child Health at University College London (UCL), UK, and the doyenne of early childhood development (ECD). In pioneering work in Jamaica, she developed a low-cost early childhood intervention and showed that it can have long-term benefits for children. Now called Reach Up, it has been implemented in 16 countries, with several, including China and Peru, rolling it out as a national programme.
(2022-03-05). History of World War II: Operation Barbarossa: Myths and Reality. globalresearch.ca
(2022-03-05). [World Report] Activists welcome Colombia's decriminalisation of abortion. thelancet.com The ruling consolidates Latin America's swing towards pro-choice, following similar recent decisions in Argentina and Mexico. Amy Booth reports.
(2022-03-05). Metropolitan Opera announces the banning of soprano Anna Netrebko. wsws.org The Russian singer has fallen victim to the US-NATO war drive that has been stepped up following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine a week ago.
(2022-03-05). Australian workers face closure of Eraring coal-fired power plant by 2025. wsws.org Origin Energy's plan to bring forward the shutdown is motivated by flagging profits from fossil fuel energy, not concern for the environment.
(2022-03-05). How Germany's "new foreign policy epoch" was prepared. wsws.org The justifications given by Chancellor Olaf Scholz for tripling the military budget amid Putin's aggression against Ukraine are nothing but lying propaganda.
(2022-03-05). Guaidó's Achievement: US Judge Orders Auction of CITGO (+OFAC). orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, March 2, Leonard Stark, a judge for the District of Delaware, approved the start of the procedure for the sale of shares of the Venezuelan state-owned CITGO Petroleum Corp., which includes "the selection of a winning offer," reported The Wall Street Journal. | Stark made this ruling despite the fact that the company is covered by a resolution from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department that prevents its liquidation without prior authorization from OFAC. The OFAC has been in de facto control of CITGO since 2019, when Washington ignored the authorities designated by…
(2022-03-05). [Perspectives] The modern medical memoir. thelancet.com This Is Going To Hurt, and so it did. Adam Kay's book of the same name with its snappy writing, drama, and vicious humour has done so well that it has been adapted into a BBC television series, starring Ben Wishaw, handsome in scrubs, but also often covered in blood and desperate with fatigue. The series seems to have divided opinion. Some viewers have objected to the misogynistic language and demeaning way that women in labour are often treated and portrayed. Others find the series darkly funny, making public those things previously confined to the doctors' mess.
(2022-03-05). [World Report] Humanitarian work in Ukraine disrupted. thelancet.com The UN and aid agencies have halted operations amid worsening conflict, while the region prepares for huge numbers of displaced people. Sharmila Devi reports.
(2022-03-05). Educators and students on the US West Coast denounce the drive to war with Russia and lifting of COVID-19 mitigation measures. wsws.org Teachers and students in California, Washington, and Hawaii denounced both the drive to war and its use to draw attention away from the catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic which continues to kill thousands daily in the US.
(2022-03-05). Eastern European governments at forefront of NATO war drive against Russia. wsws.org Eastern European ruling elites fan the flames of the NATO proxy war against Russia and maneuver to secure their own predatory interests.
(2022-03-05). [Articles] Efficacy and safety of gefapixant, a P2X3 receptor antagonist, in refractory chronic cough and unexplained chronic cough (COUGH-1 and COUGH-2): results from two double-blind, randomised, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trials. thelancet.com Gefapixant 45 mg twice per day is the first treatment to show efficacy with an acceptable safety profile in phase 3 clinical trials for refractory chronic cough or unexplained chronic cough.
(2022-03-05). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Major Insurer To Drop Fossil Fuels. dailyposter.com 
(2022-03-05). Conductor Valery Gergiev sacked from Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. wsws.org The brutal sacking of world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev in Munich on Tuesday is the high point of an unprecedented smear campaign against all things Russian.
(2022-03-05). Florida legislature passes bill banning abortion after 15 weeks. wsws.org Florida is the latest Republican-led state, along with West Virginia and Arizona, to advance a 15-week abortion ban this legislative session. The bill is modeled after an abortion ban in Mississippi that the US Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, appears poised to uphold.
(2022-03-05). [Comment] The Lancet journals: our new ombudsperson. thelancet.com We are indebted to Professor Malcolm Molyneux, who served as Ombudsman to the Lancet group of journals from 2015, providing authoritative and wise advice during his tenure. After 6 years of service, Malcolm was to stand down at the end of 2021. On Nov 16, 2021, he died after an illness.1…
(2022-03-05). Demands grow in Washington for US war with Russia. wsws.org As the Russian military continues to advance in Ukraine, there are growing demands for direct US military intervention to attack Russian forces.
(2022-03-05). Who gets NATO's weapons in Ukraine? wsws.org The primary beneficiaries of these weapon deliveries, both politically and militarily, are far-right forces in Ukraine and internationally, who are being strengthened and emboldened.
(2022-03-05). COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness is rapidly waning in children. wsws.org Evidence from the CDC and New York state demonstrates that vaccine effectiveness for children has dropped considerably during the Omicron surge, underscoring the dangers posed by the Biden plan to ensure schools will remain open for in-person classes.
(2022-03-05). Ex-Japanese Prime Minister Abe suggests Japan host US nuclear weapons. wsws.org Abe, who remains highly influential in Japanese politics, has seized on the current war crisis in Ukraine to further his right-wing nationalist agenda of remilitarization.
(2022-03-04). US Sanctions on Russia Over Ukraine Also Target Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba. orinocotribune.com 
By Benjamin Norton — Feb 28, 2022 | President Joe Biden's top Latin America advisor, Juan S. Gonzalez, admitted that US sanctions against Russia aim to hurt Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba as well. The three socialist governments condemned NATO aggression for creating the crisis in Ukraine. | President Joe Biden's top Latin America advisor has admitted that US sanctions against Russia over Ukraine intentionally seek to hurt Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba as well. | The United States imposed a series of harsh sanctions on Russia following Moscow's recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk Peop…
(2022-03-04). Forever war in Ukraine or an end to the unipolar world? thegrayzone.com Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Moscow-based international affairs analyst Mark Sleboda about the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the possibility of a prolonged war. Mark Sleboda offers a critical assessment of Russia's military maneuvers in the early days of the conflict in Ukraine and evaluates the possibility of a Syria-style dirty war erupting in the country. Sleboda also explains how the war has ushered in a "great decoupling" between Russia and the West and why he believes it could represent …
(2022-03-04). How Ukraine's Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia. thegrayzone.com While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky's Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters. Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the "gray zone" of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side. There, the president encountered the hardened veterans of …
(2022-03-04). Guerra de EE.UU. contra Rusia: una estampida hacia el precipicio. workers.org 
Boletín: Desde el 22 de febrero, Rusia ha reconocido las dos repúblicas populares de la región de Donbass, en el este de Ucrania, la República Popular de Donetsk y la República Popular de Lugansk, establecidas en 2014. Rusia ha dicho que enviará tropas para proteger a las dos repúblicas si . . . |
(2022-03-04). In these days of great tension, peace is a priority: The Ninth Newsletter (2022). mronline.org 
It is impossible not to be moved by the outrageousness of warfare, the ugliness of aerial bombardment, the gruesome fears of civilians who are trapped between choices that are not their own.
(2022-03-04). Democrats deepen embrace of Israeli apartheid. electronicintifada.net Israel visits showcase bipartisan support for colonial violence and racism against Palestinians.
(2022-03-04). International censorship mounted against Russian state-affiliated media outlets. wsws.org A campaign of censorship against Russian state-backed media sources has been led by the European Union and embraced by tech companies, social media platforms and cable television providers.
(2022-03-04). Even Cats are Sanctioned: Russian Felines Banned from International Competitions. orinocotribune.com The West's goal of culturally erasing Russia from the world has reached ridiculous levels bordering on the absurd. Now they not only exclude athletes, musicians, scientists, and other professions from any competition or circle where they stand out, but they have even taken Russian cats out of international competitions. | The FIFe (Fédération Internationale Féline) ruled that Russian-owned cats will be banned from international competition, and that no cat of the Russian breed can be imported and registered in their pedigree book outside of Russia. If it weren't for the seriousness with which these decisions are…
(2022-03-04). The Governor of Louisiana Must Veto the Proposed Redistricting Maps. aclu.org The governor of Louisana has a unique chance to ensure that Black Louisianans have an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect candidates of their choice to Congress. That's why the ACLU and our coalition partners in the region are calling on Gov. Jon Bel Edwards to veto the proposed congressional and state legislative districting plans, submitted to his office by the Louisiana State Legislature. | HB 1 and SB 5, the proposed congressional districting plans passed by the Louisiana State Legislature, as well as HB 14 and SB 1, the proposed state legislative plans, violate Section 2 of…
(2022-03-04). US Judge Approves Venezuela's CITGO Auction Process. venezuelanalysis.com Any sale of CITGO shares is still pending authorization from the Biden administration.
(2022-03-04). A New Law Promised Debt Relief For Black Farmers. popularresistance.org After amassing more than $100,000 in debt over more than two decades of farming, a Georgia-based farmer named Denver got welcome news last year from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers like him would be eligible for a new debt relief program. USDA would pay off certain loans and give him a little extra for tax liabilities. | Denver did not receive a payment. But almost a year later, he received another letter: A notice that USDA intends to take legal action to collect the money he owes the agency. Denver asked the Center for Public Integrity not to use his last name out of fear of retaliation. | "We know…