Daily Archives: August 2, 2022

2022-08-02: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-08-02). Nancy Pelosi, stay out of Taiwan! wsws.org Working people around the world must oppose the deliberate provocation by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the US military, which threatens to provoke a military conflict and the loss of countless lives in Taiwan, China, the Asia/Pacific region, and the United States.

Norman Solomon (2022-08-01). Nancy Pelosi Taiwan Visit Could Get Us All Killed. commondreams.org The consequences—far from being only economic and diplomatic—could be existential for all of humanity.

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-01). Pelosi to Visit Taiwan Despite Risk of Provoking China. news.antiwar.com House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be visiting Taiwan during her tour of Asia despite warnings from China and the risk of provoking a major crisis across the Taiwan Strait, several Taiwanese and Western media outlets reported on Monday. | Sources

Editor (2022-08-01). Nancy Pelosi's Reckless Trip to Taiwan: A Decision That Could Get Us All Killed. scheerpost.com Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answers questions during her weekly press conference on May 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) | By Norman Soloman / The arrogance of power is especially ominous and despicable when a government leader risks huge numbers of lives in order to make a provocative move on the world's geopolitical chessboard. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to visit Taiwan is in that category. Thanks to her, the chances of a military confrontati…

Infobrics (2022-08-01). Pelosi scraps Taiwan from official Asia tour itinerary as domestic pressures increase. infobrics.org US in difficult position as it mulls whether Pelosi should visit Taiwan or not.

Norman Solomon (2022-08-01). Nancy Pelosi Could Get Us All Killed. indybay.org With a green light from Joe Biden…

WSWS (2022-08-01). Military and political tensions escalate over threatened Pelosi visit to Taiwan. wsws.org Whether or not Pelosi's visit goes ahead, it has already served to bring the US confrontation with China, which Washington has designated a threat to its global hegemony, closer to a potentially disastrous nuclear war.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-08-01). China reitera oposición a visita de Nancy Pelosi a Taiwán. telesurtv.net Cancillería advirtió que el Ejército Popular de Liberación salvaguardará la soberanía e integridad territorial de China.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-08-01). Ejército chino reafirma soberanía sobre la isla de Taiwán. telesurtv.net En medio de tensiones entre EE.UU. y China, la congresista Nancy Pelosi inició una gira por varios países asiáticos sin mencionar a Taiwán.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-08-01). China army releases video ahead of Pelosi visit. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 01 (MNA) — The Chinese military is mounting a show of force ahead of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Asian tour, which could include a visit to Taiwan.

Staff (2022-08-01). Pelosi's plane may land in Taiwan due to emergency excuses. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 01 (MNA) — A plane carrying US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi may try to land in Taiwan under the pretext of an aircraft failure or refueling, a newspaper reported on Monday.

Staff (2022-08-01). China threatens US with effective measures. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 01 (MNA) — Chinese authorities will take effective power measures if Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Monday.

Staff (2022-08-01). Continúan tensiones entre Estados Unidos y China por visita de Pelosi a Taiwán (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El portavoz del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de China, Zhao Lijian, advirtió este lunes al gobierno de Estados Unidos que el Ejército Popular de Liberación (EPL) no se quedará de brazos cruzados si la presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos, Nancy Pelosi, visita Taiwán. Mientras, Estados Unidos sostiene que "no se dejará intimidar".

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-01). Biden Authorizes Additional $5 Million Military Aid for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com President Biden on Monday According to the Pentagon, the new package includes an unspecified amount of ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and 75,000 rounds of ammunition for the 1 mm howitzers the US had previously sent to Ukraine. | The new aid was authorized by the presidential drawdown authority,…

JANET (2022-08-01). NATO exploits Picasso's anti-war 'Guernica'. iacenter.org By Renán Vega Cantor July 18, 2022 This article from El Colectivo, July 7, edited by María Piedad Ossaba of lapluma.net and translated by John Catalinotto, refers to events at the June 28-30 NATO Summit in Spain. The photo is outrageous, although at first glance it appears harmless: A group of women are posing, and in the background is "Guernica," Pablo Picasso's iconic anti-war painting. What is behind this seemingly innocent and banal photo? This group posing in front of Picasso's 'Guernica' painting included Queen Letizia of Spain, Jill Biden of the U.S. and 14 other 'First Ladies' of 'world leaders' attending…

_____ (2022-08-01). As Congress Passes A 'Climate Suicide Pact,' The Fight To Declare A Climate Emergency Continues. popularresistance.org As heatwaves, droughts and wild fires ravage the planet, pressure is building on the White House and Congress to take substantive action to address the climate crisis. More than a thousand organizations in the United States have come together as the People vs Fossil Fuels coalition with the demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency and use his executive powers to stop fossil fuel extraction and new infrastructure. Their actions have succeeded in reopening climate provisions in Congress' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which is expected to pass this week, but the bill contains poison pills that offset…

Mark Gruenberg (2022-08-01). Top economists blame corporate price gouging for the inflation plague. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—To listen to the corporate class, you'd think there are two causes for the inflation now hitting the U.S. economy: Democratic President Joe Biden's policies and rising worker wages. Wrong. Because when you take a real look at the numbers, economists—or at least those economists who actually think about workerscome up with a different explanation …

Fight Back (2022-08-01). No, the economy is not in a recession (yet). fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On July 29, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released their report on Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter of the year, April to June. GDP went down at a 0.9% annual rate. This followed a decline of 1.6% in GDP in the first three months of the year. | This led to an outcry among Republicans, reinforced by many articles in the corporate media, that a recession had begun. Republican leaders immediately showed their lack of basic economic sense, saying that the American people were already feeling the pain of recession. In fact, the pain that American workers and small businesspeople are feeli…

Editor (2022-08-01). Visita a Oriente Medio, acceso al petróleo se impone a los derechos humanos. workers.org Ningún palestino que vive bajo la ocupación israelí se benefició un ápice de la breve visita del presidente Joe Biden a Oriente Medio. Biden tenía el poder ejecutivo para revertir el daño hecho cuando el ex presidente Donald Trump trasladó la embajada de Estados Unidos a Jerusalén, reconociendo el control . . . |

_____ (2022-08-01). Activists Shut Down Department Of Interior Over Climate Emergency. popularresistance.org Unceded Piscataway Lands AKA Washington D.C.- As the sun rises an autonomous Indigenous-led delegation of Black, Indigenous, people of the global majority and their allies have shut down the streets surrounding the Department of Interior Washington D.C early this morning painting CLIMATE EMERGENCY in front of the building. | The group is demanding President Biden declare a climate emergency and stop approving fossil fuel projects, including leases, exports, plastic plants, and pipelines. Permitting new fossil fuel projects will further entrench us in a fossil fuel economy for decades to come — and encourage…

JANET (2022-08-01). Biden in Occupied Palestine and the 'Jerusalem Declaration'. iacenter.org July 16, 2022 Samidoun Palestine Prisoner Solidarity Network issued this collective statement with co-signers "in struggle and solidarity" July 16. The full list of signers, including Workers World Party and the International Action Center, is at samidoun.net. Organizations can endorse at bit.ly/bidenpalestine. Protesters hounded U.S. President Joe Biden in Palestine, including July 15 in Bethlehem where boys carried the photograph of Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian-American journalist murdered by Israeli Defense Force troops while on assignment in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin. Credit: Abbas Momani The jo…

_____ (2022-08-01). Nicaragua… "Still, It Moves…" popularresistance.org At his Senate confirmation hearing, Rodriguez openly declared his intention to attack Nicaragua's economy and institutions. Among other things he declared that he would work to exclude the country from the Central American Free Trade Agreement. He also promised to seek to isolate Nicaragua internationally so as to obtain the release of criminals the US government paid via its non profit network to overthrow Nicaragua's government in 2018 and to try disrupting the country's national elections in 2021. He even declared that as ambassador he would contest the development of Nicaragua's sovereign relations with China…

Nina Burleigh (2022-08-01). Right-Wing Extremists Are Making Dystopian Fiction Come True. commondreams.org Can Democrats craft a winning message off a smorgasbord of misogynist madness?

Staff (2022-08-01). Reportan dos mineros atrapados en Maimón, República Dominicana. telesurtv.net Los dos mineros, uno de nacionalidad colombiana, y otro dominicano, se encontraban haciendo labores a unos 95 metros del área del derrumbe cuando quedaron atrapados.

Jamanetwork (2022-08-01). Study Selection for Reviewing Statins Effects on Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol. jamanetwork.com To the Editor We read with interest the systematic review and meta-analysis by Dr Byrne and colleagues. Although the authors conclude that "the absolute benefits of statins are modest," we identified factors that weaken their argument. Pooling of studies with different clinical contexts may lead to erroneous conclusions. Accordingly, of the 21 randomized clinical trials included, only 6 were secondary prevention trials in which the effect of statins on prognosis was more potent. Furthermore, the specific limitations of the included studies cast doubt on the conclusions. The CORONA (Controlled Rosuvastatin Multina…

Liat Olenick, Anna Buning, Wilhelmina Peragine (2022-08-01). The 411 on Climate 911: Why Families Showed Up at Ron Klain's House Dressed as Firefighters. commondreams.org President Biden should act like he believes what he says and marshall the tremendous emergency powers of the presidency that he is not yet using.

Jamanetwork (2022-08-01). Study Selection for Reviewing Statins Effects on Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply We thank Drs Andrikopoulos and Vlachopoulos for their consideration of our systematic review and meta-analyses. The following should address their points. The correspondents state that "ooling of studies with different clinical contexts may lead to erroneous conclusions." This issue of clinical heterogeneity is clearly addressed in our article; we identified and acknowledged the "significant clinical and statistical heterogeneity," which had "received little or no attention in prior meta-analyses." We reiterate now that influential clinical guidelines are predicated on the results of meta-analyses of agg…

Tomdispatch (2022-08-01). Season of Sadism: With right wing Republicans running on the New Misogyny, can Dems Riposte Effectively? juancole.com By Nina Burleigh | ( Tomdispatch.com) Ever since the early morning hours of November 9, 2016, standing in a ballroom with red-hatted Trump election celebrants in the New York Hilton, I've been waiting for this moment. This eruption of misogyny, unlike any since perhaps the witch trials and the burnings of midwives at …

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-08-01). Mayo Clinic hospitals earn star ratings for hospital quality, patient experience. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic hospitals across the organization received Overall Hospital Quality star ratings and received the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems star ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The ratings provide patients with information about several dimensions of quality. Eleven hospitals across Mayo Clinic received star ratings from CMS for Overall Hospital Quality. Six of the 11 hospitals earned five stars — the best score possible. The national average…

Dennis Broe (2022-08-01). 'Ms. Marvel': Politicizing the Multiverse and rendering it asunder. peoplesworld.org There are two groups that the recently concluded Disney+ Series Ms. Marvel may have turned off initially but who should follow this groundbreaking series through to its end to experience its transformational and liberatory potential. The first are the usual Marvel fans who see themselves as caught up in the studio's "commodified seriality" where every …

David Giesen (2022-08-01). Monday 8/1: Promoting socio-economic reciprocity throughout fall election campaigns. indybay.org ZOOM: | zoom.us/j/92884047862?pwd=RTFBcVRYNHFoQWN1cmY1aG5vcllLZz09

Labor Video Project (2022-08-01). Rank & File Threaten UAW Bureaucracy's Agenda At 2022 Convention: Report By Frank Hammer. indybay.org The rank and file at the 2022 UAW Constitutional Convention were able to challenge the UAW Administration Caucus which has been enveloped in a massive corruption scandal. They were able to push for $ 0 a week with a successful vote on the third day of the convention and the next day the bureaucracy overturned it. There will also be elections in October with 4 candidates.

TeleSUR -HIM (2022-08-01). Lula da Silva protagoniza acto masivo de campaña en Fortaleza. telesurtv.net El expresidente y candidato por el PT remarcó que estas serán las elecciones de la democracia contra el fascismo, de la solidaridad contra la discordia, y del amor contra el odio.

WSWS (2022-08-01). Biden tests positive again after completing Paxlovid course: The dangers of the "forever COVID" policy. wsws.org On Saturday, President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID again after completing his treatment earlier in the week. The White House is attempting damage control by first minimizing the development as part of their attempt to acclimate the public to forever COVID.

WSWS (2022-08-01). With support of ILWU bureaucracy, Oakland city and port officials sue truckers to stop protests against AB5 law. wsws.org The suit reflects serious fears that continued protests could spread and shut down work at the docks, upending plans by the Biden administration, the port operators and the union to keep operations going.

____ (2022-08-01). The Elite Coup to Kill or Enslave Us: Why Can't Governments, Legal Actions and Protests Stop Them? transcend.org What is happening and why the most popular responses — lobbying governments, contesting elections or forming new political parties, legal challenges and protests — by those concerned cannot succeed. And what we must do, if we wish to defeat this coup.

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