Daily Archives: April 13, 2024

2024-04-13: News Headlines

WSWS (2024-04-13). Berlin police raid and shut down anti-genocide conference. wsws.org On Friday afternoon, Berlin witnessed scenes reminiscent of the era of the Nazi regime. Hundreds of police officers terrorised a Palestine Congress, which was directed against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, eventually banning it altogether.

Brenda Norrell (2024-04-13). Australian Lithium Company and Navajo Enterprise Plan to Mine Hualapai Ceremonial Site. indybay.org Australia's Arizona Lithium plans to mine lithium in Hualapai's ceremonial place, and a Navajo Nation enterprise signed an agreement in March to operate the lithium mine for the Australian company. This includes securing the permits, drilling, and poisoning the water, in violation of federal laws, at Hualapai's sacred spring, where Hualapai have offered their prayers since time immemorial.

midwesternmarx (2024-04-13). Why We Must Inherit the Third American Revolution By: Jeremiah Kim. midwesternmarx.com On what basis do we call the Civil Rights Movement a revolution? And will there be one to follow?The year is 2024. America is today engulfed in its greatest political crisis perhaps since the Civil War. The blatant hypocrisy and contempt shown by our elites, decades of deindustrialization, neglect, and downward economic mobility, cities and towns overrun by deaths of despair, and America's most recent proxy wars in Gaza and Ukraine have, in unprecedented fashion, driven Americans aw …

WSWS (2024-04-13). UAW President Fain at the White House dinner: The corporatist alliance for World War III. wsws.org The role of the bureaucracy in the plans for war are to discipline the working class on the "home front," to ensure the continued production and deployment of military equipment and to prevent opposition from workers both to the war itself and the demands for their "sacrifice," which will inevitably accompany it.

WSWS (2024-04-13). President of Germany's Kiel Institute proposes financing war rearmament using the Nazi model. wsws.org As well as massive cuts in social programmes, the president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy is proposing an annual special fund of €150 billion for the military, financed through credit. Just as under the Nazis, such massive credits can only be repaid through the booty of imperialist wars of conquest.

Bing-Syuan Zeng, Ping-Tao Tseng, Chih-Sung Liang (2024-04-13). Correspondence] Over-diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. thelancet.com In their Perspectives piece, Cristian Montenegro1 highlights that international and national funding agencies might influence the definition of participation and community engagement in mental health research in a continuous cycle. To date, clinical practices adhere to a validated diagnostic process, and the treatment approach can vary depending on alterations in the diagnosed condition. An important illustration of this is the transition from a diagnosis of unipolar depression to bipolar depression, which necessitates a distinct therapeutic strategy.

Himmatrao Saluba Bawaskar, Gargi H Sapkal, Pramodini Himmatrao Bawaskar (2024-04-13). Correspondence] The complexities of mental health in rural India. thelancet.com Depression is often taken as a fact of life. Relentless competition, stressful work lives, and additional responsibilities aggravate mental health circumstances for young people. Many parents also impose their interests and passions onto their children, causing them to neglect their own passions.1 Between 2017 and 2023, 23 students died by suicide at Kota, a popular education hub for examination preparation and pre-entrance examinations in Rajasthan, India, due to low examination grades.2 Poor mental health and suicide elsewhere in the world have been detailed in the literature.

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