What I Know and Don’t Know about SARS-CoV-2 Virus

19 June 2021 — Edward Curtin

After fifteen months of assiduous reading, study, observation, and research, I have come to some conclusions about what is called COVID-19.  I would like to emphasize that I have done this work obsessively since it seemed so important.  I have consulted information and arguments across all media, corporate and alternative, academic, medical, books, etc.  I have consulted with researchers around the world.  I have read the websites of the CDC, the World Health Organization, and government and non-government health organizations.  In other words, I have left no stone unturned, despite the overt or covert political leanings of the sources.  I have done this as a sociologist and writer, not as a medical doctor, although many of my sources have been medical doctors and medical studies.

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Palestine: Smashed Houses, Crushed Orchards, A Trail of Unrestrained Malice

19 June 2021 — Barbara Nimri Aziz

by Barbara Nimri Aziz

Christian Science Monitor Illustration accompanying my 1996 article, below

Residents of Sheikh Jarrah’s resistance to eviction by Israeli Jews evolved into a military confrontation so lopsided, the Israeli bombardments against Gaza so terrifying, it drew widespread condemnation (the US government excepted).

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The Trouble With PCR Tests

19 June 2021 — Swiss Policy Research

First Published: October 2020PCR cycle threshold (11-37) and positive cell culture (black line, 100% to 0%). The colored bars indicate the number of positive cell cultures per ct per week after infection (1 to 3 weeks). (Jafaar/Raoult)

Already in mid-March, SPR explained that the highly sensitive PCR tests are prone to producing clinically false positive results and their individual predictive value may easily drop below 50%.

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