Paul Street (2020-05-11). A Late-Breaking Bulletin From PBS: \"For Many Americans, Health Insurance is Tied to a Job\" counterpunch.org I would like to nominate the \"Public\" Broadcasting System\'s (\"P\"BS) \"NewsHour\" and its economics reporter Paul Solomon for the 2020 Piss Down Our Backs and Tell Us Its Raining Prize in broadcast journalism. Last Thursday, \"P\"BS \"NewsHour\" viewers got to see the show\'s longtime economics correspondent (Paul Solomon) give a chilling account of how newly unemployed people are disastrously losing their health insurance in the middle of a pandemic.

Aaron Maté (2020-05-11). Bombshell: Crowdstrike admits \'no evidence\' Russia stole emails from DNC server. thegrayzone.com Crowdstrike, the firm behind the Russian email hacking allegation at the core of Russiagate, makes a bombshell admission: \"We did…

Lawrence Wittner (2020-05-11). Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, America\'s Billionaires Thrive and Prosper. counterpunch.org Although most Americans currently face hard times, with unemployment surging to the levels of the Great Depression and enormous numbers of people sick or dying from the coronavirus pandemic, the nation\'s super-rich remain a notable exception. Financially, they are doing remarkably well. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, between March 18 and April 28,

Alan Macleod (2020-05-11). New Facial Recognition Software Predicts You\'re a Criminal Based on your Face. mintpressnews.com The latest technological development appears to be an updated, \"algorithmic phrenology,\" repackaging a dangerous idea for the 21st century, all the more noteworthy because they are trying to sell it to law enforcement as an unbiased tool helping society.

Alan Macleod (2020-05-11). World\'s Super Rich Buying Pandemic Escape Mansions in New Zealand. mintpressnews.com A number of the planet\'s richest people, including billionaire co-founder of Paypal Peter Thiel, are escaping to New Zealand to shelter in luxury bunkers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alan MacLeod (2020-05-11). Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany. globalresearch.ca May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies\' victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or …

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-11). \'Justice is Indivisible\': Placing Palestine Back at the Center of Muslim Discourse in the West. counterpunch.org It was nearly twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington D.C. that I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be made a central topic in the American Muslim political agenda. The point, which took many by surprise, was enunciated by a young American Pakistani Muslim academic, whose name is not important

Zero Hedge (2020-05-11). Leaked UK Doc Shows Mandated Remote-Working Plan for Obese Brits. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-05-11). Fake Coronavirus Data, Fear Campaign. Spread of the COVID-19 Infection. globalresearch.ca Do not let yourself be misled by the fear campaign, pointing to a Worldwide coronavirus calamity with repeated \"predictions\" that hundreds of thousands of people are going to die. | According to the WHO, the death rate pertaining to Seasonal Influenza globally is between 6 to 12 times higher than COVID-19.

Telesur (2020-05-11). Venezuela: Full Silvercorp Contract Unveiled, Guaido Involved. globalresearch.ca According to the Washington Post, the document was provided by Venezuelan opposition officials on the condition that one of the attachments be redacted. Nonetheless, the text showcases the extent of the intervention financed by Juan Guaido and his supporters. | Some …

Martha Grevatt (2020-05-11). COVID-19 strike wave enters third month. workers.org Workers at 50 locations across Florida struck McDonald\'s, Starbucks and other fast-food restaurants on May 6. What united them was the failure of these multibillion-dollar enterprises to correct hazardous working conditions that put workers at risk of contracting COVID-19. Some of these McDonald\'s workers are also part of a statewide . . . |

Prof. Vijay Prashad (2020-05-11). A Dirty Military Incursion into Venezuela. globalresearch.ca In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, speedboats left the Colombian coastlines and headed toward Venezuela. These boats had no authorization to cross the maritime border. They landed on the Venezuelan coastline at La Guaira. This was clearly …

RT (2020-05-11). Trump responsible for deaths in US and globally because of Covid-19 response, says Chomsky. rt.com Donald Trump is culpable for deaths in the US and beyond due to his Covid-19 pandemic response, according to Noam Chomsky, from making states deal with the crisis individually to cutting the World Health Organization funding. | The progressive activist and author is less than pleased with the president\'s coronavirus response, and insists his small government attitude and slashing of healthcare and research funds has put the US in a poor position to handle a pandemic. | \"That\'s something that Trump has been doing every year of his term, cutting it back more. So [his plan is] let\'s continue to cut it back, let\'s…

Newsclick (2020-05-11). No greater hypocrisy than Indian Govt\'s pronouncements on migrants: Sitaram Yechury. peoplesdispatch.org Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), talks about the Indian government\'s failure to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic, the hypocrisy in its policy on migrants and the steps it needs to take to address the crisis. He also talks about how the pandemic has led to a greater realization of the failures of capitalism and will spur fresh struggles for a more just system.

Eugene E Ruyle (2020-05-11). The Bernie Sanders Movement, Its Historical Antecedents, and Its Legacy. indybay.org Online ZOOM Meeting. | LOG-IN INFORMATION AT OUR WEBSITE | ICSSMARX.ORG | OR EMAIL CUYLERUYLE [at] MAC.COM…

Staff (2020-05-11). Trump Death Clock: Creator Eugene Jarecki Says \"Reckless Mishandling\" of COVID-19 Must Be Quantified. democracynow.org As the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States surpasses 80,000, an unusual new billboard called the Trump Death Clock in New York City\'s Times Square keeps tally of lives lost to government inaction. \"What we found was that there was an amazing and very dark truth underlying the numbers that spoke to reckless mishandling of a pandemic by the president and his team, and we felt that ought to be quantified,\" says Eugene Jarecki, the award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and activist behind the project.

Staff (2020-05-11). \"COVID-19 Has Been Racialized\": Black Scholar Jill Nelson Arrested for Chalking \"Trump = Plague\" democracynow.org Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City\'s response to the spread of COVID-19. We speak with author and activist Jill Nelson, who was herself arrested by NYPD in April for writing \"Trump = Plague\" in chalk on an abandoned building in her Washington Heights neighborhood. The 67-year-old scholar was handcuffed, taken to the police station and held for five hours. Now she is speaking out. The president is \"telling us that as people of color, and older people, we should just die,\" says Nelson. \"It\'s ridiculous.\"

Staff (2020-05-11). \"Weaponized and Racialized\": Police Departments Use COVID-19 to Target Black & Brown Communities. democracynow.org Viral images have shone a spotlight on uneven policing. Some show police officers distributing masks to White residents in crowded New York City parks — and apparently arresting no one. Meanwhile, videos have emerged of violent crackdowns on social distancing measures in Black and Latinx neighborhoods. We continue our look at how Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City\'s enforcement measures during the pandemic, and also discuss how officers have ordered protesters to disband, citing executive orders from the mayor and the governor that ban \"any non-ess…

Staff (2020-05-11). Headlines for May 11, 2020. democracynow.org COVID-19 Cases Mount as States Reopen Economies, NY Investigating Deaths of at Least 3 Children Linked to COVID-19, Bronx Hospital Investigating Nurse Who Shared Video of Medical Staff Speaking Out About Lack of PPE, Cheyenne River Sioux Defies South Dakota Order to Remove Coronavirus Checkpoints, Another COVID-19 Case Confirmed at White House as Barack Obama Blasts Trump\'s \"Chaotic\" Response, Hunger-Striking Immigrant Women Released from California Prison, U.S. Continues to Deport Haitian Immigrants, Including Those with COVID-19 Infections, WSJ: Trump Planning to Ban H-1B Visas, Three Prisoners Die at Chino Fac…

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-11). Indifference Toward Public Health and Welfare in America. The COVID-19 Healthcare Fiasco. globalresearch.ca The US is the only developed nation without some form of universal healthcare coverage. | The world\'s richest country is indifferent toward the rights, needs, and welfare of its ordinary people in more normal times. | It\'s much the same at times …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-11). Trump Regime Further Escalates War on China by Other Means. globalresearch.ca In early April, China\'s official People\'s Daily broadsheet slammed the Trump regime\'s unacceptable restrictions imposed on the country\'s journalists in the US. | It called hostile US actions a \"clumsy performance (that) further exposed the hypocrisy of the self-styled advocate of …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-11). Effects of US Lockdowns v. Lifting Them. globalresearch.ca A University of Pennsylvania Wharton School model isn\'t encouraging. | Its analysis is world\'s apart from what the Trump regime suggests. | Wharton warned that if US lockdowns are lifted nationwide, businesses reopen, and pre-COVID-19 activities resume, eight million cases and 350,000 …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-11). Reinventing History a US Specialty. The Role of the Soviet Union In Defeating Nazi Germany. globalresearch.ca The power of endlessly repeated propaganda gets most people to believe almost anything — especially when pounded into the public consciousness by press agent establishment media. | In the US, they\'re mouthpieces for monied interests and the imperial state. Following government …

Andrew Korybko (2020-05-11). Geopolitical Corridors: Did Iran Inadvertently Sacrifice \"The India Chabahar Corridor\" for the Sake of Afghan Border Security? globalresearch.ca The recent political crisis that exploded between Iran and Afghanistan after the former\'s security forces were accused of forcing over 50 of the latter\'s illegal immigrants into a river on their shared border (where the majority of them are thought …

Joshua Hanks (2020-05-11). How Vietnam has won again — this time vs. the virus. workers.org As of May 11, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has not recorded any new cases of COVID-19 in 25 straight days, a remarkable achievement for the southeast Asian nation of nearly 100 million people. The number of confirmed cases remains at just 288, with 148 of those originating outside the . . . |

Editor (2020-05-11). Changing the narrative in Lansing, Mich. workers.org On May 7, a breath of fresh air entered Lansing, Mich., the first since ultrarightist gangs — with the blessing of the Trump administration — held an armed demonstration and invaded the State Capitol April 30. To justify such brazen aggression, the Capitol assaulters hid behind the Second Amendment — . . . |

G. Dunkel (2020-05-11). In Haiti/ICE is spreading COVID-19. workers.org Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency charged with deporting people from the United States, scheduled five deportations to Haiti on May 11 from the Pine Prairie Detention Center in Louisiana. The agency claims the five individuals have either tested positive for COVID-19 or show signs of having the disease. (Miami . . . |

Zero Hedge (2020-05-11). Pompeo Likens Iran To Nazis On 2nd Anniversary Of US Nuclear Deal Exit. iranian.com Perhaps attempting to ensure the anti-Iran \'maximum pressure\' campaign remains front and center, even in the midst of a pandemic and historic unemployment, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has resorted to the one of the most common — and we might note laziest — labels for America\'s \'enemies\'. In official statements Saturday, and on the same day Russia and …

sputniknews (2020-05-11). Afghanistan Not to Release More Taliban Prisoners Until Reciprocated by Armed Group. sputniknews.com New Delhi (Sputnik): The Afghanistan government and the Taliban signed a US-mediated peace pact in February. As part of the agreement both sides agreed to release prisoners — the government would release 5,000 Taliban and the armed group would release 1,000 pro-government captives.

yenisafak (2020-05-11). Bosnia report exposes institutions, individuals who deny Srebrenica genocide. yenisafak.com Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday released a report on denial of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, in which over 8,300 Muslims were killed by Serbian forces. | The report, written by historian Monica Hanson Green, includes many details about the war in Bosnia in 1992-1995, subsequent war crimes trials, and the media outlets and people who deny the genocide. | Emir Suljagic, head of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, which published the report, said that the problem of genocide denial is very important. | \"We took a new responsibility to raise awareness of the genocide. This report is the first step in this,\" said Suljagi…

Ted Kelly (2020-05-11). Black prisoners win victory vs. racist officials. workers.org Through strength and perseverance, Eric McGill and Leonttay Pratt have won a meaningful victory against the racist officials at the Lebanon County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania. Held in solitary confinement for refusing to cut their dreadlocks, McGill and Pratt — both adherents of the Rastafarian faith — have been released . . . |

Editor (2020-05-11). Los fascistas hacen trabajo sucio para los jefes. workers.org La aparición de alimañas neofascistas debajo de sus rocas para exigir negocios de \"reapertura\", una demanda querida por los gobernantes capitalistas súper ricos, hace imperativo que la izquierda desarrolle un plan para contrarrestar la amenaza fascista, una amenaza que ha re aparecido constantemente en la historia de los Estados Unidos. . . . |

RT (2020-05-11). Lockheed Martin declares Mission (almost) Accomplished, brings F-35\'s 100+ safety flaws down to 8… and hundreds of lesser issues. rt.com The maker of the troubled F-35 fighter jet claims to have solved \"most\" of the safety issues that plagued the $1.5 trillion plane — but flaws that could injure pilots are still present, on top of hundreds of software issues. | Lockheed Martin has fixed all but eight of the 111 \'Category 1\' flight safety issues found during a January 2018 analysis of the fighter jet program, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing the Government Accountability Office analyst in charge of monitoring the pricey plane\'s development. Category 1 issues are those that can \"injure or kill pilots or otherwise jeopardize the plane\'s…

RT (2020-05-11). Manhunt underway after man shot near Melbourne, Australia — reports. rt.com One person has been reportedly shot dead in Endeavour Hills, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. A police operation is underway in the area, with helicopters circling in the sky. | The shooting victim was discovered by police responding to reports of gunshots in the neighborhood, which is located some 30 km southeast from the CBD, Melbourne\'s central business district, according to local media reports. | \"I was just here with my kids when I heard the shot. Shortly afterwards, all the police started to arrive at the street. It\'s terrifying,\" a local resident told the Herald Sun. | The man is said to have died fro…

Ronald Blum (2020-05-11). Women\'s soccer players won\'t go down without a fight, demand equal pay appeal. peoplesworld.org (AP)—American women\'s soccer players want to delay a trial until after an appellate court reviews last week\'s decision to throw out their claim of unequal pay while allowing allegations of discriminatory work conditions to move forward. Lawyers for the women filed a motion Friday night asking U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles to …

Richard D. Wolff (2020-05-11). Mass Unemployment Is a Failure of Capitalism. counterpunch.org The difficulties caused to workers by record unemployment during the pandemic are a product of capitalism. Most of the time, employers decide to hire or fire workers depending on which choice maximizes employers\' profits. Profit, not the full employment of workers nor of means of production, is \"the bottom line\" of capitalism and thus of capitalists. That is how the system works. Capitalists are rewarded when their profits are high and punished when they are not. It\'s nothing personal; it\'s just business.

RT (2020-05-11). Don\'t fear the mutant: Coronavirus may be \'adapting to humans,\' warns MSM. Haven\'t they been paying attention? rt.com The MSM is pushing a narrative that the coronavirus presents an existential threat to humans, jumping on findings that the coronavirus is mutating as evidence for this. But in reality, mutations are anything but alarming. | Over the weekend, the Guardian published a

Eds. (2020-05-11). U.S. ratchets up Hybrid Warfare in Venezuela. mronline.org Nino Pagliccia examines the recent mercenary incursion into the Venezuelan territory.

RT (2020-05-11). Covid-19 crisis leaves 700,000 children without sufficient food in Italy — report. rt.com The coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic hardship has left 700,000 children under 15 years of age in Italy without enough food, the country\'s biggest farming organization has warned. | \"The number of children under the age of 15 who need help to get milk or food to eat has risen to 700,000,\" the farmers organization Coldiretti said in a statement released on Sunday, which was Mother\'s Day in Italy. | The \"critical\" situation has been \"aggravated in many families by the closure of schools and school restaurants\" which were where many children received a guaranteed hot meal every day, the union said. | The…

RT (2020-05-11). \'We are at war. Make no mistake\': WH official kicks anti-China rhetoric up a notch. rt.com The US is currently \"at war\" with China, White House official Peter Navarro said, insisting it owes compensation for the \"damage\" caused by Covid-19 as Washington heats up tensions with Beijing over the pandemic. | \"We are at war, make no mistake about that. The Chinese unleashed a virus on the world,\" the Trump adviser told Fox & Friends on Monday. | Navarro also said China will owe the US \"some form of compensatory damage\" following the pandemic. | Peter Navarro: \"It crossed me that Disneyland in Shanghai is opening this morning, while my own Disneyland in my own homeland in Orange County, in Anaheim, where…

RT (2020-05-11). China urges US to reverse decision to limit journalist visas, warns of possible \'countermeasures\'. rt.com The US\' decision to limit visas for Chinese journalists puts political pressure on Chinese media and Beijing will be forced to retaliate if Washington does not correct its \"mistake,\" the Foreign Ministry spokesperson says. | Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian addressed the US\' decision to limit visas for Chinese journalists to a maximum of 90 days in a press conference on Monday. | Journalist visas for Chinese media representatives within the US previously had no expiration date, making the 90-day limit a significant restriction. | Zhao accused the US of \"suppressing\" Chinese media and warned th…

Pepe Escobar (2020-05-11). Why Xi won\'t repeat Ming Dynasty mistakes. thealtworld.com China has learned from its own rich history and is applying those lessons to re-emerge as a major 21st century power | With hybrid warfare 2.0 against China reaching fever pitch, the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative, will continue to be demonized 24/7 as the proverbial evil communist plot for economic and geopolitical domination of the \"free\" world, boosted by a sinister disinformation campaign. | It\'s idle to discuss with simpletons. In the interest of an informed debate, what matters is to find the deeper roots of Beijing\'s strategy — what the Chinese learned from their own rich history and how…

RT (2020-05-11). \'European virus\': Cuomo goes all-in on Covid-19 language gymnastics in standoff with Trump. rt.com New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called Covid-19 the \"European virus,\" to zero pushback from the press that gave President Donald Trump no end of trouble back when he called it a \"Chinese virus.\" | Outlining a plan to reopen some parts of the state for business — while keeping New York City and its environs under strict lockdown — at a press conference on Monday, Cuomo argued that the virus came to New York from Europe, not China, and even referred to it as the \"European virus\" multiple times. | New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is now describing the coronavirus pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China as…

RT (2020-05-11). Surfer KILLED by great white shark after riding the waves at beach CLOSED during COVID-19 pandemic (VIDEO). rt.com Ben Kelly was brought to shore but could not recover from injuries sustained in an attack that is thought to have made him the first victim of a giant great white shark off the Manresa State Beach since 2004. | Authorities had kept the beach closed during the day as part of attempts to curb the spread of COVID-19, but experienced surf addict Ben Kelly could not resist heading off the shore of the North Carolina coast — despite footage showing schools of sharks in the vicinity just days earlier. | Rescuers could not save the 26-year-old Santa Cruz resident, who was around 100 yards from land when he was at…

RT (2020-05-11). Trudeau makes Covid-19 aid intended to \'save Canadian jobs\' conditional on meeting climate change goals. rt.com Adding insult to the injury of Covid-19 closures, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that businesses seeking emergency payroll funding will have to demonstrate their compliance with \'climate change\' guidelines. | Citing the need to protect \"Canadian middle-class jobs and safeguard our economy,\" Trudeau on Monday rolled out the expansion of the Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility (LEEFF), intended to provide bridge liquidity to companies unable to meet their payroll due to the shutdown. | We know Canadians are worried about their jobs as a result of the pandemic. Today, we\'re announcin…

RT (2020-05-11). Get your kit off: World Naked Bike Ride organizers say all-day exposure for NUDE cycling is 'best thing that could happen' (VIDEO). rt.com As mass activities worldwide fall victim to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers of the world\'s foremost bare-biking gathering are planning to turn their annual stripped cycle into a day-long event open to even more pedaling nudists. | While the Tour de France was forced to postpone its launch by more than two months as mass gatherings were outlawed to meet health guidelines around the COVID-19 pandemic, another key date for cycling enthusiasts will go ahead on the tour\'s original start date of June 27 — albeit in slightly altered form. | Portland\'s edition of the World Naked Bike Ride is the flagbearer for…

RT (2020-05-11). US coronavirus death toll tops 80,000- Reuters tally. rt.com Deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic in the US have topped 80,000, just as some states have begun relaxing lockdown measures and President Donald Trump tweeted the numbers are \"looking much better.\" | WH officials had previously predicted a death total of 100,000 to 240,000 from the virus. Some states have already begun slowly reopening, including New York, which has been the hardest hit state in the US. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday some non-essential businesses will be allowed to reopen on Friday, declaring a partial victory over the virus, saying, \"we are on the other side of the mountain.\" | The p…

RT (2020-05-11). What\'s in the UK government\'s Covid-19 lockdown easing plan? Here are the main points. rt.com Downing Street has finally published a detailed plan for easing the Covid-19 lockdown in England amid widespread confusion following PM Boris Johnson\'s address to the nation on Sunday, which was slammed for lacking clarity. | The 50-page

Joe Bernick (2020-05-11). Right wing on the defensive in Arizona elections. peoplesworld.org TUCSON—Arizona\'s right-wing governor and state legislature are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic in an attempt to defeat progressive change. The Republicans in this state are terrified that Arizona will flip to the Democrats in the 2020 elections. They are scared of the fightback by striking teachers, miners, and all working people, and of the rising militancy …

Ian Goodrum (2020-05-11). Lab lies: U.S. continues disinformation campaign about Wuhan virus lab. peoplesworld.org As COVID-19 maintains its devastating spread throughout the world, it has found an unlikely ally: The United States government. Case and fatality counts in the U.S. continue to rise—nearly 1.4 million infected and over 80,000 dead as of May 11—but rather than take stock of its disastrous response and chart a new course, the U.S. …