Black Left Critique of Kamala Harris | Black Agenda Report

Immediately after Joe Biden announced that he would not seek re-election and instead endorsed Kamala Harris, she was anointed as the Democratic Party presidential nominee with little analysis of her record or her program. Black Agenda Report has been writing about Harris for some time, and we share what we and others have noted about her record over the years.
— Read on www.blackagendareport.com/black-left-critique-kamala-harris

DNA on weapons implicates ex-U.S. Green Beret in attempted Venezuelan coup, federal officials say | AP News

Federal investigators say they have uncovered the DNA of a former U.S. Green Beret on some of the 60 automatic weapons he allegedly smuggled from Florida to South America as part of a failed 2020 coup attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
— Read on apnews.com/article/venezuela-maduro-coup-arms-smuggling-dna-da832a30eea2150d0366851935998bd7

The Truth About Jimmy Carter

On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and socio-economic fate of millions of Venezuela’s urban and rural poor. If Chavez is defeated and if the Right takes power, it will privatize the state petroleum and gas company, selling it to US multinationals, withdraw from OPEC, raise its production and exports to the US, thus lowering Venezuelan revenues by half or more.
— Read on archive.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/2004/0708petrascarter.htm

A One Health Investigation into H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus Epizootics on Two Dairy Farms | medRxiv

Background: In early April 2024 we studied two Texas dairy farms which had suffered incursions of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) the previous month. Methods: We employed molecular assays, cell and egg culture, Sanger and next generation sequencing to isolate and characterize viruses from multiple farm specimens (cow nasal swab, milk specimens, fecal slurry, and a dead bird). Results: We detected H5N1 HPAIV in 64% (9/14) of milk specimens, 2.6% (1/39) of cattle nasal swab specimens, and none of 17 cattle worker nasopharyngeal swab specimens.
— Read on www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.27.24310982v1