In this exclusive interview with the World Socialist Web Site,
Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other
principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the
COVID-19 pandemic.
On Monday the US Supreme Court permitted the Trump administration to
revoke the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) granted to some 350,000
Venezuelan immigrants, permitting their immediate deportation.
In
doing so, the Court reversed a San Francisco district judge’s order to
block Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s
orders from March of this year to remove TPS status for Venezuelans.
Lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security admitted in
Wednesday’s hearing that only one of the eight immigrants currently in
Africa was actually from South Sudan. The other seven men, according to
DHS, are citizens of Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Burma and Vietnam and had never
been to South Sudan.
That so many people face death by starvation, under conditions of
unprecedented scientific and technological developments in food
production and distribution, is a devastating indictment of the
capitalist system of production for private profit. The report itself
was barely mentioned in the mainstream media, indicating the degree to
which famine and starvation have been normalized by the world’s ruling
elites.
NHS FightBack held an online meeting Monday attended by health
workers at the frontline of attacks on the National Health Service (NHS)
by the Labour government.
The meeting was called mobilize health
workers against Labour’s NHS privatization policies, including the mass
transfer of staff to private subsidiaries.
Despite the bloody toll, neither national rail operator Deutsche Bahn
nor the EVG and GDL rail unions are taking any notice. The EVG has not
once this year commented on any specific work accident on the railways.
Following the same May 9 incident during which the mayor of Newark, New
Jersey, Democrat Ras Baraka, was arrested by federal Department of
Homeland Security agents, one of the three members of the US House
of Representatives from New Jersey who accompanied Baraka, LaMonica
McIver, has been charged by the US Department of Justice for allegedly
assaulting federal officers during the ensuing fracas.
HBO Max’s medical drama The Pitt has struck a chord with both
healthcare workers and general audiences. One of the platform’s five
most-watched debuts, it has already been renewed for a second season and
widely discussed on TikTok and other social media.
The strike
set for Thursday, May 22 by registered nurses at MemorialCare Long
Beach Medical Center and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long
Beach, along with Alhambra Hospital Medical Center in Alhambra,
California, is a courageous stand which deserves the support of all
workers in southern California and the United States. The strike can and
should become part of a broader fight pitting the working class against
the corporate oligarchy which rules society.
What nurses are
striking against are universal features of for-profit healthcare. This
includes unsafe staffing, brutal workloads, and cuts that endanger
everyone who walks through their hospital doors.
Under pressure from the rank and file, the Canadian Union of Postal
Workers was forced to issue a 72-hour strike notice on Monday.
The legal ban on strike action— dictated by the former-Trudeau Liberal
government when it criminalized the last strike in December— expires
Thursday, May 22. This sets the stage for a renewed confrontation
between postal workers and a ruling class gang-up of Canada Post
management, an even more openly right-wing Liberal government under the
former central banker Mark Carney, and the saboteurs in the CUPW
bureaucracy.
Albanese’s decision to attend the papal inauguration soon after winning the May 3 election was primarily driven by the heightened geostrategic tensions triggered by the US Trump administration’s global trade war.
South Korea is holding a presidential election June 3 to replace
former president Yoon Suk-yeol, who was removed from office for imposing
martial law in a failed coup attempt in December. The Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung has capitalized on widespread anger towards
Yoon and his People Power Party to emerge as the strong
frontrunner in the contest.
The results of the latest elections across Europe underscore a dangerous
and accelerating trend: the rise of far-right and fascistic forces and
their growing integration into the heart of official politics.
More than six weeks after the incident, Adams’ family and co-workers
have yet to receive any explanation about the causes of the fatal
accident from Stellantis, the United Auto Workers union or the Michigan
Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
