Outsourcing \'regime change\': US imperialism\'s decomposition accelerates
Francisco Dominguez | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-13
On May 3rd a bunch of mercenaries, led by Rambo-like US soldiers of fortune attempted to disembark on the coastal town of Macuto in the La Guaira state in Venezuela\'s Caribbean coast, in a so-called Operation Gedeon.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/13/outsourcing-regime-change-us-imperialisms-decomposition-accelerates/

The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery—And Our Continuing Terror
Jesse Jackson | commondreams.org | 2020-05-13
People stand six feet apart before participating in a 2.23 mile walk for Ahmaud Arbery on May 8. Arbery was shot and killed while running in Brunswick, Georgia on Feb. 23. (Photo: Nicole Hester/Mlive.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-05-13_at_12.06.02_pm.png …
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Don\'t Expect to See Trump\'s Tax Returns Before the Election
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-13
Donald Trump claims that while he is president, his pre-presidency financial records can\'t be subpoenaed and he can\'t even be investigated for criminal conduct. The Supreme Court will decide by the end of June whether Trump is indeed beyond the reach of the law. | On May 12, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whether Trump can block subpoenas for his tax and other financial records that predate his presidency. Although prior presidents made their tax returns public, Trump has steadfastly refused to re…
truthout.org/articles/dont-expect-to-see-trumps-tax-returns-before-the-election/

COVID-19: Global Pandemic & Climate Disruption With Mike Davis
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Online Zoom meeting, see details here: speakoutsocialists.org/townhall-davis-5-16/…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832968.php

Jeremy Corbyn discovers the class struggle–and opposes it
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
The Socialist Campaign Group acknowledge the \"class war\" only in order to complain that Johnson is waging it rather than acting in the \"national interest.\"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/corb-m13.html

We Need a Centralized Medical System Too
Ted Rall | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare two fundamental flaws in the American healthcare system. Number one: There\'s a reason that other rich countries treat healthcare as a taxpayer-financed social program. Employer-based health insurance was stupid pre-COVID-19 because our economy was already steadily transitioning from traditional full-time W-2 jobs to self-employment, freelance and gig work. The virus has…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/we-need-a-centralized-medical-system-too/

Trump Administration Won\'t Guarantee Universal Access to COVID-19 Vaccine
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-13
Despite hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars flowing to private drug companies for vaccine development, top health officials coordinating the Trump administration\'s COVID-19 response indicated to Congress on Wednesday that they cannot guarantee universal access to vaccines for the highly contagious disease once they are developed. | Speaking remotely over videoconference during a widely anticipated Senate health committee hearing, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) pressed the officials to guara…
truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-wont-guarantee-universal-access-to-covid-19-vaccine/

The U.S. Military is hell-bent on trying to overpower China
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-05-13
The absence of a strong world peace movement with the capacity to prevent this buildup by the United States is of considerable concern for the planet. The need for such a movement could not be greater.
mronline.org/2020/05/13/the-u-s-military-is-hell-bent-on-trying-to-overpower-china/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-u-s-military-is-hell-bent-on-trying-to-overpower-china

A Close Look at Efforts of Pro-NATO Propaganda Units Behind the Scenes of South Front Censorship
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Pro-NATO propaganda units have broadcasted a new episode of their censorship excuse series. | On May 5th, the Atlantic Council\'s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), published a new piece designed to label SouthFront as official Russian propaganda. ( LINK…
globalresearch.ca/efforts-pro-nato-propaganda-units-south-front-censorship/5712741

Pompeo in Israel
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
At a time of COVID-19 related lockdowns and social distancing in most countries, Pompeo showed up in Israel Tuesday. | He came to meet with and bolster Netanyahu ahead of his upcoming trial to start later this month for bribery, fraud, …
globalresearch.ca/pompeo-israel/5712754

The Longterm Social Impacts from Economic Collapse and COVID-19 Outbreaks
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Economic collapse that\'s harming most ordinary people in the US, West, and elsewhere

Wall Street Will Likely Be the Only Winners in the Pandemic Housing Crisis
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-13
For most Americans, the $1,200 stimulus check didn\'t even cover rent and a third of American renters have even paid rent yet this month, meaning an ongoing de facto rent strike is likely already taking place.
mintpressnews.com/wall-street-likely-only-winners-coronavirus-pandemic-mortgage-crisis/267501/

American Weapons Manufacturers Are Thriving Even as the US Economy Suffers
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-13
The economy has crashed. A nationwide pandemic that has (officially) claimed some 84,000 Americans has also resulted in an estimated 36 million filing for unemployment insurance and millions frequenting food banks for the first time. Yet business is booming for one unlikely industry; weapons manufacturers are busier than ever and are even advertising for tens of thousan…
mintpressnews.com/american-weapons-manufacturers-thriving-even-as-us-economy-suffers/267510/

The \"Zionist Virus\" and the Future of Palestine
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
To me, an American-Palestinian, the world tainted by the corona virus is analogous to Israel tainted by the evil it contains. | Every day for the past few days, I have been listening to New York Governor Cuomo give his daily …
globalresearch.ca/governor-cuomo-virus-nakba-me/5712787

From Lebanon to Syria, the Arab World is Failing Palestinian Refugees
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-13
Heinous racism. That is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon. | Lebanon\'s restrictions on its ever-diminishing population of Palestinian refugees is nothing new. However, this event is particularly alarming as it may be linked to a long-term official policy regarding the residency status of Palestinian refugees in this Arab country. | Many were ta…
mintpressnews.com/lebanon-syria-arab-world-failing-palestinian-refugees/267521/

Naomi Klein: Healthcare Industry Sees \"Potential Bonanza\" of Profits in COVID-19 Crisis
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-13
As the top infectious disease expert testifies to the Senate that needless death and suffering could result from reopening too quickly, author and journalist Naomi Klein says a \"pandemic shock doctrine\" is beginning to emerge. \"The fact that a large sector of the economy, the healthcare industry, sees a potential bonanza here … that\'s a win for them.\"
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/13/naomi_klein_coronavirus_healthcare

Screen New Deal: Naomi Klein on How Companies Like Google Plan to Profit in High-Tech COVID Dystopia
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-13
In her new report for The Intercept on the \"Screen New Deal,\" Naomi Klein looks at how the coronavirus pandemic is more high-tech than previous disasters

Russia Ready to Assist the US in the Taliban Peace Agreement
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-13
Russia\'s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country is ready to help the United States and the Taliban overcome difficulties in implementing the Doha Peace Agreement. | RELATED: | At Least 14 People Killed in Afghanistan Hospital Attack | …
telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Ready-to-Assist-the-US-in-the-Taliban-Peace-Agreement-20200513-0001.html

Soros Thinks That Germany Is A Greater Threat To His Plans Than COVID, Trump, Or China
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-13
Billionaire philanthropist and infamous Color Revolution financier George Soros recently elaborated on his views of International Relations in the midst of World War C during an interview with the UK\'s \"Independent\", unexpectedly concluding that Germany\'s recent court ruling against the European Central Bank\'s purchase of national bonds poses an \"existential threat\" to the bloc and therefore also to his \"precious\" vision of an \"open society\", even more so than the alleged ones posed by COVID, Trump, or China that he previously fearmongered about. | International Relations are in the midst of multitudinous paradig…

Soros Thinks That Germany Is A Greater Threat To His Plans Than COVID, Trump, Or China

Assange\'s extradition: September 7 set for resumption of delayed hearing, WikiLeaks says
rt.com | 2020-05-13
\"A date of September 7 has been set for the resumption of Julian Assange\'s delayed extradition hearing,\" WikiLeaks tweeted on Wednesday. A court location has yet to be determined, it said. | A London court said on May 4 that the US extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Assange would resume in September. It had been postponed from later this month because of the coronavirus outbreak. | Assange is wanted by US authorities to stand trial for conspiring to hack government computers and espionage. The extradition case began in February for a week before being adjourned until May 18 for another three weeks of a…
rt.com/newsline/488530-assange-extradition-september-date/

Something About Julian Assange You Should Know
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-13
It is not just our family who suffers from the infringement of Julian\'s rights. If our family and Julian\'s lawyers are not off-limits, then nothing is. The person responsible for allegedly ordering the theft of Gabriel\'s DNA is Mike Pompeo, who last month threatened the family members of lawyers working at the International Criminal Court.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/13/something-about-julian-assange-you-should-know/

El Salvador: White Cloths to Protest Hunger
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-13
Salvadoran communities are demanding the government provide food and medical aid due to the economic problems caused by the Covid-19 impact in the Central American nation. | RELATED: | El Salvador: Bukele Vetoes Aid to COVID-Vulnerable Citizens | The residents of Tonacatepeque and Ilopango communities hung white cloths on the facades of their homes as a sign of protest due to food scarcity. | El Salvador\'s President, Nayib Bukele, decreed and emergency quarantine on March 2…
telesurenglish.net/news/el-salvador-white-cloths-to-protest-hunger-20200513-0005.html

What\'s Next for Asia\'s Social Movements?
Nithin Coca | thenation.com | 2020-05-13
What\'s Next for Asia\'s Social Movements?
thenation.com/article/activism/protests-pandemic-asia/

Michigan Anti-Lockdown Protesters Spread COVID-19 to Rural Areas
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-13
Some protesters who descended on the Michigan state capitol to demand the state reopen the economy in spite of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic have spread infections in rural areas where they live, Gov. Gretchen Whi…
truthout.org/articles/michigan-anti-lockdown-protesters-spread-covid-19-to-rural-areas/

Fifty Years Ago: The Lessons of Kent State. Open Fire on Unarmed Student Anti-War Protesters
Donald Monaco | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
May 4, 2020 was the 50th anniversary of the Kent State University massacre that saw Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on a group of unarmed student anti-war protestors killing 4 and injuring 9 on campus. Not satisfied with the …
globalresearch.ca/lessons-kent-state/5712734

Class Struggles and Social Distancing
Scott Tucker | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
On the day after armed protestors stormed the Capitol building in Michigan to demand that the whole economy be re-opened, the news included reports that Michigan has the highest current death rates in the United States from the novel coronavirus. That is a serious problem. Voluntary good will in avoiding risks of infection during a…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/class-struggles-and-social-distancing/

San Quentin Gets Car Caravan Protest
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Protesters demand end to \"Covid-19 death camps.\"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/09/18832943.php

\'They will not silence us\': Michigan activists undeterred after Facebook removes anti-lockdown group with 380,000 members
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Facebook has shuttered a popular group for Michiganders who oppose their governor\'s extreme lockdown measures, fueling debate about free speech during the coronavirus crisis. | \'Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine\' had more than 380,000 members, with media reports describing it as one of the largest anti-lockdown groups in the nation. It\'s not clear if Facebook has provided an explanation for the group\'s removal. Visiting the page gives the following message: \"Sorry, this content isn\'t available right now.\" | Garrett Soldano of Mattawan, Michigan created Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine in Apri…
rt.com/usa/488513-michigan-lockdown-group-removed-facebook/

The Health Care Industry Could Profit From the COVID-19 Crisis
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-13
As the top infectious disease expert testifies to the Senate that needless death and suffering could result from reopening too quickly, author and journalist Naomi Klein says a \"pandemic shock doctrine\" is beginning to emerge. \"The fact that a large sector of the economy, the healthcare industry, sees a potential bonanza here … that\'s a win for them.\" | TRANSCRIPT | : | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The Quaranti…
truthout.org/video/the-health-care-industry-could-profit-from-the-covid-19-crisis/

Vowing to Be \'Fully Accountable\' to Movement, Ocasio-Cortez Joins Biden\'s Climate Crisis Task Force
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-13
Following her call for former Vice President Joe Biden to reach out to progressives in order to win the 2020 general election against President Donald Trump, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accepted an invitation to co-chair the Biden campaign\'s \"unity task force\" on the climate. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1209895367_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/13/vowing-be-fully-accountable-movement-ocasio-cortez-joins-bidens-climate-crisis-task?cd-origin=rss

Paramilitary Panda: WWF Land Grabs Rooted in Covert Apartheid History
Michael Molitch-Hou | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
According to a BuzzFeed News series, the WWF has been tied to paramilitary violence in third world countries. What they completely ignored was that the WWF was previously involved in the murder of 6,000 anti-apartheid activists in South Africa a part of an \"anti-poaching\" mission in the 1980s. All evidence seems to suggest that the WWF was used as cover for an MI6 operation on behalf of powerful business interests in South Africa.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/12/18832991.php

Corporate Media don\'t think Americans paid to invade Venezuela Count as mercenaries
Joshua Cho | mronline.org | 2020-05-13
When an attempted invasion of Venezuela launched from the shores of Colombia was foiled on May 3, after armed commandos were intercepted at Venezuela\'s coastline of La Guira, it seemed undeniable that the heavily armed men, possessing satellite phones and uniforms with the U.S. flag emblazoned on them, had been paid to take part in …
mronline.org/2020/05/13/corporate-media-dont-think-americans-paid-to-invade-venezuela-count-as-mercenaries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corporate-media-dont-think-americans-paid-to-invade-venezuela-count-as-mercenaries

Colombia\'s health workers unprotected, patients without treatment: watchdogs
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-13
Colombia\'s inspector general and ombudsman on Tuesday urged government action to protect health workers and continue providing healthcare to patients not suffering Covid-19. The watchdogs confirmed healthcare organizations\' complaints that…
colombiareports.com/colombias-health-workers-unprotected-patients-without-treatment-watchdogs/

Violent evictions in Bogotá, Colombia amid the coronavirus pandemic
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-13
Many question the motivation of the city government to evict the community amid the pandemic as they have been occupying the land for the last 20 years…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/13/violent-evictions-in-bogota-colombia-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic/

US anti-ISIS chief says his goal in Syria is to create a \'quagmire\' for Russia, not battle terrorism
rt.com | 2020-05-13
James Jeffrey, the US special envoy for Syria and defeating the Islamic State, has made quite a frank confession of how he sees his job and that of US troops there: to create a new Vietnam or Afghanistan for Moscow. | \"Our military presence, while small, is important for overall calculations. So we urge the Congress, the American people, the president to keep these forces on, but again this isn\'t Afghanistan, this isn\'t Vietnam, this isn\'t a quagmire,\" Jeffrey said on Tuesday, during a video event hosted by the Hudson Institute. | My job is to make it a quagmire for the Russians. | Asked why the American publ…
rt.com/news/488491-us-syria-russia-quagmire/

Oops! FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi diplomat who helped 9/11 hijackers after years of \'national security\' stonewalling
rt.com | 2020-05-13
The FBI has accidentally revealed the name of a Saudi official believed to have aided two Al-Qaeda hijackers involved in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, after going to absurd lengths to keep it secret for years. | The name was unintentionally left unredacted in a court filing unsealed last week in the ongoing lawsuit by 9/11 victims\' families against the Saudi government, which they accuse of complicity in the terrorist attacks. The \'error\' was reported by Yahoo News on Tuesday

German Foreign Policy Is a CIA Front
Aidan O\'Brien | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
On March 30 Germany declared the important Lebanese political group, Hezbollah, to be a \"terrorist\" organization and banned it from German soil. By doing so it gratuitously increased the tension in the eastern Mediterranean and exposed Berlin\'s lack of credibility …
globalresearch.ca/german-foreign-policy-cia-front/5712571

Pity they don\'t work against Covid-19: US drives RECORD global spending on atomic weapons, report shows
rt.com | 2020-05-13
The world\'s nuclear powers are increasingly pouring money into their atomic arsenals, a new report shows, with Washington leading the way. The US has also exited a major arms control treaty and deployed a new tactical weapon. | Nine nuclear-armed nations spent an estimated $72.9 billion on their 13,000-plus atomic weapons in 2019, according to a new paper by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear We…
rt.com/news/488581-nuclear-weapons-spending-spree/

Nuclear Weapons: Stopping the War That No One Wants (livestream)
The Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/11/18832982.php

Flynn \'unmasking\' documents show involvement of senior Obama administration officials, including Joe Biden
rt.com | 2020-05-13
A newly published list of US officials who were interested in National Security Agency (NSA) records on Trump adviser Michael Flynn includes President Barack Obama\'s chief of staff, as well as Vice President Joe Biden. | Biden is listed as requesting the unmasking on January 12, 2017, the same day the Washington Post published a story claiming that Flynn had misreported his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, based on leaked NSA information. | Flynn unmasking documents f… by
rt.com/usa/488579-flynn-unmasking-obama-administration/

Who Are You Kidding? The Democratic Party and the Joe Biden Fiasco
Gabriel Kuhn | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
The accusations against the projected Democratic Party presidential nominee, Joe Biden, trouble and confuse U.S. liberals. As a result, they say surprising and, at times, outrageous things. I suppose this is the consequence of deeming Joe Biden to the most likely candidate to oust Donald Trump from office, something so important that you\'re ready to sacrifice both reason and compassion.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/who-are-you-kidding-the-democratic-party-and-the-joe-biden-fiasco/

Biden campaign reacts to Flynn unmasking revelations by attacking journalist & denouncing Republicans
rt.com | 2020-05-13
After Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden was named as one of the Obama administration officials who asked for NSA information on General Michael Flynn, his campaign first targeted the messenger, then lashed out at the GOP. | The bombshell list of more than a dozen officials who asked the US spy agency for information about Flynn between the 2016 election of President Donald Trump and his inauguration included President Barack Obama\'s chief of staff, as well as Biden. It was a troubling disclosure for the candidate who has just denied any knowledge of the Flynn investigation, in a TV interview on Tuesday.
rt.com/usa/488588-biden-campaign-flynn-unmasking/

IndustriALL questions violations of worker rights by Shell in Nigeria
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-13
82% of oil giant Shell\'s workforce in Nigeria is sourced through labor contractors. As per IndustriALL, the workers \"live in poverty with no job security, poor healthcare and little regard for health and safety.\"
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/13/industriall-questions-violations-of-worker-rights-by-shell-in-nigeria/

Africa: COVID Crisis Could Lead to Increase in AIDS Deaths
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-13
WHO and UNAIDS representatives warned on May 12 that an AIDS treatment could increase the total sum of HIV-related deaths by up to 500,000 in Africa. | RELATED: | Lebanon to Enter 4-Day Lockdown After Jump in COVID-19 Cases | According to the UNAIDS modeling group preclusion, the COVID-19 crisis could cause antiretroviral drug scarcity and treatment to cease if African HIV patients are not prioritized during the COVID spread. UN and WHO forecasts show a possible half million peo…
telesurenglish.net/news/africa-covid-sanitary-crisis-could-lead-to-hiv-death-increase-20200513-0002.html

Poverty Forces Chileans to Cook in \'the Common Pot\'
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-13
Chile\'s economic crisis unleashed by President Sebastian Piñera\'s neoliberal policies and exacerbated by the pandemic revived images that had not been seen in Chile since the time of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). | RELATED: | Chile Records Highest Number of COVID-19 Cases in 24 Hours | Thousands of people living in poor neighborhoods eat ev…
telesurenglish.net/news/Poverty-Forces-Chileans-to-Cook-in-the-Common-Pot-20200513-0004.html

78 Percent of Mountain Areas Are Undergoing a Snow Decline
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-13
Italy\'s applied research center EURAC holds that the snow surface of the world\'s mountain areas has decreased by 78 percent as a result of global warming. | RELATED: | Hole in the Ozone Layer Over Arctic Is Closed, WMO Confirms | Using data from 2000 to 2018, this scientific institution created a map of global snow coverage using high-resolution satellite imagery, field measurements, and simulation models. | The result reveals a worrying situation because the duration of the snow s…
telesurenglish.net/news/78-Percent-of-Mountain-Areas-Are-Undergoing-a-Snow-Decline-20200513-0006.html

Mexico Records Its Most Deadly Day Since the Start of COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-13
Mexico recorded on Tuesday its most deadly day since the start of the pandemic by confirming the death of 353 people due to the coronavirus. | RELATED: | Mass Grave Found in Mexico With Remains of at Least 25 People | The total number of deaths from Covid-19 in the country rose to 3,926. | The number of people infected rose to 38,324, with 1,997 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours. | The largest number of cases of Covid-19 is concentrated in Mexico City, with 10,529, almost…
telesurenglish.net/news/mexico-records-its-most-lethal-day-since-the-start-of-covid19-20200513-0003.html

Ecuador Faces Wave of Corruption Amid Pandemic
teleSUR-ag-la | telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-13
Amid the coronavirus crisis, Ecuador, one of the South American countries most affected by the pandemic, faces the corruption virus that takes advantage of the difficult situation. | RELATED: | Ecuador Registers 29,071 COVID-19 Cases and 1,717 Deaths | The Prosecutor\'s Office recorded that masks are being sold in the country for $12 USD, when they should have cost $4 USD. The same is happening with body bags, which are being sold for more than $148 USD and should be worth $12 USD. | M…
telesurenglish.net/news/ecuador-faces-wave-of-corruption-amid-pandemic-20200513-0007.html

Russia may start talks with Iran in future over selling armament to country: Kabulov
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Conflict between Russia, Iran over Syria psychological war: Nasrallah
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Ulyanov reacts to US allegations of Moscow\'s support for JCPOA
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Chechen leader Kadyrov BANNED from Instagram AGAIN, loses account with 1.4 MILLION followers
rt.com | 2020-05-13
For many in the 21st century, losing social media access would be a devastating blow. However, for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, it\'s just another day. For the third time in three years, Kadyrov has been banned from Instagram. | According to Instagram\'s owners, Facebook, the ban was in relation to US sanctions against the Chechen leader. | Since 2017, Kadyrov has been sanctioned by the United States under the terms of the Magnitsky Act. Signed by President Barack Obama in 2012, and later expanded in 2016, the Magnitsky Act enables the US government to sanction foreign government officials implicated in allege…
rt.com/russia/488533-kadyrov-banned-instagram-again/

Lavrov slams US\' baseless accusations against Russia, China amid coronavirus pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

NASA quietly buys additional Soyuz seat as SpaceX prepares for historic manned space flight
rt.com | 2020-05-13
NASA has inked a deal with Russia\'s space agency Roscosmos to allow a US astronaut to travel into space aboard a Soyuz rocket in the fall, even as SpaceX gears up for its first manned launch later this month. | \"A contract was signed today on providing a seat for a US astronaut onboard a Soyuz MS manned spaceship to be launched to the ISS in the autumn of 2020,\" Roscosmos told Tass on Tuesday. | Though the agency refused to disclose the sum Washington paid for the seat, calling it \"a commercial secret,\" NASA spokespeople told reporters the deal was valued at $90.25 million, which includes the cost of the fligh…
rt.com/news/488494-nasa-roscosmos-deal-soyuz/

\'Example of infodemic\': Moscow slams FT & NYT reports that put Russian Covid-19 death toll 70 percent higher than official data
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Russia\'s Foreign Ministry will send letters to the Financial Times and New York Times demanding they retract reports which claim the actual death toll from Covid-19 in the country is much higher than the official figures. | The editors-in-chief of those outlets will be handed the letters on Thursday through the Russian embassies in the UK and the US, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing. | Moscow will also address the UN, OSCE and UNESCO on the situation, as the reports in the FT and NYT represent \"an example of that very \'infodemic\' that the UN General Secretary, Antonio Guterres, urged…
rt.com/russia/488577-coronavirus-death-toll-russia-nyt/

Russian Arctic sea route shipping exceeds 10 million tons in Q1
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Freight transportation via Russia\'s Northern Sea Route (NSR) grew 4.5 percent year-on-year from January to April, exceeding 10 million tons, the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transportation, Rosmorrechflot, said. | The agency\'s representative, Nikolai Monko, earlier told TASS that the growth of freight transportation would be moderate in 2020. | According to Rosmorrechflot, 31.5 million tons were transported in 2019, up from 21.1 million tons in the previous year. Transit carriages rose by almost 41.9 percent last year to 697,200 tons. Cargo handling was mainly conducted at the ports of Sabetta (20.5 m…
rt.com/business/488519-northern-sea-route-freight/

Iran to give harsh response to any military escapade by US: Envoy
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Break or retirement? Russia\'s \'Angelina Jolie\' of curling Anastasia Bryzgalova puts competitive career on hold
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Russian curling stunner Anastasia Bryzgalova who became a viral hit during the 2018 PyeongChang Games, drawing comparisons with Angelina Jolie, has put her competitive career on ice. | The 27-year-old curling star who is taking a break from competitions will focus on training mixed-double duets serving as a second team coach in the Russian national team. | READ MORE: Bryzgalova or Jolie? Hottest Russian curler takes up role of Tomb Raider (PHOTOS) | \"I wanted to take a break right after the Winter O…
rt.com/sport/488576-curling-anastasia-bryzgalova-career-break/

Merkel cites \'hard evidence\' she was victim of \'Russian hackers\', says it doesn\'t help mend ties with Moscow
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Germany\'s chancellor has lamented what she claimed was irrefutable proof of a Russian \"hacking attack\" on her Bundestag office but said she is working day and night to fix relations with Moscow despite the \"painful\" incident. | Chancellor Angela Merkel accused Russia of carrying out an online intrusion into her Bundestag constituency office back in 2015, as she spoke to MPs on Wednesday. | \"I can honestly say that it hurts me,\" she said of the alleged hack attack, claiming…
rt.com/news/488541-merkel-russia-hacking-evidence/

\'What are those white crosses?\': Badges to \'scare off\' coronavirus cause dress-code debate in Russian parliament
rt.com | 2020-05-13
With the Russian State Duma in session despite the Covid-19 pandemic, some MPs went beyond the obligatory face masks and rubber gloves, leaving their colleagues and citizens baffled by unusual means to fend off the virus. | \"For several sessions in row, I\'ve seen MPs wearing white crosses on their chests,\" Igor Molyakov of the Fair Russia party said on Wednesday, asking his colleagues to clarify the unusual accessory. State Duma deputies usually wear an official badge, which is shaped as a Russian tricolor. | Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin stepped up to educate his colleague and dispel the \"white cross\" mystery fo…
rt.com/russia/488587-covid-badge-state-duma/

Iran, Russia stress coop. in fight against coronavirus
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Russia, S Arabia agree to stabilize oil market
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Russia BANS usage of ventilators suspected of causing deadly fires killing six Covid-19 patients
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Russia has indefinitely suspended the usage of Aventa-M artificial lung ventilation machines. The recently produced ventilators are suspected of causing two deadly fires in the past week, killing six people. | The ventilators, made in Ural\'s Instrument Making Plant, have been manufactured since April 1, 2020, in response to Russia\'s ever-growing number of Covid-19 patients. | According to Russia\'s health watchdog Roszdravnadzor, the ventilators were used to provide medical care to patients at the S. I. Spasokukotsky City Clinical Hospital in Moscow and St. George\'s Hospital in St. Petersburg, where fires occur…
rt.com/russia/488552-russia-ban-ventilator-fire/

Only Three Countries Control Over 80% of Global Diamond Reserves
Justinas Baltrusaitis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Only three countries are in control of more than three quarters of the world\'s diamond reserves globally. Data gathered and calculated by Learnbonds.com indicates that Russia, Congo, and Botswana combined account for at least 80.6% of the world diamond reserves….
globalresearch.ca/only-three-countries-control-over-80-global-diamond-reserves/5712816

Holding Healthcare Hostage: The Making of a Ventilator Crisis
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
When coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) began dominating headlines, it was accompanied by fears of potential shortages of critical medical equipment including personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators. | Nations like Russia had large stockpiles of affordable ventilators on hand

India\'s 2nd ship of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan docks at Shahid Beheshti port
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Afghanistan: Pregnant Women and Babies Attacked in Kabul Hospital
commondreams.org | 2020-05-13
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/13/afghanistan-pregnant-women-and-babies-attacked-kabul-hospital?cd-origin=rss

Iran, Afghanistan to comment joint investigations on Herat incident
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Iran, Georgia seek improvement of customs coop. amid coronavirus pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

New York state to begin reopening in certain regions this weekend
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
Three regions within New York state are set to resume some economic activity May 15, under a plan that leaves significant room for a deadly second wave of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/plan-m13.html

\"Making It Up As They Go Along:\" Boris Johnson and COVID-19
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
As I write (the weekend of 9-10 May), the UK\'s death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has reached 31,855. The UK, unlike the US, has started counting deaths in care homes. This toll is the highest in Europe, and the second in the world after the US. The UK has a fifth of the US\'s population, so translating the UK figure into US terms would amount to 160,000 US deaths from the virus (the US\'s death toll as of this weekend is a little more than 80,000).
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/making-it-up-as-they-go-along-boris-johnson-and-covid-19/

Science Saturday: Regenerative approaches could foster healing from COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Regenerative Medicine aims not only to repair or restore the function of cells, tissues or organs, but also the whole person. The latter is particularly important amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Regenerative approaches draw on the body\'s natural abilities to heal, focus on establishing the healing environments and building new, healthy ways of functioning. These aspects of regenerative …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-regenerative-approaches-could-foster-healing-from-covid-19/

Who\'s in a Catch-22?
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
The pandemic has put President Trump and his beloved market in a Catch-22 situation, one that not all of us are in. The mutually conflicting conditions on a first level of observation are these: 1. Open to pre-pandemic business level, give wage earners wages and give businesses consumers, and, 2. Shelter in place until deaths diminish and testing and tracing are on top of things.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/whos-in-a-catch-22/

Class divide: Nearly TWO-THIRDS of British working class unable to do jobs from home amid Covid-19 crisis, new data reveals
rt.com | 2020-05-13
New research suggests that the Covid-19 pandemic is exposing the class divide in the UK with almost two-thirds of British working class households unable to do their jobs from home, compared to under 30 percent of middle classes. | Research published by YouGov

A For-Profit Postal Service Would Slam Small Businesses
Sarah Anderson | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
Like most Americans, Julie Buckles, the owner of Honest Dog Books in tiny Bayfield, Wisconsin, has had to be flexible in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. \"Overnight, we went from hosting music, literary discussions, and poetry readings to shipping books all over the country,\" she told me. With her bookstore shuttered, Buckles is now…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/a-for-profit-postal-service-would-slam-small-businesses/

Cybersecurity Companies Selling Hyper-control Technology to Governments to \"Prevent Pandemics\"
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
The fear that the global pandemic of the new coronavirus will be used to justify a new world order based on a hyper-surveillance system becomes increasingly real. All over the world, multiple projects abound to build a global surveillance and …
globalresearch.ca/cybersecurity-companies-selling-hyper-control-technology-governments-prevent-pandemics/5712788

We are vulnerable and scared, say tragic railway worker\'s colleagues
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-13
Colleagues of railway worker Belly Mujinga have described feeling \"scared\" and \"vulnerable\" after the Victoria station staff member died with coronavirus a fortnight after being spat at while on duty.It came as the government was urged to extend its coronavirus compensation scheme, offering £60,000 to families of NHS frontline staff and social care workers who die from the disease during the pandemic, to the transport sector.A police investigation is under way, launched more than a month after Mujinga and a colleague were attacked by a man claiming to be infected with Covid-19 on the concourse at the London…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/13/we-are-vulnerable-and-scared-say-tragic-railway-workers-colleagues/

Hundreds of workers report employers for furlough fraud
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-13
Hundreds of workers have reported their employers over claims that they are fraudulently taking furlough money from the government. | HMRC confirmed it has received 795 reports of potential fraud related to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. | It said it will now be \"assessing\" these cases in line with its usual procedures. | The scheme was introduced from March, with the government pledging to pay 80% of the wages of workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, in a bid to protect jobs. | On Tuesday, chancellor Rishi Sunak outlined plans to extend the furlough scheme until the end of October. | One stipulation…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/13/hundreds-of-workers-report-employers-for-furlough-fraud/

Scenes From a Pandemic: 7
José Orduña | thenation.com | 2020-05-13
Scenes From a Pandemic: 7…
thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-essential-workers/

Australian university union agrees to unprecedented pay and job cuts
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
The agreement shatters the NTEU\'s claim that it volunteered sacrifices of wages and conditions to \"protect jobs\" from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/nteu-m13.html

Was Jared Kushner Testing the Waters for Cancelling Elections in November?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-13
Jared Kushner created a stir on Tuesday evening when an interview with him was published online in which he expressed how the Trump administration was possibly considering delaying the 2020 presidential election date due to the coronavirus pandemic. | In an interview with TIME magazine, when questioned whether the general election would still be held on November 3, Kushner gave an ambiguous answer. | \"I\'m not sure I…
truthout.org/articles/was-jared-kushner-testing-the-waters-for-cancelling-elections-in-november/

Night of Decree observed in Yazd amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
YAZD, May 13 (MNA)

Beijing denounces \'immoral\' US Senate bill threatening China with sanctions over Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Beijing has lashed out at US legislation which seeks to impose sanctions on China if it fails to cooperate with Washington\'s investigation into the coronavirus pandemic. | The bill would require the president to notify Congress within 60 days that China had \"provided a full and complete accounting\" to any US-led probe into the coronavirus outbreak. The rule would also apply to investigations carried out by American allies and UN agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO). | The legislation also demands that China shutter all \"wet markets\" which can pose a risk to human health. It also calls for the i…
rt.com/news/488528-china-us-sanctions-coroavirus-probe/

Packing on pounds during COVID-19 and how to turn it around
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
If you\'ve gained weight during the COVID-19 pandemic, you aren\'t alone. The \"Quarantine 15\"

Why is Mike Pompeo risking a One-day Trip to Israel Amid the Pandemic?
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-13
As part of its battle against Covid-19, Israel has closed it borders to foreigners and imposed a two-week quarantine on anyone entering the country. There are also strict requirements to wear masks in public places. Israel, however, has thrown the rules

White House Coronavirus Task Force member warns of \"really serious\" consequences of premature reopening
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
The testimony was a devastating indictment of Trump\'s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and made clear that the back-to-work campaign risks countless lives.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/covi-m13.html

Mayo Clinic reopens orthopedics and sports medicine facility in downtown Minneapolis
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
MINNEAPOLIS

Spring cleaning takes on a new importance during COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released reopening guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting public spaces, workplaces, businesses, schools and homes. Dr. Gregory Poland, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases expert, suggests taking a practical approach to spring cleaning. If no one in your household has been infected, he says standard spring cleaning practices …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/spring-cleaning-takes-on-a-new-importance-during-covid-19-pandemic/

HUD allocates relief funds to protect public housing & Section 8 tenants
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832971.php

Slack goes down GLOBALLY, crippling remote work amid Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-13
The chat application and virtual workplace Slack has gone dark, experiencing a major outage worldwide as countless remote workers rushed to check their email inboxes and migrate to other platforms. | The outage was reported by Slack on Tuesday, noting it was investigating the cause of the glitch, though was unable to provide an estimate of when it might be resolved. | pic.twitter.com/SqAD3aOxoQ– Christine (@cabregoart) May 13, 2020 | So sorry for the trouble! We don\'t have an…
rt.com/news/488490-slack-down-global-outage/

Coronavirus will have bigger impact on world\'s most disadvantaged and vulnerable
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-13
The coronavirus pandemic will have a greater impact on the world\'s most disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, according to an Imperial report.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197498/coronavirus-will-have-bigger-impact-worlds

\"World Telecommunication Day\" to be held online amid COVID-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 14 (MNA)

\'Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach\' e-tool to help children with mental health concerns
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
ROCHESTER, Minn.

Masking your kids during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Do you or don\'t you wear a mask? If you do, what material is best? And what about children? Questions around masks during the COVID-19 pandemic abound, especially in light of the recent recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that all Americans wear masks in public settings. \"The direction around face masks has …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/masking-your-kids-during-covid-19/

Pennsylvania Health Sec under fire after moving own mum OUT of nursing home while sending sick Covid-19 patients INTO them
rt.com | 2020-05-13
As Pennsylvania\'s health secretary faces harsh criticism and calls to resign over her policy ordering Covid-19 patients to return to nursing homes after leaving hospital, she has admitted to moving her own mum out of a care home. | Dr Rachel Levine revealed when asked by reporters that her mother was moved out of her personal care home when the pandemic began

Sri Lankan president \"reopens economy\" despite pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
The Rajapakse regime is seeking to overcome the economic crisis at the expense of the health and lives of working people.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/slco-m13.html

Travel giant TUI plans to axe 8,000 jobs despite government bailout
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Multinational travel firm TUI Group has announced that it will slash 10 percent of its workforce worldwide in an effort to cut costs amid the coronavirus pandemic. | In its half-year financial results presented on Wednesday, the company said it will have to reduce operational costs to cope with the fallout from the pandemic, \"the greatest crisis the tourism industry and TUI has ever faced.\" | \"We are targeting to permanently reduce our overhead cost base by 30 percent across the entire Group. This will have an impact on potentially 8,000 roles globally that will either not be recruited or reduced,\" CEO Fritz J…
rt.com/business/488512-tui-cuts-8000-jobs/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: The \"Quarantine 15\"
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
It\'s being called the \"Quarantine 15\" online

Tehran, Kuala Lumpur ready to exchange experiences on Covid-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

What COVID-19 does to your lungs
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
m __________________________________________________ For the latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic, check the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. For more information and COVID-19 coverage, go to the Mayo Clinic News Network and mayoclinic.org.
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/what-covid-19-does-to-your-lungs/

Border wall construction ramps up during coronavirus pandemic
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-13
\"The Sierra Club is joining its partners in the borderlands to call for the immediate halt of border wall construction during the coronavirus pandemic.
nationofchange.org/2020/05/13/border-wall-construction-ramps-up-during-coronavirus-pandemic/

New York police brutality continues unabated in midst of pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
Sections of the Democratic Party and the media in New York City are attempting to portray brutal attacks by the NYPD on workers and youth exclusively in racial terms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/nypd-m13.html

Why you need to keep your child\'s vaccine schedule during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Millions of children may be at risk of missing or delaying their routine childhood vaccines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine specialist, says she understands being thoughtful about taking your children outside the home for doctor\'s visits during this time. \"The current situation with the novel coronavirus shows us how scary …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/why-you-need-to-keep-your-childs-vaccine-schedule-during-covid-19/

Lockdown Will Kill an Additional 18,000 Cancer Patients That Wouldn\'t Have Died Otherwise, Cancer Doctors Calculate
Denis Campbell | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-13
Almost 18,000 more people with cancer in England could die after the coronavirus pandemic led hospitals to suspend treatment and deterred patients from seeking NHS care, research has found. | Cancer experts claim that an extra 6,270 people in England who have been newly diagnosed with the disease could die from it over the next 12 months as a direct result of the disruption caused by [insane response to the] coronavirus, and the additional toll taking into account all those living with ca…
anti-empire.com/lockdown-will-kill-an-additional-18000-uk-cancer-patients-that-wouldnt-have-died-otherwise-researchers-find/

Imposing Sanctions Is A War Crime Amid Pandemic
commondreams.org | 2020-05-13
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/13/imposing-sanctions-war-crime-amid-pandemic?cd-origin=rss

Confirmed known Covid-19 cases for 2,818 federal inmates
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833003.php

Delta Tunnel Forges Ahead in Pandemic: Agreement in Principal Reached for SWP Contract Amendment
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
It is very clear that the Department of Water Resources and water contractors don\'t really care what the public and the people most impacted by the Delta Tunnel think, based on their obsession with pushing the tunnel project through at this time.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833007.php

We call frontline workers \"heroes,\" but do we value them like heroes?
Tim Libretti | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-13
On one level, the coronavirus pandemic holds out the potential to shift America\'s dominant cultural mentality to finally re-think–indeed come to terms with–how our political, economic, and moral systems value the work on which our lives most depend. Presumably, the pandemic conditions are making clear to us Americans what kinds of work are most essential, …
peoplesworld.org/article/we-call-frontline-workers-heroes-but-do-we-value-them-like-heroes/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Because cancer treatments can weaken the immune system, cancer patients are at increased risk of complications from COVID-19. Despite these concerns, cancer patients often still need treatment, including going to the clinic or to the hospital, and many have questions about whether cancer should be treated differently during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the Mayo Clinic …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-cancer-treatment-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

UK: Exercise Cygnus leak confirms Tory government\'s criminal inaction over pandemic threat
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
The publication of a version of the report in the Guardian makes clear that the Johnson government tried to hide evidence of its criminal lack of preparation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/cygn-m13.html

The Covid-19 Stimulus Debate Is a Pivotal Climate Story
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-05-13
The Covid-19 Stimulus Debate Is a Pivotal Climate Story…
thenation.com/article/environment/covid-stimulus-climate-change/

Trump ally Lindsey Graham seeks China sanctions over coronavirus probe: report
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Right-wing Facebook groups threaten to assassinate Michigan Governor Whitmer
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
Extreme right-wing members of private Facebook groups have made threats to assassinate the Michigan governor in response to her \"stay home, stay safe\" executive order.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/whit-m13.html

Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2020-05-13
For education \"disruptors\" like Bill Gates and Betsy DeVos, COVID-19 isn\'t a crisis–it\'s an opportunity.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/billionaires-threat-public-schools/

New clues on formation of life found in traces of fluid inside space rock 4.5 BILLION years old
rt.com | 2020-05-13
A team of researchers are peering into what the solar system may have looked like in its earliest stages, unlocking answers about the formation of amino acids

PSY-OP COVID-19: Under House Arrest!
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Are we lab rats? Milgram-Asch-Laborit | In this article, I refer to the experience of countries that are confined in an authoritarian and arbitrary manner, with more than 3 billion human beings under the authority of a few people and under …
globalresearch.ca/psy-op-covid-19-under-house-arrest/5712701

Anger simmers over restart of production by Detroit automakers
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
The reckless attempt to restart the North American auto industry is meeting with determined resistance by workers unwilling to risk their lives for corporate profits.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/auto-m13.html

Can we simultaneously oppose Bayer/Monsanto\'s biotechnology and support Cuba\'s Interferon Alpha 2B?
Don Fitz | mronline.org | 2020-05-13
Technology reflects social factors throughout its development and use. Genetically engineered crops allow mega-corporations to patent seeds, lure farmers into buying them with visions of high yields, and then destroy small farmers. Cuba\'s drugs are shared throughout the world. Making a distinction between the biotechnology of agro-industry and Cuba requires understanding the difference between bioimperialism …
mronline.org/2020/05/13/can-we-simultaneously-oppose-bayer-monsantos-biotechnology-and-support-cubas-interferon-alpha-2b/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-we-simultaneously-oppose-bayer-monsantos-biotechnology-and-support-cubas-interferon-alpha-2b

Speak out against oil drilling in Brentwood
The hills are alive | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Powerdrive Oil & Gas Company, LLC has submitted an application to drill for oil on agriculturally zoned land in unincorporated Brentwood. Contra Costa County officials have made an preliminary determination against requiring an EIR (Environment Impact Report).
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833008.php

Al-Kazemi calls for Iran\'s help to overcome Iraq\' economic challenges: envoy
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Lebanon reimposes lockdown after spike in COVID-19 cases
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-13
The country recorded over hundred fresh cases within three days this week. It had recorded zero new cases last week, which had led the government to relax lockdown norms imposed since March 15…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/13/lebanon-reimposes-lockdown-after-spike-in-covid-19-cases/

Failure to halt COVID-19 spread leads to mass deaths in Swedish elder care homes
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
Sweden\'s high fatality rate is due to official opposition to a lockdown and mass testing, and to decades-long austerity policies that devastated health care and other key services.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/swed-m13.html

\'Summer cancelled\': Los Angeles County to extend stay-at-home order another 3 MONTHS, stoking fears of civil unrest
rt.com | 2020-05-13
LA County will likely extend its Covid-19 containment measures until the end of July, a top public health official said, triggering a wave of outrage as residents declare \"summer cancelled\" and even predict riots in the streets. | The three-month extension to the county\'s \"safer at home\" order was announced by Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Tuesday. Though she stopped short of issuing an official order, Ferrer said the timetable would not shift until officials see a \"dramatic change to the virus and tools at hand,\" stressing the need for increased testing capacity. | Our hope is that by using the dat…
rt.com/usa/488489-la-county-lockdown-extended/

Lockdown\'s silver lining? NYC marks record-breaking 58 straight days without pedestrian deaths
rt.com | 2020-05-13
New York City\'s stay at home order has been criticized as unsustainable, but the policy has one apparent benefit: it has helped reduce the number of pedestrian deaths to zero for nearly 60 days in a row. | Like many other cities across the world, the Big Apple chose to close non-essential businesses and prohibit most outdoor activity in a bid to reduce the spread of coronavirus, which has struck New York particularly hard. While there is still debate about the effectiveness and sustainability of such measures, keeping people indoors has resulted in 58 consecutive days since a pedestrian was fatally struck by a…
rt.com/news/488549-new-york-city-pedestrian-deaths-coronavirus/

Tunisia relaxes curfew after 3 days without new coronavirus cases
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Tunisia has announced a reduction of its nightly curfew hours after three consecutive days without recording any new coronavirus cases, state media reported on Wednesday. | The North African democracy imposed the curfew in March in a bid to slow the spread of the virus, combined with a lockdown that shuttered all but key shops and services. President Kais Saied has cut the curfew hours to 11pm to 5am instead of 8pm to 6am, 10 days after the start of a gradual reopening of the bureaucracy and economy. | The government announced that no new coronavirus cases have been recorded for three days in a row, with 1,032…
rt.com/newsline/488547-tunisia-relaxes-nightly-curfew/

6.3 Million Will Develop Tuberculosis as a Result of COVID-19 Lockdown, 1.4 Million Will Die
Liz Ford | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-13

\"TB kills 1.5 million people a year, more than any other infectious disease\"

| The head of a global partnership to end tuberculosis (TB) said she is \"sickened\" by research that revealed millions more people are expected to contract the disease as a result of Covid-19 restrictions. | Up to 6.3 million more people are predicted to develop TB between now and 2025 and 1.4 million more people are expected to die as cases go undiagnosed and untreated during lockdown. This will set back global efforts to end TB by five to eight years. | \"The fact that we\'ve rolled back to 2013 figures and we have so…
anti-empire.com/6-3-million-will-develop-tuberculosis-as-a-result-of-covid-19-lockdown-1-4-million-will-die/

In Lockdown, India is No Country for Old Men
Sanket Jain | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
At this time, Shamshuddin Mulla would have been in the fields

New Zealand government removes more COVID-19 restrictions
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
The Labour Party-led government is moving to appease big business and ignoring calls from scientists for an extension of lockdown measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/nzpo-m13.html

The Mind-blowing History at Fort Detrick
Ceng Jing | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Since the Trump administration declared national emergency in mid-march over the rapid spread of COVID-19, the task of developing a vaccine has fallen on the U.S. Army\'s top virus research lab in Fort Detrick, located in suburban Maryland some 50 …
globalresearch.ca/mind-blowing-history-fort-detrick/5712760

Why China\'s President Xi Won\'t Repeat Ming Dynasty Mistakes
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
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 …
globalresearch.ca/why-chinas-president-xi-wont-repeat-ming-dynasty-mistakes/5712722

COVID-19: An Ocean of Fears and Lies
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
\"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.\"

The Boston-Newark Megalopolis: Death Certification Agencies are Jacking-up their C-19 Body-counts
William Walter Kay | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) alerted authorities worldwide of a potential novel coronavirus outbreak. Three weeks of investigations and conferences later (January 30) WHO declared a global public health emergency. Regions which subsequently posted extraordinarily high …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-democratic-boston-newark-megalopolis/5712576

History of Ghana: The Tragedy of One-time Military Ruler Ignatius Acheampong: Visionary and Kleptocrat
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
\"Beloved Ghana, born with a deep sense of pride, nurtured with unshakeable courage, has said goodbye forever to reaction, to timidity and hypocrisy in Government, and to the suppression of the interests and welfare of the people. Together we shall …
globalresearch.ca/ignatius-acheampong-visionary-kleptocrat/5712728

The COVID-19 Crisis in the U.S.: How Many More Innocent People Have to Die?
Prof. Joseph H. Chung | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
The COVID-19 is sweeping the U.S. land leaving behind mountains of dead bodies. This is just incredible. Soon, millions of persons may be inflicted. God knows how many more lives will be sacrificed. | What is frightening is the disorderly easing …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-crisis-u-s-how-many-more-innocent-people-have-die/5712773

Trump\'s Political Hoax Won\'t Revive US Economy, Retrieve Jobs
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was a hardliner Republican before Trump appointed him the head of American premier civilian intelligence service, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and later on to serve as the top US foreign diplomat. | Although …
globalresearch.ca/trump-political-hoax-wont-revive-us-economy-retrieve-jobs/5712768

Return of the Brown Shirts? US Federal and State Governments to Hire Contact Tracers to \'Hunt Down New Covid-19 Cases
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
The US federal and state governments are now hiring \"Contact Tracers\" to track those who are infected with the Coronavirus. The Daily Beast, a liberal online news site claims that in order to reopen businesses and institutions, the government needs …
globalresearch.ca/us-federal-state-governments-hire-contact-tracers-hunt-down-new-covid-19-cases/5712782

The World Order Is Rapidly Changing
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
As every day reveals yet another failure of the state to tackle the COVID-19 crisis and it merges into the next, it is becoming apparent that this government does not really understand the scale of damage being done to the …
globalresearch.ca/world-order-rapidly-changing/5712762

Mysterious Murder of Coronavirus Chinese Scientist in US Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Last week, Chinese scientist Bing Liu was shot and killed inside his home in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, USA. The researcher was a doctor of computer science at the National University of Singapore and lived and worked in the US, more …
globalresearch.ca/mysterious-murder-chinese-scientist-us-leaves-many-questions-unanswered/5712723

The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
\" The things we were worried would happen are happening.\"–Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York | No one is safe. | No one is immune. | No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under …
globalresearch.ca/worst-yet-come-contact-tracing-immunity-cards-mass-testing/5712744

Australia: Greasing the Revolving Door: Palantir Recruits Down Under
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
When he announced at the end of April that he would be retiring, thereby vacating the federal seat of Eden-Monaro, the Australian Labor Party\'s Mike Kelly (image below) welled up. He noted persistent \"health issues\" from his time in the …
globalresearch.ca/palantir-recruits-down-under/5712749

Survey on COVID-19 Economic Impacts: More than 50% of German Companies Expect Major Revenue Drop in 2020
Jastra Ilic | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
The coronavirus outbreak has caused a significant impact on European companies, confronting them with the worst market declines in the last few decades. As one of the most-affected countries in Europe, Germany is set to witness a significant collapse in …
globalresearch.ca/more-than-50-german-companies-expect-major-revenue-drop-2020/5712766

HR 6666: The Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act. Towards a Totalitarian State?
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
And so it begins with the first Congressional effort to codify what may be the first of many unconstitutional legislative attempts to create a totalitarian One World Government under the guise of attacking the coronavirus COVID 19. | Some weeks ago …
globalresearch.ca/hr-6666-first-legislative-effort-codify-cv-response/5712581

As Coronavirus Spreads in Meat Plants, Nearly 200 USDA Inspectors Test Positive
Lillianna Byington | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
As coronavirus has spread rapidly among meat plants across the country, it\'s not just the workers that are getting infected. Many people have strongly criticized the industry\'s response for waiting too long to implement safety precautions and close processing plants …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-spreads-meat-plants-200-usda-inspectors-test-positive/5712644

Revealed: Secretive British unit planning for \'reconstruction\' of Venezuela
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2020-05-13
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have exposed a secretive Foreign Office unit aimed at the \'reconstruction\' of Venezuela. The files also reveal private discussions between Venezuelan opposition figures and UK officials, detailing proposals for the promotion of British business after a planned coup.UK support for coup attempt in Venezuela: Over the past 16 months, the UK government has consistently supported Venezuelan opposition figure Juan…
thecanary.co/exclusive/2020/05/13/revealed-secretive-british-unit-planning-for-reconstruction-of-venezuela/

German politicians and media laud right-wing demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
The ruling elite is now mobilising the right-wing dregs of society in the \"corona\" demonstrations to intimidate the population and enforce their back-to-work campaign.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/demo-m13.html

Swedish PM says face masks for Covid-19 offer \'false sense of security\' to wearers
rt.com | 2020-05-13
The Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven has advised against wearing face masks to ward off Covid-19, as they may lead people to assume they are safe from the virus when there is still a risk of transmission. | Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Lofven said donning masks could lead the wearer to neglect social distancing guidelines and become complacent about safety precautions. | \"There is a risk of a false sense of security, that you feel you can\'t be infected if you have a face mask,\" he said. He advised those displaying even very mild symptoms to stay at home, stay socially distant, and to cont…
rt.com/news/488567-sweden-pm-face-masks-coronavirus/

Pine Ridge locks down for 72 hours after two Lakotas test positive for coronavirus
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
The Oglala Sioux Nation locked down on Monday night for 72-hours after two Lakotas in Wounded Knee District tested positive for the coronavirus. In the bordertown of Rapid City, a WalMart employee tested positive for coronavirus.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/12/18832995.php

New York City education department, backed by teachers union, downplayed virus threat
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
An exposé in the journal the City demonstrates that New York City officials systematically downplayed the threat of the coronavirus to New York City students and educators…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/newy-m13.html

The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard
Mary Retta | thenation.com | 2020-05-13
The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard…
thenation.com/article/society/the-coronavirus-is-hitting-tribal-schools-hard/

UK\'s Health Ministry says confirmed Covid-19 death toll has risen by 494 to 33,186
rt.com | 2020-05-13
A total of 33,186 people who tested positive for the new coronavirus have died in the United Kingdom, a rise of 494 in a 24-hour period, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. | Those figures reflect the situation as of 5pm (1600 GMT) on May 12. Including deaths due to suspected cases, Britain\'s fatality count is over 40,000, according to Reuters. | Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that increasing rates of infection in other countries which have relaxed some rules to tackle the coronavirus outbreak were a warning to Britain not to move too fast. | \"It is very notable that in some other countries…
rt.com/newsline/488546-uk-confirmed-rises-johnson/

Cheyenne River Lakota won\'t back down at checkpoints after South Dakota Gov\'s threats
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Cheyenne River Lakota Chairman Harold Frazier said the South Dakota Governor never contacted him, but made fiery statements in the media. Regardless of the threats, Lakota here maintain their checkpoints and are focused on saving lives and halting the spread of coronavirus.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832967.php

Patriotic Vaccines: The Divided Coronavirus Cause
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
When it comes to the politics of medicine and disease, the United States has always attempted to steal the limelight, while adding the now faded colouring of universal human welfare. In 1965, Washington pledged financial and technical support to the international effort to eradicate smallpox, though the initiative had initially been spurred by the Soviet…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/patriotic-vaccines-the-divided-coronavirus-cause/

Starmer\'s Labour Party just descended further down the toilet
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-05-13
Keir Starmer\'s leadership of the Labour Party has already been mired in controversy. Now, his and its response to the Tories\' latest coronavirus (Covid-19) plan has been chaotic at best. But the actions of MPs and a notorious peer, plus the party\'s official line, raise yet more cause for concern. | Send them back!: | Boris Johnson announced on Sunday 10 May that he wanted schools to reopen. As BBC News reported: He hoped the next step \'at the earliest by 1 June\' would be for some primary pupils to return to school in Engl…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/05/13/starmers-labour-party-just-descended-further-down-the-toilet/

Wearing \'smallpox blankets\' Lakota Dakota oppose casinos reopening
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Wearing \'smallpox blankets,\' Standing Rock Lakota and Dakota opposed the plan to re-open casinos. This comes as two coronavirus cases were reported after group testing at Standing Rock.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833001.php

Trump Pressures CDC to Lower COVID Death Count by Changing Calculation Method
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-13
President Donald Trump has privately expressed doubts about the coronavirus death toll in the United States, telling aides he believes the number is too high and overcounted. | Earlier this month, Axios reported that Trump had been mulling over the numbers, which he\'s suggested are inflated. A number of aides surrounding the president have expressed agreement with him. | \"The numbers ha…
truthout.org/articles/trump-pressures-cdc-to-lower-covid-death-count-by-changing-calculation-method/

Pharmacist Boots looking to recruit hundreds of unpaid Covid-19 testers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-13
High street pharmacist Boots is advertising to recruit an army of hundreds of unpaid volunteers to test people for coronavirus.An advert on the company\'s website said it is looking for 1,000 current staff and volunteers to work at least 32 hours a week as Covid-19 swab testers across the UK.The advert has sparked criticism with unions saying it took the \"notion of volunteering way too far\".It emerged as coronavirus testing dropped below the government\'s key 100,000 a day target, despite hitting it again on Sunday.Business Secretary Alok Sharma told the daily Downing Street press briefing on Tuesday that 85,293 te…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/13/pharmacist-boots-looking-to-recruit-hundreds-of-unpaid-covid-19-testers/

Beep! Beep! Union car caravan to demand Vegas casinos open safely
PAI | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-13
LAS VEGAS (PAI)–Beep! Beep! That will be the sound of dozens of horns honking from union members\' cars to be driven down the Las Vegas Strip at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, demanding the city\'s hotels and casinos reopen safely as they start up again from coronavirus-caused shutdowns. So far, the hotels and casinos …
peoplesworld.org/article/beep-beep-union-car-caravan-to-demand-vegas-casinos-open-safely/

\'Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics\' – CounterSpin interview with Ricardo Salvador on the coronavirus food crisis
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2020-05-13
Janine Jackson interviewed the Union of Concerned Scientists\' Ricardo Salvador about the coronavirus food crisis for the May 8, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/our-food-system-is-very-much-modeled-on-plantation-economics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-food-system-is-very-much-modeled-on-plantation-economics

The economic impact of coronavirus: analysis from Imperial experts
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-13
Academics and researchers from Imperial College London have provided analysis of the economic impact of COVID-19.
imperial.ac.uk/news/196514/the-economic-impact-coronavirus-analysis-from

Standoff in South Dakota: Cheyenne River Sioux refuse governor\'s demand to remove COVID checkpoints
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-13
The Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes say the checkpoints are the best way to protect against the coronavirus entering their communities, which are not equipped to handle an outbreak.
nationofchange.org/2020/05/13/standoff-in-south-dakota-cheyenne-river-sioux-refuse-governors-demand-to-remove-covid-checkpoints/

Pharmacist Boots looking to recruit hundreds of unpaid Covid-19 testers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-13
UPDATE: This article was updated at 5.40pm on 13 May to include a comment from Boots.High street pharmacist Boots is advertising to recruit an army of hundreds of unpaid volunteers to test people for coronavirus.An advert on the company\'s website said it is looking for 1,000 current staff and volunteers to work at least 32 hours a week as Covid-19 swab testers across the UK.The advert has sparked criticism with unions saying it took the \"notion of volunteering way too far\".It emerged as coronavirus testing dropped below the government\'s key 100,000 a day target, despite hitting it again on Sunday.Business Secreta…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/13/pharmacist-boots-looking-to-recruit-hundreds-of-unpaid-covid-19-testers/

Oglala Lakota enforce coronavirus border checkpoints after South Dakota Governor\'s threats
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
On Pine Ridge, Oglala Lakota Police and Lakota warriors are manning protective roadblocks at the tribal border entrances today on Mother\'s Day, as South Dakota State threatens Native Nations over their coronavirus roadblocks.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832965.php

Democrats\' $3 trillion stimulus includes hazard pay, PPE; Republicans say no
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-13
WASHINGTON–House Democrats released a new $3 trillion stimulus bill on May 12, designed to cope with the continuing economic collapse that coronavirus-caused closures have caused. There\'s money for protective personal equipment (PPE), hazardous duty pay for front-line workers, and a number of other pro-worker provisions. The 1,815-page measure is tentatively scheduled for a May 15 …
peoplesworld.org/article/democrats-3-trillion-stimulus-includes-hazard-pay-ppe-republicans-say-no/

Even the mainstream media\'s now suggesting UK death toll could surpass 50,000
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-05-13
The BBC has published an article suggesting that the number of coronavirus (Covid-19) related deaths in the UK could be \"nearly twice as high\" as the official figure. This follows similar analysis by the Financial Times (FT). | Both media outlets expose the blatant dishonesty of the daily figures quoted by Boris Johnson\'s government. | More than 50,000 deaths?: | The government, according to the BBC, says there have been just over 28,0…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/05/13/even-the-mainstream-medias-now-suggesting-uk-death-toll-could-surpass-50000/

Night of Destiny rituals observed in Tehran\'s Modarres hospital
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Poland to reopen hairdressers, restaurants on May 18 as \'epidemic contained to some extent\'
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Poland will reopen restaurants and hairdressers on May 18 as it begins easing coronavirus-linked restrictions, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday. | \"At least to some extent we have contained the epidemic, therefore we can gradually unfreeze the economy,\" Morawiecki told reporters. | The statement came a day after Poland saw its largest spike in coronavirus cases in a single day, Reuters reported. | Schools will partially reopen to provide day care for children in the first three years of primary school, the prime minister added.
rt.com/newsline/488556-poland-reopen-hairdressers-restaurants/

Row erupts between BoJo and Labour, as Covid-19 guidance saying care homes \'unlikely\' to become infected re-emerges
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Downing Street and the Labour Party have become embroiled in a spat over official UK government guidance issued in February over the risk Covid-19 poses to care homes, with each side accusing the other of misleading the public. | During PMQs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Keir Starmer quoted from the Public Health England (PHE) document

Authoritarians Using Coronavirus Fear to Destroy America
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-13
Ron PAUL | A Fresno, California waffle restaurant dared to open its doors for business this weekend to the delight of a long line of customers, who waited up to two hours for the \"privilege\" of willingly spending their money in a business happy to serve them breakfast on Mother\'s Day. This freedom of voluntary transaction is the core of what we used to call our free society. But in an America paralyzed by fear

Egypt and Ethiopia: Could it be war?
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-13
A showdown over Nile waters is looming as the world looks the other way | While the world is diverted by the coronavirus crisis, Ethiopia is just weeks away from starting to fill the reservoir of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, to the great dismay of Egypt whose vital supply of water stands to be severely reduced. | Last week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri sent a letter to all members of the UN Security Council setting out the country\'s perspective on developments in the long-running dispute over the dam, detailing its efforts to reach an equitable solution, and warning of t…

Egypt and Ethiopia: Could it be war?

White House hosting worst US administration, Pompeo knows nothing about ABC\'s of politics
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

89,428 Iranians recover from Covid-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Front pages of Iran international dailies on May 13
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Iranian embassy calls on Japan to support UNSCR 2231
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

How Huxley\'s X-Club Created Nature Magazine and Sabotaged Science for 150 Years
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-13
Amidst the storm of controversy raised by the lab-origin theory of COVID-19 extolled by such figures as Nobel prize winning virologist Luc Montagnier, bioweapons expert Francis Boyle, Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith and the head of Iran\'s Revolutionary Guard, an elaborate project was undertaken under the nominal helm of NATURE Magazine in order to refute the claim once and for all under the report \'The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2\'. | This project was led by a team of evolutionary virologists using a line of reasoning that \"random…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/13/how-huxleys-x-club-created-nature-magazine-sabotaged-science-150-years/

Iranian photographer goes to Kharkiv Fest in Ukraine
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 14 (MNA)

UNICEF dispatches dressings for EB patients in Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13

Iran approves to grant a five-year residence permit to foreign investors: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Trade exchange vol. between Iran, Germany to hike by 15% in coming months
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Iran delivers homegrown corona diagnostic kits to Germany: IRICA
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Police busts one ton of drugs in Saravan County
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
Zahedan, May 13 (MNA)

Iranian, Turkish researchers carry out 22 joint projects
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

With Brazil on course to become new COVID-19 epicenter, Bolsonaro escalates back-to-work campaign
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
Auto factories have already restarted production even as every region in the country is breaking daily records of cases and deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/braz-m13.html

The HEROES Act Is a Vital Step Toward Ending COVID, So of Course It Is Doomed
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-13
There are two ways the COVID-19 story ends for the United States. | The nation can embrace scientific and medical facts as the way back home, make business secondary to life and health, and use our vast financial resources to support the populace even as we roll out a comprehensive testing program to speed a return to whatever passes for normal in this thundercloud of a country. | Or we can burn on the pyre of heedlessly rapacious capitalism. It really, truly is just that simple. As it stands…
truthout.org/articles/the-heroes-act-is-a-vital-step-toward-ending-covid-so-of-course-it-is-doomed/

Why Are \"Progressive Democrats\" Siding With Amazon in Seattle?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-13
Right now in Seattle, Washington, Amazon

Trump\'s \"Lightning Fast\" COVID-19 Test May Be Seriously Flawed, New Study Shows
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-13
President Donald Trump has frequently bragged about the amount of testing being conducted across the United States in response to COVID-19

On Asparagus and Bombers
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
In late spring an age-old tradition places asparagus

Virologist Luis Villarreal: \"Leery\" of COVID-19 Models, Vaccine Possible Year\'s End
Suzan Mazur | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
Somewhat exasperated by the Covid-19 models publicly showcased over the last two months, I decided to ring up virologist Luis Villarreal for his perspective. Luis Villarreal is founding director of University of California, Irvine\'s Center for Virus Research and UCI Professor Emeritus, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Villarreal told me he takes these models…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/virologist-luis-villarreal-leery-of-covid-19-models-vaccine-possible-years-end/

Low-Balling the Unemployed in the Era of the 2020 Great Recession
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
This past Friday, May 8, the US Labor Dept. released its latest jobless figures. The official report was 20 million more unemployed and an unemployment rate of 14.7%. Both mainstream and progressive media reported the numbers: 20 million more jobless and 14.7%. But those numbers, as horrendous as they are, represent a gross under-estimation of…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/low-balling-the-unemployed-in-the-era-of-the-2020-great-recession/

Republicans Can\'t Seem to Make Up Their Minds About Mail and Voting
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-13
One laudable side effect of the COVID-19 panic is a nationwide effort to promote \"vote by mail\" as a universal alternative to standing in line at polling places. One reason that effort is laudable is that it would likely decrease vote fraud. Yes, I said \"decrease.\" And Republicans were saying the same thing until recently.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/13/republicans-cant-seem-to-make-up-their-minds-about-mail-and-voting/

21-Year-Old Dies in Santa Cruz County Jail
Santa Cruz Police News | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
The Santa Cruz Sheriff\'s Office says on Sunday evening, May 10, correctional officers discovered 21-year-old Tamario Smith was unresponsive in his cell at the County Jail. At about 6pm, paramedics administered medical aid, however Smith was pronounced deceased at the scene. According to the Sheriff\'s Office, Smith did not share a cell, and foul play is not suspected. The Sheriff\'s Office states there were no signs of trauma or visible injuries, and that Smith did not show signs of COVID-19 symptoms.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/11/18832983.php

\'Major concern\': Nearly 100 New York children treated for mysterious inflammatory illness thought to be linked to Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-13
At least 93 children in New York state have been diagnosed with a rare and poorly understood inflammatory disease thought to be tied to Covid-19, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, suggesting an uptick in the mysterious ailment. | Calling the situation \"truly disturbing,\" on Tuesday Cuomo said state health officials are investigating the spate of new patients who\'ve come down with \"pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome,\" which has already killed three children in New York. | \"New York State is now investigating about 100 cases of an inflammatory illness in children that may be related to Covid-19,\" the governor…
rt.com/usa/488492-new-york-children-mystery-syndrome/

At San Quentin: \'No state execution by COVID-19!\'
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2020-05-13
May 9

Connecting Patients: COVID-19 and transplant patients
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Mayo Clinic Connect is an online community where you can share your experiences and find support from people like you. You can also read Mayo Clinic expert blogs and take part in educational events. COVID-19 and Transplant Patients \"As a kidney transplant recipient I have been extra vigilant/worried about protecting myself as COVID-19 spreads. Like …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/connecting-patients-covid-19-and-transplant-patients/

ACLU of California Legislative Webinar: COVID-19, Current Bills, & Building Community
ACLU Northern California | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/12/18832990.php

Mayo Clinic expert discusses potential neurological effects of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can take a severe toll on the respiratory system. However, recent research suggests that the virus may also infect the nervous system. A study of patients with COVID-19 out of Wuhan, China found that possible neurological signs and symptoms caused by COVID-19 can include loss of taste and smell, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-expert-discusses-potential-neurological-effects-of-covid-19/

Confirmed worldwide Covid-19 death toll passes 293,000
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-13
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Mayo Clinic launches radio campaign to encourage recovered patients of COVID-19 to donate plasma
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Entercom Communications to launch a radio campaign that raises awareness in Detroit, New York City, Miami and Chicago of the federally-sponsored national Expanded Access Program (EAP) for Convalescent Plasma. The Food and Drug Administration announced Mayo Clinic as the lead site for the EAP program to speed access and increase availability of investigational convalescent plasma for hospitalized patients …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-launches-radio-campaign-to-encourage-recovered-patients-of-covid-19-to-donate-plasma/

Dispatch from the Frontlines: Gender Inequality and COVID-19 (CPCC)
Congressional Progressive Caucus Ctr & others | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Online livestream & Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833009.php

Mayo Clinic receives $26 million from BARDA for COVID-19 convalescent plasma expanded access program
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Mayo Clinic was awarded a $26 million contract today from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The financial support is for the Expanded Access Program (EAP) for convalescent plasma to fight COVID-19. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-receives-26-million-from-barda-for-covid-19-convalescent-plasma-expanded-access-program/

Mayo Clinic\'s comprehensive COVID-19 research
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinics-comprehensive-covid-19-research/

Results of tens of thousands of Covid-19 tests disappear into \'black hole\'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-13
The results of tens of thousands of Covid-19 tests carried out by the government\'s network of testing centres are not being shared locally, stalling efforts to control the outbreak, it has emerged. | A leaked email, seen by the Health Service Journal (HSJ), said data from a new testing programme of non-NHS labs

California nurses denounce lack of access to PPE
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
\"We don\'t know how many medical workers have died here because of COVID-19 because neither the hospital nor the union tells us.\"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/nurs-m13.html

Belgium to partially reopen schools, markets, museums & zoos from Monday
rt.com | 2020-05-13
Belgian schools will partially reopen and markets, museums and zoos will also be allowed to operate again from next Monday, PM Sophie Wilmes said on Wednesday. | With a population of 11.5 million, Belgium is among the European nations worst hit by Covid-19, but it began a phased easing of the restrictions at the start of May. Belgium has so far reported 53,981 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 8,843 deaths, according to Reuters. | Wilmes said the reopening of non-food shops this week had proceeded smoothly even if there were now queues outside some stores. \"Improvements are coming, but we must be patient. We can…
rt.com/newsline/488561-belgium-reopen-schools-markets/

Kawasaki-like disease afflicting young children and teens after infection with SARS-CoV-2
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
Around 100 children in New York may have been afflicted by complications of COVID-19 infection, now called Pediatric Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome, with possibly five dead.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/pmis-m13.html

The Frontline Response: Local Latino Leaders Address COVID-19 (town hall)
Unidos US | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Online via Zoom: unidosus.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8vJrGBs4SJuzlwnme6PktQ…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/12/18832997.php

33 London bus drivers killed by COVID-19: \"We are expendable like diesel\"
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
Workers fear infections will soar following Sunday night\'s \"phased exit\" announced by the Johnson government…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/lond-m13.html

If we must die, don\'t let it be from COVID-19
Tanuke Smith | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-13
Not much has changed in the Black community. The strategy of controlling wealth, access to healthcare, and the demise of African Americans is still as calculated as ever. The mainstream media reports daily on the death rate in Black communities, stemming from crime, police brutality, or COVID-19. As April arrived, the cruel face of reality …
peoplesworld.org/article/if-we-must-die-dont-let-it-be-from-covid-19/

Germany to keep quarantine requirement in place for non-EU visitors as border control measures relaxed from May 16
rt.com | 2020-05-13
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has advised his country\'s states to keep quarantine restrictions in place for non-EU visitors as national border control measures are set to ease from May 16. | Berlin will begin relaxing national border controls implemented to curb the spread of Covid-19 from Saturday, with measures expected to be completely lifted by June 15. | As it stands, guidelines from Berlin are that anyone returning to Germany must spend 14 days in self-isolation when they re-enter the country. That rule will now be lifted for EU visitors. | Speaking on Wednesday, Seehofer said border crossings…
rt.com/news/488535-germany-easing-travel-restrictions/

Why Herd Immunity to COVID-19 Is Reached Much Earlier Than Thought
Nic Lewis | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-13
A study published in March by the COVID-19 Response Team from Imperial College (Ferguson20 [1]) appears to have been largely responsible for driving government actions in the UK and, to a fair extent, in the US and some other countries. Until that report came out, the strategy of the UK government, at least, seems to have been to rely on the build up of \'herd immunity\' to slow the growth of the epidemic and eventually cause it to peter out. | The \'herd immunity threshold\' (HIT) can be esti…
anti-empire.com/why-herd-immunity-to-covid-19-is-reached-much-earlier-than-thought/

National Nurses Day: Not all heroes wear capes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Photo and article are courtesy of Mayo Clinic News Center andMayo Clinic Employee Facebook. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear scrubs, protective equipment and step out in difficult times to be there for others. As COVID-19 continues to spread and people heed notices to socially distance themselves and hunker down in their homes, there …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/national-nurses-day-not-all-heroes-wear-capes/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 research at Mayo Clinic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Thanks to its combination of practice, education, and research, Mayo Clinic has a strong foundation to respond quickly to a medical crisis such as COVID-19. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread worldwide, a research task force was formed at Mayo Clinic to review and approve research proposals related to the virus and the disease it causes. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-covid-19-research-at-mayo-clinic/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Possible neurological effects of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Originally identified as a respiratory disease, some COVID-19 patients exhibit neurologic symptoms including stroke, loss of consciousness, headache, and even the loss of taste and smell. What\'s unknown is whether these are direct effects of the virus entering the nervous system, or consequences of the disease\'s effect on the body. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-possible-neurological-effects-of-covid-19/

UK COVID-19 related deaths top 60,000, according to Financial Times
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
Yesterday, the government reported another 627 deaths in its daily briefing, taking the manipulated official fatalities toll to 32,490.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/couk-m13.html

China reacts with Zero tolerance for racist incidents
Joshua Hanks | workers.org | 2020-05-13
Reports surfaced in April of cases of discrimination against African workers in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong as pictures appeared on the internet of a sign refusing service to Africans at a McDonald\'s restaurant and allegations that Africans were being evicted from hotels. Ambassador Liu Yuxi, head of Mission . . . | Continue reading China reacts with Zero tolerance for racist incidents at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48572/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=china-reacts-with-zero-tolerance-for-racist-incidents

A 21st century lynching: Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!
Dianne Mathiowetz | workers.org | 2020-05-13
May 11– In the early afternoon of Feb. 23, shots rang out on the tree-lined streets of Satilla Shores, a predominantly white neighborhood bordering the port city of Brunswick on Georgia\'s Atlantic coast, some 40 miles north of Jacksonville, Fla. Afterward, a 25-year-old Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, lay dead on . . . | Continue reading A 21st century lynching: Justice for Ahmaud Arbery! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48575/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-21st-century-lynching-justice-for-ahmaud-arbery

Ethical Human Rights: China criticizes New Zealand for supporting Taiwan
Anthony Ravlich | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
If my book was less suppressed the UN may well take a more positive view of Taiwan\'s wish to gain formal recognition in the World Health Organization. The UN seems to be following China\'s \'One-China policy\' by excluding Taiwan.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833000.php

US agencies drum up allegations of Chinese hacking of vaccine research
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
The claims of Chinese hacking of vaccine research are not only part of the Trump\'s anti-China propaganda war but will be used to justify US cyber warfare against Beijing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/usch-m13.html

Does China need US or does US need China? RT\'s Boom Bust finds out
rt.com | 2020-05-13
As part of the \'phase one\' trade deal, Beijing on Tuesday issued a new list of US products to be exempt from trade tariffs. This came as the US threatened to terminate the deal if China fails to meet its purchase commitments. | …
rt.com/business/488537-us-china-trade-deal/

Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing: Are We on The Fast Track to a National ID?
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-13
CHARLOTTESVILLE ( Rutherford) —- No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state. | That\'s the message being broadcast 24/7 with every new piece of government propaganda, every new law that criminalizes otherwise lawful activity, every new policeman on the beat, every new surveillance camera casting a watchful eye, every sensationalist news story that titillates and distracts, every new prison or detention center built to house troublemake…
mintpressnews.com/contact-tracing-immunity-cards-mass-testing-national-id/267488/

Democrats and unions seek to suppress resistance by Amazon workers
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
Seeking to contain the outrage of workers over deadly working conditions, the Democratic Party and trade unions have embarked on a campaign among \"essential\" workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/amaz-m13.html

Watch as Ellis Howard breaks down, then tears apart, Boris Johnsons \"stay alert\" announcement
Ellis Howard | thecanary.co | 2020-05-13
Watch more from Ellis, as well as other great Canary TV content, on our YouTube Channel. | By Ellis Howard…
thecanary.co/video/2020/05/13/watch-as-ellis-howard-breaks-down-then-tears-apart-boris-johnsons-stay-alert-announcement/

Essential For Survival: The Need Of Global Solidarity
The People\'s Collective | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
People are dying, every day. Many people are dying too early. People are dying through war, poverty, disease, lack of healthcare or lack of food. People are dying of starvation. Now, in the year 2020, a new disease is spreading around the globe, killing hundreds of thousands and affecting everybody\'s life.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/11/18832973.php

#WearOrange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day 2020 (virtual)
MDAEFG | indybay.org | 2020-05-13
Social media…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/09/18832941.php

Elon Musk and the economics of class war
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
With his decision to illegally restart production at Tesla\'s factory in Fremont, California, Musk is forcing 10,000 workers to return to work under unsafe conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/pers-m13.html

Trump Blasts Into a New Frontier…for War
Jim Hightower | commondreams.org | 2020-05-13
If all this seems like silliness from a satirical sitcom, it is. (Photo: Chris Millter/@chrizmillr) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/spaceforce.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/13/trump-blasts-new-frontierfor-war?cd-origin=rss

Senate votes down anti-surveillance amendment, as both parties back warrantless spying on Americans\' browser history
rt.com | 2020-05-13
The US Senate has voted down an amendment that would limit surveillance of Americans\' internet records. Apparently, the true divide in Washington is not between Democrat and Republican, but those for or against the police state. | The US Senate met on Wednesday to debate the reauthorization of some provisions of the USA Freedom Act, an expansive domestic surveillance bill that expired in March. As Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought the Act to the floor, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced an amendment that would explicitly bar law enforcement from snooping on Americans\' internet browsing and search…
rt.com/usa/488586-senate-blocks-surveillance-amendment/

What\'s Changed Since the Virus Arrived?
Carly Larsson | thenation.com | 2020-05-13
What\'s Changed Since the Virus Arrived?
thenation.com/article/society/whats-changed-since-the-virus-arrived/

Selected Articles: COVID-19: An Ocean of Fears and Lies
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Return of the Brown Shirts? US Federal and State Governments to Hire Contact Tracers to \'Hunt Down New Covid-19 Cases | By Timothy Alexander Guzman, May 13, 2020 | The US federal and state governments are now hiring \"Contact Tracers\" t…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-face-masks-pose-serious-risks-healthy/5712795

Fake Coronavirus Data, Fear Campaign. Spread of the COVID-19 Infection
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
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.
globalresearch.ca/fake-coronavirus-data-fear-campaign-spread-of-the-covid-19-infection/5708643

US lowers threat perception on Iran
M. K. Bhadrakumar | iranian.com | 2020-05-12
The drawdown of US military presence in the Middle East, especially from Saudi Arabia, may not be an automatic open sesame

Coronavirus and Dodgy Death Numbers
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Not only are the coronavirus models being used by WHO and the most national health agencies based on highly dubious methodologies, and not only are the tests being used of wildly different quality, that only indirectly confirm antibodies of a …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-death-numbers/5712605

Leaders from sanctioned countries condemn U.S. sanctions amid COVID-19 pandemic
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-12
Minneapolis, MN – Over 1000 people attended an online panel hosted by the United National AntiWar Coalition, May 9. In a panel entitled, \"U.S. Sanctions During the COVID-19 Pandemic, a Global Threat\" leaders representing six countries facing harsh U.S. sanctions highlighted the leading role of the United States in undermining the healthcare infrastructure of sovereign states in order to foment regime change. | U.S. imposed economic sanctions currently impact 39 countries, representing one third of the global population. These sanctions result in chronic shortages of basic necessities and have inhibited the abilit…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/12/leaders-sanctioned-countries-condemn-us-sanctions-amid-covid-19-pandemic

President Maduro Extends State of Alarm in Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, signed this Tuesday the renewal of the decree of the state of constitutional alarm for 30 more days \"to continue protecting our people\" from Covid-19. | RELATED: | Venezuela to Repatriate Citizens Stranded in Peru and Ecuador | The president stressed that the quarantine could not be relaxed in the country to avoid a Covid-19 outbreak, as has happened in other countries. In Venezuela, food production will be maintained as a priority of…
telesurenglish.net/news/President-Maduro-Extends-State-of-Alarm-in-Venezuela-20200512-0018.html

Justice Thomas Said Forcing Trump to Release His Taxes Weakens the President
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-12
The United States Supreme Court heard two different cases on a single matter: who may (or may not) have the legal right to access President Donald Trump\'s financial and tax records. | The two cases involve investigations at the Congressional level as well as within the state Trump once called his home, New York. | The District Attorney from Manhattan, Cyrus Vance Jr., is seeking to obtain…
truthout.org/articles/justice-thomas-said-forcing-trump-to-release-his-taxes-weakens-the-president/

The Bernie Sanders Movement, Its Historical Antecedents, and Its Legacy
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Online ZOOM Meeting. | LOG-IN INFORMATION AT OUR WEBSITE | ICSSMARX.ORG | OR EMAIL CUYLERUYLE [at] MAC.COM…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/08/18832926.php

COVID-19: Global Pandemic & Climate Disruption With Mike Davis
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Online Zoom meeting, see details here: speakoutsocialists.org/townhall-davis-5-16/…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832968.php

SND Live with Vanessa Beeley
Vanessa Beeley | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-12
Independent journalist and complete badass, Vanessa Beeley, joins us from Damascus to discuss her recent work shedding light on how the West\'s response to Covid is providing cover for further atrocities in Syria. We also discussed the continuing genocide in Yemen and the UN\'s role in facilitating it, what hybrid warfare is, and who is determining the roll out of the UK\'s \"new normal\".

SND Live with Vanessa Beeley

Bernie Sanders\' interview with the Washington Post: The thin gruel of Democratic Party politics
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
Sanders glossed over the reality of the health and economic catastrophe facing millions of workers and made no mention of the corporate bailouts for which he has voted in the Senate.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/sand-m12.html

The US military is hell-bent on trying to overpower China
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-12
On April 1, Admiral Philip Davidson–the head of the US Indo-Pacific Command–told the US Congress that he would like $20 billion to create a robust military cordon that runs from California to Japan and down the Pacific Rim of Asia. His proposal–titled \"Regain the Advantage\"–pointed to the \"renewed threat we face from Great Power Competition. … Without a valid and convincing conventional deterrent, China and Russia will be emboldened to take ac…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/12/the-us-military-is-hell-bent-on-trying-to-overpower-china/

Syria spinmeisters fumble attempts to narrative manage OPCW leaks
Caitlin A. Johnstone | mronline.org | 2020-05-12
It\'s been over 72 hours since The Grayzone published new leaks further exposing how the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been lying about its investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria two years ago.
mronline.org/2020/05/12/syria-spinmeisters-fumble-attempts-to-narrative-manage-opcw-leaks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syria-spinmeisters-fumble-attempts-to-narrative-manage-opcw-leaks

Video: Al-Qaeda Launches Large-scale Attack in Northwestern Hama Under Cover of Ceasefire Deal
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
The southern part of the Idlib zone has once again turned into a hot point with the Syrian Army and al-Qaeda militants openly clashing with each other. | On May 10, fierce clashes erupted between the Syrian Army and forces of …
globalresearch.ca/video-al-qaeda-launches-large-scale-attack-northwestern-hama/5712557

Trump Regime Hardliners Want Social Security and Medicare Eliminated
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Social Security and Medicare are insurance programs, not welfare

Strained China-US Relations. Renewed Trade War Ahead? New Cold War?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Sino/US relations are more dismal than at any time since Nixon\'s 1972 meeting with Mao during his weeklong visit to China. | Are bilateral differences irreconcilable? Is the breach between both countries too great to restore more cooperative relations? | Is a …
globalresearch.ca/sino-us-relations-renewed-trade-war-ahead-new-cold-war/5712600

Trump wins! Completing Obama\'s Pivot to Asia and the Confrontation with China
Ajamu Baraka | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-12
Even before becoming the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump had one consistent foreign enemy

Authoritarians Using Coronavirus Fear to Destroy America
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
A Fresno, California waffle restaurant dared to open its doors for business this weekend to the delight of a long line of customers, who waited up to two hours for the \"privilege\" of willingly spending their money in a business …
globalresearch.ca/authoritarians-using-coronavirus-fear-destroy-america/5712628

Pivot To Peace Must Replace US Pivot To War With China
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-12
US and Chinese Fists and Weapons face-off (from the Financial Times) The Trump administration, in seeking to divert attention from its bungled response to the COVID-19 pandemic and mishandling of the economic collapse, is escalating the bipartisan anti-China policy, which has a long history. This increases the potential of military conflict and economic war between …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/pivot-to-peace-must-replace-us-pivot-to-war-with-china/

Los New Yorkers: Essential, Underprotected Undocumented Immigrants Struggle to Survive in Epicenter
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-12
As the coronavirus continues to devastate New York City communities, we hear the voices of undocumented New Yorkers about how they are surviving the pandemic. Their stories are told in a new ProPublica story headlined \"Los New Yorkers: Essential and Underprotected in the Pandemic\'s Epicenter.\" We speak with one of the story\'s reporters, Adriana Gallardo.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/12/los_new_yorkers_essential_undocumented_workers

\"Losing the Fabric of the City\": COVID-19 Took Chicago Black Lives First & Exposed Structural Racism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-12
We look at the coronavirus pandemic\'s disproportionate toll on African Americans through the story of Chicago\'s first 100 recorded deaths. A report by ProPublica found that 70 of the first 100 people to die were African American. Black people account for 30% of Chicago\'s population and 72% of COVID-19 deaths. We speak with ProPublica reporter Adriana Gallardo, who contributed to the report \"COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn\'t Have To.\" She says the story paints a picture of \"sophisticated structural racism\" in Chicago.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/12/chicago_70_black_people_dead_first

Iraq Will be Hit Harder by Falling Oil Prices Than COVID-19 or ISIS
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
The shadowy figures of well-armed Isis gunmen can be seen making an attack in the plains of northern Iraq on an outpost held by paramilitary fighters loyal to the Iraqi government. Some four of the latter are killed by a roadside bomb. Isis specialises in publicising its successful military actions online to show that it remains a force to be feared, despite the destruction of the so-called caliphate and the killing last year of its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/122647/

Iraq Will be Hit Harder by Falling Oil Prices Than COVID-19 or ISIS
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
The shadowy figures of well-armed Isis gunmen can be seen making an attack in the plains of northern Iraq on an outpost held by paramilitary fighters loyal to the Iraqi government. Some four of the latter are killed by a roadside bomb. Isis specialises in publicising its successful military actions online to show that it remains a force to be feared, despite the destruction of the so-called caliphate and the killing last year of its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/iraq-will-be-hit-harder-by-falling-oil-prices-than-covid-19-or-isis/

President Ghani orders Afghan troops to switch to \'offensive mode\' after new attacks
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani ordered the military to move to \"offensive mode\" on Tuesday, shifting away from a defensive stance it had taken as part of efforts to reduce violence as the US tries to broker peace talks. | \"In order to provide security for public places and to thwart attacks and threats from the Taliban and other terrorist groups, I am ordering Afghan security forces to switch from an active defense mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemies,\" Ghani said in a televised speech. | The comments followed a violent day in which gunmen killed 16 people at a maternity cl…
rt.com/newsline/488461-ghani-afghan-troops-offensive/

Germany Wants to Replace Poland\'s \"Patriotic Government\" with \"Europhile Puppets\"?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
The former Polish Minister of Defense accused Germany of conspiring with a few other foreign actors to replace the patriotic Polish government with Europhile puppets, arguing that the country\'s latest political controversy over the date of its presidential elections is …
globalresearch.ca/germany-wants-replace-patriotic-polish-government-europhile-puppets/5712637

On May Day, the \"Opposition\" Again Acted Foolishly and Irresponsibly
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-12
May Day in Hong Kong, and here it happened again! Several media outlets reported that \"hundreds of protesters did gather in small groups at a shopping mall in the town of Sha Tin, chanting slogans and holding protest flags\". A few other groups of rioters were spotted at various other locations in the city. They …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/on-may-day-the-opposition-again-acted-foolishly-and-irresponsibly/

Israel to Annex the United States
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
As the Beatles once put it, \"I read the news today, oh boy…\" One might argue that the \"oh boy\" has been part and parcel of one\'s morning media review ever since 9/11, but depending on one\'s own inclinations, the …
globalresearch.ca/israel-annex-united-states/5712625

Bolivia: Inmates Riot Due to COVID Outbreak in Prison
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Bolivian police forces repressed May 11 an inmate riot in Palmasola prison, in Santa Cruz city. Convicts protested due to a Covid-19 outbreak among the prison population. | RELATED: | Bolivia De-Facto Govt Repress Protesters That Can\'t Afford More Lockdown | The authorities at the Palmasola penitentiary said two inmates who died last week after presenting respiratory distress. Local news media reported first deceased autopsy revealed he was COVID positive and was buried acco…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-inmates-riot-due-to-covid-prison-outbreak-20200512-0002.html

Germany: Far-Right Encourages Radical Anti-Confinement Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Germany\'s Julius Gumbel Research Center (EJGF) Director Gideon Botsch Tuesday warned that far-right groups are benefiting from the potential radicalization of protests against confinement and physical distancing measures. | RELATED: | Germany to Fine up to $54 Million to Online Hate Speech | \"While the mobilization effect goes far beyond the far-right\'s world, the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is a major promoter of radical protests,\" Botsch said. | \"The warming dynamic has been…
telesurenglish.net/news/Germany-Far-Right-Encourages-Radical-Anti-Confinement-Protests-20200512-0004.html

Rejection to Genetically Modified Seeds Grows in Bolivia
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
The Coordinator of the Six Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba in Bolivia rejected Tuesday Supreme Decree 4,232 that allows the use of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the South American country. | RELATED: | Bolivia De-Facto Govt Repress Protesters That Can\'t Afford More Lockdown | The joint statement from agricultural organizations in the Cochabamba region states that the de-facto President Jeanine Añez went beyond her powers as an interim official violating the count…
telesurenglish.net/news/Rejection-of-Genetically-Modified-Seeds-Grows-in-Bolivia-20200512-0014.html

Bolivia Police Repress Protesters That Can\'t Afford Lockdown
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Hundreds of people were violently repressed by security forces Monday in the Bolivian K\'ara K\'ara community located in Cochabamba city, as they took to the streets to demand that the de facto government eases the COVID-19 lockdown as they cannot afford it anymore. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Citizens Protest Against De Facto Government | Videos circulating on social media showed demonstrators fiercely attacked by the police and army who did not hesitate to use tear gas and rubber bullets, inj…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hunger-Protests-in-Bolivia-Fiercely-Repressed-by-Security-Forces-20200511-0016.html

Lebanon to Enter 4-Day Lockdown After Jump in COVID-19 Cases
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Lebanon will reimpose a four-day nationwide stay at home order, the government announced Tuesday, after a jump in coronavirus cases over the past week. | RELATED: | Lebanese Army Denies Torturing Detained Protesters Despite Reports | The lockdown will go into force Wednesday and end Monday authorities said, while the country\'s information minister Manal Abdel-Samad said that all businesses will be closed, with the exception of those in the medical, industrial, and agricultural sectors.
telesurenglish.net/news/Lebanon-to-Enter-4-Day-Lockdown-After-Jump-in-COVID-19-Cases-20200512-0021.html

U.S. hand in recent assaults on Cuba, Venezuela
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-12
Secretary of State Pompeo loudly condemns Iranian border guards who abused Afghans crossing into Iran. He castigates China\'s supposed failings with the COVID 19 pandemic. He and President Trump rail against dictatorship they see in Venezuela. They protest Cuba\'s \"slave doctors\"

U.S. hand in recent assaults on Cuba, Venezuela
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-12
Secretary of State Pompeo loudly condemns Iranian border guards who abused Afghans crossing into Iran. He castigates China\'s supposed failings with the COVID-19 pandemic. He and President Trump rail against dictatorship they see in Venezuela. They protest Cuba\'s \"slave doctors\"

Why Unemployment under Trump is way worse than Numbers Suggest
John Buell | zcomm.org | 2020-05-12
\"If the protesters really wanted to protect workers, wouldn\'t they be demanding laws that replaced lost wages? Other developed countries have passed exactly those sorts of measures, putting their economies into a holding pattern as the pandemic passes.\"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-unemployment-under-trump-is-way-worse-than-numbers-suggest/

Unions in UK protest bid by P&O Ferries to lay off 1,100 workers
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-12
P&O Ferries, owned by Dubai-based DP World, has announced plans to cut 1,100 jobs in the UK citing the crisis in the ferry industry due to the COVID-19 lockdown…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/12/unions-in-uk-protest-bid-by-po-ferries-to-lay-off-1100-workers/

Kent State 50th with Mickey Huff
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-05-12
50 years have passed since Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War. Four students were killed and nine wounded. On this week\'s…
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San Quentin Gets Car Caravan Protest
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Protesters demand end to \"Covid-19 death camps.\"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/09/18832943.php

Paramilitary Panda: WWF Land Grabs Rooted in Covert Apartheid History
Michael Molitch-Hou | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
According to a BuzzFeed News series, the WWF has been tied to paramilitary violence in third world countries. What they completely ignored was that the WWF was previously involved in the murder of 6,000 anti-apartheid activists in South Africa a part of an \"anti-poaching\" mission in the 1980s. All evidence seems to suggest that the WWF was used as cover for an MI6 operation on behalf of powerful business interests in South Africa.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/12/18832991.php

Duque used Colombia\'s peace funds to pay for presidential approval poll
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-12
Colombia\'s President Ivan Duque used money meant for the implementation of peace policies to pay for a poll over public approval of his peace policy, local media reported on Monday….
colombiareports.com/duque-used-colombias-peace-funds-to-pay-for-presidential-approval-poll/

Action Alert: Call Your Rep to Cut Pentagon Spending
Paul Kawika Martin | peaceaction.org | 2020-05-12
☎️🗣Call your Reps. to ✂ Pentagon spending Over the last few weeks, we\'ve alerted you that the Pentagon is trying to direct funds for COVID-19 relief into its own bloated coffers. In the last three years alone

Cuba Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Its Fight Against COVID-19
Orinoco Tribune | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
The French organization Cuba Linda has recommended awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Cuban medical brigades for their efforts to eradicate COVID-19. | \"The international community is witnessing the solidarity of health professionals who leave their country to provide services and | …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-fight-against-covid-19/5712594

NATO Chief Urges Berlin to \'Protect Peace and Freedom\' by Stationing US Nukes
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
The appeal comes as leaders from the SPD, Germany\'s second-largest party and member of Chancellor Merkel\'s governing coalition, demand the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from the country\'s airbases.
sputniknews.com/military/202005121079280137-nato-chief-urges-berlin-to-protect-peace-and-freedom-by-stationing-us-nukes/

[Research Paper] Mapping of variations in child stunting, wasting and underweight within the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000–2017
ISDBICC | thelancet.com | 2020-05-12
CGF indicators have improved in India, but there are substantial variations between the districts in their magnitude and rate of decline, and the inequality between districts has increased in a large proportion of the states. The poor correlation between the national surveys for CGF estimates highlights the need to standardise collection of anthropometric data in India. The district-level trends in this report provide a useful reference for targeting the efforts under NNM to reduce CGF across India and meet the Indian and global targets.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30061-4/fulltext?rss=yes

Colombia\'s farmers claim government lifting import tariffs puts domestic food production at risk
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-12
Colombia\'s farmers\' organizations said Monday that an emergency decree lifting import tariffs on corn and soy is threatening domestic food production. The organizations called on the State Council to declare…
colombiareports.com/colombias-farmers-claim-government-lifting-import-tariffs-puts-food-production-at-risk/

Colombia considering guaranteed minimum income as famine looms
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-12
Almost half of Colombia\'s senators signed off on a proposal to urgently implement a guaranteed minimum income for more than 70% of the population. The radical proposal would temporarily guarantee…
colombiareports.com/colombia-considering-guaranteed-minimum-income-as-famine-looms/

Colombia considering guaranteed minimum income as famine looms
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-12
Almost half of Colombia\'s senators signed off on a proposal to urgently implement a guaranteed minimum income for more than 70% of the population. The radical proposal would temporarily guarantee…
colombiareports.com/?p=197522

At Least 14 People Killed in Afghanistan Hospital Attack
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
The Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, suffered a terrorist attack that killed at least 14 people and injured 15 others. | RELATED: | COVID-19 May Exacerbate Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan | The attack was carried out by armed men wearing military camouflage fatigues who entered the hospital after an initial detonation by a suicide bomber. | According to the authorities, some of the attackers were cornered inside the hospital and allegedly started th…
telesurenglish.net/news/at-least-14-people-die-in-afghanistan-hospital-attack-20200512-0005.html

After 18 Memorial Days of the \"War on Terror,\" Will We Ever Learn?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-12
\"Every day is a copy of a copy of a copy.\" That meme, from the moment when Edward Norton\'s character in Fight Club offers a 1,000-yard stare at an office copy machine, captures this moment perfectly

Sanctions = Health terrorism
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-05-12
A timely international webinar, sponsored by SanctionsKill.org on May 9, featured representatives from Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Syria and Venezuela, plus a statement from Zimbabwe addressing the deadly impact of U.S. sanctions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 1,000 people from nearly every continent, including multiple U.S. cities, viewed the event. The . . . | Continue reading Sanctions = Health terrorism at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48562/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sanctions-health-terrorism

College forced to apologize after trying to CENSOR professor over \'offensive\' questions about \'Islamic terrorism\'
rt.com | 2020-05-12
A public college in Arizona has been forced to backtrack on plans to censor a professor\'s quiz content on \'Islamic terrorism\' which had \"offended\" students, after a legal warning was sent by an academic freedom organization. | The uproar began when Professor Nicholas Damask, who chairs the political science department at Scottsdale Community College (SCC) and teaches a module called \'Islamic Terrorism\', included questions on a quiz about how terrorism is justified by some in the Islamic faith

What If Armed Terrorists Threatened the Prime Minister of Canada?
Maria Paez Victor | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
Fortunately, Canada is not a country that has suffered continuous threats of coup d\'etats as Venezuela has these last 21 years. The Motive Be that as it may, as a matter of clarification and discernment, let us imagine the following: suppose a powerful foreign power

Jacksonville demands justice for Ahmaud Arbery, justice for all victims of racist terror
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-12
Jacksonville, FL

Nuclear Weapons: Stopping the War That No One Wants (livestream)
The Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/11/18832982.php

Envoy urges EU for \'practical support\' to JCPOA, multilateralism
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

In a world gone mad, China must build MORE NUKES to make disarmament possible
Scott Ritter | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-12
As the US threatens to withdraw from the New START treaty over Chinese non-participation, domestic pressure from inside China builds for a larger strategic nuclear arsenal. Could this be a good thing? | In an op-ed published in Chinese newspaper Global Times, its editor-in-chief Hu Xijin, argued that China should seek to upgrade its strategic nuclear arsenal from its current level of about 200 antiquated weapons to a modernized force comprising more than 1,000 nuclear weapons, including more than 100 modern mobile DF-41 inter…

In a world gone mad, China must build MORE NUKES to make disarmament possible

Biden attacks Trump for \"hampering\" the reopening of business
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
In an op-ed column by Joe Biden posted on the Washington Post\'s website on Monday, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate criticizes Donald Trump\'s handling of the coronavirus pandemic entirely from the standpoint of disaffected sections of business.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/bide-m12.html

A Love Song
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-12
Ooh girl, you look so fine | you make me wanna sniff your hair from behind | Gonna lay it all out girl, ain\'t no use hidin\' | You make me wanna sniff ya like I\'m Joe Biden | Yeah I\'m singin\' out loud cuz baby I can\'t sleep | and you make me wanna grab ya like a handsy veep | I need ya like the rivers need the drops of rain | I need ya like Biden needs a brand new brain | Lemme whisper sweet nothings in your sexy ear | Things you never asked for and you don\'t wanna hear | If love is a horse then giddy-up I\'m ridin\' | Gonna perv on ya hardcore like I\'m Joe Biden | Ooh baby girl, you gone and blown my mind | like a…

A Love Song

Biden Ridin\' the Pandemic to the White House, Trump to Take Hit for Neoliberalism\'s Failures
Roger Harris | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
The world is amidst the COVID-19 crisis and in our corner of the planet a presidential campaign is reduced to a single issue: Trump/not Trump. Pick your poison. At a time that calls for national leadership or least debate on the issues, Congress unanimously passed the two-trillion-dollar Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/biden-ridin-the-pandemic-to-the-white-house-trump-to-take-hit-for-neoliberalisms-failures/

Biden attacks Trump for \"hampering\" the reopening of business
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
In a Washington Post column Joe Biden criticizes Trump\'s handling of the pandemic from the standpoint of disaffected sections of business.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/bide-m12.html

Joe Biden Suffers Massive Stroke!
Michael K. Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-12
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden suffered a massive brain hemorrhage today as he practiced reciting the days of the week for upcoming debates with President Trump. Campaign staff members say it will not affect his work, and insist he has no plans to withdraw from the presidential contest, unless \"something serious happens.\" \"We\'ve been through …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/joe-biden-suffers-massive-stroke/

Biden says \'responsible\' journalists have duty to investigate Reade claims… yet will not authorize opening his archives
rt.com | 2020-05-12
\"Women should be believed,\" Joe Biden said in a new interview, while insisting Tara Reade\'s allegations against him are totally unfounded. He also wants journalists to \"investigate\"

Why America Cannot Afford to Let the U.S. Postal Service Go Bankrupt
Tom Conway | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
Bill Boone was a fresh-faced 23-year-old in 1952 when he cast his first ballot for U.S. president, while proudly serving aboard an aircraft carrier off the coast of Korea. The U.S. Postal Service carried that vote untold miles to the election board in Boone\'s hometown of Benton, Arkansas, and he\'s considered \"the mail\" an essential…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/why-america-cannot-afford-to-let-the-u-s-postal-service-go-bankrupt/

Thousands Flee Violence in Nigeria, Seek Refuge in Niger: UNHCR
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
An estimated 23,000 Nigerians fled their country since April, seeking asylum in neighboring Niger as the security situation continues to deteriorate amid brutal violence in northwest Nigeria, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday. | RELATED: | HIV Deaths Could Double in Sub-Saharan Africa Due to COVID-19 | \"We are working closely with authorities in Niger to relocate at least 7,000 refugees to safety … where water, food, shelter, access to he…
telesurenglish.net/news/Thousands-Flee-Violence-in-Nigeria-Seek-Refuge-in-Niger-UNHCR-20200512-0015.html

Nigeria: COVID-19 compounds economic recession provoked by oil price slump
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
Medical and other experts are against the easing of restrictions, with the National Medical Association and the Federal Capital Territory Youth Task Force on COVID-19 both asking Buhari not to ease the lockdown.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/nige-m12.html

Covid-19: Russia Is Second Most Affected Country in the World
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
The COVID-19 pandemic recorded more than 10,000 cases in Russia in the last 24 hours, for a total of 232,000 people who tested positive for the illness, making Russia the second most affected country in the world in terms of the number of infections. | RELATED: | Russia: Putin Calls for Unity in Tribute to WWII Heroes | The number of infections in Russia is only exceeded by the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University balance sheet, updated on Tuesday. | \"In the last…
telesurenglish.net/news/covid19-russia-is-second-most-affected-country-in-the-world–20200512-0003.html

Universal Basic Income to Help Most Affected by COVID-19: ECLAC
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said Tuesday that to face the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, governments must guarantee immediate temporary monetary transfers to satisfy basic needs, sustain the consumption of households and achieve a solid and relatively rapid recovery in the region. | RELATED: | COVID-19 Will Lead to Biggest Economic Hit in Latam\'s History | ECLAC\'s Executive Secretary Alicia Barcena presented at a vi…
telesurenglish.net/news/ECLAC-Basic-Income-to-Help-Most-Vulnerable-by-COVID-19s-Effects-20200512-0017.html

Hondurans Stranded in Spain Ask to Return to Their Country
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
At least 235 Honduran citizens with few economic resources are trapped in Spain and living in a very critical situation. | RELATED: | Honduras: Quarantine and Curfew Extended Until May 3rd | \"Most came to work in Spain but lost their jobs because their immigration status was irregular,\" Honduran Pablo Jose Perez said on behalf of the group. | …
telesurenglish.net/news/Hondurans-Stranded-in-Spain-Ask-to-Return-to-Their-Country-20200512-0001.html

Spain to Close Sea and Air Borders within the Schengen Area
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Spain\'s government announced the closure of the sea and air borders from next Friday, according to an order signed by the Interior\'s Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. | RELATED: | Hondurans Stranded in Spain Ask to Return to Their Country | The decision is part of the measures taken to control the Covid-19 epidemic in the country. | It will last until May 24th. During the restriction, only Spanish citizens, cross-border workers, and those who can prove, with documents, causes of…
telesurenglish.net/news/spain-to-close-sea-and-air-borders-within-the-schengen-area-20200512-0011.html

Nicaragua Requests OAS Lift Sanctions Due to COVID Crisis
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Nicaragua\'s representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) demanded on May 11 that sanctions cease against Cuba, Venezuela, and his nation. | RELATED: | Nicaragua: VP Rosario Murillo Grateful for UNICEF Donation | Nicaraguan diplomat Luis Alvarado participated in the first session of the Weekly Forum on the Challenges Facing Inter-American Law in the Time of the Coronavirus. He referred to COVID-19\'s social and economic worldwide impact. Alvarado stated solidarity and cooperation are paramount to cope with sequels…
telesurenglish.net/news/nicaragua-requested-oas-to-lift-sanctions-due-to-covid-crisis-20200512-0006.html

Saudi Arabia Takes Austere Economic Measures Amid COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Saudi Arabia will triple its value-added tax rate and suspend the cost-of-living allowance for state employees, the country\'s Finance Ministry said Monday, seeking to shore up finances affected by low oil prices. | RELATED: | COVID-19 Mideast Updates: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel | The cost-of-living allowance will be suspended as of June 1, and the value-added tax will be increased to 15 percent as of July 1, according to Finance Minister Mohammed al-Khanadaan. | \"These measu…
telesurenglish.net/news/saudi-arabia-takes-austere-economic-measures-amid-covid19-20200512-0007.html

Women, Migrants & Blacks Most Affected by COVID-19 in Latam
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
The COVID-19 pandemic will make a bad economic situation worse for women, Indigenous, black people and migrants in Latin America, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) warned Tuesday. | RELATED: | Universal Basic Income to Help Most Affected by COVID-19: ECLAC | The agency of the United Nations said in a report that unequal access to potable water, sanitation, healthcare, and housing could also mean higher rates of infection and death among these…
telesurenglish.net/news/Women-Migrants–Blacks-Most-Affected-by-COVID-19-in-Latam—20200512-0020.html

Cuba Asks the US for Answers on the Attack on Its Embassy
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Cuba\'s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the U.S. government of criminal negligence because the attack on his country\'s embassy in Washington could have been avoided and asked that the attacker\'s links with anti-Cuban, Florida-based groups be investigated. | RELATED: | Cuba to Begin Mass-Scale COVID-19 Testing | \"Twelve days after the attack, the State Department is complicit…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Asks-the-US-for-Answers-on-the-Attack-on-Its-Embassy-20200512-0010.html

Cuba to Begin Mass-Scale COVID-19 Testing
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, reported on Sunday that a considerable part of the population will be given tests to detect possible positive cases of COVID-19. | Durán explained that a …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-begin-mass-scale-covid-19-testing/5712578

Italy Includes 11 Women in Its Main COVID-19 Advisory Teams
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Italy\'s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte Tuesday announced that his government will add eleven women to the two teams that advise him in the fight against the pandemic. | RELATED: | Italy to Start Lifting COVID-19 Lockdown on May 4 | This incorporation is the consequence of the harsh criticism the Italian government has received because of the low number of women…
telesurenglish.net/news/Italy-Includes-11-Women-in-Its-Main-COVID-19-Advisory-Teams-20200512-0008.html

Arms embargo on Iran to expire on Oct.: Ulyanov
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Six big lies you have been told about \'Russiagate\'
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Russian \'meddling\' in the 2016 US presidential election has become an article of faith, not just among Democrats but many Republicans as well, thanks to the endless repetition of vague talking points, none of which hold water. | It all began with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) claiming in June 2016 that Russia hacked their computers, after documents were published revealing the party\'s rigging of the primaries. This was followed by Hillary Clinton accusing her rival for the presidency Donald Trump that he…
rt.com/usa/488488-biggest-lies-of-russiagate/

Russian court keeps historian of Stalinist massacres jailed amid COVID-19 outbreak
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
The vendetta against Dmitriev is part of the campaign by Russia\'s state and ruling oligarchy to suppress all efforts to uncover the truth about the crimes of Stalinism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/russ-m12.html

Fire erupts at Saint Petersburg Covid-19 hospital after ventilator malfunctions, 5 dead
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Five patients have perished in a major fire at a Saint Petersburg hospital on Tuesday morning with 150 people evacuated to safety. The facility has been designated to treat patients with coronavirus. | Emergency services were alerted to the blaze at the Saint George Hospital in Russia\'s second city at around 6: 30am local time. Plumes of smokes were observed coming from the building\'s sixth floor. | Officials told local media that there were five fatalities. Citing sources, local reporters said the victims were receiving artificial lung ventilation. | The institution was repurposed to care for coronavirus su…
rt.com/russia/488411-st-petersburg-coronavirus-hospital-fire/

Obama\'s halo is slipping, and that\'s a good thing
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-05-12
One of the major chapters in the so-called \'Russiagate\' saga recently came to an end, sparking the beginning of what has become known by some as \'Obamagate\'. US president Donald Trump has been reacting in his usual manner. But on this occasion, as with many others, Bar…
thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2020/05/12/obamas-halo-is-slipping-and-thats-a-good-thing/

The \'See-No-Evil\' Phase of Russiagate
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-12
The media spinfest following the collapse of this conspiracy theory suggests our troubled republic simply cannot accept its errors, leaving us unable to learn from them. | Patrick LAWRENCE | The long, destructive conspiracy theory known as Russiagate, the mother of them all, at last evaporates into thin air. No shred of it remains as of back-to-back disclosures over the past couple of weeks. Where does this leave us? What is to come of this momentous turn of events? | Among those not inclined toward hysteria or copious quaffs of Democratic Party Kool–Aid, it has long been a question how those who concocted…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/12/the-see-no-evil-phase-of-russiagate/

Six big lies you have been told about Russiagate
rt.com | 2020-05-12
\'Russian meddling\' in the 2016 US presidential election has become an article of faith, not just among Democrats but many Republicans as well, thanks to the endless repetition of vague talking points, none of which hold water. | It all began with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) claiming in June 2016 that Russia hacked their computers, after documents were published revealing the party\'s rigging of the primaries. This was followed by Hillary Clinton accusing her rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, of \"co…
rt.com/usa/488488-biggest-lies-of-russiagate/

Russia becomes world\'s second hardest-hit country with 230,000+ confirmed Covid-19 cases, surpassing Spain & UK
rt.com | 2020-05-12
With 10,899 more coronavirus infections reported across the country on Tuesday morning, Russia now trails only the United States in terms of people known to have contracted Covid-19. | Nationwide, 232,243 confirmed cases have been discovered since the start of the outbreak, national disease response officials said. This figure is higher than those recorded by Spanish (227,436), British (224,332) and Italian (219,814) authorities. | However, it\'s worth noting that Russia has over twice the population of those countries and has carried out far more tests. | At the same time, Russia has had considerably fewer dea…
rt.com/russia/488419-russia-second-world-cases-coronavirus/

Afghanistan\'s Ghani, Abdullah reach power-sharing agreement: report
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Deadly suicide attack targets funeral in Afghanistan\'s Nangarhar
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 10 (MNA)

Let Our People Vote!
Winnie Wong | thenation.com | 2020-05-12
Let Our People Vote!
thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-supporters-vote/

Political Prisoners Teach-In: Mumia, migrant rights and cages
Teresa Gutierrez | workers.org | 2020-05-12
These slightly edited remarks were made April 24 at the \"U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners\" teach-in webinar sponsored by Mobilization4Mumia and held in honor of the 66th birthday of political prisoner and revolutionary Mumia Abu-Jamal, incarcerated for 39 years by the U.S. state. Teresa Gutierrez First of all, happy . . . | Continue reading Political Prisoners Teach-In: Mumia, migrant rights and cages at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48559/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=political-prisoners-teach-in-mumia-migrant-rights-and-cages

Minneapolis vigil honors Carlos Ernesto Escobar-Mejia, first person to die of COVID-19 in ICE detention
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-12
Minneapolis, MN – After dark on Monday, May 11, the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) held a candlelight vigil at the Minneapolis Federal Courthouse to remember Carlos Ernesto Escobar-Mejia. He is the first person reported to die of COVID-19 while in jail detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The speakers at the vigil called on people to remember Carlos and called on government officials to free all ICE detainees. | Because of COVID-19, all vigil participants wore a mask and maintained social distance. | During the vigil, Escobar-Mejia\'s name was also projected on a large wall o…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/12/minneapolis-vigil-honors-carlos-ernesto-escobar-mejia-first-person-die-covid-19-ice-detent

Singapore plans coronavirus tests for all migrant workers as some businesses reopen
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Singapore plans to test all 323,000 migrant workers living in cramped dormitories that have become a hotbed for coronavirus in the city-state, the government said on Tuesday. The island\'s tally of 24,671 infections is one of Asia\'s highest, with the vast majority among migrant workers squeezed into often unsanitary dormitories. | \"The taskforce has drawn up a plan to allow migrant workers residing in the dormitories… to be progressively cleared so they can be safely returned to work when the time comes,\" Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said. | Infections in the dormitories had \"stabilized,\" Gan added, with the…
rt.com/newsline/488436-singapore-tests-migrant-workers/

Political Prisoners Teach-In: Mumia, migrant rights and cages
Teresa Gutierrez | workers.org | 2020-05-12
These slightly edited remarks were made April 24 at the \"U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners\" teach-in webinar sponsored by Mobilization4Mumia and held in honor of the 66th birthday of political prisoner and revolutionary Mumia Abu-Jamal, incarcerated for 38 years by the U.S. state. Teresa Gutierrez First of all, happy . . . | Continue reading Political Prisoners Teach-In: Mumia, migrant rights and cages at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48559/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=political-prisoners-teach-in-mumia-migrant-rights-and-cages

Saharawi political prisoner Bachir Khada: \"I only dream of my freedom\"
Bahia Mahmud Awah | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-12
The story of Saharawi journalist Bachir Khada, political prisoner condemned to more than 20 years in Morocco because of his participation in the struggle to free Western Sahara. Today he is one of the thousands of prisoners that demands to be freed amid the pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/12/saharawi-political-prisoner-bachir-khada-i-only-dream-of-my-freedom/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Maintaining routine vaccine schedules during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the World Health Organization(WHO) says more than 117 million children in 37 countries may be missing out on the lifesaving measles vaccine. The WHO had issued some guidelines to help countries sustain immunization activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-maintaining-routine-vaccine-schedules-during-covid-19/

\'It couldn\'t have happened,\' says head of Chinese lab accused by US of leaking Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-12
A Chinese virologist in charge of the lab pinpointed by US officials as the likely source of the Covid-19 pandemic says he is certain no virus could have escaped from his facility. | \"Our lab not only has a high level of biosafety infrastructure, we also have established a set of rigorous biosecurity protocols to ensure the lab operates safely and efficiently,\" Yuan Zhiming the head of the National Biosafety Laboratory (NBL), told a Chinese newspaper. | The NBL operates several laboratories including the so-called \'Wuhan P4 Lab\', which was completed in 2015 in cooperation with France and is the only publicly k…
rt.com/news/488424-wuhan-lab-leak-impossible/

Finding Hope in Times of Despair: New World is Possible
Dan Kovalik | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
\"For me, I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.\"

How pandemics are related to ecological crises
Bharat Dogra | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-12
In recent years, many new diseases have been linked to transmission of microbes from animals, birds and other forms of life to human beings, in ways that the virus will cause severe disease among them. Diseases such as MERS, SARS, the avian flu and swine flu are examples of such diseases, called zoonotic diseases, and COVID-19 is yet another instance of this. | While the growing frequency of zoonotic diseases is widely debated, one important reason for their spread almost certainly relates to the ecological crisis and biodiversity loss that has been exacerbated across the plant. According to the United Nations…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/12/how-pandemics-are-related-to-ecological-crises/

VIDEO: 1,100 foodstuff packages distributed in Quchan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

A Cornish charity helping Grenfell survivors is responding brilliantly to the coronavirus crisis
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2020-05-12
A Cornish charity set up to help the survivors and firefighters from the Grenfell fire tragedy is now helping care workers during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. | Cornwall Hugs was set up to provide free holidays in Cornwall, matching people in need with holiday homes. Since the project began: Over 480 Grenfell Tower survivors, bereaved, close neighbours or firefighters have now come on holiday to Cornwall through the project. Over a third of all tower survivors have come. 250+ accommodation providers…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/05/12/a-cornish-charity-helping-grenfell-survivors-is-responding-brilliantly-to-the-coronavirus-crisis/

Consumer Price Index Plunges 0.8 Percent, Core Falls 0.4 Percent
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-05-12
Food prices rose 2.6 percent in April, reflecting a large increase in store-bought food. The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell 0.8 percent in April, driven again by large price declines in sectors that were hit hard by pandemic-related shutdowns. Gas prices fell 20.6 percent, following a drop of 10.5 percent in March. They are …
cepr.net/prices-2020-05/

Trump Is Using COVID-19 As An Excuse To Let Polluters Destroy The Earth
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-12
Trump\'s former coal lobbyist EPA administrator is letting oil, gas, and coal take advantage of the global pandemic.
therealnews.com/stories/trump-is-using-covid-19-as-an-excuse-to-let-polluters-destroy-the-earth

HUD allocates relief funds to protect public housing & Section 8 tenants
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832971.php

France\'s Earlier Detection of COVID-19 Raises Questions on Global Origin
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-12
The emergence of Covid-19 was first reported by the authorities in China on December 31, as acknowledged by the World Health Organization. But that emergence does not necessarily mean the pandemic originated in China. | By January 30, 2020, a WHO situation report cited nearly 8,000 cases of the respiratory disease globally in 18 different countries. The vast majority of the infections at that stage were in China. It has since exploded to four million cases in virtually all 194 nations with the United States hostin…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/12/frances-earlier-detection-covid-19-raises-questions-global-origin/

\'I feel terrible\': Bill Gates says he warned Trump of pandemic threat in 2016, regrets not doing more
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire Bill Gates said he tried to warn President-elect Donald Trump of the dangers of a major viral outbreak soon after the 2016 race, but feels guilty for not being more vocal. | \"I chose, when I met with people all the way up to the top, in Europe, in the US, around the world, to talk about this pandemic risk,\" he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Monday, explaining that he even made the case to the US president during a December 2016 meeting at Trump Tower. | I feel terrible. The whole point of talking about it was that we could take action and minim…
rt.com/usa/488409-bill-gates-trump-pandemic-warning/

Australian Labor Party exploits pandemic to scapegoat foreign workers
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
Labor\'s call for immigration cuts lines up directly behind the drive by governments around the globe, personified by US President Trump, to promote toxic nationalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/labo-m12.html

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Because cancer treatments can weaken the immune system, cancer patients are at increased risk of complications from COVID-19. Despite these concerns, cancer patients often still need treatment, including going to the clinic or to the hospital, and many have questions about whether cancer should be treated differently during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the Mayo Clinic …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-cancer-treatment-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

South Africa: COVID-19 Crisis Unmasks Dangers of Profit Oriented Healthcare
Salimah Valiani | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
The pandemic has shown the need for medical care and interventions that have nothing to do with profit. But not even SA\'s proposed National Health Insurance would fit the bill. | *** | Covid-19 has been linked to a number of truth …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-dangers-commodified-healthcare/5712640

What COVID-19 does to your lungs
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
m __________________________________________________ For the latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic, check the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. For more information and COVID-19 coverage, go to the Mayo Clinic News Network and mayoclinic.org.
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/what-covid-19-does-to-your-lungs/

The Pandemic is the Time to Resurrect the Public University
Corey Robin | zcomm.org | 2020-05-12
Sending students, professors, and workers back to campus, amid a pandemic, because colleges and universities need the cash, is a statement of bankruptcy more profound than any balance sheet could ever tally…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-pandemic-is-the-time-to-resurrect-the-public-university/

Medical Students and Public Health Service for the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bauchner H, Sharfstein J. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-12
Over the next few months it is likely that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that has surged in New York City, Seattle, New Orleans, and Detroit will move from city to city and state to state. After the initial peak, absent highly effective medical interventions, the US will likely experience outbreaks of lingering disease for months and potentially years to come. As the US enters the next phase of COVID-19, critical questions will involve the nation\'s capacity to respond to outbreaks, protect high-risk populations, and limit community spread.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764427

COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada zero. Why?
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-12
OAKLAND, Calif.–There\'s a yawning gap between the number of U.S. nurses the viral pandemic has killed so far in the U.S. and the number of Canadian nurses killed. The count as of May 11: U.S. 91, Canada, zero. That prompted National Nurses United President Zunei Cortez, RN, of California and her Canadian counterpart, Linda Silas, …
peoplesworld.org/article/covid-19-deaths-among-nurses-u-s-91-canada-zero-why/

We don\'t need empty praise: Nurses\' unions demand better protection, rights
Anish R | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-12
May 12 is globally observed as International Nurses Day. The day marks the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, who revolutionized healthcare and introduced modern nursing. This year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have come out to tell us that they have been left behind. | A virtual press conference held by Public Services International (PSI), on the eve of the Nurses Day, had unions from different parts of the Asia-Pacific region talk about the monumental challenges during the pandemic. According to the South-East Asian Regional Office (SEARO) of the World Health Organization, at this time, the Asia-P…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/12/we-dont-need-empty-praise-nurses-unions-demand-better-protection-rights/

COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada 0. Why?
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-12
OAKLAND, Calif.–There\'s a yawning gap between the number of U.S. nurses the viral pandemic has killed so far in the U.S. and the number of Canadian nurses killed. The count as of May 11: U.S. 91, Canada, 0. That prompted National Nurses United President Zunei Cortez, RN, of California and her Canadian counterpart, Linda Silas, …
peoplesworld.org/article/covid-19-deaths-among-nurses-u-s-91-canada-zero-why/

World Health Organization warns premature return to work risks resurgence of pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated his warnings Monday that a premature return to work without adequate measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic risks a second wave of infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/viru-m12.html

US nursing students discuss impact of the pandemic on medical education
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
With overwhelmed hospitals and the immense pressures now exerted on health care workers, the quality of the education of medical and nursing students has been greatly affected.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/nurs-m12.html

COVID-19 Pandemic: Time for Bold programs from the Left to Help the People
Farooque Chowdhury | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-12
Fred Magdoff, Professor Emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and author of many articles and books on ecology, agriculture and economy, frequent Monthly Review contributor and closely associated with struggles of the working people, discusses the coronavirus pandemic in light of capitalism and agriculture in the following interview conducted on …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/covid-19-pandemic-time-for-bold-programs-from-the-left-to-help-the-people/

Masking your kids during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Do you or don\'t you wear a mask? If you do, what material is best? And what about children? Questions around masks during the COVID-19 pandemic abound, especially in light of the recent recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that all Americans wear masks in public settings. \"The direction around face masks has …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/masking-your-kids-during-covid-19/

\'Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach\' e-tool to help children with mental health concerns
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
ROCHESTER, Minn.

During COVID-19 pandemic the California Guitar Trio releases a new music video
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/08/18832928.php

Mosser Company is among the landlords facing a rent strike in Oakland
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/09/18832930.php

\'Humans are not herds\': WHO thrashes \'brutal arithmetic\' of herd immunity to beat Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-12
In the absence of a vaccine, the increasingly discussed idea of beating the novel coronavirus pandemic through achieving so-called herd immunity could be a disastrous miscalculation, a senior WHO official has warned. | \"This is a really dangerous, dangerous calculation,\" Michael Ryan, head of the World Health Organization\'s health emergencies program, said at a briefing on Monday. | This idea that maybe countries that had lax measures and haven\'t done anything will all of a sudden magically reach some herd i…
rt.com/news/488403-who-herd-immunity-covid-19/

Fight Mass Incarceration Amidst the Pandemic
NationAction | thenation.com | 2020-05-12
Fight Mass Incarceration Amidst the Pandemic…
thenation.com/article/activism/fight-mass-incarceration-amidst-the-pandemic/

Video: Plandemic Documentary: The Hidden Agenda Behind COVID-19
Dr. Judy Mikovits | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Humanity is imprisoned by a killer pandemic. People are being arrested for surfing in the ocean and meditating in nature. Nations are collapsing. Hungry citizens are rioting for food. The media has generated so much confusion and fear that people …
globalresearch.ca/video-plandemic-documentary-hidden-agenda-behind-covid-19/5712013

Crime doesn\'t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic
Robin McDowell, Margie Mason | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-12
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)

Trump administration\'s incompetence putting intolerable burden on nurses
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 10 (MNA)

Finding Hope in Times of Despair: New World is Possible
Dan Kovalik | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
\"For me, I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.\"

US reports record $738 BILLION budget deficit in April due to Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-12
The US Treasury Department has announced a budget deficit of $737.9 billion in April thanks to spending measures put in place to battle the economic effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. | Emergency relief spending by the US government has reached around $3 trillion, with $2.3 trillion approved in late March by Congress for a relief package for US citizens. | The latest deficit figure is another bad sign for the US economy as April is typically a month which sees a surplus, thanks to US citizens filing their taxes on April 15. However, that filing deadline was extended into the summer because of the pan…
rt.com/usa/488478-us-record-deficit-reported-coronavirus/

The COVID-19 Pandemic in the US: A Clinical Update
Omer SB, Malani P, del Rio C. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-12
This Viewpoint provides a summary update of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US, discussing case-fatality rates, interpretation of polymerase chain reaction test results, duration of immunity, reinfection, and…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764366

Pandemic Causes Loss of 20,500,000 Jobs, Unemployment at 14.7 Percent
Dean Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-05-12
The good news here is the large percentage of workers who expect to be called back by their employer, but the steps by the government to contain the pandemic and support the recovery are less encouraging…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/pandemic-causes-loss-of-20500000-jobs-unemployment-at-14-7-percent/

King Lear Under COVID-19 Lockdown
Sinha A. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-12
This Arts and Medicine feature draws lessons from William Shakespeare\'s King Lear about our collective disorientation and obligations to each other in the midst of the first-wave coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764654

President Trump\'s Assault On Inspectors General Threatens Our Civil Liberties
Kate Oh | aclu.org | 2020-05-12
One recent Friday night, President Trump quietly nominated a replacement inspector general (IG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). But this was no ordinary nomination. If confirmed by the Senate, it will force out the acting IG after her office released a survey of hospitals that, to Trump\'s vocal displeasure, underscored his administration\'s botched handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. , , The ouster is also only the late…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/president-trumps-assault-on-inspectors-general-threatens-our-civil-liberties

COVID-19 Took Chicago Black Lives First and Exposed Structural Racism
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-12
We look at the coronavirus pandemic\'s disproportionate toll on African Americans through the story of Chicago\'s first 100 recorded deaths. A report by ProPublica found that 70 of the first 100 people to die were African American. Black people account for 30% of Chicago\'s population and 72% of COVID-19 deaths. We speak with ProPublica reporter Adriana Gallardo, who contributed to the report \"COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn\'t Have To.\" She says the story paints a picture of \"sophisticated struct…
truthout.org/video/covid-19-took-chicago-black-lives-first-and-exposed-structural-racism/

Learning All the Wrong Lessons From the 2008 Financial Crisis – NYT should not fixate on debt as governments respond to the coronavirus pandemic
Nina Eichacker | fair.org | 2020-05-12
I recently wrote a piece for FAIR ( 4/25/20) about how I felt more optimistic about media reporting on the economic aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite what I saw as a failure to clearly call out capitalist market reliance. The New York Times was calling for people to remember FDR\'s Four Freedoms, and even the Financial Times was encouraging readers to think about Beveridge\'s Full Employment in a Free Society. N…
fair.org/home/learning-all-the-wrong-lessons-from-the-2008-financial-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=learning-all-the-wrong-lessons-from-the-2008-financial-crisis

Mayo Clinic reopens orthopedics and sports medicine facility in downtown Minneapolis
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
MINNEAPOLIS

Shock at low US confidence in Trump\'s coronavirus narrative ignores decades of governments abusing Americans\' trust
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Just over a third of Americans trust President Donald Trump\'s information about the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new poll. But given decades of crises mishandled by the government, the only surprise is that it isn\'t lower. | A CNN poll showing that just 36 percent of Americans trust Trump for reliable information about the coronavirus was held up triumphantly by the president\'s critics on Tuesday as proof his credibility is circling the drain. But it\'s more likely to be the fallout not just from Trump, but from the two preceding presidential administrations\' misrepresentation of crises, that has created e…
rt.com/usa/488459-americans-distrust-government-trump-coronavirus/

Fight Mass Incarceration Amid the Pandemic
NationAction | thenation.com | 2020-05-12
Fight Mass Incarceration Amid the Pandemic…
thenation.com/article/activism/fight-mass-incarceration-amidst-the-pandemic/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: The \"Quarantine 15\"
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
It\'s being called the \"Quarantine 15\" online

Iran sends 1st medical aid to Tajikistan to fight coronavirus
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Black US journalists & public figures shamed into dropping out of Huawei-sponsored Covid disinfo panel
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Chinese tech giant Huawei\'s \'woke\' PR stunt has ended up in a disaster after the host and all the announced participants of its panel on Covid-19 misinformation dropped out under a barrage of mockery and shaming. | The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) was scheduled to host a webinar on Wednesday aimed at discussing whether Covid-19 disinformation disproportionately affects ethnic minorities in the US. But many online social justice warriors saw red over the fact that the Chinese telecommunication company Huawei would be the sponsor. | Long before the Covid-19 pandemic originated in China, Huawe…
rt.com/usa/488485-huawei-covid-disinformation-panel-shamed/

Spring cleaning takes on a new importance during COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released reopening guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting public spaces, workplaces, businesses, schools and homes. Dr. Gregory Poland, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases expert, suggests taking a practical approach to spring cleaning. If no one in your household has been infected, he says standard spring cleaning practices …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/spring-cleaning-takes-on-a-new-importance-during-covid-19-pandemic/

Minnesota Nurses Association plans to march on the State Capitol to demand safety for nurses
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-12
St. Paul, MN – As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise across Minnesota, members of the Minnesota Nurses Association have announced that they will march on May 20 from Allina Health United Hospital to the Minnesota State Capitol to demand that management of United Hospital and other hospitals provide proper PPE, training, and safety, as well as transparency to keep nurses and other healthcare workers safe. They will also be delivering a petition with over 10,000 signatures to the Minnesota Department of Health demanding a Pandemic Bill of Rights to keep Minnesotans safe. Social distancing guidelines will be followe…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/12/minnesota-nurses-association-plans-march-state-capitol-demand-safety-nurses

Israeli regime acting against Iran\'s interests amid Covid-19 pandemic: MP
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 11 (MNA)

Science Saturday: Regenerative approaches could foster healing from COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Regenerative Medicine aims not only to repair or restore the function of cells, tissues or organs, but also the whole person. The latter is particularly important amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Regenerative approaches draw on the body\'s natural abilities to heal, focus on establishing the healing environments and building new, healthy ways of functioning. These aspects of regenerative …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-regenerative-approaches-could-foster-healing-from-covid-19/

France\'s Earlier Detection of COVID-19 Raises Questions on Global Origin
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-12
Determining the origin of Covid-19 will not be made by politicized probes that presume China\'s fault for the pandemic. | The emergence of Covid-19 was first reported by the authorities in China on December 31, as acknowledged by the World Health Organization. But that emergence does not necessarily mean the pandemic originated in China. | By January 30, 2020, a WHO situation report cited nearly 8,000 cases of the respiratory disease globally in 18 different countries. The vast majority of the infections…

France’s Earlier Detection of COVID-19 Raises Questions on Global Origin

Restaurants could go bust & leave millions without jobs if government fails to help, award-winning chef tells Boom Bust
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Restaurants are one of the hardest-hit sectors by the coronavirus pandemic and even after the outbreak is over the industry will still struggle to survive, according to restaurateur Andrew Zimmern. | Despite some operators

Herd immunity for Covid-19 is a \'dangerous\' concept says World Health Organisation
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-12
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has condemned the \"dangerous\" concept of herd immunity for Covid-19. | Herd immunity is an epidemiological term usually reserved to describe how the population as a whole is protected from a disease depending on the levels of people vaccinated. | For instance, when 90%-95% of the population is vaccinated against measles, this should be enough to protect others who are unable to get an inoculation

The Pandemic\'s Catastrophic Hit to the Labor Market
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
Temporary layoffs make up 78.3 percent of unemployment. As expected, the April jobs report showed a catastrophic hit to the labor market stemming from the pandemic. The economy lost another 20,500,000 jobs in April after losing 870,000 jobs in March. This is an order of magnitude higher than any previous two-month decline on record. The…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/the-pandemics-catastrophic-hit-to-the-labor-market/

Why you need to keep your child\'s vaccine schedule during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Millions of children may be at risk of missing or delaying their routine childhood vaccines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine specialist, says she understands being thoughtful about taking your children outside the home for doctor\'s visits during this time. \"The current situation with the novel coronavirus shows us how scary …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/why-you-need-to-keep-your-childs-vaccine-schedule-during-covid-19/

The Fed Wants to Become a Financial Central Planner, Will Be Selecting Winners and Losers on a Grand Scale
Alexander W. Salter | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-12

\"In this case, Fed policy permanently impedes the ability of financial markets to operate smoothly. Expect political considerations, rather than market discipline, to play an increasingly large role in the allocation of credit for the foreseeable future\"

| Of all the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve\'s is the most extraordinary. Many people are unaware of the Fed\'s recent behavior. Monetary policy is not the most visible of government actions, after all. But this time, the public cannot afford to ignore what the Fed is doing. In short, the US central bank has compl…
anti-empire.com/the-fed-wants-to-become-a-financial-central-planner/

Stir Crazy! Episode #32: Don\'t Make Us Regret This!
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-12
On today\'s show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar, co-host of \"By Any Means Necessary\" Jacqueline Luqman, and TRNN managing editor Marc Steiner. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-32-dont-make-us-regret-this

\"Operation Volute\": Covert UK Propaganda Efforts in Syria May Have Broken UK Law
Ian Cobain | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
The UK\'s covert propaganda programmes in war-torn Syria were poorly planned, probably illegal and cost lives, according to a scathing internal review of the initiative that has been seen by Middle East Eye. | Using news agencies, social media, poster campaigns …
globalresearch.ca/british-propaganda-efforts-syria-may-have-broken-uk-law/5712623

British propaganda efforts in Syria may have broken UK law
The Alternative World | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-12
Ian Cobain, Alice Ross- Internal assessment concluded UK government\'s covert support of \'moderate opposition\' was shallow, lacked coherence and cost lives | MEE- The UK\'s covert propaganda programmes in war-torn Syria were poorly planned, probably illegal and cost lives, according to a scathing internal review of the initiative that has been seen by Middle East Eye. | Using news agencies, social media, poster campaigns and even children\'s comics, communications companies working under contract to the British government attempted to undermine both the Assad government and the Islamic State group and bolster elemen…

British propaganda efforts in Syria may have broken UK law

World Council of Churches calls for lifting US sanctions against Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

New York City\'s Budget Must Stop Robbing Our Children to Pay the NYPD
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-12
It\'s that time of year again

Oil giant Saudi Aramco profits crash amid coronavirus-driven energy market rout
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Falling crude prices amid an unprecedented global demand slump have taken a big bite out of Saudi Aramco\'s net income in the first three months of this year, according to the financial results released by the oil giant. | In a release published Tuesday, Saudi Aramco reported that its net income plunged to 62.5 billion riyals ($16.6 billion) in the first quarter of 2020 from 83.3 billion riyals ($22 billion) a year earlier. The results are below analysts\' estimates, who expected the company to report a $17.8 billion profit. | Aramco said the drop was mainly caused by lower crude oil prices, \"as well as declinin…
rt.com/business/488417-saudi-aramco-profit-falls/

Screen New Deal
Naomi Klein | mronline.org | 2020-05-12
Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia.
mronline.org/2020/05/12/screen-new-deal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=screen-new-deal

Norway dipping into its massive piggy bank to battle Covid-19 crisis
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Norway is set to withdraw $41 billion from its sovereign wealth fund to cushion the blow to the economy from the coronavirus crisis that has resulted in falling oil prices and the highest unemployment in the country in 75 years. | Known officially as the Government Pension Fund, it is the world\'s biggest wealth fund, worth over $1 trillion. The government announced on Tuesday that it will have to sharply increase spending from the fund, to avoid \"sharper downturn and to help healthy companies through the crisis.\" | According to the Finance Ministry\'s mid-year fiscal review, the revised budget calls for the use…
rt.com/business/488429-norway-wealth-fund-cash-withdrawal/

Wrecking Entire Economies: Lockdowns May Be Causing More Harm Than Good Worldwide, and Especially in India
Ramesh Thakur | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-12

Homeless people line up for free food distributed by Assam Police during lockdown to curb the spread of new coronavirus, in Gauhati, India, Monday, April 27, 2020. India last week eased the lockdown by allowing shops to reopen and manufacturing and farming activities to resume in rural areas to help millions of poor, daily-wage earners. But the economic costs of the nationwide lockdown continue to mount in a country of 1.3 billion people. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

| Locking up healthy people in their homes and putting wholesale populations under house arrest is perverse. Coronavirus panic merchan…
anti-empire.com/wrecking-entire-economies-lockdowns-may-be-causing-more-harm-than-good-worldwide-and-especially-in-india/

Coronavirus may put an end to EU: George Soros
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

New California oil permits rose 7.8% in 2020\'s first quarter as oil prices plunged
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
From January 1 to March 31, 2020, the same time that the Newsom Administration approved 1,623 new permits, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the largest and most powerful corporate lobby in California, spent $1,089,702 lobbying state officials during the period. | Chevron spent even more: $1,638,497 in the fifth quarter of the 2019-20 legislation session to influence legislators, the Governor\'s Office and other state officials. The two oil industry giants combined to spend a total of $2,728,199 lobbying in the session\'s fifth quarter.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/09/18832938.php

Last Year America\'s CEOs Said They Cared About Us…They Lied
Sam Pizzigati | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
Last August, the nabobs of Corporate America

House Unveils New COVID-19 Relief Package Draft With Loopholes for Fossil Fuel Corporations
commondreams.org | 2020-05-12
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/12/house-unveils-new-covid-19-relief-package-draft-loopholes-fossil-fuel?cd-origin=rss

The Important \"Plandemic\" Documentary that Has Justifiably Gone \"Viral\"
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
The powers-that-be behind the banning of \"Plandemic\" and the disparaging and slandering of Dr Judy Mikovitz are obviously afraid of something that will expose them for planning something evil. Tyrannical corporate forces, starting with Google and YouTube and the CDC …
globalresearch.ca/important-plandemic-documentary-gone-viral/5712666

The Censorship of Inequality in the Covid-19 Era: How Corporate and Market-Based Metrics Rule the News, and Why it Matters
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-05-12
By Anthony DiMaggio The old adage that \"the more things change the more they stay the same\" seems particularly appropriate to media coverage in the Covid-19 crisis. Old patterns of media…
projectcensored.org/the-censorship-of-inequality-in-the-covid-19-era-how-corporate-and-market-based-metrics-rule-the-news-and-why-it-matters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-censorship-of-inequality-in-the-covid-19-era-how-corporate-and-market-based-metrics-rule-the-news-and-why-it-matters

Trump crony appointed as new head of US Postal Service
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
Louis DeJoy, the recently appointed US postmaster general, has donated millions of dollars to the Republican Party and reaped immense profits from sitting atop private logistics corporations and investment firms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/usps-m12.html

Can We Simultaneously Oppose Bayer/Monsanto\'s Biotechnology and Support Cuba\'s Interferon Alpha 2B?
Don Fitz | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-12
Genetically engineered crops are a form of food imperialism. This technology allows mega-corporations like Bayer/Monsanto to patent seeds, lure farmers into buying them with visions of high yields, and then destroy the ability of small farmers to survive. Genetic engineering produces an artificial combination of plant traits which often results in foods with less nutritional …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/can-we-simultaneously-oppose-bayer-monsantos-biotechnology-and-support-cubas-interferon-alpha-2b/

Hashd al-Sha\'abi captures 15 ISIL members in Iraq\'s Nineveh
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Oil is back in demand as drivers return to the roads
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Oil demand is on the rise as countries across the globe begin easing lockdown restrictions and commuters head back to work. | From China and Spain to the United States, people are gradually returning to driving their cars as countries and US states re-open for business. People feel safer commuting in their own vehicles than they do using public transportation as social distancing is still on their minds despite the re-opening of economies.The uptick in commuter driving and expectations of increased road trips at the expense of flying for vacations this summer is set to support a gradual recovery of oil demand…
rt.com/business/488448-oil-demand-drivers-roads/

Switzerland Bends the Knee to Swedish Model, Dismantles Lockdown a Month Ahead of Schedule
Daniel Wighton | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-12
The Swiss government brought forward a plan to ease lockdown restrictions in the country meaning pubs, restaurants gyms and other sites can reopen sooner than expected so the country \"can learn to live with the virus.\" | In a press conference on Wednesday, Prime Minister Simonetta Sommaruga and Health Minister Alain Berset announced the easing of restrictions which began on April 27th. | While some of these had been announced previously,…
anti-empire.com/switzerland-bends-the-knee-to-swedish-model-dismantles-lockdown-a-month-ahead-of-schedule/

UK Government Causes Widespread Confusion with New COVID-19 Guidelines
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
It was a moment the UK public had been waiting for days, ever since it was reported in several British newspapers that lockdown restrictions were to be lifted from Monday. But although people may be weary after seven weeks of …
globalresearch.ca/uk-government-causes-widespread-confusion-covid-19-guidelines/5712632

Over 5 million people now suffering food insecurity in lockdown
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-12
The UK has been in official COVID-19 lockdown since March 23 and, just like in other countries, the disruption to the economy has hit people already in a more vulnerable position the hardest. These include people on low incomes or in precarious work situations; or who are dealing with long-term physical or mental health conditions. This issue of …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/over-5-million-people-now-suffering-food-insecurity-in-lockdown/

New study says herd immunity is a myth and countries relying on it, including Sweden, chose the wrong strategy
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Herd immunity may be an unrealistic tactic for dealing with Covid-19, new research has warned, calling into question the strategy of several countries

The Lockdown Crisis Is Driving the EU to the Brink
Philipp Bagus | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-12
The eurozone is a gigantic machine of monetary redistribution. Several independent governments can finance their expenditures through deficits that are monetized directly or indirectly by one printing press. | More specifically, the European Central Bank (ECB) may buy eurozone government bonds directly from market participants or accept them as collateral in its lending operations, effectively increasing the monetary base. Through this monetization, a government can externalize the costs of its deficit partially onto the citizens of other eurozone countries…
anti-empire.com/the-lockdown-crisis-is-driving-the-eu-to-the-brink/

Police officer rants about \'tyrannical\' & \'unconstitutional\' Covid-19 measures… gets in trouble for \'insubordination\' (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-05-12
A US police officer has urged fellow cops to stop enforcing coronavirus lockdown measures, slamming them as \"unconstitutional.\" While his call to action landed him in trouble, other officers have started to speak out as well. | Port of Seattle Officer Greg Anderson was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation after he appeared in a viral video last weekend arguing the lockdown measures are violating the US Constitution and \"trampling on people\'s liberties,\" questioning the restrictions and whether enforcing them is \"the right thing\" to do. | I want to remind you that regardless of where you stan…
rt.com/usa/488383-police-speak-out-lockdowns/

Chief Medical Officer for 40-Hospital UPMC Network Trashes the Case for Continued Lockdown in Senate Hearing
Dr. Steven Shapiro | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-12
Dr. Steven Shapiro, UPMC\'s chief medical and scientific officer, participated in a virtual roundtable convened by U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Subcommittee on Health Care, on May 6 to explore the issue of reopening the economy. Following are his remarks: | I would like to thank Senator Toomey and the committee members for the opportunity to share a typical health care experience of COVID-19 through the lens of UPMC, whose hospitals span urban, community and rural areas comprising the largest academic health system in the country and a health plan with 3.8 million su…
anti-empire.com/chief-medical-officer-for-40-hospital-upmc-network-trashes-the-case-for-continued-lockdown-in-senate-hearing/

Rising number of COVID-19 deaths in Germany\'s retirement and care homes
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
As the German government is effectively ending its coronavirus lockdown, reports about people dying of COVID-19 in retirement and care homes are increasing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/germ-m12.html

COVID-19 Scientific Statements Contradict Government Lockdown Policies
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
There exists a huge disconnect between publicly available real scientific evidence and government policy surrounding the Covid crisis. Consider the following scientific \"admissions\" and how they contradict government \"lockdown\" policies: | In the first video, the UK\'s Chief Medical Officer (CMO), …
globalresearch.ca/admissions-against-interest-covid-19/5712569

How the four UK nations and Ireland are approaching lockdown
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-12
Despite the UK government\'s preference for a \"four nations approach\" towards softening the lockdown, clear differences have emerged between the countries. | The devolved governments in the north of Ireland, Scotland and Wales have diverged from England, notably in keeping the \"stay at home\" slogan after prime minister Boris Johnson unveiled his new \"stay alert\" message on Sunday. | Here is a look at how the four UK nations

Workers\' lives at risk Tesla to resume production in defiance of lockdown rules
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-12
Elon Musk, the chief executive office of US electric car maker Tesla, even dared the authorities to arrest him and threatened to shift the factory outside Fremont, California…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/12/workers-lives-at-risk-tesla-reopens-production-in-defiance-of-lockdown-rules/

2nd virus wave in Denmark is \'unlikely\' says expert, as govt plans increased testing
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Denmark is \"very unlikely\" to be hit by a second wave of coronavirus, the country\'s chief epidemiologist said on Tuesday. Kare Molbak made the statement after the government laid out plans for increased testing and a contact tracing system. | The Nordic country, which has suffered 533 coronavirus-related deaths, was the first in Europe to relax its coronavirus lockdown almost a month ago. The infection rate and the number of deaths have continued to drop. Denmark began the second phase of relaxing its lockdown this week, which will include reopening restaurants and shopping malls. | \"No country has seen an act…
rt.com/newsline/488426-denmark-wave-unlikely-testing/

\'Europe needs a break\': EU may open borders closed by Covid-19 lockdowns for tourism as industry faces \'grave danger\'
rt.com | 2020-05-12
The European Union is considering opening borders for tourists as part of a plan to roll back coronavirus-related lockdown measures. But leisure travel will be allowed only between states with similar Covid-19 situations. | On Wednesday, the EU is expected to present a three-phase plan

While coronavirus spreads, lockdowns lifted across Europe
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
The mass return to work underway across Europe is in line with the criminal policy being pursued by the Trump administration in the United States.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/euro-m12.html

Yemen govt forces \'to confront armed rebellion\' in south after separatists declared self-rule
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Yemen\'s forces will confront an \"armed rebellion\" by separatists in the south, the government said Tuesday. it said that the group had refused to de-escalate the situation after declaring self-rule last month. The Southern Transitional Council (STC) declared self-rule in Aden and nearby areas on April 25, threatening to renew a conflict with the Saudi-backed government, its nominal ally in a coalition fighting Yemen\'s Houthis. | Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Hadhrami said the STC had refused calls from the government and the international community to reverse its declaration. The army will do \"everything necess…
rt.com/newsline/488432-yemen-armed-rebellion-separatists/

Hundreds of Children Brain Damaged by the Swine Flu Vaccine to Receive $90 Million in Financial Compensation from UK Government
Mike Adams | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
First published in April 2015. The H1N1 vaccine fiasco ordered by the (corrupt) WHO Director General is of relevance to the current debate on a COVID-19 vaccine. | **** | The 2009 swine flu vaccine caused severe brain damage in over 800 …
globalresearch.ca/hundreds-of-children-brain-damaged-by-the-swine-flu-vaccine-to-receive-90-million-in-financial-compensation-from-uk-government/5444329

\'Is it Kylie Jenner?\' Mexico star accidentally posts NAKED snaps with topless model (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-05-12
LA Galaxy midfielder Jonathan Dos Santos posted a naked photo of himself and 21-year-old Greek-Ecuadorian model Amanda Trivizas on Instagram, swiftly deleting the racy shot from his story after fans had captured the evidence. | Trivizas kissed Dos Santos\'s shoulder between the sheets in the saucy photo seen by some of the former Barcelona player\'s following of more than 2.3 million on the site, where Trivizas leaves little to the imagination for her audience of more than 823,000. | The Los Angeles-based model has been linked to American playboy Dan Bilzerian but said she could not talk about her relationship w…
rt.com/sport/488474-jonathan-dos-santos-instagram-photos-topless-model/

Boris Johnson Shifts COVID-19 Blame Game to the Public
Rob Woodward | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Many are very angry at Boris Johnson\'s pre-recorded speech last night to the nation, not least, his own cabinet who were essentially left out of the discussion prior to recording. I\'ve also spoken with a few members of the Tory …
globalresearch.ca/boris-johnson-shifts-covid-19-blame-game-public/5712616

Will the Current Serious Economic Recession Evolve into a Full-fledged Global Economic Depression?
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
\"I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression, and I can remember one bleak night in the Thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he\'d lost his job. …
globalresearch.ca/could-current-serious-economic-recession-evolve-full-fledged-global-economic-depression/5712677

Video: Dr. Judy Mikovits Exposes Dr. Fauci For Contradicting Statements On Hydroxychloroquine
Dr. Judy Mikovits | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
globalresearch.ca/dr-judy-mikovits-exposes-dr-fauci-for-contradicting-statements-on-hydroxychloroquine/5712698

The Sadness… Continues!
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
For this writer there are events and incidents that transcend the usual causes of sadness for many of us. Yes, we all have a myriad of memories of sadness. Perhaps when a loved one or pet becomes ill or passes …
globalresearch.ca/sadness-continues/5712567

Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy
Dr. Russell Blaylock | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
\"By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain.\"

China Might be a \"Silver Bullet\" for Countries in the Middle East. Might Jeopardize Relations with Washington
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
As the Arab states in the Gulf embrace Beijing to ease off their over-reliance on hydrocarbons and diversify economy by seeking Chinese investment and technology, A US official threatened that the shift could jeopardize their relationship with Washington. | Giving a …
globalresearch.ca/china-silver-bullet-countries-middle-east/5712635

Low-Balling the Unemployed in the Era of the 2020 Great Recession
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
This past Friday, May 8, the US Labor Dept. released its latest jobless figures. The official report was 20 million more unemployed and an unemployment rate of 14.7%. | Both mainstream and progressive media reported the numbers: 20 million more jobless …
globalresearch.ca/low-balling-unemployed-era-2020-great-recession/5712585

Madagascar Slams WHO for Not Endorsing Its Herbal Cure
Felix Tih | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has slammed the World Health Organization for not endorsing its COVID-19 herbal cure. | Last month, the Malagasy president officially launched Covid-Organics (CVO), an organic herbal concoction, claiming that it can prevent and cure patients suffering from …
globalresearch.ca/madagascar-slams-who-not-endorsing-herbal-cure/5712617

Fragile Economic System: It Is Much Worse Than You Are Being Told
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
For a long time I warned that our economic bubble would burst and that we would plunge into a nightmarish economic collapse. Now it has happened, and it turns out that fear of COVID-19 was the \"black swan event\" that …
globalresearch.ca/fragile-economic-system-it-is-much-worse-than-you-are-being-told/5712607

UK Jewish Students and Youth Movement Oppose \"Unilateral Annexation of West Bank\"
Lee Harpin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
More than 500 UK Jewish students and youth movement members have put their names to a letter urging the Board of Deputies to speak out against what they claim are the Israeli government\'s plans for the \"unilateral annexation of the …
globalresearch.ca/500-youth-group-members-back-call-board-speak-against-west-bank-annexation/5712612

Who\'s Protecting the Moon?
Nina Beety | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
\"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth,\"

The Diabolical \"Game\" with Fear as an Instrument of Domination. The Reflex of Obedience
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-12
Anxiety is a widespread phenomenon that often accompanies people from the earliest days of childhood until old age. It is part of life and has many causes. When unscrupulous despots

Dallas County Officials are Leaving Vulnerable People to Catch COVID-19 in Jail
Andrea Woods | aclu.org | 2020-05-12
Wykivia and Ideare Bailey were taking every precaution. Worried for their asthmatic daughter due to the spread of COVID-19, the couple was meticulous in cleaning, sanitizing, and social distancing to reduce every possible threat. However, when Ideare was arrested for property theft and booked into the Dallas County Jail on April 6, there was no way to adhere to those precautions. Held in a crowded intake room, he could not maintain six feet of distance from other people. Forced to live in a dormitory with 60 other people

U.S. Dishonors Navajo with Death Penalty
Stephen Cooper | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
Amidst the coronavirus devastation, it\'s important not to overlook the fact that, at the end of April, two federal appellate judges called out the U.S. government for continuing to dishonor the Navajo Nation

Even White House documents show Trump is lying
Combined Sources | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-12
As President Trump publicly claims that the numbers of COVID-19 infections are \"going down almost everywhere,\" documents from his own White House suggest that infection rates are dramatically increasing in areas that form the base of his political support. A Coronavirus Task Force report from May 7 obtained by NBC suggests that cases are mounting …
peoplesworld.org/article/even-white-house-documents-show-trump-is-lying/

Kremlin spokesman tests positive for coronavirus
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

UNICEF ships fifth cargo of protective supplies to Iran amid COVID-19 outbreak
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Spanish govt orders 2-week quarantine for incoming travelers on May 15-24
rt.com | 2020-05-12
The government in Madrid has ordered a two-week quarantine for all travelers coming into Spain from May 15 in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. | Incoming travelers will have to remain indoors and will only be allowed to go outside for grocery shopping, health center visits and in \"situations of need,\" according to an official order published on Tuesday. | The quarantine has been enforced for all travelers entering the country between May 15 and at least May 24, when the state of emergency is due to end. | The quarantine order can be extended jointly with possible state of emergency extensions…
rt.com/newsline/488421-spain-quarantine-incoming-travelers/

Eid al-Fitr prayers to be held in Tehran if permitted: governor
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Oglala Lakota enforce coronavirus border checkpoints after South Dakota Governor\'s threats
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
On Pine Ridge, Oglala Lakota Police and Lakota warriors are manning protective roadblocks at the tribal border entrances today on Mother\'s Day, as South Dakota State threatens Native Nations over their coronavirus roadblocks.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832965.php

Worldwide COVID-19 infections climbs to 4.2mn
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) –According to the latest reports on Tuesday, the number of people around the world confirmed to have the coronavirus has risen to 4,256,579, and 287,354 have lost their lives, while 1,527,789 people have recovered.
en.mehrnews.com/news/158618/Worldwide-COVID-19-infections-climbs-to-4-2mn

Coronavirus restrained in many parts of Iran: health min
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) –Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki said on Tuesday that coronavirus has been restrained in many parts of Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/158624/Coronavirus-restrained-in-many-parts-of-Iran-health-min

Iran unveils nano-test kit for coronavirus
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Pharmacologic Treatments for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Sanders JM, Monogue ML, Jodlowski TZ, et al. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-12
This narrative review summarizes what is currently known about how SARS-CoV-2 infects cells and causes disease as a basis for considering whether chloroquine, remdisivir and other antivirals, or other existing drugs might be effective treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764727

Iranian researchers attain knowledge of producing corona drugs
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Covid-19 Has Made Our Broken School System Worse
Belle Chesler | thenation.com | 2020-05-12
Covid-19 Has Made Our Broken School System Worse…
thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-public-school-doe/

Iran coronavirus updates: 1,401 new coronavirus cases, 48 deaths
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Trump lawyer brands CNN\'s Stelter \'propagandist\' as pair clash over fiery Covid-19 press conference
rt.com | 2020-05-12
US President Donald Trump abruptly ending a Covid-19 press conference after tense exchanges with journalists provided fuel for supporters and critics alike, with his lawyer firing strong verbal barbs at a critical CNN host. | One of Trump\'s most vocal supporters following his contentious Monday press conference has been Jenna Ellis, the president\'s senior legal adviser. Liberal critics have meanwhile gone after Trump for his treatment of the press, with some even screaming racism over an exchange with CBS News\' Weijia Jiang. | After Jiang asked what is the importance of saying the US is first in Covid-19 testi…
rt.com/usa/488455-trump-asian-american-stelter-coronavirus/

\'I don\'t think you are the end-all\': Rand Paul calls out Fauci over Covid-19 policy based \'one wrong prediction after another\'
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Republican Senator Rand Paul has challenged National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr Anthony Fauci on the nation\'s Covid-19 policy, suggesting the US is waiting too long to reopen. | Paul, who also has a medical degree, called for \"a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what\'s best for our economy,\" questioning Fauci\'s support for a prolonged economic shutdown during a Senate hearing on the government\'s coronavirus response on Tuesday. | Sen. Paul argues school decisions should be made district by district, tells Dr. Fauci: \"I don\'t think you\'re the end all.\" | Fauci: \"I\'…
rt.com/usa/488470-fauci-paul-coronavirus-senate-clash/

The Media Is \'Both-Sides\'-ing the Coronavirus Disaster
Tom Tomorrow | thenation.com | 2020-05-12
The Media Is \'Both-Sides\'-ing the Coronavirus Disaster…
thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-trump-media/

View Intl. Quds Day\'s rally online via Instagram program, other social platforms in English from S. Africa
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Cheyenne River Lakota won\'t back down at checkpoints after South Dakota Gov\'s threats
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Cheyenne River Lakota Chairman Harold Frazier said the South Dakota Governor never contacted him, but made fiery statements in the media. Regardless of the threats, Lakota here maintain their checkpoints and are focused on saving lives and halting the spread of coronavirus.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/10/18832967.php

Empowering local services is key to fighting virus, says public health expert
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-12
A leading public health expert has urged the government to drop its top-down \"command-and-control\" response to coronavirus (Covid-19) to give the UK the best chance to fight future spikes in infections. | Andrew Lee said empowering local services is the key to tackling the further outbreaks he expects as the country learns to live with Covid-19, but said these surges will be geographically specific. | Dr Lee, who is reader in global public health at Sheffield University, said the key to controlling these outbreaks is speed of response and the current centralised system is too slow to react. | He said: \"We just ha…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/12/empowering-local-services-is-key-to-fighting-virus-says-public-health-expert/

\'I don\'t think you are the end-all\': Rand Paul calls out Fauci over Covid-19 policy based \'one wrong prediction after another\'
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Republican Senator Rand Paul has challenged National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr Anthony Fauci on the nation\'s Covid-19 policy, suggesting the US is waiting too long to reopen. | Paul, who also has a medical degree, called for \"a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what\'s best for our economy,\" questioning Fauci\'s support for a prolonged economic shutdown during a Senate hearing on the government\'s coronavirus response on Tuesday. | Sen. Paul argues school decisions should be made district by district, tells Dr. Fauci: \"I don\'t think you\'re the end all.\" | Fauci: \"I\'…
rt.com/usa/488470-fauci-paul-coronavirus-senate-clash/

Canada teams up with Chinese scientists to co-produce potential Covid-19 vaccine and test it on humans
rt.com | 2020-05-12
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has struck a deal with a Chinese biotechnology company developing one of the \"most advanced\" vaccine candidates against the novel coronavirus to produce and test in Canada. | A vaccine named Ad5-nCoV, which may prove effective against Covid-19, has been developed by China\'s CanSino Biologics company together with the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, part of the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences. It was already approved for the first phase of clinical trials in China in mid-March and is now expected to be tested in Canada too. | Also on rt.com | |
rt.com/news/488471-canada-china-covid-vaccine-candidate/

Pine Ridge locks down for 72 hours after two Lakotas test positive for coronavirus
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
The Oglala Sioux Nation locked down on Monday night for 72-hours after two Lakotas in Wounded Knee District tested positive for the coronavirus. In the bordertown of Rapid City, a WalMart employee tested positive for coronavirus.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/12/18832995.php

No HEROES here: Democrats seek tax breaks for rich donors & lobbyists in $3 TRILLION Covid-19 wishlist bill
rt.com | 2020-05-12
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\'s proposed $3 trillion coronavirus aid bill contains massive tax breaks for wealthy Democrat donors and lobbyists but precious little for working Americans, and has an odd preoccupation with cannabis. | Dubbed the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, the bill is gargantuan in scope and size

America\'s Percentage of World\'s Coronavirus Cases Is Now Declining, but America\'s libertarian policies on coronavirus remain catastrophic
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-12
Eric ZUESSE | At the start of the day on May 2nd, the U.S. had 4.2% of the world\'s population and 33.3%, or one-third, of all coronavirus-19 cases. | At the start of the day on May 10th, the U.S. had 32.9% of cases. The decline from 33.3% to 32.9% is .4% down, or a decline of slightly over 1% of the 33.9%, in 8 days. It\'s virtually certain never to go down to the 4.2% of global coronavir…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/12/americas-percentage-of-worlds-coronavirus-cases-is-now-declining/

Everything that\'s wrong with centrist politics today, in one anti-Corbyn rant
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2020-05-12
On 11 May, Jeremy Corbyn challenged Boris Johnson\'s controversial coronavirus (Covid-19) speech the day before. In particular, he focused on how the government\'s easing of restrictions would disproportionately affect working-class people the most, stressing that it would \"make the ine…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/05/12/everything-thats-wrong-with-centrist-politics-today-in-one-anti-corbyn-rant/

EU must take decisive action to maintain JCPOA balance: envoy
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Police bust 4.2 tons of opium in Iranshahr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
ZAHEDAN, May 12 (MNA)

Funeral processions of 19 martyrs of Iranian Navy
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
KONARAK, May 12 (MNA)

FM spox rejects US claims over Tehran\'s delay in prisoner swap
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Iran urges US to correct its behavior instead of making excuses
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Serbian president calls for expanding economic relations with Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

19 Iranian sailors killed in live-fire exercise
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
The Iranian military\'s accidental missile strike on one of its own ships came amid mounting tensions over US Navy deployments in the Persian Gulf.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/iran-m12.html

MPs chant \'Down with Israel\' after initial endorsement of anti-Zionism motion
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

UNICEF delivers flood relief cargo to Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Front pages of Iran international dailies on May 12
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Lebanon buys copyright of Iranian book \'Boxer\'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Headlines of Iranian dailies on May 12
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Iran Parl. to address motion against Israeli regime\'s hostile measures
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Need to be prepared for post-corona period by taking constructive plan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

VIDEO: Inverted tulips in Zanjan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
ZANJAN, May 12 (MNA)

Iranian police seize over 22 tons of narcotics in a week
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Iran, Pakistan discuss border security on phone
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Iranian futsal winger Tayyebi on Benfica\'s radar
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA)

Genocide and Military Occupation: The five most important keys to the Guaidó-Silvercorp contract
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-05-12
Finally, the complete content of the contract signed by Juan Guaidó, Sergio Vergara and J.J. Rendón with the American mercenary firm Silvercorp, led by former military officer Jordan Goudreau, has been released.
mronline.org/2020/05/12/genocide-and-military-occupation-the-five-most-important-keys-to-the-guaido-silvercorp-contract/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=genocide-and-military-occupation-the-five-most-important-keys-to-the-guaido-silvercorp-contract

Court hears appeal of dismissed lawsuit by family of man killed by Salt Lake police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-12
Salt Lake City, UT – On May 6, the U.S. 10th Circuit heard the name Dillon Taylor for the first time. | Taylor was unarmed and likely could not hear Salt Lake City cop Bron Cruz when he was murdered by Cruz on August 11, 2014 outside a convenience store in South Salt Lake. The killing was quickly ruled justified, but the family filed a lawsuit roughly a year later. That suit was dismissed in 2019, and the hearing on May 6 was an appeal of that dismissal. | Gina Thayne, Taylor\'s aunt and legal guardian, recalls how difficult it was waiting to hear anything about their lawsuit before it was dismissed. | \"The report…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/12/court-hears-appeal-dismissed-lawsuit-family-man-killed-salt-lake-police

\'Home Before Dark\' and fading patriarchal power
Dennis Broe | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-12
It\'s the first masterful series from Apple TV+, after a horrible slip out of the gate with the clumsy, awkward The Morning Show. Home Before Dark details the efforts of a nine-year-old reporter to get to the bottom of a disappearance and supposed murder that has wracked a small town in the state of Washington. …
peoplesworld.org/article/home-before-dark-and-fading-patriarchal-power/

Ignoring Trump and Right-Wing Think Tanks, Red States Expand Vote by Mail
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-12
On April 23, during the same week that Kentucky\'s Republican secretary of state said he was contemplating a \"significant expansion\" of vote by mail, the Public Interest Legal Foundation emailed one of his employees under the subject line \"28 MILLION ballots lost.\" | \"Putting the election in the hands of the United States Postal Service would be a catastrophe,\" wrote J. Christian Adams, president of PILF, a conservative organization that has long complained about voter fraud. His missive contended…
truthout.org/articles/ignoring-trump-and-right-wing-think-tanks-red-states-expand-vote-by-mail/

Pharmaceutical Company Pushes New, Unproven COVID Treatment Drug
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-12
The patient arrives in the emergency department breathing three to four times faster than normal

Trump Labor Dept. Pushes States to Help Employers Report Workers Who Stay Home
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-12
With the stated goal of rooting out \" waste and fraud\" in the unemployment insurance system, President Donald Trump\'s Department of Labor is openly encouraging ongoing state efforts to help employers report workers who refuse to return to their jobs out of fear of contracting the cor…
truthout.org/articles/trump-labor-dept-pushes-states-to-help-employers-report-workers-who-stay-home/

Turkey says 5 states forming \'alliance of evil\' as they denounce Ankara\'s policies in E. Mediterranean, Libya
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Turkey accused Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and the United Arab Emirates of seeking to form an \"alliance of evil\" on Tuesday, after they issued a joint declaration denouncing Ankara\'s policies in the eastern Mediterranean and Libya. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said the five countries were pursuing \"regional chaos and instability.\" | The foreign ministers of the five countries held a teleconference on Monday to discuss the situation in the eastern Mediterranean

The Wet-Bulb Peril Has Arrived… Way Too Early
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
The human body has limits. If \"temperature plus humidity\" is high enough, even a healthy person seated in the shade with plentiful water to drink will suffer severely or likely die. It\'s the Wet-Bulb Temperature WBT effect. There is an upper limit to human capacity to adapt to excessive global heat when combined with excessive…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/the-wet-bulb-peril-has-arrived-way-too-early/

The War Against the Wolves of Alaska
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
Southeast Alaska is home to the Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest of north America. Tongass has old-growth and temperate rainforests, which shelter abundant wildlife and biodiversity. However, both the forests of Tongass and wildlife have been under attack for decades. Loggers, miners, and developers and corrupt state and federal agencies look at these ancient trees and see primarily dollars. These are the same people who practically extinguished the old-growth forests of northern California. These are the same people who are the enemies of the natural world and welcomed Trump to the White Hous…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/the-war-against-the-wolves-of-alaska/

Trump Is Using COVID-19 As An Excuse To Let Polluters Destroy
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/trump-is-using-covid-19-as-an-excuse-to-let-polluters-destroy/

Cardinal George Pell and the Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in Victoria
Kenneth Good | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-12
In the long and still unfinished search for justice, two agencies have been outstanding. The Victorian Police performed dogged investigatory work, and the Royal Commission over five years compiled damning evidence. On 12 November 2012, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox called for the establishment of a Royal Commission. He was a 30-year veteran in Newcastle,…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/12/cardinal-george-pell-and-the-victims-of-child-sexual-abuse-in-victoria/

Leader condoles on martyrdom of navy sailors
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

Mayo Clinic launches radio campaign to encourage recovered patients of COVID-19 to donate plasma
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Entercom Communications to launch a radio campaign that raises awareness in Detroit, New York City, Miami and Chicago of the federally-sponsored national Expanded Access Program (EAP) for Convalescent Plasma. The Food and Drug Administration announced Mayo Clinic as the lead site for the EAP program to speed access and increase availability of investigational convalescent plasma for hospitalized patients …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-launches-radio-campaign-to-encourage-recovered-patients-of-covid-19-to-donate-plasma/

UK COVID-19 death rate far higher in working class
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
Millions of workers employed in what the ONS terms \"elementary\" jobs, including cleaners and low-skilled construction workers, had the highest risk of death.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/depr-m12.html

Corona: US military develops rapid Covid-19 test
Monique Ryser | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
\"Our test would be an absolute breakthrough,\" says Ringeisen. It would massively improve the diagnosis of infected persons and enable them to be quickly quarantined so that they do not infect other people. The test should be introduced as soon as possible. He specifies mid-May as the date.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/09/18832931.php

21-Year-Old Dies in Santa Cruz County Jail
Santa Cruz Police News | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
The Santa Cruz Sheriff\'s Office says on Sunday evening, May 10, correctional officers discovered 21-year-old Tamario Smith was unresponsive in his cell at the County Jail. At about 6pm, paramedics administered medical aid, however Smith was pronounced deceased at the scene. According to the Sheriff\'s Office, Smith did not share a cell, and foul play is not suspected. The Sheriff\'s Office states there were no signs of trauma or visible injuries, and that Smith did not show signs of COVID-19 symptoms.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/11/18832983.php

The world order is rapidly changing
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-12
By TruePublica Editor: As every day reveals yet another failure of the state to tackle the COVID-19 crisis and it merges into the next, it is becoming apparent that this government does not really understand the scale of damage being done to the very fabric of Britain\'s society. It is a fair question to ask …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/the-world-order-is-rapidly-changing/

Mayo Clinic\'s comprehensive COVID-19 research
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinics-comprehensive-covid-19-research/

China responds to US allegations about Covid-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-12
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA)

The Challenge of Preventing COVID-19 Spread in Correctional Facilities
Rubin R. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-12
This Medical News feature examines steps that correctional facilities are taking to minimize the spread of COVID-19.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764379

Mayo Clinic receives $26 million from BARDA for COVID-19 convalescent plasma expanded access program
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Mayo Clinic was awarded a $26 million contract today from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The financial support is for the Expanded Access Program (EAP) for convalescent plasma to fight COVID-19. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-receives-26-million-from-barda-for-covid-19-convalescent-plasma-expanded-access-program/

During COVID-19 Crisis, We Must Prioritize the Release of Pregnant People
Lauren Kuhlik | aclu.org | 2020-05-12
This piece was first published on USA Today., , Andrea Circle Bear was 30 years old and had only recently given birth when she died of COVID-19. Circle Bear was incarcerated for a drug-related charge at the time of her death. She spent the final weeks of her pregnancy in a local jail and then a federal prison, spaces that are known hotbeds for virus transmission…
aclu.org/news/prisoners-rights/during-covid-19-crisis-we-must-prioritize-the-release-of-pregnant-people

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Possible neurological effects of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Originally identified as a respiratory disease, some COVID-19 patients exhibit neurologic symptoms including stroke, loss of consciousness, headache, and even the loss of taste and smell. What\'s unknown is whether these are direct effects of the virus entering the nervous system, or consequences of the disease\'s effect on the body. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-possible-neurological-effects-of-covid-19/

Etazini vle depà≤te yon gwo asasen an Ayiti
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-05-12
ayiboPost Al gade nan atik sou sit orijinal la An Anglè Pandan pandemi COVID-19 la, prèske tout fwontyè ak ayewopà≤ nan mond lan fèmen men avyon Imigrasyon leta Ameriken (ICE) kontinye vole. Chak 2 a 3 semèn, yon và≤l depà≤tasyon konpayi Swift Air, LLC opere, ateri nan ayewopà≤ Pà≤toprens. Apre youn nan và≤l sa yo …
cepr.net/etazini-vle-depote-yon-gwo-asasen-an-ayiti/

No Stimulus for the Weary: The US is Now Sitting on an Inflation Time Bomb
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-12
The White House budget office doesn\'t know if the $2.2 Trillion-dollar stimulus package and Trump\'s $1,200 stimulus checks might cause an inflationary spiral. But many economists have no doubt it will.
mintpressnews.com/economy-stimulus-covid-19-inflation-time-bomb/267446/

Connecting Patients: COVID-19 and transplant patients
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Mayo Clinic Connect is an online community where you can share your experiences and find support from people like you. You can also read Mayo Clinic expert blogs and take part in educational events. COVID-19 and Transplant Patients \"As a kidney transplant recipient I have been extra vigilant/worried about protecting myself as COVID-19 spreads. Like …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/connecting-patients-covid-19-and-transplant-patients/

We need a radically different model to tackle the COVID-19 crisis
James K. Galbraith | zcomm.org | 2020-05-12
Disaster capitalism is being tried, and the worst case is now the likely case. But there is a scale beyond which disaster capitalism cannot go. At a certain point, the carnage becomes too great to neglect, impossible to avoid and lethal to overlook. At a certain point, ordinary people will stand up and refuse to be bullied any…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-radically-different-model-to-tackle-the-covid-19-crisis/

In criminal pursuit of profits, Tesla CEO Elon Musk restarts production at California facility
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
In open defiance of local public health authorities, Musk sent 10,000 workers back to work Monday, dramatically increasing the likelihood of the spread of COVID-19 throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/tesl-m12.html

Mountains Of Evidence Show COVID-19 Was All Over The World Oct/Nov 2019, Why Is It Being Ignored?
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-12
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/12/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/mountains-evidence-show-covid-19-was-all-over-world-oct-nov-2019-why-being-ignored/

National Nurses Day: Not all heroes wear capes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
Photo and article are courtesy of Mayo Clinic News Center andMayo Clinic Employee Facebook. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear scrubs, protective equipment and step out in difficult times to be there for others. As COVID-19 continues to spread and people heed notices to socially distance themselves and hunker down in their homes, there …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/national-nurses-day-not-all-heroes-wear-capes/

The Frontline Response: Local Latino Leaders Address COVID-19 (town hall)
Unidos US | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Online via Zoom: unidosus.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8vJrGBs4SJuzlwnme6PktQ…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/12/18832997.php

Halting conflict globally is the only way to effectively tackle COVID-19, says report
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-12
According to the report published by international NGO, Oxfam, global military expenditure in 2019 stood at USD 1.9 trillion – an amount several times over what is required to pay for the UN-led efforts to fight the COVID-19 crisis in developing countries…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/12/halting-conflict-globally-is-the-only-way-to-effectively-tackle-covid-19-says-report/

The Face of Post-COVID Geo-Politics
Wayne Madsen | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-12
Just as the Black Death altered the course of world history, so too might Covid-19, Wayne Madsen writes.

The Face of Post-COVID Geo-Politics

Test or 2-week quarantine: Iceland plans to ease restrictions on international visitors\' arrivals
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Iceland expects to start easing restrictions for visitors arriving from overseas no later than June 15, the government said on Tuesday. | Under a plan still being developed by the authorities, travelers would be given a choice between a test for Covid-19 upon arrival in Iceland or a two-week quarantine, Reuters reported. | \"Iceland\'s strategy of large-scale testing, tracing and isolating have proven effective so far,\" Tourism Minister Thordis Kolbrun Reykfjord Gylfadottir said in a statement. | Iceland has reported three new Covid-19 infections in May.
rt.com/newsline/488456-iceland-ease-visitors-arrivals/

The Transformation of Societies on the Occasion of Covid-19 Heralds the Militarisation of Europe
Thierry Meyssan | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-12

| We reproduce a discussion between Thierry Meyssan and a group of students. He explains that the political responses to Covid-19 have no medical purpose. A partially identifiable transnational group seized the opportunity provided by the epidemic to try to impose a profound transformation of European societies, just as it had used the attacks of 11 September 2001 to transform the United States. There is still time to oppose the hierarchisation of the world to come. | Question: Who do you think manufactured Covid-19? | Thierry Meyssan : My analysis is exclusively political. I don\'t give an opinion on me…

The Transformation of Societies on the Occasion of Covid-19 Heralds the Militarisation of Europe

ACLU of California Legislative Webinar: COVID-19, Current Bills, & Building Community
ACLU Northern California | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/12/18832990.php

China to test ENTIRE POPULATION of Wuhan for Covid-19 after disease reemerges
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Chinese authorities plan to test all of Wuhan\'s 11 million residents for Covid-19 in a little over a week. After more than a month without newly-recorded cases, the disease has suddenly reappeared in the city. | All districts in the city were ordered to submit a plan on how they will conduct testing of all residents in their areas within 10 days, local media reported, citing a document from the authorities. The officials were told to prioritize the testing of vulnerable groups and places like residential compounds. | The measure was announced as a response to the six new locally-transmitted cases that were rec…
rt.com/news/488416-wuhan-mass-testing-china/

\"COVID-19 Has Been Racialized\"
Jill Nelson | zcomm.org | 2020-05-12
The president is \"telling us that as people of color, and older people, we should just die. It\'s ridiculous.\"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-19-has-been-racialized/

Serbian housing rights collective organizes relief work for COVID-19
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-12
Serbian housing rights collective Zdru≈æena Akcija Krov nad Glavom (Joint Action Roof Over Your Head) has initiated a relief campaign for the distribution of food and other essentials to people in distress…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/12/serbian-housing-rights-collective-organizes-relief-work-for-covid-19/

Latinx Communities & Accessing Reproductive Health Care During COVID-19
PPAFVL | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Online via Instagram livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/09/18832939.php

\'Current health crisis revealed ideological bankruptcy of our leaders\': Marine Le Pen slams govt as France eases quarantine
rt.com | 2020-05-12
The head of the French right-wing opposition party National Rally, Marine Le Pen, has blasted the government for its \"series of failures\" as it began to relax the Covid-19 quarantine restrictions. | \"This health crisis has revealed the ideological bankruptcy with which our leaders have been leading our country: the bankruptcy of the profit logic in public policy, the bankruptcy of ultra-liberalism, Europeanism, and globalism,\" Le Pen told RFI radio. | We\'ve seen an uninterrupted series of inconsistencies and failures since the start of the crisis, and this is still the case with transport management! But that…
rt.com/news/488437-france-le-pen-criticism/

Mayo Clinic expert discusses potential neurological effects of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-12
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can take a severe toll on the respiratory system. However, recent research suggests that the virus may also infect the nervous system. A study of patients with COVID-19 out of Wuhan, China found that possible neurological signs and symptoms caused by COVID-19 can include loss of taste and smell, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-expert-discusses-potential-neurological-effects-of-covid-19/

Governments worldwide respond to COVID-19 by saving profits, not lives
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
The ruling elite\'s efforts to enforce a return to work–and impose a massive restructuring of class relations to pay for the bailout of Wall Street–will encounter enormous opposition from the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/joek-m12.html

La transformation des sociétés à l\'occasion du Covid-19 annonce la militarisation de l\'Europe
Thierry Meyssan | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-12
Nous reproduisons une discussion entre Thierry Meyssan et un groupe d\'étudiants. Il y explique que les réponses politiques au Covid-19 n\'ont pas d\'objet médical. Un groupe transnational partiellement identifiable s\'est saisi de l\'occasion fournie par l\'épidémie pour tenter d\'imposer une transformation profonde des sociétés européennes, comme il avait utilisé les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 pour transformer les États-Unis. Il est encore temps de s\'opposer à la hiérarchisation du monde à venir. | Question : Selon vous, qui a fabriqué le Covid-19 ? | Thierry Meyssan : Mon analyse est exclusivement politique. Je n…

La transformation des sociétés à l’occasion du Covid-19 annonce la militarisation de l’Europe

Detroit autoworkers oppose rush to reopen plants as COVID-19 death toll rises
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
Auto parts suppliers reopened plants in Michigan and other states Monday as GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler prepare to recall nearly 200,000 autoworkers to their North American factories by May 18.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/auto-m12.html

Disease capitalism and COVID-19: Hunger in the belly of the beast
Prabir Purkayastha | mronline.org | 2020-05-12
For capital, profits come from disease, not peoples\' health. COVID-19 shows the consequence of disease capitalism in a globalized world, the rich–countries or individuals–will not be spared either.
mronline.org/2020/05/12/disease-capitalism-and-covid-19-hunger-in-the-belly-of-the-beast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=disease-capitalism-and-covid-19-hunger-in-the-belly-of-the-beast

Survival of our public postal service threatened
Dave Welsh | workers.org | 2020-05-12
Fifty years ago, wildcatting postal workers shut down the U.S. mail for a week in the 1970 Great Postal Strike over poverty-level wages. President Nixon tried to use Army and National Guard soldiers to break the strike

China lifts tariffs on US goods despite Trump\'s threat to rip up trade deal
rt.com | 2020-05-12
A new list of US products to be exempt from trade tariffs has been announced by China\'s finance ministry on Tuesday. It said the new waivers will take effect on May 19 and expire on May 18, 2021. | The exemptions cover 79 products in total, including rare earth mineral ores, aircraft radar equipment, semiconductor parts, medical disinfectants, and a range of precious metals, chemical and petrochemical products. | Importers in China will have to apply to the General Administration of Customs within six months of the announcement to be considered for waivers, which are effective from May 19. | The first batch of…
rt.com/business/488418-china-tariff-waivers-us-imports/

Polish government forced to call off presidential elections at last minute
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
Polish media reports suggest that panic and chaos now reign in Warsaw.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/pola-m12.html

The Scourge of Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-12
Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto\'s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate, caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma), attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at…
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/the-scourge-of-authoritarianism-in-the-age-of-pseudoscience/

#WearOrange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day 2020 (virtual)
MDAEFG | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
Social media…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/09/18832941.php

In Times of Emergency: No Sacrifices of the Public Interest
Adam M. Sowards | zcomm.org | 2020-05-12
Trump isn\'t the first to try to use emergencies to implement regressive policies, and history shows that the people can fight back

Despite Gains, Progress Toward TB Elimination Has Slowed
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-12
Although the US incidence of tuberculosis (TB) reached an all-time low in 2019, CDC researchers expressed concern in a recent report that the rate of decline has slowed in recent years.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765744

Bitcoin ready for \'big bull run & best is yet to come,\' director of business development tells RT\'s Keiser Report
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Bitcoin has undergone its latest \'halving\' event, which occurs every four years and reduces the reward miners receive for mining new coins to help control inflation. It\'s the third halving in the cryptocurrency\'s 11-year history. | Keiser Report spoke to Dan Held of Kraken.com about the event, and what it means for this hardening to happen in an age of infinite fiat. | Bitcoin was purpose-built to be a new sound money, says Held, noting: \"That message resonates really loudly with this sort…
rt.com/business/488431-bitcoin-big-bull-run/

Gunmen attack MSF-backed hospital in Kabul, witnesses report suicide bombing & civilians trapped inside
rt.com | 2020-05-12
Explosions and gunfire have been heard from inside a hospital in western Kabul, where Doctors Without Borders (MSF) operates a maternity ward. Medical staff are said to be trapped inside as the battle rages on. | The 100-bed hospital is located in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of the Afghan capital. At least two powerful explosions have been heard at the scene, TOLO News reported. | The Afghan Interior Ministry said a special police unit has arrived at the scene. Security troops have encircled the site, media reports said. | ⁄Øÿ≤ÿßÿ±ÿ¥‚ÄåŸ&aa…
rt.com/news/488415-gunmen-storm-msf-hospital-kabul/

Essential For Survival: The Need Of Global Solidarity
The People\'s Collective | indybay.org | 2020-05-12
People are dying, every day. Many people are dying too early. People are dying through war, poverty, disease, lack of healthcare or lack of food. People are dying of starvation. Now, in the year 2020, a new disease is spreading around the globe, killing hundreds of thousands and affecting everybody\'s life.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/11/18832973.php

Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf begins unsafe reopening of 37 counties
wsws.org | 2020-05-12
Wolf, presented as a more rational leader than his Republican counterparts, is restarting the economy as the virus is still killing workers across the state in nursing homes, food-processing plants and warehouses.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/12/penn-m12.html

Britain\'s political-media complex in the COVID-19 war
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-12
By TruePublica: It is not as if the battle of information warfare has not been going on for some time now. It was amply demonstrated in the runup to Brexit, throughout the three years to last December and is now fully deployed to contain the COVID-19 crisis. The mainstream media frenzy over Prof Neil Ferguson\'s …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/britains-political-media-complex-in-the-covid-19-war/

Refugee rights supporters occupy the Mantra Hotel
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-12
Refugees & migrants Kerry SmithIssue 1265 Australia asylum seekers Mantra Hotel medevacMay 12, 2020At 7.30am on May 12, refugee and…
greenleft.org.au/content/refugee-rights-supporters-occupy-mantra-hotel

Tax-havened companies bailed out while poverty doubles amidst pandemic
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-12
Economy Astrid PaulssonIssue 1265 Sweden COVID-19 extreme poverty tax havensMay 12, 2020In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the world is…
greenleft.org.au/content/tax-havened-companies-bailed-out-while-poverty-doubles-amidst-pandemic

Oil companies should be denied a bailout
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-12
Climate crisis Rupen SavoulianIssue 1265 Australia COVID-19 oil industry bail-outsMay 12, 2020Oil corporations have been environmentally…
greenleft.org.au/content/oil-companies-should-be-denied-bailout

Daily average CO2 levels reach 418.12ppm
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-12
Environment Jessica CorbettIssue 1265 COVID-19 climate change global warmingMay 12, 2020Climate scientists and campaigners reiterated their demands for urgent global action to dramatically reduce plane…
greenleft.org.au/content/daily-average-co2-levels-reach-41812ppm

Ecuador\'s neoliberal war on public sector worsens COVID-19 catastrophe
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-12
Healthcare Denis RogatyukIssue 1265 Ecuador COVID-19 IMF neoliberal offensiveMay 12, 2020The Carondelet presidential palace in Quito stands in…
greenleft.org.au/content/ecuador%E2%80%99s-neoliberal-war-public-sector-worsens-covid-19-catastrophe

US must stop acting callously, let Iranian hostages go: Foreign Ministry
Prerss TV | iranian.com | 2020-05-12
Iran\'s Foreign Ministry spokesman has urged the US to stop acting callously and release the Iranian \"hostages\" jailed in America and other parts of the world upon Washington\'s request. Abbas Mousavi made the remarks on Monday in reaction to remarks made by US Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli, who claimed the Iranian …
iranian.com/2020/05/11/us-must-stop-acting-callously-let-iranian-hostages-go-foreign-ministry/

Brazil: Native Communities Face Rise in COVID-Related Deaths
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Brazil\'s Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) reported a COVID-19 related cases. | RELATED: | Brazil: Bolsonaro Says Gyms, Salons are \'Essential Activities\' | According to COIAB communication, Amazon indigenous communities register over 200 positive cases and about 16 deaths due to the virus. Besides, the organization reports 23 native groups are under pandemic harm and requires governmental assistance. | \"We don\'t have the structure to cu…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-native-communities-face-covid-deaths-increase-20200512-0012.html

Brazil: Bolsonaro Says Gyms, Salons are \'Essential Activities\'
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-12
Brazil\'s President Jair Bolsonaro decreed on May 11 a list of essential productive activities that should remain open despite the health crisis. Bolsonaro said that gyms and beauty salons are essential and should be added to the list. | RELATED: | Brazil Declares 3 Day Mourning Period for COVID-19 Victims | The summary, published in decree 10.344 on May 11, defines 57 essential activities and services, such as construction work and industrial production. Also, it considers gyms, b…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-bolsonaro-decrees-gyms-and-salons-as-essential-activities-20200512-0009.html

Indian Markets Nosedive in Opening Trade as Spike in COVID-19 Cases Continues
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
New Delhi (Sputnik): The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the Indian equity markets very badly. From the pre-COVID-19 levels of over 41,000 in late February, the benchmark index, Sensex slumped to 25,983 levels on March 23. The rise in March levels has remained choppy.
sputniknews.com/india/202005121079277151-indian-markets-nosedive-in-opening-trade-as-spike-in-covid-19-cases-continues/

Russian Federal Security Service Detains Man Planning to Set Gov\'t Buildings on Fire in Tver Region
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Tuesday announced the prevention of a terrorist attack in the city of Kimry, in Tver Region.
sputniknews.com/russia/202005121079280180-russian-federal-security-service-detains-man-planning-to-set-govt-buildings-on-fire-in-tver-region/

Russia to Consider Caracas\' Request for Help in Probe of Invasion If Asked – Lavrov
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
MOSCOW(Sputnik) – Russia will consider Venezuela\'s request for help in investigation of a naval incursion if it receives such request, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday .
sputniknews.com/world/202005121079281335-russia-to-consider-caracas-request-for-help-in-probe-of-invasion-if-asked—lavrov/

Ex-Russian Public Health Chief Slams Reports on Russia\'s Low COVID-19 Death Toll as Hype
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Allegations that the death toll from the coronavirus in Russia may be significantly lower than official statistics are motivated by malevolence and unprofessional hype, former Russian Chief Sanitary Doctor Gennadii Onish–Åhenko, who is now a lawmaker of parliament\'s lower house, said on Tuesday.
sputniknews.com/russia/202005121079280882-ex-russian-public-health-chief-slams-reports-on-russias-low-covid-19-death-toll-as-hype/

Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov Hospitalised with COVID-19
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has confirmed that he has contracted the coronavirus. He has become the latest top Russian figure to come down with COVID-19. Last week, Russia\'s Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova tested positive for the virus, but said she was manifesting mild symptoms.
sputniknews.com/russia/202005121079281083-kremlin-spokesperson-dmitry-peskov-hospitalised-with-covid-19/

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Holds Press Conference After CIS Foreign Ministers\' Meeting – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
The regular meeting of foreign ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) took place on Tuesday via teleconference amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
sputniknews.com/world/202005121079278083-russian-foreign-minister-lavrov-holds-press-conference-after-cis-foreign-ministers-meeting—video/

Back to Normal? Scenes of Daily Life in Europe as Countries Start Lifting Coronavirus Restrictions
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
We all have been missing many things during the quarantines that have been imposed in our countries as part of measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Undoubtedly, walking in parks and meeting up with friends in cafes and pubs are what many people are most eager to do now that restrictions are partially lifted.
sputniknews.com/photo/202005121079279291-EuropeansEmbraceFreedomAmidLiftingofCoronavirusRestrictions/

US, UK Poisoning Ties With China, Basing COVID-19 Responses On \'Politics, Not Science\', Author Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
China\'s handling of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has come under question by a few top US authorities and factions of the UK government in recent months. But as global responses to the crisis reveal the efficacy of national-level strategies, it appears that such questions remain political and less based on scientific data.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202005121079268474-us-uk-poison-ties-with-china-amid-covid-19-crisis-playing-political-games-author-says/

Oxfam Calls Efforts to Reach Global Ceasefire Amid Coronavirus \'Catastrophic Failure\'
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The international community has failed to establish a global ceasefire so that the whole world, and in particular countries plunged in ongoing conflicts, may consolidate their efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and save numerous lives, the Oxfam international relief group said on Tuesday.
sputniknews.com/world/202005121079280731-oxfam-calls-efforts-to-reach-global-ceasefire-amid-coronavirus-catastrophic-failure/

US Commits $3.6 Million to Assist India with Rapid COVID-19 Testing
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
New Delhi (Sputnik): Despite a complete national lockdown since 25 March, India has recorded 70,755 COVID-19 cases; 22,454 of those who contracted the virus have recovered and 2,293 have died, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
sputniknews.com/india/202005121079279880-us-commits-36-million-to-assist-india-with-rapid-covid-19-testing/

From Shah Rukh To Sonu Sood, Bollywood Stars Actively Help Lockdown-Affected Indians Get Going
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
New Delhi (Sputnik): To battle the spread of Coronavirus, India has been under a nationwide lockdown since 25 March, leaving people stranded and penniless, as the number of positive COVID-19 cases in the country exceeds 70,000.
sputniknews.com/india/202005121079280949-from-shah-rukh-to-sonu-sood-bollywood-stars-actively-help-lockdown-affected-indians-get-going/

WHO Says US and Brazil Failed to Take Warnings About Virus Outbreak Seriously From the Start
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
The United States has the highest number of coronavirus cases globally, the only country reporting seven-digit numbers of infections. Brazil is also one of the 10 most infected nations according to the WHO. Its President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly dismissed the virus as just a \"flu\".
sputniknews.com/world/202005121079279900-who-says-us-and-brazil-failed-to-take-warnings-about-virus-outbreak-seriously-from-the-start-/

Israeli Soldier Killed by a Rock in West Bank Raid is First IDF Casualty of 2020
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
Israeli troops are currently searching the town where the attack happened to identify the culprits. It came a day before the scheduled visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is expected to discuss Israeli plans to annex a chunk of the West Bank.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005121079280299-israeli-soldier-killed-by-a-rock-in-west-bank-raid-is-first-idf-casualty-of-2020/

Church Vandalised in Pakistan Allegedly by Armed Men Over Land Dispute – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) recently released a report citing the sufferings of minorities due to forced conversion to Islam. The report said minorities were unable to enjoy the religious freedom that is supposedly guaranteed them under the constitution.
sputniknews.com/india/202005121079279452-church-vandalised-in-pakistan-allegedly-by-armed-men-over-land-dispute—video/

Stand-off Between Indian, Chinese Troops Escalates as Fighter Jet, Helicopters Scramble in Ladakh
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-12
New Delhi (Sputnik): The current stand-off in eastern Ladakh is the second such instance since India and China disengaged in Doklam after a 73-day stand-off in 2017. The Indian Air Force (IAF) scrambled its Su-30MKI after it spotted the movement of military helicopters on the Chinese side of the border last week.
sputniknews.com/military/202005121079279822-stand-off-between-indian-chinese-troops-escalates-as-fighter-jet-helicopters-scramble-in-ladakh/

House Democrats Denounced for Covid-19 Relief Bill That Leaves \'Door Wide Open\' for Fossil Fuel Bailouts
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-12
Climate action advocacy groups on Tuesday blasted Democratic congressional leadership for introducing a 1,815-page, $3 trillion coronavirus relief package that fails to close loopholes for fossil fuel corporations that are lobbying for federal bailouts under the cover of the pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/steny_hoyer_fossil_fuel_bailout.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/12/house-democrats-denounced-covid-19-relief-bill-leaves-door-wide-open-fossil-fuel?cd-origin=rss

Warning Against Swift Reopening of Economy, Fauci Admits Covid-19 Death Toll \'Almost Certainly Higher\' Than Official 80,000
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-12
Meanwhile, new poll shows majority of Americans believe federal government not doing enough to stop resurgence of outbreak. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/fauci.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/12/warning-against-swift-reopening-economy-fauci-admits-covid-19-death-toll-almost?cd-origin=rss

S. Korea sees mass COVID-19 cases linked to night clubs
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
After battling the first wave of deadly coronavirus, South Korea detected new 102 cases linked to a night club in capital Seoul, local media reported on Tuesday.Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expressed concern that new infections connected to bars and clubs may further rise, said Yonhap News Agency.The coronavirus was found in a night club located in Seoul\'s multicultural district of Itaewon after a 29-year-old person infected with the coronavirus visited five clubs and bars on May 1-2.South Korea had almost zero cases until the new cluster was found early in May.The South Korean health official…
yenisafak.com/en/world/s-korea-sees-mass-covid-19-cases-linked-to-night-clubs-3519293

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tests positive for coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
Russian President Vladimir Putin\'s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus and was receiving treatment at hospital, the Interfax news agency reported.\"Yes, I am sick. I am receiving treatment,\" Peskov was quoted as saying.
yenisafak.com/en/world/kremlin-spokesman-dmitry-peskov-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-3519297

Suicide attack targets funeral prayer in Afghanistan
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
A heavy blast ripped through a funeral prayer gathering in eastern Afghanistan, killing scores of civilians, an official confirmed on Tuesday.Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor Nangarhar province, said it was a suicide attack killing at least 15 people and wounding over 49 others.He said the incident took place in Khewa district where a number of local officials had gathered for the funeral prayer of a former police commander.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.Earlier on Tuesday, a foreign charity-run hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul came under armed assault f…
yenisafak.com/en/world/suicide-attack-targets-funeral-prayer-in-afghanistan-3519292

COVID-19: Turkey confirms death of 507 expats
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
Turkey\'s foreign minister on Tuesday said that 507 Turkish citizens living abroad died due to the novel coronavirus.Bodies of over 400 Turkish expats were already brought to Turkey, Mevlàºt àáavu≈üoƒülu said during an interview with the local broadcaster Akit TV.Turkey currently has 139,771 confirmed cases, and the death toll stands at 3,841.After originating in China last December, COVID-19 has spread to at least 187 countries and regions. Europe and the US are currently the worst-hit regions.The pandemic has killed over 286,600 worldwide, with total infections more than 4.19 mil…
yenisafak.com/en/news/covid-19-turkey-confirms-death-of-507-expats-3519291

Dubai turns Burj Khalifa into coronavirus charity box
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
The world\'s tallest building, Dubai\'s 828-metre Burj Khalifa, has become a glowing charity donation box, raising money for food for United Arab Emirates residents suffering the economic impact of the new coronavirus pandemic.Each of the tower\'s 1.2 million external lights was \'sold\' for 10 dirhams ($2.70), enough to buy one meal. As donations came in, the tower \'filled up\', and people could also bid to claim the light at the very top.As the region\'s tourism and business hub with the world\'s busiest international airport, Dubai\'s economy has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.Many people have lost jobs or h…
yenisafak.com/en/world/dubai-turns-burj-khalifa-into-coronavirus-charity-box-3519286

Bangladeshi nurses serve frontline amid drawbacks
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
Even as Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed authorities to ensure the safety of health workers, nurses in the country are squirming about getting low wages and long work hours.Like in other countries, while nurses in Bangladesh have also emerged as frontline combatants to fight the coronavirus or the COVID-19 pandemic, experts believe their low numbers are affecting the country\'s health system.On eve of the International Nurses Day that was observed on Tuesday coinciding the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, health workers were demanding further recruitment of nurses, which is muc…
yenisafak.com/en/world/bangladeshi-nurses-serve-frontline-amid-drawbacks-3519290

Ethiopian minister lauds Turkey for rapid response
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
Turkey has been at the forefront of countries that responded quickly and positively to Ethiopia\'s calls for help in difficult times, Filson Abdulahi, Ethiopia\'s minister of women, children and youth, said on Tuesday. | The minister was speaking at a handover ceremony of a donation made by Yapi Merkezi, a Turkish construction company, of dry food in support of flood victims in the Somali regional state in eastern Ethiopia. | \"We have been soliciting and mobilizing resources in response to the pandemic (COVID-19), and the Turkish government and investors were among those who came forward with positive and rapid re…
yenisafak.com/en/world/ethiopian-minister-lauds-turkey-for-rapid-response-3519298

Virus puts Australia on path for largest budget deficit
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
Australia is facing the largest budget deficit in history due to the \"sobering\" economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the country\'s treasurer said on Tuesday.Gross domestic product (GDP) is likely to fall more than 10%

Belgian air carrier to cut jobs, fleet
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
Brussels Airlines will reduce its staff, fleet and destinations due to the negative impact of novel coronavirus pandemic, the Belgian carrier announced on Tuesday.According to the restructuring plan, 1,000 employees will be dismissed, which amounts to 25% of its total staff.They will also reduce their fleet by 30% or 16 aircraft, leaving only 38 carriers with the airline.The cuts in staff and planes will also lead to a reduction in the number of destinations the company flies to, leaving only 56 instead of the previous 78.Twenty of the canceled destinations were short-distance European towns.The company claims to…
yenisafak.com/en/world/belgian-air-carrier-to-cut-jobs-fleet-3519289

Hard to make vaccines for \'tricky\' coronavirus: UN body
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
\"The work to develop the vaccine is moving faster than in the history of science, and we have over 100 candidate vaccines, and the ways in which it\'s being tested are being accelerated,\" said Dr. Margaret Harris at an online media briefing.\"But coronaviruses are very tricky viruses

Africa reports over 3,000 new COVID-19 cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
Number of coronavirus cases in the African continent reached 66,373 with 3,048 new infections over the past 24 hours, said the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday.The continent\'s death toll rose to 2,336, while the number of recoveries stood at 23,095.According to the update, North Africa continues to be the hardest-hit of the five geographic regions of the continent with 23,000 cases, while West Africa has 19,600 cases, Southern Africa 11,400, East Africa 6,500 and Central Africa 5,900.In terms of deaths, North Africa records 1,300 fatalities, West Africa 416, Southern Africa 225,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/africa-reports-over-3000-new-covid-19-cases-3519285

N. Cyprus slams joint declaration on E. Mediterranean
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
The premier of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) slammed on Tuesday a joint declaration dubbing Turkey\'s activities in the Eastern Mediterranean as \"illegal\".\"Turkish Cypriots have as much rights as the Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean,\" said TRNC Prime Minister Ersin Tatar in a statement.Tatar said that some parties heighten hostilities when their interests in the region are being hampered, but this was not a rightful approach.The Turkish Cypriot premier\'s remarks came after Greece, Egypt, France, the Greek Cypriot administration, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) released the joint declaration…
yenisafak.com/en/news/n-cyprus-slams-joint-declaration-on-e-mediterranean-3519288

EU signs contract with Philips on ventilators
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
Dutch electronics giant Philips signed a contract with the European Commission to supply medical ventilators to EU hospitals, the company and EU officials said, in a deal that comes as most EU countries reached the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak.Other companies have signed similar contracts with the European Union as part of a joint procurement scheme the Commission launched in March on behalf of 25 EU states.But no ventilator has yet been delivered under the scheme.Last week, Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told EU governments at a video conference that a new contract had been signed with Philips \"which has…
yenisafak.com/en/world/eu-signs-contract-with-philips-on-ventilators-3519287

Spain to isolate international arrivals, cases stabilize
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-12
As Spain reported less than 200 daily deaths from COVID-19 and under 450 infections for the second day in a row on Tuesday, the government announced new regulations for people entering the country. | With another 436 cases and 176 more deaths confirmed by the Ministry of Health, Spain now registers a total of 26,920 COVID-19 fatalities and over 228,000 cases. Nearly 140,000 people have recovered and over 123,000 people have been hospitalized for the illness. | To prevent importing the virus, from May 15 and until Spain\'s state of emergency comes to an end, international arrivals, including Spanish citizens, will…
yenisafak.com/en/world/spain-to-isolate-international-arrivals-cases-stabilize-3519296

COVID-19 strike wave enters third month
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-05-11
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 . . . | Continue reading COVID-19 strike wave enters third month at Workers.org…
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Leaked UK Doc Shows Mandated Remote-Working Plan for Obese Brits
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Being fat obese can double someone\'s risk of going to the hospital for severe COVID-19 symptoms, a new report published by the University of Glasgow concluded this week. With that being said, a leaked document from the UK government obtained …
globalresearch.ca/leaked-uk-doc-shows-mandated-remote-working-plan-obese-brits/5712437

Pompeo Likens Iran To Nazis On 2nd Anniversary Of US Nuclear Deal Exit
Zero Hedge | iranian.com | 2020-05-11
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

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

US-Based Advisers From Guaido\'s Team Quit Over Foiled Coup Plot
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
United States-based advisers to lawmaker Juan Guaido quit Monday over the foiled May 3 coup attempt and their involvement in hiring mercenaries to carry out the plot aimed at assassinating Venezuela\'s government officials and president. | RELATED: | Guaido Behind Failed Operation Against Venezuela: Maduro | Right-wing strategist Juan Jose Rendon and Sergio Vergara confirmed their resignations in public letters after the Miami-based adviser to Guaido, admitted Tuesday of hiring U.S…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Based-Advisers-From-Guaidos-Team-Quit-Over-Foiled-Coup-Plot-20200511-0014.html

Guaidó\'s mercenary hit contract on Venezuela\'s Maduro mirrors official US bounty, authorizes death squad killings
Alan MacLeod | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-11
The leaked contract between Juan Guaidó and the Silvercorp USA mercenary firm closely resembles a DEA bounty placed on the…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/10/guaido-mercenary-contract-venezuelas-maduro-us-bounty-death-squad/

No greater hypocrisy than Indian Govt\'s pronouncements on migrants: Sitaram Yechury
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-11
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.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/11/no-greater-hypocrisy-than-indian-govts-pronouncements-on-migrants-sitaram-yechury/

As the Earth Dies
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
The Robbery of Nature John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark (Monthly Review Press) The earth is dying and capitalism is to blame. Facing this, one can opt for hope, as Marxist ecosocialists do, or one can succumb to pessimism fed by dark thoughts on human nature and the intractable, deadly persistence of our economic system…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/as-the-earth-dies/

Effects of US Lockdowns v. Lifting Them
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
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 …
globalresearch.ca/effects-us-lockdowns-lifting-them/5712404

Reinventing History a US Specialty. The Role of the Soviet Union In Defeating Nazi Germany
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
The power of endlessly repeated propaganda gets most people to believe almost anything

Indifference Toward Public Health and Welfare in America. The COVID-19 Healthcare Fiasco
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
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 …
globalresearch.ca/indifference-toward-public-health-welfare-america/5712460

World\'s Super Rich Buying Pandemic Escape Mansions in New Zealand
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-11
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. | MPN– Instead of paying $24,000 for a haircut or spending $120,000 on a banana duct taped to a wall, the world\'s super wealthy have found a new commodity to purchase: pandemic bunkers in New Zealand. A number of the planet…

World’s Super Rich Buying Pandemic Escape Mansions in New Zealand

World\'s Super Rich Buying Pandemic Escape Mansions in New Zealand
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-11
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.
mintpressnews.com/super-rich-buying-covid-19-pandemic-mansions-new-zealand/267406/

Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
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 …
globalresearch.ca/victory-europe-day-american-corporations-aided-nazi-germany/5712411

New Facial Recognition Software Predicts You\'re a Criminal Based on your Face
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-11
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.
mintpressnews.com/new-facial-recognition-software-predicts-youre-a-criminal-based-on-your-face/267436/

New Facial Recognition Software Predicts You\'re a Criminal Based on your Face
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-11
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. | MPN– A team from the University of Harrisburg, PA, has developed automated computer facial recognition software that they claim can predict with 80 percent accuracy and \"no racial bias\" whether a person is likely going to be a criminal, purely by looking at a picture of them. \"By automating the identification of potential threats without bias, our aim is t…

New Facial Recognition Software Predicts You’re a Criminal Based on your Face

\'Justice is Indivisible\': Placing Palestine Back at the Center of Muslim Discourse in the West
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/justice-is-indivisible-placing-palestine-back-at-the-center-of-muslim-discourse-in-the-west/

The Fight for the Democratic Platform on Racial Justice, Palestine
Halah Ahmad | commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
While support for Palestinian self-determination represents a departure from the status quo in US politics, it actually mirrors a shift in opinion among the Democratic Party\'s electorate. (Photo: Stop the War UK) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/palestinian.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/11/fight-democratic-platform-racial-justice-palestine?cd-origin=rss

Mass Unemployment Is a Failure of Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
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.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/mass-unemployment-is-a-failure-of-capitalism/

Trump responsible for deaths in US and globally because of Covid-19 response, says Chomsky
rt.com | 2020-05-11
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. | …
rt.com/usa/488381-chomsky-trump-coronavirus-deaths/

Saturday, May 16, Second Webinar, 12-1 PM EDT Disarm and Divest During Covid-19
David Quinn-Jacobs | kingsbayplowshares7.org | 2020-05-11
Disarm & Divest During COVID19 Last KBP 7 Webinar Before Sentencing SATURDAY, MAY 16, 12-1pm. The Kings Bay Plowshares defendants will hold their final webinar before sentencing, this Saturday, May 16, 12-1 pm ET. Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of the Intercept, will host the defendants. Lead attorney Bill Quigley will join the webinar…
kingsbayplowshares7.org/2020/05/sat-5-16-last-kbp7-webinar/

A Late-Breaking Bulletin From PBS: \"For Many Americans, Health Insurance is Tied to a Job\"
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
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.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/a-late-breaking-bulletin-from-pbs-for-many-americans-health-insurance-is-tied-to-a-job/

Trump Death Clock: Creator Eugene Jarecki Says \"Reckless Mishandling\" of COVID-19 Must Be Quantified
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-11
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.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/11/eugene_jarecki_trump_death_clock

\"Weaponized and Racialized\": Police Departments Use COVID-19 to Target Black & Brown Communities
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-11
Viral images have shone a spotlight on uneven policing. Some show police officers distributing masks to White residents in crowded New York City parks

\"COVID-19 Has Been Racialized\": Black Scholar Jill Nelson Arrested for Chalking \"Trump = Plague\"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-11
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.\"
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/11/jill_nelson_nypd_arrest_trump_plague

The Elders Issue Scathing Rebuke of Israel\'s Trump-Approved West Bank Annexation Plan
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
\"The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians can only ever be solved by finding a solution that guarantees peace, security, rights, and dignity to both peoples. Unilaterally seizing territory and ignoring international law achieves precisely the opposite.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/west-bank-annexation-elders.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/11/elders-issue-scathing-rebuke-israels-trump-approved-west-bank-annexation-plan?cd-origin=rss

Geopolitical Corridors: Did Iran Inadvertently Sacrifice \"The India Chabahar Corridor\" for the Sake of Afghan Border Security?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
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 …
globalresearch.ca/did-iran-sacrifice-chabahar-afghan-border-security/5712464

The Execution of Julian Assange
Patrick Anderson | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-11
I do not respect anyone who has not been to prison.\" Julian Assange once said to Renata Avila, a Guatemalan human rights activist who serves as legal counsel for WikiLeaks. \"What he meant,\" Avila says, \"was that being in prison means that you have made so much trouble for the system that the only way for the system to deal with you is to lock you up and try to silence you.\" | After a decade of being shuttled from house arrest to confinement in an embassy to Belmarsh Prison to, if the United States government ge…
mintpressnews.com/opinion-media-execution-julian-assange/267393/

Bolivia: Citizens Protest Against De Facto Government
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
Bolivian citizens protested in many cities on Monday against coup-born government and its health crisis management. | RELATED: | Bolivia\'s Public Companies Are Being Dismantled, Morales Says | Residents of El Alto, Cochabamba, La Paz, and other cities demonstrated in the streets demanding Jeanine Añez\'s removal from office. Protesters manifested their discontent with the de facto administration by calling for the removal of the regime and their financial backers | Protesters also…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-citizens-protest-against-de-facto-government-20200511-0009.html

UK: Johnson Criticized for Opening Economy Amid Pandemic
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
The United Kingdom union leader Keir Starmer criticized on May 10 the opening of the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic that has affected the world. | RELATED: | Indigenous, Activists Protest as KXL Pipeline Construction Begins | Johnson announced a progressive quarantine relaxation plan and economic, productive, and leisure activities resumption this week. The United Kingdom decreed an emergency quarantine on March 23 due to the virus outbreak. | \"I think what the count…
telesurenglish.net/news/uk-johnson-criticized-for-economic-restart-amidst-pandemic-20200511-0002.html

Fresh protests in Iraq demand elections, justice for those killed by security forces
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-11
The protesters reiterated the demands from when the anti-government agitation began in October 2019. They took place despite the new prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi making conciliatory gestures and promising to address their demands…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/11/fresh-protests-in-iraq-demand-elections-justice-for-those-killed-by-security-forces/

Iraqis seek justice for murdered protesters, political transformation
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-11
Despite COVID-19 related restrictions, protests continue in Iraq. The protesters have demanded that the government of Mustafa al-Kadhimi deliver justice for the over 600 people who have been killed in the demonstration since October 1.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/11/iraqis-seek-justice-for-murdered-protesters-political-transformation/

Tampa Bay SDS demands justice for Ahmaud Arbery
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-11
\"Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till. How many Black lives will you kill?\" This was one of many chants heard across downtown Tampa on Saturday, May 9, as protesters gathered to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery. The South Georgia resident was murdered by two white supremacist vigilantes, father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, while he out for a jog. | Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), along with members of the community, parked outside the Sam M. Gibbons Federal Courthouse to participate in the socially-distanced protest. After the protesters were forced to leave by the building\'s security, the ral…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/11/tampa-bay-sds-demands-justice-ahmaud-arbery

Minnesota: Life of Jaffort Smith honored, demand justice for man murdered by St. Paul police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-11
St. Paul, MN – Saturday, May 9, on the fourth anniversary of Jaffort Smith\'s death at the hands of police, community members joined his family for a socially-distanced caravan protest and balloon release to honor Smith\'s life. They met in Cayuga Park, where speakers Monique Cullars Doty and mother Matilda Smith addressed the crowd. Balloons were released, and Minister Toya Woodland led the group in prayer. They then set out in cars, passing the nearby site where police officers Michael Tschida and Mark Grundhauser murdered Smith with at least 49 shots. The group proceeded to the Saint Paul Police Department Easte…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/11/minnesota-life-jaffort-smith-honored-demand-justice-man-murdered-st-paul-police

UN Condemns Killings of Ex-FARC, Social Leaders in Colombia
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
The United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia condemned Saturday the murder of the 24th ex-combatant of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), expressing its \"concern\" over the systematic killings. | RELATED: | Killings of Social Activists Continues in Colombia | The Revolutionary Alternative Force for the Commons (FARC) party denounced that Wilder Marin\'s body was found \"wrapped in a burning mattress\" in the northwestern municipality of Bello. | The demobilized ex-combatant…
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Condemns-Killings-of-Ex-FARC-Social-Leaders-in-Colombia-20200511-0010.html

Chomsky, Sanders, Others Launch Progressive International
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
A coalition of left-leaning intellectuals, activists, and political leaders from around the world officially launched Monday the Progressive International with the support of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 and the Sanders Institute. | RELATED: | COVID-19: Seeds of Revolution Grown on Capitalism\'s Corpse? | \"Never before has international solidarity been more necessary–and more absent,\" General Coordinator of the PI David Adler said, adding that \"only a common internat…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chomsky-Sanders-Others-Launch-Progressive-International–20200511-0012.html

Black Scholar Jill Nelson Arrested for Chalking \"Trump = Plague\" in New York
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-11
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 old…
truthout.org/video/black-scholar-jill-nelson-arrested-for-chalking-trump-plague-in-new-york/

Rights Groups Work to Stop \'Unnecessary and Potentially Disenfranchising Purges\' of Voter Rolls in Pennsylvania
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
American civil rights groups on Monday moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by the right-wing activist group Judicial Watch that critics warn could result in \"the unnecessary and potentially disenfranchising purges\" of voter rolls in three Pennsylvania counties ahead of the November elections. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/vote_here.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/11/rights-groups-work-stop-unnecessary-and-potentially-disenfranchising-purges-voter?cd-origin=rss

Fears of Bolsonaro\'s Threat to the Amazon Realized as New Data Shows Rainforest Destruction Up 55%
Jessica Corbett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
\"Bolsonaro is not only turning a blind eye as land grabbers, illegal loggers, and miners continue to plunder Indigenous territories during the pandemic, he plans to make things easier for them.\" | *** | Greenpeace on Friday warned of far-right Brazilian President …
globalresearch.ca/fears-bolsonaro-threat-amazon-realized-new-data-shows-rainforest-destruction/5712426

UN peacekeepers killed in improvised explosive attack in Mali
news.un.org | 2020-05-11
Three UN peacekeepers from Chad were killed in northern Mali on Sunday when their convoy hit a roadside bomb near Aguelhok, in the restive Kidal region. The improvised device also seriously injured four others who are now receiving medical care, the UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said in a statement.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1063662

Colombia: Avianca Airlines Declares Bankruptcy Due to COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
Colombian airline Avianca announced Sunday that they are declaring bankruptcy after an 80% income drop due to the health crisis. | RELATED: | Venezuela Seizes Three Combat Boats With Colombian Navy Emblems | Avianca Holdings airline representatives published a communication announcing voluntary bankruptcy declaration to protect future operations. \"Today our wings are closed so that tomorrow we can all continue to fly \"tweeted Anko van der Werff, Avianca president. | The compa…
telesurenglish.net/news/colombia-avianca-airlines-declares-bankruptcy-due-to-covid-20200511-0005.html

Colombia fails to regulate local coronavirus lockdown exemption plan
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-11
Colombia\'s health ministry failed to publish regulation that would allow mayors to request exemption from national lockdown measures on Monday as promised last week. The regional relaxation of lockdown measures…
colombiareports.com/colombia-fails-to-regulate-local-coronavirus-lockdown-exemption-plan/

Colombia\'s military to surrender illegal spying evidence to prosecution
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-11
Colombia\'s defense minister said Sunday that the military will provide the prosecution with evidence against 13 of its members who allegedly took part in the illegal spying on journalists, NGO\'s,…
colombiareports.com/colombias-military-to-surrender-illegal-spying-evidence-to-prosecution/

ICC looking into Colombia\'s private sector terrorism support: report
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-11
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is looking into Colombia\'s private sector\'s ties to paramilitary groups, newspaper El Tiempo reported on Sunday. The daily received a March 10 report from the…
colombiareports.com/icc-looking-into-colombias-private-sector-terrorism-support-report/

Western Venezuela Rocked by Rolling Blackouts
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-11
Low water levels at hydroelectric dams, \"terrorist sabotage\" and damaged infrastructure have been blamed for the power cuts.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14873

Nuclear Weapons: The Anatomy of a U.S. STRATCOM \"Disinfographic\"
John Krzyzaniak | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
United States Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for the nation\'s nuclear weapons, recently released an imperially misleading infographic on Twitter. The graphic is confused–not only about when to use bold typeface, but also about the …
globalresearch.ca/anatomy-stratcom-disinfographic/5712442

Asparagus and bombers
Victor Grossman | mronline.org | 2020-05-11
While prices and recipes for asparagus, dates and restrictions for re-opening dominated the media and many conversations, a far more significant matter found little attention. Ever since 1955 an estimated twenty American nuclear bombs have been stored underground at the U.S. Air Force base in Bàºchel in Rhineland. A German politician recently proposed spending $3 …
mronline.org/2020/05/11/asparagus-and-bombers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=asparagus-and-bombers

COVID-19 and the parallel nuclear war and climate change threats
Karl Grossman | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-11
We can create a new and better world–but we must fully commit ourselves to it and work for it, \"pressing, making changes.\"
nationofchange.org/2020/05/11/covid-19-and-the-parallel-nuclear-war-and-climate-change-threats/

More Than 50 National Organizations From Progressive, Anti-war, and Faith Communities Urge Presumptive Democratic Nominee Joe Biden and President Trump to Adopt a More Principled Foreign Policy
commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/11/more-50-national-organizations-progressive-anti-war-and-faith-communities-urge?cd-origin=rss

\'Binders full of women\' anyone? Biden blasted for \'calendar model\' VP search
rt.com | 2020-05-11
Joe Biden is getting put through the ringer on social media for his latest reported blunder, comparing vice presidential picks to calendar models, which looks especially bad considering he wants a female running mate. | The tidbit that set social media ablaze was buried in a friendly New York Times piece about Biden picking a vice presidential nominee for November. | \"Mr. Biden has likened running-mate evaluation to deciding among calendar models,\" The Times wrote, going on to describe a three…
rt.com/usa/488402-biden-vp-calendar-models/

\'He\'s just not there yet\': MSNBC founder says Joe Biden not ready to face Trump in election \'primetime\' & has no coherent message
rt.com | 2020-05-11
Joe Biden is woefully unprepared to go up against Donald Trump in the 2020 election, having failed to offer a compelling narrative to voters and missing the mark even in \"softball interviews,\" said the founder of MSNBC and CNBC. | Speaking on MSNBC\'s Morning Joe on Monday, Tom Rogers voiced concern that the former VP and presumptive Democratic nominee could be heading for a \"crisis,\" unable to field any \"eloquent\" or \"convincing\" critiques of President Trump or his policies, namely his handling of the Covid-19 outbreak. | \"It pains me to say this, it really does, but his performance in being able to come up wi…
rt.com/usa/488405-msnbc-founder-biden-not-ready/

New York State tries to suspend Democracy; NYT and WaPo shrug
Julie Hollar | mronline.org | 2020-05-11
Blaming health risks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York State Board of Elections announced last week that the state would simply cancel its Democratic presidential primary, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden to be proclaimed the victor without a vote. The response from the country\'s two most prominent newspapers? Meh.
mronline.org/2020/05/11/new-york-state-tries-to-suspend-democracy-nyt-and-wapo-shrug/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-york-state-tries-to-suspend-democracy-nyt-and-wapo-shrug

Joe Biden is Ridin\' the Pandemic All the Way to the White House
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-11
A ruling class consensus is coalescing that Trump will be the fall guy, blamed for the increasingly undeniable defects of the neoliberal model.
mintpressnews.com/opinion-joe-biden-ridin-covid-19-pandemic-to-the-white-house/267372/

Tedros highlights complex challenges posed by COVID-19 resurgence, following easing of lockdowns
news.un.org | 2020-05-11
The resurgence of COVID-19 cases in South Korea, China and Germany following the lifting of stay-at-home restrictions demonstrates the complexity of easing these measures, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1063732

Yemen\'s Aden Declared \'Infested\' as COVID-19 Cases Jump
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
The interim seat of Yemen\'s United Nations-recognized and Saudi-backed government, Aden, was declared Monday an \"infested\" city by authorities after new cases of coronavirus were reported in the war-ravaged country. | RELATED: | WHO Halts Activities in Houthis-Controlled Areas in Yemen | The Aden-based national coronavirus committee announced Sunday that the southern port city had 10 of the 17 new Covid-19 cases registered, bringing the total number in areas under the control of th…
telesurenglish.net/news/Yemens-Aden-Declared-Infested-as-COVID-19-Cases-Jump-20200511-0015.html

China: New COVID-19 Outbreak Spreads Concern
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
A new coronavirus outbreak in Shulan, a Chinese city near the Russian border, and a spate of cases in Wuhan has prompted fears of a fresh wave of infections in China. | RELATED: | China: Middle School Students Return to Classes in Wuhan | According to Chinese authorities, Shulan is at high risk. A family cluster was diagnosed with COVID-19, after having contact with a woman with no known history of travel or exposure to the virus. | The news were given a week after China designated a…
telesurenglish.net/news/china-new-covid19-outbreaks-spreads-concern-20200511-0008.html

France Begins Deconfinement with Strict Measures for Paris
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
France has started to progressively lift the quarantine measures imposed almost two months ago to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, as the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are slowing down. | RELATED: | France: Violent Confrontations Between Police and Parisians | According to French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe\'s announcement, deconfinement in France, which begins on Monday, will be tightened in Paris, where there are still a high number of COVID-19 infect…
telesurenglish.net/news/france-begins-deconfinement-with-strict-measures-for-paris-20200511-0006.html

China Sent Medical Aid to Zimbabwe
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
A Chinese medical staff arrived on May 11 in Zimbabwe to assist the African nation to contain the spread of COVID-19. The 12 health workers traveled from the Hunan province to Zimbabwe. | RELATED: | Iran: Military Vessel Accident Leaves 19 Dead and 15 Injured | Alongside the group, Zimbabwe received medical aid, consisting of ventilators, nucleic acid testing kits, masks, and biosecurity suits. | Zhu Yimin, medical team leader, stressed Zimbabwe and other African nations helped C…
telesurenglish.net/news/china-sends-medical-aid-to-zimabwe-20200511-0007.html

Iran: Military Vessel Accident Leaves 19 Dead and 15 Injured
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
Iran\'s army confirmed on Monday that 19 people were killed and 15 injured after an accident on May 10 aboard the Iranian military vessel Konarak. | RELATED: | Iran Sent Medical Supplies to Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Germany | The ship was participating in a military exercise in the waters off the port of Jask in the Gulf of Oman. | Of those 15 people, 12 were hospitalized and three more, with minor injuries, received medical assistance. | \"The circumstances of the incident are c…
telesurenglish.net/news/iran-military-vessel-accident-leaves-19-dead-and-15-injured-20200511-0004.html

Venezuela Captures 14 Mercenaries in the Last 24 Hours
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
Venezuelan State Security Forces captured In the last 24 hours a total of 14 mercenaries involved in an armed maritime incursion. | RELATED: | Three More Mercenaries Arrested in Venezuela With Ties to Foiled Coup Plot | \"At the end of Sunday, three mercenaries were captured in the mountain town of San Miguel, in the parish of Carayaca, Vargas state,\" the Strategic Region of Integral Defense Capital of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) reported on Monday on…
telesurenglish.net/news/venezuela-captures-14-mercenaries-in-the-last-24-hours-20200511-0001.html

HIV Deaths Could Double in Sub-Saharan Africa Due to COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
Disruption of antiretroviral therapy in HIV/AIDS patients due to the COVID-19 pandemic could cause more than 500,000 deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nation (U.N.) AIDS said Monday. | RELATED: | Coronavirus Could Kill Over 190,000 People in Africa, WHO Warns | Modeling conducted for the two U.N. agencies revealed that a six-month interruption in HIV healthcare services could set the region back by a decade when almost one mi…
telesurenglish.net/news/HIV-Deaths-Could-Double-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Due-to-COVID-19–20200511-0013.html

Bahrain Blocks Event Criticizing Normalization With Israel
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
Authorities in Bahrain canceled Saturday an online event on the Gulf state\'s normalization of relations with Israel, shortly after its transmission began on YouTube. | RELATED: | Israel Plans Thousands New Illegal Settlements in the West Bank | The event\'s organizer, the Bahraini Democratic Youth Society, said it had received a phone call from the security authorities ordering them to stop live-streaming the event \"without discussions.\" | The president of Bahrain\'s chapter o…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bahrain-Blocks-Event-Criticizing-Normalization-With-Israel-20200511-0011.html

Bees and the \"Eternally Not Talked About\"
Prof Susan Babbitt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Dostoevsky said former seminarians (which included many Russian radicals then) were \"too complete, too hostile, too sharp and therefore too limited.\" That is, they were limited precisely by being too complete, by fitting all the pieces together, in a tight-fitting …
globalresearch.ca/bees-eternally-not-talked-about/5712422

New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-11
For two and a half years the House Intelligence Committee knew CrowdStrike didn\'t have the goods on Russia. Now the public knows too. | Ray McGOVERN | House Intelligence Committee documents released Thursday reveal that the committee was told two and half years ago that the FBI had no concrete evidence that Russia hacked Democratic National Committee computers to filch the DNC emails published by WikiLeaks in July 2016. | The until-now-buried, closed-door testimony came on Dec. 5, 2017 from Shawn Henry, a protege of former FBI Director Robert Mueller (from 2001 to 2012), for whom Henry served as head of the Burea…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/11/new-house-documents-sow-further-doubt-that-russia-hacked-dnc/

May 9th World War II Commemoration: Russian Victory, NATO Defeat
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
This article was originally published on New Eastern Outlook in July 2015. | On February 2nd, 1943, the 6th German Army, under the command of Field Marshall Von Paulus, and elements of the 4th Panzer Army, surrendered to the Red Army …
globalresearch.ca/may-9th-commemoration-russian-victory-nato-defeat/5712413

PCHR: In the Context of Israel\'s Policy of Collective Punishment, Occupation Forces Demolish Home of Palestinian Detainee\'s Family in Ramallah
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-05-11
Palestinian Center for Human Rights In the context of the collective punishment policy pursued by the Israeli occupation forces against the families of Palestinian citizens accused of carrying out acts of resistance against them and/or against the settlers, those forces demolished a house in the early hours of Monday, 11/5/2020, …
imemc.org/article/pchr-in-the-context-of-israels-policy-of-collective-punishment-occupation-forces-demolish-home-of-palestinian-detainees-family-in-ramallah/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-in-the-context-of-israels-policy-of-collective-punishment-occupation-forces-demolish-home-of-palestinian-detainees-family-in-ramallah

Palestinian Worker Shot, Injured by Israeli Forces in West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-11
A Palestinian worker was injured, on Sunday, when Israeli forces shot him near the Israeli Apartheid Wall, west of the town of Far\'un in the Tulkarem district, northern occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. Witnesses told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli soldiers fired live rounds at an unidentified worker, …
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Undercover Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 13 Palestinians In Silwan
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-11
Undercover Israeli soldiers assaulted and kidnapped, on Monday evening, 13 young Palestinian men in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the undercover soldiers infiltrated into the Central Neighborhood of the town, in occupied East Jerusalem and kidnapped the thirteen …
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Israeli Troops Shoot, Injure and Abduct Two Palestinian Youths
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-11
Israeli troops abducted, early on Monday, two Palestinian youths, shortly after they shot and wounded them, in the Qafeen village, north of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem. The Tulkarem-based Palestinian Prisoners\' Committee reported that Arqam Harsha, 20 and Awni T\'oma, 24, were been abducted during invasion of their …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-shoot-injure-and-abduct-two-palestinian-youths/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-shoot-injure-and-abduct-two-palestinian-youths

Palestinian PM Seeks to Counter Israel\'s Threats over Prisoners\' Monthly Allowances
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-11
Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh asserted, on Monday, that his cabinet has recently sought some prospects for solutions to the standoff of Palestinian prisoners\' monthly allowances, created by a recent Israeli decision. During a weekly cabinet session, held in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Dr. Shtayyeh said that Israel …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-pm-seeks-to-counter-israels-threats-over-prisoners-monthly-allowances/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-pm-seeks-to-counter-israels-threats-over-prisoners-monthly-allowances

Battle \'not yet over\' against locust invasions in East Africa and Yemen
news.un.org | 2020-05-11
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges, significant gains have been made against Desert Locust encroachment in East Africa and Yemen, with an estimated 720,000 tonnes of cereal saved from the swarms of migratory pests across 10 countries: enough to feed five million people a year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1063672

UN officials call for release of detained Palestinian children amid pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-05-11
Three senior United Nations officials in the Middle East are calling for the release of Palestinian children from Israeli-run prisons and detentions centres, saying they are at particular risk of COVID-19 infection.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1063722

We Also Face a Pandemic of Racism
Linda Wiggins-Chavis | progressive.org | 2020-05-11
COVID-19 sheds light on America\'s systemic oppression of people of color.
progressive.org/op-eds/we-face-pandemic-of-racism-wiggins-chavis-200511/

US continues deportation of Haitians tested positive of COVID-19
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-11
A group of over 100 Haitian nationals are set to be deported from the United States by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), on Monday, May 11. This is scheduled to happen despite requests from the Haitian government to wait until the spread of COVID-19 subsides. Among those being deported, at least five individuals are known to have tested positive for COVID-19 very recently. | The Haitian government panel assigned to direct the nation\'s pandemic response requested that the US government avoid deportations until the pandemic is contained. The presidential panel consisting of medical professionals and…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/11/us-continues-deportation-of-haitians-tested-positive-of-covid-19/

SPLC fights to keep children out of juvenile detention, other confined settings during pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-05-11
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/11/splc-fights-keep-children-out-juvenile-detention-other-confined-settings-during-pandemic

Mothers on the Frontlines of a Pandemic Need More than Flowers
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-05-11
Daily Press Online The Free Lance-Star See article on original site More than 30 million U.S. workers are employed in industries that put them on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. They include grocery store clerks, nurses, cleaners, warehouse workers and bus drivers, among others. Nearly one-in-four frontline workers

The Shallow State
Marshall Sahlins | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
The CDC, Dr. Fauci, and other pandemic experts are sidelined in the midst of the plague. So are many scientists in the E.P.A. and other agencies charged with protecting the health and safety of the people. Government regulations designed for those purposes are cancelled, allowing free enterprise the profitable freedom to freely pollute the air…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/122659/

Trump Death Clock Creator Says Reckless Mishandling of COVID Must Be Quantified
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-11
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 activis…
truthout.org/video/trump-death-clock-creator-says-reckless-mishandling-of-covid-must-be-quantified/

Once Again, Congress Will Let Wall Street Pillage Main Street
Leonard C. Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
Over the last decade, Congress\'s approval ratings have hovered around the mid-teens or low 20s, reflecting the reality that our representatives in Washington, D.C., serve the needs of big donors while throwing an occasional rhetorical bone to the \"essential\" workers who actually make the country function. Congress\'s handling of the current crisis of the pandemic…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/once-again-congress-will-let-wall-street-pillage-main-street/

Bolsonaro Is Facilitating U.S. Intervention in Latin America
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-11
While most countries across the world implemented measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Brazil\'s President Jair Bolsonaro dismissed concerns of the spread and refused to consider measures to safeguard the population. So far Brazil has registered 53,000 cases and over 3,600 people have died from the virus. Scientists believe the spread in Brazil has reached over 1 million people. | In retaliation for suggesting health measures to avoid the pandemic spreading, Bo…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/11/bolsonaro-is-facilitating-us-intervention-in-latin-america/

Political Hope Rises
Radhika Desai | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
The COVID-19 pandemic appears to be peaking in the mostly Western countries worst affected so far, though it will continue to scythe down thousands for weeks to come. The virus could also return for a far worse second wave, and …
globalresearch.ca/political-hope-rises/5712440

Acknowledging Disorientation After COVID-19: Beyond Horizons of Fear and Doubt
Richard Falk | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
More than earlier crises of my lifetime, including the Great Depression, World War II, 9/11, the COVID-19 pandemic illuminates as never before, how precarious and uncertain is the future wellbeing, and possibly survival, of the human species. The concreteness, immediacy, …
globalresearch.ca/disorientation-after-covid-19-fear-doubt/5712420

Right wing on the defensive in Arizona elections
Joe Bernick | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-11
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 …
peoplesworld.org/article/right-wing-on-the-defensive-in-arizona-elections/

\'We are at war. Make no mistake\': WH official kicks anti-China rhetoric up a notch
rt.com | 2020-05-11
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.com/usa/488370-navarro-coronavirus-china-at-war/

US coronavirus death toll tops 80,000
rt.com | 2020-05-11
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.com/usa/488397-us-death-coronavirus-tally-eighty-thousand/

Radical Politics and Pandemic Nightmares
Henry Giroux | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
In this wide ranging interview with educators from the University of Barcelona , I analyze the Covid-19 crisis as part of more comprehensive crisis of politics and morality through what I label as pandemic pedagogy. I argue that in a time of crisis, the relationship between language and politics becomes more vivid, if not urgent…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/radical-politics-and-pandemic-nightmares/

\'Urgency to act\' for sustainable development, greater than ever as coronavirus pandemic continues
news.un.org | 2020-05-11
As COVID-19 upends lives and livelihoods across the planet, the UN on Monday held a wide-ranging policy discussion stressing a range of multilateral solutions to ease the pandemic, while also getting back on track towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1063742

\'European virus\': Cuomo goes all-in on Covid-19 language gymnastics in standoff with Trump
rt.com | 2020-05-11
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

How will coronavirus shape our response to climate change?>
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-11
The global response to the COVID-19 crisis could inform the fight against climate change, Imperial College London experts say.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197473/how-will-coronavirus-shape-response-climate

Vote Climate U.S. PAC Urges Americans to Vote Climate and Vote-by-Mail
commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/11/vote-climate-us-pac-urges-americans-vote-climate-and-vote-mail?cd-origin=rss

Planet of the Humans Backlash
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-11
The backlash may be more revealing than the film itself, but both inform us where we are at in the fight against climate change and ecological collapse. The environmental establishment\'s frenzied attacks against Planet of the Humans says a lot about its commitment to big money and technological solutions. A number of prominent individuals tried …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/planet-of-the-humans-backlash/

Studies Reveal Climate Tipping Points Could Be Here Much Sooner Than We Thought
Shanna Hanbury | commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
A coral reef in Indonesia. Coral reefs—especially Australia\'s Great Barrier Reef—have proven to be very sensitive to climate change. Now scientists are trying to determine the mechanisms for climate ecosystem tipping points, and how fast they will occur around the world. (Photo: HereIsTom on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ecosystem.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/11/studies-reveal-climate-tipping-points-could-be-here-much-sooner-we-thought?cd-origin=rss

College Faculty Are Speaking Out Against Billionaire Donors
Eleanor J. Bader | progressive.org | 2020-05-11
Resignations from a growing number of professors bring attention to the undue influence of deep-pocketed donors like Charles Koch.
progressive.org/dispatches/college-faculty-against-billionaire-donors-bader-200511/

The Cost of Big Pharma\'s COVID-19 Vaccine Will be Paid in Lives and in Billions of Dollars
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Big Pharma and its minions such as Anthony Fauci and Robert Redfield are determined to use Covid-19 to vaccinate us all at the expense our lives and pocketbooks. They are using the media, grant-dependent professionals, medical journals, and the presstitute …
globalresearch.ca/cost-big-pharma-covid-19-vaccine-paid-lives-billions/5712409

This Is Why You Can\'t Trust The Fact Checkers
Derrick Broze | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-11
For the last eight years I have worked as a writer, researcher, and investigative reporter for many well-known American independent media outlets. I have spent my time investigating digital surveillance technology, attacks on indigenous communities, and the overall growth of the government and corporate power. As someone working in this field, writing about topics which …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/censorship/this-is-why-you-cant-trust-the-fact-checkers/

Trump Admin Wants to Cut Social Security in Exchange for Direct COVID Payments
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-11
Suddenly concerned about the growing national debt now that corporations have secured access to trillions of dollars in Covid-19 bailout funds with little oversight, Trump administration officials are reportedly considering several proposals purportedly aimed at reducing government spending

Will COVID Crack America\'s Racist Egg?
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-11
In early May 2020, a former police officer living in Brunswick, Georgia, a rural town just north of the Florida state line, aided by his son, ambushed and killed a 25-year-old African American jogger. | This incident isn\'t unique, as we will see, but it tells a different story now than it would have at other times in America\'s violent history. | The weeks of lockdown across America, that and not just the mass deaths but the orchestrated campaign of wild conspiracy theories coming out of the failed and disgraced Trump White House, has led to what can only be described as a \"melt down.\" | Americans are buying guns…

Will COVID Crack America’s Racist Egg?

\'Arrest me\': Elon Musk DEFIES Covid-19 quarantine by reopening Tesla plant in California
rt.com | 2020-05-11
Elon Musk escalated his confrontation with California, reopening the Tesla car factory in Fremont in defiance of local officials and saying he is ready to be arrested for it, after critics called him callous and even racist. | Having complained over the weekend about being the only carmaker in the US still shuttered by the Covid-19 lockdown, Musk announced on Monday that Tesla is restarting production \"against Alameda County rules.\" | I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it onl…
rt.com/usa/488401-musk-arrest-california-covid-lockdown/

Macron Government Ending France\'s Coronavirus Lockdown Beginning this Monday
Alex Lantier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
In a televised address on Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and five other ministers confirmed that President Emmanuel Macron had given the order for an end to confinement and the reopening of the economy on May 11. The government\'s …
globalresearch.ca/macron-government-ending-coronavirus-lockdown-beginning-monday/5712417

Key points from the PM\'s address to the nation
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-11
After almost two months of lockdown, Boris Johnson has set out what he called \"the first sketch of a road map for reopening society\". The guidelines will apply in England only.Here, presented without comment, are the key points: | A new Covid Alert System is being set up determined mainly by the reinfection rate and the number of cases.The alert levels will be one to five and the higher the level, the tougher social distancing measures will have to be. The PM said the UK had been in Level Four but \"we are now in a position to begin to move in steps to Level Three\".From Monday, people who cannot work from home are…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/11/key-points-from-the-pms-address-to-the-nation/

Rush-hour commuters \'nervous\' after PM eases lockdown measures
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-11
Commuters have said they are worried about having to travel on busier trains as some returned to work following the easing of coronavirus lockdown measures.Passenger numbers remained low at Waterloo station

COVID-19 election question: Can absentee voting preserve democracy?
Michael Arney | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-11
peoplesworld.org/article/covid-19-election-question-can-absentee-voting-preserve-democracy/

Global Research: Breaking Down Divisions and Building Dialogue
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
On GlobalResearch.ca, the view points we put forth are not selected in the interest of pushing a specific narrative, but rather in breaking down divisions and building a dialogue. We publish pieces by a wide variety of specialists including journalists …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-breaking-down-divisions-and-building-dialogue/5712527

Patriotic Vaccines: The Divided Coronavirus Cause
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
When it comes to the politics of medicine and disease, the United States has always attempted to steal the limelight, while adding the now faded colouring of universal human welfare. In 1965, Washington pledged financial and technical support to the …
globalresearch.ca/vaccines-divided-coronavirus-cause/5712453

6 months after the civic-military coup in Bolivia, Evo Morales denounces setbacks
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-11
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales pointed out that \"fascism and racism have been reborn\" in Bolivia and that \"the de-facto government itself is promoting inequality\"
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/11/6-months-after-the-civic-military-coup-in-bolivia-evo-morales-denounces-setbacks/

The Botched Infiltration of Venezuela Leaves Guaidó Tainted Beyond Repair
Leonardo Flores | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-11
Given Guaidó\'s involvement, it is impossible for Washington to wash its hands of the plot. The Trump administration is responsible for giving him what little power he has, and therefore it is responsible for his actions.
mintpressnews.com/botched-coup-venezuela-leaves-juan-guaido-tainted-beyond-repair/267383/

An Irrational Fear of Predators Drives Utah Politics
Maximilian Werner | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
A couple months ago I went to the Utah Capitol to oppose House Bill 228 (the brainchild of state Rep. Casey Snyder), otherwise known as the Livestock Predators Removal Amendments. The bill was one of two designed to do what all predator-related bills are designed to do, which is to make it easier to kill…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/an-irrational-fear-of-predators-drives-utah-politics/

Covid-19 Is Forcing an Exodus From Peru\'s Cities
Musuk Nolte, The Nation, Magnum Foundation | thenation.com | 2020-05-11
Musuk Nolte, The Nation, Magnum Foundation Covid-19 Is Forcing an Exodus From Peru\'s Cities…
thenation.com/article/world/peru-coronavirus-covid-19/

On the Battleground of the Virus, The Fox Laughs Last
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-11
U.S. professor of history at John Hopkins University, Mike Vlahos, in a series of short interviews with John Batchelor, tells us how Coronavirus has become a fiery pivot, pushing different leaders in the U.S. to take existential stands on how to deal with this virus. With various separate American states insisting to pursue directly polarised paths: Mandated \'sheltering\' (the U.S. term for distancing) versus economic…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/11/on-the-battleground-of-the-virus-the-fox-laughs-last/

Boris Johnson just drew a line in the sand for class war
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2020-05-11
On 10 May, Boris Johnson gave a pre-recorded speech to the UK. This outlined the UK\'s next steps in the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. With no room for anyone to question anything, and without informing the devolved nations of the outcome, it pushed us from crisis to chaos. We\'re now supposed to \'stay alert\' rather than \'stay home\'. But the implications of this are terrifying,…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/05/11/boris-johnson-just-drew-a-line-in-the-sand-for-class-war/

Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus
Nanjala Nyabola | thenation.com | 2020-05-11
Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus…
thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-colonialism-africa/

UN issues \'wake-up call\': Don\'t sideline AIDS response during COVID-19 crisis
news.un.org | 2020-05-11
As the world continues to grapple with the coronavirus, decades of advances made in the battle against HIV are under threat, noted two UN agencies on Monday, point out that disruptions to treatment could cause hundreds of thousands of HIV-related deaths.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1063702

Patriotic Vaccines: The Divided Coronavirus Cause
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-11
When it comes to the politics of medicine and disease, the United States has always attempted to steal the limelight, while adding the now faded colouring of universal human welfare. In 1965, Washington pledged financial and technical support to the international effort to eradicate smallpox, though the initiative had initially been spurred by the Soviet …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/patriotic-vaccines-the-divided-coronavirus-cause/

Coronavirus \'not yet under control\' in Brazil, scientists warn
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-11
The coronavirus epidemic in Brazil is not yet under control according to a report from Imperial researchers.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197474/coronavirus-under-control-brazil-scientists-warn

London boroughs to collaborate on project to feed the vulnerable
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-11
A new project involving all 32 London boroughs will see food hubs across the capital come together to feed vulnerable residents. | The collaboration between the city\'s three largest food redistribution charities, The Felix Project, FareShare and City Harvest, will work to stock hubs before distributing food to local communities. | The project has been set up amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis which has seen many at risk individuals isolated and in need. | It comes as the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) said that foodbanks operating across the UK have seen a major rise in emergency food parcel distribution si…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/11/london-boroughs-to-collaborate-on-project-to-feed-the-vulnerable/

Johnson\'s \'change of emphasis\' completely ignores existing workplace safety concerns
Peadar O\'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-05-11
On 10 May, Boris Johnson addressed the British people with a coronavirus (Covid-19) update. He praised people\'s \"good sense\" for having supported the restrictions so far. But just over halfway through his address he said there will now be a \"change of emphasis\". This change means workers \"should be actively encouraged to go to work\" where…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/05/11/johnsons-change-of-emphasis-completely-ignores-existing-workplace-safety-concerns/

On the Battleground of the Virus, The Fox Laughs Last
Alastair Crooke | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-11
The story of the Coronavirus in the West exposes our hidden fragility of presuming upon life to be both secure

Pence Insists on No Masks at Public Meeting Despite His Staffer Testing Positive
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-11
On Friday evening, Katie Miller, the press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence (and spouse of Trump adviser Stephen Miller), tested positive for coronavirus. | The news sent shockwaves through Washington as it became clear that people close to the president and vice president were contracting the disease that has already spread across much of the country. (The day…
truthout.org/articles/pence-insists-on-no-masks-at-public-meeting-despite-his-staffer-testing-positive/

Trumka proposes universal federal jobs payments
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-11
WASHINGTON –Sticking to a here-and-now solution to coronavirus-caused joblessness, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka proposed the federal government guarantee paid employment

Botched Infiltration of Venezuela Leaves Guaidó Tainted Beyond Repair
Leonardo Flores | commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
The townspeople of Chuao, Venezuela, being honored for their role in the capture of eight mercenaries. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/chuao_bolivar.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/11/botched-infiltration-venezuela-leaves-guaido-tainted-beyond-repair?cd-origin=rss

Brazilian Interview with PCR Concerning Brazil\'s Economic Policy
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-11
There are long pauses on the questions, first given in Portuguese and then in English, that suggest the video is frozen. Apparently this is to accommodate slow readers, so just be patient. | Click the arrow and the interview will begin. | Brazilian Interview with PCR Concerning Brazil\'s Economic Policy…

Brazilian Interview with PCR Concerning Brazil’s Economic Policy

Philippines: 5 peasants killed by police and military in Sorsogon Massacre
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-11
On May 10 the Communist Party of the Philippines condemned the murder of five peasants by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP), in Sorsogon province. | According to the statement, \"The Party denounces the AFP and PNP for the killing of Jeric Vuno, Jerry Palanca, Robert Villafuerte, Raymundo Tañada and Jaime Tañada, who were all relatives and residents of Barangay Dolos. The defenseless victims were forcibly taken from their homes at around 5 a.m. last May 8, brought to a nearby river and summarily executed.\" | The military has attempted to justify the killings, claim…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/11/philippines-5-peasants-killed-police-and-military-sorsogon-massacre

Trump Judge Argues the Government Can Execute People Any Way It Wants
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-11
As we noted in April, President Donald Trump has appointed a staggering number of judges to the federal bench, including more circuit court judges than any president by this point in their tenure. | The success of these judicial nominees, it turns out, is in part attributable to cold, hard cash

Debunking Trump\'s Nonsense
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
Conspiracy theorists never let a crisis go to waste. When something truly terrible happens, the conspiracy theorist sets to work to determine the dark, hidden forces at work behind the scenes that have produced the crisis. Some people might see God or the Devil as the prime mover behind a catastrophe. Others throw up their…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/debunking-trumps-nonsense/

Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-11
counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/kevin-morby-and-waxahatchee/

Lab lies: U.S. continues disinformation campaign about Wuhan virus lab
Ian Goodrum | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-11
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. …
peoplesworld.org/article/lab-lies-u-s-continues-disinformation-campaign-about-wuhan-virus-lab/

Doctors Speak Out About COVID 19 & The Violent Suppression Of Your Rights
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-11
The only question, is whether We The People have the courage to stand for what we know to be right, or if we will allow ourselves to be scared into passively accepting the \"new normal,\" a locked down controlled society that was prepped for, planned out, and designed years ago. I for one, will never …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/censorship/doctors-speak-out-about-covid-19-violent-suppression-your-rights/

One Hospital System\'s Response to Covid-19? Union-Busting
P.E. Moskowitz | thenation.com | 2020-05-11
One Hospital System\'s Response to Covid-19? Union-Busting.
thenation.com/article/activism/union-busting-consultants-hospital/

The End of US Empire: Covid-19 Exposes Once-Great Superpower as Epic Failure
James Zogby | commondreams.org | 2020-05-11
The election of Donald Trump was the byproduct of our partisan dysfunction. (Photo: Matthew Busch/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_great_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/11/end-us-empire-covid-19-exposes-once-great-superpower-epic-failure?cd-origin=rss

In Haiti ICE is spreading COVID-19
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-05-11
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 . . . | Continue reading In Haiti ICE is spreading COVID-19 at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48501/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-haiti-ice-is-spreading-covid-19

From WWII to COVID-19 Denial
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-11
Donald Trump\'s apparent denial of the Soviet Union\'s role in defeating Nazi Germany will perhaps go down as the \"finest hour\" for this delusional president. But a practical consequence of such denial-mentality is America will lose the \"war\" against COVID-19. | On the occasion marking the 75th anniversary of victory over the Nazi Third Reich, the Trump White House made no mention of the Soviet Union\'s indisputable military achievement of vanquishing the German fascist regime, instead implying that the US and Britain were the sole victors. | Trump added for vainglorious good measure: \"The American spirit will alway…

From WWII to COVID-19 Denial

Boris Johnson shifts COVID-19 blame game to the public
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-11
By Rob Woodward

U.S. ratchets up Hybrid Warfare in Venezuela
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-05-11
Nino Pagliccia examines the recent mercenary incursion into the Venezuelan territory.
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Black prisoners win victory vs. racist officials
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-05-11
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

Changing the narrative in Lansing, Mich
Editor | workers.org | 2020-05-11
On May 7, a breath of fresh air entered Lansing, Mich., the first since ultrarightist gangs

Los fascistas hacen trabajo sucio para los jefes
Editor | workers.org | 2020-05-11
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. . . . | Continue reading Los fascistas hacen trabajo sucio para los jefes at Workers.org…
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