Daily Archives: March 29, 2023

2023-03-29: News Headlines

_____ (2023-03-28). U.S. Bombs Syria in Defense of Its Illegal Occupation. strategic-culture.org While the Pentagon has shifted its focus from the decades of wars of aggression in the Middle East to the preparation of new and potentially world-catastrophic nuclear wars against Russia and China, it still has the capacity to unleash massive violence against the peoples of Syria, Iran, Iraq and the rest of the region.

A. B. Abrams (2023-03-28). West's False Atrocity Stories Were Key to Justifying Iraq Invasion. Interviewing Scholar A. B. Abrams on New War Propaganda Research. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous103 (2023-03-28). 20 Years On, US Failure In Iraq Still Lingers On, With A Stronger Iran. southfront.org A US soldier runs at a coalition forces forward base near West Mosul, Iraq June 21, 2017 (Source: REUTERS)This is part of a larger context, beyond the Middle East: that of the decline of the US world order. | Written by Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | On March 19 Iran and Iraq signed a border security agreement during Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), visit to Baghdad. On that occasion, referring to Iranian Kurdish factions w…

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-28). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…




Matt Kennard (2023-03-28). BP Extracted Iraqi Oil Worth £15BN After British Invasion. orinocotribune.com By Matt Kennard — Mar 22, 2023 | Despite UK ministers denying the war was about oil, the flagship British company reaped a bonanza upon its return to Iraq after the 2003 invasion, Declassified has found. | ‚Ä¢ BP returned to Iraq in 2009 after a 35-year absence and was awarded a significant interest in the country's largest oil field near British-occupied Basra | ‚Ä¢ BP has pumped 262m barrels of Iraqi oil since 2011 | ‚Ä¢ Sir John Sawers, the UK's first special representative to Iraq after invasion, has banked £1.1m since joining BP's board in 2015 | &sb…

Editor (2023-03-28). Canadians protest outside U.S. embassy against Biden's visit. mronline.org This week, Friday marked the 24th anniversary of the 78-day bombing campaign NATO carried out against Yugoslavia, and Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-29). Five ways AI promises to transform organ transplants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to become a valuable tool for transplant to save more patients' lives. Recent studies have already shown promise in using AI to analyze large sets of data to discover important trends and patterns. In this expert alert, Mayo Clinic transplant experts share how this technology may improve outcomes for patients. "Physicians once practiced medicine without CT scans and with only limited lab tests. Now, these tools…

jamanetwork (2023-03-28). Incorrect Data in Abstract and Figure. jamanetwork.com In the Original Investigation titled "Four-Year Visual Outcomes in the Protocol W Randomized Trial of Intravitreous Aflibercept for Prevention of Vision-Threatening Complications of Diabetic Retinopathy," published in the February 7, 2023, issue of JAMA, 3 items were published incorrectly. In the Abstract, the severity level of 43 to 53 for the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (EDTRS) was correct, but it should not have shown a range explaining best and worst scores. A comma was inserted into the Conclusion sections of the Abstract and the text to clarify meaning: "Among patients with NPDR but without C…

Matt Kennard (2023-03-28). BP Extracted Iraqi Oil Worth £15BN After British Invasion. orinocotribune.com By Matt Kennard — Mar 22, 2023 | Despite UK ministers denying the war was about oil, the flagship British company reaped a bonanza upon its return to Iraq after the 2003 invasion, Declassified has found. | ‚Ä¢ BP returned to Iraq in 2009 after a 35-year absence and was awarded a significant interest in the country's largest oil field near British-occupied Basra | ‚Ä¢ BP has pumped 262m barrels of Iraqi oil since 2011 | ‚Ä¢ Sir John Sawers, the UK's first special representative to Iraq after invasion, has banked £1.1m since joining BP's board in 2015 | &sb…

Editor (2023-03-28). Canadians protest outside U.S. embassy against Biden's visit. mronline.org This week, Friday marked the 24th anniversary of the 78-day bombing campaign NATO carried out against Yugoslavia, and Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-03-29). Five ways AI promises to transform organ transplants. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to become a valuable tool for transplant to save more patients' lives. Recent studies have already shown promise in using AI to analyze large sets of data to discover important trends and patterns. In this expert alert, Mayo Clinic transplant experts share how this technology may improve outcomes for patients. "Physicians once practiced medicine without CT scans and with only limited lab tests. Now, these tools…

jamanetwork (2023-03-28). Incorrect Data in Abstract and Figure. jamanetwork.com In the Original Investigation titled "Four-Year Visual Outcomes in the Protocol W Randomized Trial of Intravitreous Aflibercept for Prevention of Vision-Threatening Complications of Diabetic Retinopathy," published in the February 7, 2023, issue of JAMA, 3 items were published incorrectly. In the Abstract, the severity level of 43 to 53 for the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (EDTRS) was correct, but it should not have shown a range explaining best and worst scores. A comma was inserted into the Conclusion sections of the Abstract and the text to clarify meaning: "Among patients with NPDR but without C…

1941-01-29 05:06:00 | 05:06 EST | tr | 18 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0