(2022-07-16). Science Saturday: Leveraging technology to transform Anatomic Pathology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org In January, as part of Mayo Clinic's Digital Pathology Program, the Division of Anatomic Pathology in Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in Rochester, Minnesota, transitioned a significant portion of its clinical practice, including both surgical and biopsy cases, into digital workflows. The transition means all surgical — or frozen section — biopsy slides will be scanned into digital images prior to a pathologist's review. Historically, patient tissue has been evaluated by generating glass slides, applying stains, and evaluating…
(2022-07-16). China sees over 1.45 bln domestic tourist trips in H1. ecns.cn China saw more than 1.45 billion domestic tourist trips in the first half of 2022, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Friday.
(2022-07-16). Neo-Cons: Genesis to Ascendency. scheerpost.com 
By Michael Brenner | The latest formulation of a binary world pits the so-called democracies against the so-called autocrats. The United States is the self-designated champion of the former while China and Russia lead the array of autocrats. In effect, it's a reversion to long-running democracy/capitalism vs Communism all-embracing conflict of the Cold War. Today's version has even less authenticity than did its…
(2022-07-16). [Comment] Complex relationship between health and moderate alcohol use. thelancet.com In The Lancet, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2020 Alcohol Collaborators1 provide a further study to systematically determine thresholds for low-risk alcohol consumption while considering background rates of disease. Overall, the authors estimated the amount of alcohol that minimises health risks to be between 0 (95% uncertainty interval 0—0) and 1 ∑87 (0 ∑50—3 ∑30) standard drinks per day. Levels of zero, or very close to zero, were observed among individuals aged 15—39 years (ranging from 0 to 0 ∑603 standard drinks per day), but higher le…
(2022-07-16). Ttra poco. In Italia le nuove bombe nucleari made in USA. globalresearch.ca "Inizia la produzione della bomba nucleare B61-12": lo annunciano dagli Stati Uniti i Sandia National Laboratories. La B61-12, che sostituisce la precedente B61 dislocata dagli USA ad Aviano e Ghedi e in altre basi europee, è un'arma di nuovo tipo. …
(2022-07-16). [Perspectives] Mariana Mazzucato: leading a new type of economics. thelancet.com Mariana Mazzucato is a firebrand economist. In 2020, she became Chair of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All. "The idea was instead of doing the usual of saying invest in health because it's good for the economy, what if you said invest in health for all and backtrack to design an economic system to deliver on that, meaning design a different form of budgeting, a different form of procurement, a different form of intellectual property, a different form of public—private ways of working together on projects", she explains.
(2022-07-16). Ecuador: Revista àëawpa. indybay.org Ecuador: Revista àëawpa | Espacio de reflexión plurinacional, intercultural y socialista…
(2022-07-16). [Articles] Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020. thelancet.com There is strong evidence to support recommendations on alcohol consumption varying by age and location. Stronger interventions, particularly those tailored towards younger individuals, are needed to reduce the substantial global health loss attributable to alcohol.
(2022-07-16). [Correspondence] Academic exploitation. thelancet.com We are delighted to see payment for peer reviewers proposed by Phaik Y Cheah and Jan Piasecki.1 This proposal reflects a broader problem in academia: exploitation of, and even mandating, free labour for career advancement. Publishing is only one example, extending beyond the peer review process. Of course, reviewers should be paid for their expertise, as should authors. No journals pay authors for creating the product they sell. Book publishing is similarly exploitative: royalties are trivial and typically only paid after publishers recover their costs, a process hindered by publishers' unwillingness to market bo…
(2022-07-16). Congress urged to boost appropriations for Biden's Defense Production Act orders. indybay.org In June Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to manufacture panels, insulation and heat pumps. Biden's plan encourages high labor standards tied to increased manufacturing. It also calls for boosting community-based clean energy and distributed generation. But more funding than $100 million needs to be invested to make the difference we need to become energy independent from fossil fuels.
(2022-07-16). Xi stresses implementing Party's policies on Xinjiang, highlights stability, security. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to fully and faithfully implement the policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the governance of Xinjiang in the new era, highlighting social stability and lasting security as the overarching goal.
(2022-07-16). Thursday 7/14: KPOO WorkWeek Radio Focuses On Life of California Labor Communist Elaine Yoneda Black. indybay.org KPOO Radio 89.5 FM or www.kpoo.com…
(2022-07-16). [Correspondence] Payment and progress in peer review. thelancet.com Phaik Y Cheah and Jan Piasecki1 raise important issues about the peer review process arising from the assessment of Aczel and colleagues,2 including the under-representation of female reviewers and reviewers from low-income countries, and they suggest that payment for reviews should be trialled to address these issues. Traditionally, agreeing to review manuscripts and grant applications has been largely motivated by philanthropic motives to contribute to a key aspect of biomedical research and the pursuit of knowledge, ultimately offering a potential public benefit.
(2022-07-16). Monday 7/25: Dockers Rebellion and Betrayal, The Lessons For Today of the Liverpool Dockers Strike. indybay.org LaborFest On Line Event with link on laborfest.net…
(2022-07-16). China's economy secures positive Q2 growth, steam gathering for further recovery. ecns.cn In Q2, the economy grew 0.4 percent. Due to the complex international environment and the impact of the COVID-19 outbreaks at home and other factors that exceeded expectations, downward pressure on the economy increased in Q2, NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui told a press conference Friday.
(2022-07-16). Stop Privatization Of Education, Port & Public Services: SLAP Educational Conf Intros Pt 1. indybay.org The Schools and Labor Against Privatization SLAP had an educational conference on July 9, 2022 and these were the first two presentations…
(2022-07-16). Mayo Clinic Laboratories launches monkeypox test to increase access, availability. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic Laboratories can now test for monkeypox, a rare viral infection, using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) orthopoxvirus test kit. This announcement comes shortly after the Department of Health and Human Services' news release naming Mayo Clinic Laboratories as a crucial resource to address monkeypox testing access in communities throughout the country. "Our teams have worked collaboratively with the CDC to validate this test to provide patients with accurate…
(2022-07-16). China has been paying close attention to difficulties in Sri Lanka: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn As a friendly neighbor, China has been paying close attention to difficulties and challenges Sri Lanka faces and, whenever possible, has always provided support to Sri Lanka's socioeconomic development, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Friday.
(2022-07-15). Sisi says "let them eat leaves" as food crisis sharpens class lines in Egypt. mronline.org 
The war in Ukraine, rising oil prices and spiralling global inflation have fuelled food scarcity and surges in the price of basic goods in Egypt. Most worrying among the goods affected is bread, which makes up almost 40 percent of the average Egyptian's diet.
(2022-07-15). Dodger Stadium Concession Workers Threaten An All-Star Strike. popularresistance.org Among the owners of Major League Baseball's 30 teams, 24 are billionaires. For decades they have complained that labor costs — particularly players' salaries and pensions, but also the stadium workers who park cars; sell hot dogs, beer, peanuts and T-shirts; clean the stadiums; show fans to their seats; and provide security — have undermined baseball's finances. Yet since 2011, the teams' average value has tripled — from $523 million ($680 million in today's dollars) to $2.1 billion. | Mark Walter, the founder and CEO of Guggenheim Partners, a Chicago-based investment company with over $310 bill…
(2022-07-15). House Passes $8 Billion NDAA, Adding $37 Billion More Than Biden Requested. news.antiwar.com The House on Thursday passed its version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that The massive spending bill passed in a vote of 329-101, Lawmakers in…
(2022-07-15). Exporting Blood and Benjamins: U.S. Capitalism is the Real Dracula. libya360.wordpress.com Stephen Millies Over 70% of the world's plasma comes from the exploited poor in the USA Malcolm X declared, "you show me a capitalist, I'll show you a bloodsucker." U.S. capitalists are the biggest bloodsuckers on the planet. In 2017, human blood and plasma were the tenth largest U.S. export items, with sales of $28.6 billion. That's…
(2022-07-15). Major crypto lender files for bankruptcy. wsws.org In documents filed yesterday, Celsius Network revealed it had a $1.2 billion shortfall in its balance sheet resulting from what CEO Alex Mashinsky said were poor investment decisions and unanticipated losses.
(2022-07-15). US 'Does Not Support Organized Violent Opposition to the Taliban'. news.antiwar.com Having lost the Afghanistan War outright, the US State Department is now saying that their goal is to see the Taliban give rise to a stable and sustainable Afghanistan, and It's not just not supporting violence against the Taliban, but "discourage other powers from doing so as well." The Taliban isn't facing huge opposition, but the most likely would be the groups that were US-backed up to their outright defeat. | This is an awkward position, with the US spending decades positioning the Ta…
(2022-07-15). China, Thailand and Laos: Economic Friendship Growing Stronger. journal-neo.org 
Today, China aims to become a major foreign economic partner for as many countries as possible. It is well known that an efficient logistics system is an important factor for economic growth. This is why China is developing the One Belt, One Road Initiative, as well as many other significant infrastructure projects. On July 5, …
(2022-07-15). Starbucks Union Files Complaint: Store Closures Are Retaliation. popularresistance.org After Starbucks announced Monday that it plans to shutter 16 U.S. stores as part of a strategy for addressing store safety, the chain's rapidly expanding union filed a complaint alleging that the move is a form of union-busting. | The coffee chain said that by the end of the month it would close six stores each in the Seattle and Los Angeles areas, two in Portland, Oregon, as well as locations in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. On Wednesday, Seattle workers from Starbucks Workers United (SBWU)‚Äâ—‚Äâthe union that has been organizing stores across the country‚Ä…
(2022-07-15). The Push-Pull Of The Abortion Rights Struggle Continues In The US. popularresistance.org In the few weeks that have passed since the United States Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, stripping abortion rights from millions of women, the people of the United States have continued to fight back. Despite assurances, the response from the Biden administration to protect the fundamental right has been deemed resoundingly inadequate. | "The mass of the people will have to flood into the streets, and will have to remain in the streets," Monica Illyrich, a young organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told Peoples Dispatch. "We will have to do everything they can to let the…
(2022-07-15). M.I. Asma — 'On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal'. mronline.org 
It is a testament to the power of On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal that a set of interventions written across the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic should remain so potent and resonant as we approach its fourth year.
(2022-07-15). Challenging the AFL-CIO's Labor Imperialism. orinocotribune.com 
A little known fact, even to those who work there, is that the AFL-CIO organizes in support of US imperialist policies that drive a global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions, negatively impacting US workers too. The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center is one of the four core components of the National Endowment for Democracy. Clearing the FOG speaks with Kim Scipes, a co-founder of the new Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO's International Operations (LEPAIO). Scipes describes the long history of labor imperialism and how unions are challenging it. Adrienne Pine provides a brief report on workers prot…
(2022-07-15). Michelle Wilde Anderson: Saving Broke and Broken America, One Town at a Time. scheerpost.com 
[ | Click to subscribe on: America's wealth gap has been cratering since the 2008 Great Recession, although the groundwork for this form of grotesque inequality has been…
(2022-07-15). Top Analyst Darius Dale: The Federal Reserve And US Government Could 'Break Something' If They Drain $900M Of Liquidity. moguldom.com Rising inflation has many people confused about the state of the economy. But 70 percent of Americans feel there will be a recession soon, according to a new survey from MagnifyMoney. Some consumers think we are already in a recession. Not so, says top financial analyst Darius Dale. Dale is the founder and CEO of 42 Macro, macro risk …
(2022-07-15). Disunity wrecks Mario Draghi's neoliberal government in Italy. peoplesdispatch.org Italy is in a political crisis as the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) opposed parts of the economic stimulus package proposed by their coalition partners in the Mario Draghi-led government. | On July 14, Prime Minister Mario Draghi survived a vote of confidence in the Italian Senate, but he tendered his resignation to the president of the county citing his unwillingness to lead the government without the support of the M5S. The Five Star Movement boycotted the vote of confidence in the Senate on the same day. | The Italian president Sergio Mattarella refused to accept the resignation. The Five Star Movement has…
(2022-07-15). Purchasing power of workers' wages take biggest tumble in 40 years. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – Real earnings, or workers' wages after adjusting for inflation, had their biggest drop in 40 years last month, as prices continued to rise faster than paychecks. Real average weekly earnings, which best reflect workers' paychecks after adjusting for changes in wages, prices and hours worked, fell 1% in June of 2022 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over the last year, real average weekly earnings fell 3.9% as inflation outpaced pay raises and average weekly hours fell by almost an hour. | Prices paid by production and non-supervisory workers (the CPI-W) rose 9.7% as compared to June…
(2022-07-15). Does the Future Belong to People Who Profit Off Our 'Excessive Wealth Disorder'? inequality.org
(2022-07-15). Bitcoin Breaks Back Below $20K: Here's What Traders And Analysts Are Saying On Next Big Move. moguldom.com At least five times in the last 30 days, the price of Bitcoin has dipped below $20,000 and analysts say holders of the cryptocurrency should expect further price declines. Over the past few months, the total crypto market cap imploded from $3 trillion to $991 million. June was particularly excruciating for Bitcoin investors because BTC …
(2022-07-15). Who Is Nicholas Perkins? 7 Things To Know About The Howard University Alumnus Who Purchased Fuddruckers Restaurants. moguldom.com It's no secret that HBCUs produce some of the best and brightest leaders in America who often make history and blaze trails. Howard alum Nicholas Perkins has continued that tradition by becoming the first Black person to own a national burger franchise when he purchased Fuddruckers Restaurant chain in June. Here are seven things to …
(2022-07-14). Xi inspects Urumqi in China's Xinjiang. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits Xinjiang University in the city of Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 12, 2022.
(2022-07-15). Mass anti-government protests hit Albania. wsws.org Thousands of people, enraged over skyrocketing prices for fuel and food, poured onto the streets of Tirana last week to demand the resignation of the government.
(2022-07-14). Xi inspects Shihezi City of Xinjiang. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visited Shihezi City on Wednesday afternoon during an inspection tour in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
(2022-07-15). New Zealand government refuses to stop mass COVID infection, as doctors warn of catastrophe. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government is refusing to take the necessary public health measures to stop soaring hospitalisations and deaths.
(2022-07-15). MetroAccess workers ratify vote to go on strike in Washington D.C. as transit system's financial crisis becomes critical. wsws.org The authorization for a strike by MetroAccess workers comes amid WMATA's ongoing financial crisis, which threatens a tremendous loss of jobs and services.
(2022-07-15). How to avoid the mother of all recessions. cpusa.org 
The financial markets shook in April as the Federal Reserve announced that the United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had shrunk in the past quarter by 1.4%. Economists began to fret about the possibility of recession. Strictly speaking, the contraction (shrinking) of the economy over two quarters signals the beginning of a recession. Concerns …
(2022-07-14). Chinese premier stresses consolidating recovery, stabilizing economy. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has stressed consolidating the foundation of economic recovery, calling for efforts to bring the economy back on a normal track as soon as possible and keep it running within a reasonable range.
(2022-07-15). Real Debt Trap: Sri Lanka Owes Vast Majority to West, Not China. orinocotribune.com 
By Benjamin Norton  ; 2, 2022 | Sri Lanka owes 81% of its external debt to US and European financial institutions and Western allies Japan and India. China owns just 10%. But Washington blames imaginary "Chinese debt traps" for the nation's crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program. | Facing a deep economic crisis and bankruptcy, Sri Lanka was rocked by large protests this July, which led to the resignation of the government. | Numerous Western political leaders and media outlets blamed this uprising on a supposed Chinese "debt trap," echoing a deceptive narrative that has been thor…
(2022-07-15). All IYSSE candidates elected to Berlin's Humboldt University student parliament. wsws.org The IYSSE's strong result is also an expression of the growing support for a socialist and internationalist perspective among students and young people.
(2022-07-15). Trabajadores de Panamá ratifican que continuarán movilizados en las calles. telesurtv.net Organizadores de las protestas contra el modelo neoliberal no reconocen el diálogo que les quiere imponer el Gobierno.
(2022-07-15). Worker missing for two months determined to have fallen into industrial plastics shredder. wsws.org Duncan (Alex) Gordon died when he fell 11 feet into a plastics shredder despite the company's 2018 citation for lack of fall protection for the machine.
(2022-07-15). Mayo Clinic receives first-of-its-kind accreditation for diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, the academic testing arm for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, has been accredited as a diagnostic site by the PCD Foundation. Mayo Clinic is the first and only center of excellence to receive PCD Foundation accreditation for the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare and debilitating lung disease. "This recognition of our laboratory services by the PCD Foundation is a clear reflection of our shared commitment to…
(2022-07-15). How does inflation affect seniors? america.cgtn.com See how the inflation is affecting senior citizens in the U.S.
(2022-07-15). Starbucks baristas unionize after Connecticut bans bosses' anti-union 'captive audience' meetings. peoplesworld.org 
VERNON, Conn.—Baristas at the Starbucks in Vernon won their union election 13-1 on July 14, two weeks after a new law went into effect in Connecticut preventing employers from disciplining employees who refuse to sit through mandatory anti-union meetings. Connecticut labor leaders had fought to ban "captive audience" meetings for more than a decade. A …
(2022-07-15). Patients with severe brachial plexus injuries who undergo amputation report benefits, Mayo study finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Reconstruction surgery may not work for some people with severe brachial plexus injuries, so they choose to undergo amputation. In a retrospective review by Mayo Clinic researchers, these patients reported less mechanical shoulder pain, higher employment rates and more satisfaction after amputation. The paper appears online in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that sends signals from the spinal cord to the shoulder,…
(2022-07-14). Russia legalizes special economic measures to support military operations abroad. ecns.cn Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Thursday allowing the government to take special economic measures to support the armed forces during their counter-terrorism and other operations abroad.
(2022-07-15). Putin signs law ratifying Iran-EAEU free trade zone protocol. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 15 (MNA) — Putin approved the law on ratification of the protocol to the provisional agreement signed in 2018, leading to the establishment of the free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Iran.
(2022-07-14). Party leaders of Pacific Island countries laud exchanges, collaboration with China. ecns.cn Political party leaders from Pacific Island countries have hailed their countries' cooperation with China, saying that the two sides would strengthen exchanges and seek shared development.
(2022-07-14). Xi says Xinjiang is a hub in Belt and Road cooperation. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said as the Belt and Road cooperation advances, Xinjiang is no longer a remote corner but a core area and a hub.
(2022-07-14). Momentum of economy to pick up pace. ecns.cn China's economy will likely continue to rebound in the second half of the year, and the country will keep economic performance within a reasonable range, the country's top economic regulator said on Thursday.
(2022-07-15). Confronting "Policy Murder" and the Rising Violence of the Right. commondreams.org The Poor People's Campaign aims to mobilize poor and low-income voters from all races, ethnicities, and faiths to defy violence in all of these forms.
(2022-07-15). Debt Traps & Terrorism: The Roots of Sri Lanka's Crisis. journal-neo.org 
The island nation of Sri Lanka, located south-southeast of India in the Indian Ocean has suffered economic and now political chaos that has grabbed international headlines. The Western media has floated narratives ranging from "debt trap diplomacy" perpetrated by China and its Belt and Road Initiative to food shortages spurred by Russia's "blockade" of the …
(2022-07-15). "Hell on Earth!"—US railroad workers speak out against intolerable working conditions. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site has received a large volume of comments from railroad workers across the United States in recent days, which we are publishing to bring attention to our world audience the conditions in the industry.
(2022-07-15). Australian journalist Andrew Fowler says the persecution of Assange is a "symptom of a declining empire" wsws.org "If Assange is extradited to the US the future will be bleak indeed for anyone who wants to stand up against the military and industrial interests that have led us to climate catastrophe and, once again, talk of war."
(2022-07-14). Stabilize growth while reining in inflation, Li says. ecns.cn Premier Li Keqiang has called for parallel steps to stabilize economic growth and prevent inflation, saying that the foundation of the ongoing economic recovery is not yet solid and greater efforts must be made to enforce policy measures that have already been rolled out.
(2022-07-14). Xi stresses protecting cultural heritage after watching ethnic performance in Xinjiang. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, watched a show of the Kirgiz ethnic minority epic Manas at the Museum of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Wednesday morning.