ecns.cn (2022-03-20). China to further improve REIT mechanism: regulator. ecns.cn China's securities regulator said it will work with other government departments to further improve the mechanism on infrastructure real-estate investment trusts (REITs), as part of efforts to better support the real economy.

ecns.cn (2022-03-20). China rolls out new tax cuts for small businesses. ecns.cn China will carry out tax cuts for low-profit small businesses for three years to support their growth, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-20). Chinese banks report net forex purchase in February. ecns.cn Chinese banks saw a net foreign exchange purchase last month, data from the country's forex regulator showed Friday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-20). China to continue regular trade, economic cooperation with Russia, Ukraine. ecns.cn China's Commerce Ministry said on Thursday that China would continue trade and economic cooperation with both Russia and Ukraine based on equality, mutual benefit and mutual respect.

ecns.cn (2022-03-20). Chinese company delivers container lab to help Laos' COVID-19 testing. ecns.cn Biotech company MGI Tech delivered a container laboratory to Laos on Thursday, so as to help the country boost its mass COVID-19 testing capacity and prepare for the gradual re-opening of its borders in 2022.

Aditi Ramaswami (2022-03-20). WEEKEND READER: A Better Way To Address Gas Prices. dailyposter.com

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-20). Mayo Clinic researchers recommend investments in vaccine safety in Nature commentary. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The leaders of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group are emphasizing the need for increased long-term study of vaccines and their mechanisms with future safety of patients in mind. Gregory Poland, M.D., and Richard Kennedy, Ph.D., write in their commentary in the scientific journal Nature Reviews Immunology that greater focus on understanding vaccines' downstream effects, not only on immunity but also on all the other biological systems will provide information that can help make vaccines safer…

WorkWeek (2022-03-20). WorkWeek: UESF Teachers Occupy For Back Pay, Covid, Griffin Charter & CNNC Union Busting. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SF UESF Teachers Occupation For Back Pay & Covid Capitalism, Giffin MIT Charter School Teachers Fighting Corruption & Chinese Union Busting at CNNC In Namibia…

_____ (2022-03-19). The Man Who Turned America's Economy Into A Literal Casino. popularresistance.org To anyone paying attention, the American economy sure feels a lot like a casino. The stock market has become increasingly gamified, and the consequences are felt by all of us, every day—even those of us who aren't even invited to play. There's actually a term for our financial system that uses these words: casino capitalism. What many don't know, however, is that behind this new form of capitalism is a flesh-and-bones man with a certain sort of gambling addiction. His name is Bill Gross, and his is the story that Mary Childs, co-host of NPR's "Planet Money" podcast, tells so compellingly in her book, "The B…

Ann Garrison (2022-03-19). Sanctions: A Sanctimonious Word for Economic Warfare and Outright Theft (Interview). orinocotribune.com The US claims the right to sanction, to steal from other nations, with one-third of humanity suffering from these crimes. Sanctions are war by other means and cause great suffering around the world. Black Agenda Report's Ann Garrison interviewed Congolese economist Jean-Claude Maswana about such unilateral sanctions and their effects. | The word "sanctions" emerged in the Middle Ages, meaning ecclesiastical decrees. Today it's a sanctimonious word for economic warfare, including even outright theft. Despite all the terror about what could happen in Ukraine next, Afghans are still facing freezing cold and starvati…

WSWS (2022-03-19). Amid economic crisis, Sri Lankan president pledges to work with IMF. wsws.org A day before his national address, Rajapakse met with senior IMF officials, as rating agencies warned that Sri Lanka could default on repayments of foreign loans and sovereign bonds.

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-03-19). Putin unmasks lies by U.S and West, rejects to embrace their dominance. plusnews.ug The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin says western countries are to blame for suffering and problems faced by their people not Russia as it is being propagated. He made the remarks during a meeting on socioeconomic support for regions, he held this week. "I want ordinary Western people to hear me, too. You are being …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-19). Biggest Lie in World History: The Data Base is Flawed. There Never Was A Pandemic. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Introduction : | Destabilizing the social, political and economic structure of 190 sovereign countries cannot constitute a "solution" to combating the virus. But that was the imposed "solution" which was implemented in several stages from the very outset of the corona crisis…

_____ (2022-03-19). A Black-Women-Led And Life-Based Project For A New Colombia. popularresistance.org Francia Márquez Mina, a 40-year-old Black female activist from the predominantly Black and forgotten region of the Colombian Pacific coast, is shifting the terms of political debate in the second 'Blackest' nation in South America. Francia, the first Black woman to run for the Colombian presidency, is leading a collective effort by women, LGBTQ+ communities, Black youth, peasants, and the poor in general to transform Colombia's insidious patterns of violence and socio-racial inequalities. According to Infobae , as many as 54.2% of Colombia's population face food insecurity, 42% are under the poverty line, and 10.

_____ (2022-03-19). Women And Labor: Key Struggles In The MENA Region. popularresistance.org How do women and gender equality measures advance in a context of conflict, climate change, high unemployment, low labor force participation, limited democratization and a pandemic? These are challenges facing the Arab region as many citizens, women's rights organizations, some governments and external partners seek wide-ranging institutional changes and an improved environment for women's participation and rights. | Surveys show public support for some — but not all — proposals for gender equality. Equal inheritance rights for women, for example, remain off the table, even in progressive Tunisia. Fam…

WSWS (2022-03-19). Brother of New Zealand mine disaster victim denounces abandonment of underground investigation. wsws.org Gordon Dixon, whose brother Allan died in the 2010 Pike River mine disaster, told the WSWS that the Labour Party-led government's decision to permanently seal the mine was part of an ongoing cover-up to protect those responsible.

_____ (2022-03-19). Minneapolis Strikers Demand A Living Wage For The Lowest-Paid Educators. popularresistance.org Labor is on fire in the Twin Cities. Educators in Minneapolis are wrapping up their second week on strike, and cafeteria workers are poised to join them. | St. Paul educators came close to walking out as well; the unions fed off one another as they built their contract campaigns. "St. Paul has the experience," said St. Paul special ed teacher Jeff Garcia. "Minneapolis has the energy. They are really fired up." | The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and the St. Paul Federation of Educators both announced February 18 that their members had voted to authorize strikes. | MFT members walked out March 8. The strikers…

Labor Video Project (2022-03-19). "Give Us Our Money" SF UESF Teachers Demand Pay & Occupy SFSUD Offices To Get Back Pay. indybay.org Dozens of teachers, members of UESF and supporters rallied at the SFUSD district to demand their back pay. They also had a sleep until they get what is owed them.

ecns.cn (2022-03-19). Chinese official accuses U.S. of fabricating lies about life in Xinjiang. ecns.cn Yusupjan Memet on Thursday accused anti-China forces in the United States and some other Western countries of fabricating lies and fallacies about the so-called "forced labor".

Alison Halliday, Richard Bulbulia, Leo H Bonati, Johanna Chester, Andrea Cradduck-Bamford, Richard Peto, Hongchao Pan, ACST-2 Collaborative Group (2022-03-19). [Correspondence] Is stenting equivalent to endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid stenosis? — Authors' reply. thelancet.com In the ACST-2 randomised trial1 we compared carotid endarterectomy (CEA) with carotid artery stenting (CAS). The discussion of its findings drew on two other sources of evidence; first, the procedural hazards seen in large population registries, and second, our meta-analysis of all the properly randomised trials. For in comparing these two procedures, the differences in their immediate hazards and the differences in their long-term effects on stroke incidence are both important. Hence, for both these outcomes the treatment differences should be assessed reliably.

Ana M Vicedo-Cabrera, Aurelio Tobias, Jouni J K Jaakkola, Yasushi Honda, Masahiro Hashizume, Yuming Guo, Joel Schwartz, Antonella Zanobetti, Michelle L Bell, Ben Armstrong, Klea Katsouyanni, Andy Haines, Kristie L Ebi, Antonio Gasparrini (2022-03-19). [Correspondence] Global mortality burden attributable to non-optimal temperatures. thelancet.com Katrin Burkart and colleagues1 present the results of an ambitious study on the global mortality burden attributable to non-optimal temperatures by the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries,and Risk Factors Collaborators. They report that 2 ∑98% of deaths globally could be attributed to non-optimal temperatures in 2019; 2 ∑37% of deaths from low temperatures and 0 ∑63% of deaths from high temperatures.

Our Reporter (2022-03-19). Gov't searching for people who announced speaker Oulanyah Dead. plusnews.ug The government is looking for people who spread false information that the Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah is dead. Oulanyah was on 5th February flown to a hospital in Seattle in the United States of America to receive specialized treatment after spending several days in Mulago Nattional Referral Hospital. The government did not give details …

_____ (2022-03-19). Lockheed And Raytheon — Today's 'Masters Of War'. popularresistance.org That the U.S./NATO-instigated war in Ukraine could result in a third world war is of major concern for all of humanity, especially workers and oppressed people who ultimately bear the brunt of any war. Yet for some global billionaires — today's 'masters of war' — this conflict is seen as an opportunity to further boost profits. | Among those already reaping gains are companies involved in the production and sale of weapons, planes and other military hardware. This includes 14 of the world's 20 largest "defense" companies headquartered in the U.S. Topping this list are Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Rayth…

Anna L. Noble (2022-03-19). How Big Tech sees big profits in social-emotional learning at school. nationofchange.org Digital products that monitor students' online behavior raise concerns about how companies use that data for profit.

Editor (2022-03-19). Toward a third Reconstruction: Lessons from the past for a socialist future. mronline.org Karl Marx wrote to Lincoln in 1864 that he was sure that the "American anti-slavery war" would initiate a "new era of ascendancy" for the working classes for the "rescue…and reconstruction of a social world."

WSWS (2022-03-19). India: Striking Maharashtra transport workers defy state government's latest back-to-work ultimatum. wsws.org More than 70,000 Maharashtra state transport workers have been on strike for 19 weeks to demand job security and decent, timely paid wages.

WSWS (2022-03-19). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Air India maintenance technicians strike over wages; Tamil Nadu tollgate workers strike over pay; Sri Lankan government development officers strike over pay; Queensland coal freight train workers take industrial action…

Emir Sader (2022-03-19). øLa globalización sobrevivirá a la guerra? globalizacion.ca Desde que el capitalismo adhirió al modelo neoliberal, la globalización se ha encargado de extender el nuevo modelo por todo el mundo. Apertura de mercados, desregulación económica, privatizaciones, prioridad de los ajustes fiscales, promoción del Estado mínimo — todo lo…

Amado Herrero (2022-03-19). El giro de Emmanuel Macron hacia la energía nuclear. globalizacion.ca Descarbonizar la economía, reindustrializar el país y reducir la dependencia exterior son sus argumentos, pero Greenpeace denuncia una decisión "desconectada de la realidad". De pie, con la enorme turbina Arabelle y sus 300 toneladas como telón de fondo, Emmanuel Macron …

_____ (2022-03-19). Yemen Retaliates Against Deadly Fuel Blockade By Targeting Saudi Oil. popularresistance.org Yemen-Saudi Border — Under the scorching midday sun, Hakem Matari Yahya al-Buttaini's brother was on the cusp of finally being able to purchase the 40 liters of diesel fuel for which he had been waiting in line for seven days, when he got the call. Hakem had been executed by Saudi Arabia and the news had just spread through local media. Hakem was among seven Yemenis executed by Saudi Arabia on Saturday. | As much of the world's attention remained focused on Russia's war on Ukraine, the Saudi regime carried out a mass execution, killing 81 people in a single day, including the seven Yemenis and civilians fro…

Daniel Garvin (2022-03-19). Pasadena tenants march to demand rent control. liberationnews.org In Pasadena the housing struggle is heating up.

Hedelberto López Blanch (2022-03-19). Pandemia, guerra, inflación øY los pobres qué? globalizacion.ca No cabe la menor duda que las poblaciones desfavorecidas en este mundo de globalización neoliberal han sido las más afectadas por la pandemia de coronavirus, el aumento del costo de los alimentos, la inflación, el cambio climático y ahora la…