Paul Haeder (2021-09-22). So You Go Deaf at a Protest: *MIC/MICC* at the Helm. dissidentvoice.org *Military Industrial Complex, or Lawrence Wilkerson's, Military Industrial Congressional Complex* You get a story on the supposed Havana Syndrome, and then you also get the concept of mass psychogenic illness (you know, it's all in your head, buster, those heart palpitations, the sweats, the throbbing veins, after getting mRNA "vaccinated") explained, and, well, no huge …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-09-22). Mayo researchers link gut microbiome to rheumatoid arthritis prognosis. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A significant indicator of whether a patient with rheumatoid arthritis will improve over the course of disease may lie in part in their gut, according to new research from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The study, published in Genome Medicine, found that predicting a patient's future rheumatoid arthritis prognosis could be possible by zeroing in on the trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that inhabit their gastrointestinal tract, known as the…

John Feffer (2021-09-22). Working for a Real Mad Man. fpif.org When he was trying to win the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon famously told his chief of staff that he wanted Communist leaders—in the Soviet Union, in North Vietnam—to think that the U.S. president was a mad man, that he was capable of doing pretty much anything up to and including the use of nuclear weapons. Fear of an unpredictable, erratic leader would bring the Communists to the negotiating table and render them more conciliatory. | Nixon's was, of course, a calculated craziness. "When the wind is southerly," Tricky Dick certainly could distinguish "a hawk from a handsaw," as Hamlet famously put it.

Dean Baker (2021-09-22). Biden Can Transfer mRNA Technology and Leave the Legal Burdens with Moderna and Pfizer. cepr.net The Biden administration could find ways around the legal weapons that Moderna and Pfizer might use to block the transfer of the technology they use to produce mRNA vaccines.

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-21). Moscow will pay close attention. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com As the Kremlin paid close attention to Turkey shooting down its military aircraft and destroying its anti-aircraft batteries in Syria, murdering its allies and contractors in Syria, Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, selling combat drones to kill Russian speakers in Donetsk and Lugansk, participating in the Sea Breeze and Rapid Trident U.S.-NATO war games in Ukraine, building …

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-21). Turkish combat drones to be used in Western Sahara after Karabakh, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Donbass. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Morocco receives 1st Turkish Bayraktar TB2 delivery: Reports Morocco has received the first units of Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs)… **** The Royal Moroccan Armed Forces (FAR) ordered a total of 13 such drones, according to the reports. **** The deal comes during regional tensions and at a time the Maghreb country …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-09-21). Mayo researchers link gut microbiome to rheumatoid arthritis prognosis. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A significant indicator of whether a patient with rheumatoid arthritis will improve over the course of disease may lie in part in their gut, according to new research from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The study, published in Genome Medicine, found that predicting a patient's future rheumatoid arthritis prognosis could be possible by zeroing in on the trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that inhabit their gastrointestinal tract, known as the…

Dr. Edward Hunt (2021-09-20). Somewhere Over the Afghan Horizon, U.S. Drones Still Fly. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-09-20). New Revelations on Haiti Assassination: Grenade-Dropping Drones, Paranoid President & Guards Who Ran. democracynow.org Miami Herald Haiti and Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles discusses new revelations about the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse. In her piece, "Grenade-dropping drones, a paranoid president, guards who ran: Latest on Haiti assassination," she reports the night President Jovenel MoàØse was shot "was actually the second time in a span of weeks that his life was in danger, according to testimony from one of the Colombians in custody, and one of the Haitian Americans."

Tom Engelhardt (2021-09-20). Tomgram: William Astore, A Bright Future for Weapons and War. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. There are always winners and losers, aren't there? For instance, the seven children who died in that last drone strike the U.S. military launched in Kabul as it was leaving town were certainly losers. Those who ordered that …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-20). Havana Syndrome, Directed Energy Weapons, and the New Cold War. libya360.wordpress.com Alan Macleod While the jury is still out on who committed the attacks against U.S. officials, or even whether there were any attacks at all, directed energy weapons certainly do exist. Havana Syndrome might be science fiction, but directed energy weapons are very much science fact. HAVANA — It started in 2016. U.S. officials in…