Notably, it was on December 23, 2021, during the initial surge of the Omicron variant, when the WHO, after repeated denunciations of the airborne mode of transmission was forced to accept this simple premise. At the time, there had been 5.4 million confirmed deaths and over 17 million excess deaths. 

Quietly, they updated their guidance, writing, “Current evidence suggests that the virus spreads mainly between people who are in close contact with each other, for example at conversational distance … the virus can also spread in poorly ventilated and/or crowded indoor settings, where people tend to spend longer periods of time. This is because aerosols can remain suspended in the air or travel farther than conversational distance (this is often called long-range aerosol or long-range airborne transmission.”

Police just broke up and arrested all students at the University of Minnesota encampment for Gaza , charging them with trespassing and banning all students from campus for one year.

Today was day 1 of the University of Minnesota encampment for Gaza inspired by Columbia & Yale.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee held a hearing on Wednesday with Boeing quality engineer and whistleblower Sam Salehpour. The topic was ongoing and serious safety and quality issues surrounding the Boeing 777 “Triple Seven” and 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

We have nothing to lose but our chains!

Nearly 300 bodies were discovered in a series of mass graves near Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, on Sunday and Monday. The dead include men, women and children, as well as people with clear indications of being medical patients. Some were discovered handcuffed, indicating that victims were killed in mass summary executions.

After the discovery of similar mass graves in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital last month, the mass grave at Nasser Hospital presents further evidence that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has turned Gaza’s hospitals into killing fields as part of its ongoing genocide against the Palestinians in the narrow enclave.

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda visited the mass grave on Monday, documenting that “some bodies” were found “without organs or skin or heads.”

Columbia’s solidarity camp for Gaza has sparked a nationwide student antiwar movement.

The student protests erupting on college campuses across the U.S. have propelled the demand for institutions to divest from Israel closer to becoming a reality

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Nearly 300 bodies were discovered in a series of mass graves near Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, on Sunday and Monday. The dead include men, women and children, as well as people with clear indications of being medical patients. Some were discovered handcuffed, indicating that victims were killed in mass summary executions.

After the discovery of similar mass graves in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital last month, the mass grave at Nasser Hospital presents further evidence that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has turned Gaza’s hospitals into killing fields as part of its ongoing genocide against the Palestinians in the narrow enclave.

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda visited the mass grave on Monday, documenting that “some bodies” were found “without organs or skin or heads.”

In a crass display of class justice, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer (weapons handler) on the set of the film Rust, was handed the maximum allowable sentence, 18 months in prison, for the felony charge of involuntary manslaughter earlier this week in a New Mexico courthouse.

Baldwin is being tried for his role as an actor, for pulling the trigger (which he disputes doing), he is not being tried as a producer. It has never been industry practice for actors to check the weapons handed them, and if he is convicted of involuntary manslaughter that would have far-reaching consequences affecting not only performers, but workers in every industry should something go wrong with equipment provided to them by management.

Workers everywhere will be caught in the Catch-22 of being legally responsible for not violating industry standard operating procedures, but also liable for termination if they do violate those standards. This is class justice in the United States in 2024.

A Quebec band has been censored for using its songs to accuse the Horne Smelter of poisoning the residents of Rouyn-Noranda, a town in northern Quebec’s northwestern Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.

Local metal band Guhn Twei was recently disinvited from the Alienfest festival scheduled for June in La Sarre, another Abitibi town about an hour’s drive from Rouyn-Noranda. A few days later, the festival was completely cancelled by its organizers, one of whom is an employee and shareholder of Métal Marquis, a local company whose main customer is the Horne Smelter.

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In a series of votes Saturday, the US House of Representatives gave bipartisan support to $95 billion in supplemental military funding: $61 billion for the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine; $26 billion for arming Israel in the midst of its genocide in Gaza and military confrontation with Iran; and $8 billion for building up Taiwan as a war base against China.

The resulting legislation will give congressional sanction to the Biden administration’s policy of global war. The very fact that it will combine into a single whole the US interventions in three widely separated regions—Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East—gives expression to a fundamental change in world politics.

The US ruling elite views its conflicts with Russia, Iran and China as interconnected theaters in the same struggle, the initial stages of a third world war. American imperialism, the strongest military power but a declining economic one, is engaged in a last-ditch effort to maintain its global hegemony against any possible challenge.

In a series of votes Saturday, the US House of Representatives gave bipartisan support to $95 billion in supplemental military funding: $61 billion for the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine; $26 billion for arming Israel in the midst of its genocide in Gaza and military confrontation with Iran; and $8 billion for building up Taiwan as a war base against China.

The resulting legislation will give congressional sanction to the Biden administration’s policy of global war. The very fact that it will combine into a single whole the US interventions in three widely separated regions—Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East—gives expression to a fundamental change in world politics.

The US ruling elite views its conflicts with Russia, Iran and China as interconnected theaters in the same struggle, the initial stages of a third world war. American imperialism, the strongest military power but a declining economic one, is engaged in a last-ditch effort to maintain its global hegemony against any possible challenge.

The following statement was adopted by the UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee, founded last year to oppose the sellout contract pushed by the Teamsters bureaucracy. To contact the Committee, email [email protected] or fill out the form at the bottom of this page.