Washington D.C. legislature endorses limited rent relief, bars assistance to undocumented immigrants
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
The city\'s government left it up to representatives of the city\'s tourist industry to provide assistance to undocumented workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/rent-a18.html
Stuck Behind Bars, Inmates & Immigrants Are Sitting Ducks for COVID-19
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-18
$1.7T giveaway to millionaires tucked in CARES Act; Virus poses serious risk to detained immigrants; Activists call to empty jails amid crisis…
sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/202004181079005716-stuck-behind-bars-inmates–immigrants-are-sitting-ducks-for-covid-19/
Intensive CIA spying on Assange targeted his infant child
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
As the US government finalised its bogus charges against Assange, it oversaw dirty tricks operations targeting his partner and their infant child.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/assa-a18.html
Without a country in which to live, a field to plant, a love to cherish or a voice to sing, one is dead
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-04-18
Local communities have demonstrated remarkable generosity, but cannot cope anymore. National capacities are overwhelmed. The approaching lean season, coupled with the armed conflict and the COVID-19, will generate further dramatic situations and displacements of populations. The clock is ticking; we have little time left.
mronline.org/2020/04/18/without-a-country-in-which-to-live-a-field-to-plant-a-love-to-cherish-or-a-voice-to-sing-one-is-dead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=without-a-country-in-which-to-live-a-field-to-plant-a-love-to-cherish-or-a-voice-to-sing-one-is-dead
2020 Youth Activist Grant
Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-04-18
Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center | 1035 Carol Lane | Lafayette, CA 94549…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/17/18832457.php
Portland\'s Rental Crisis Created an Opening for Democratic Socialist Candidates
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-18
When tenant activist Margot Black had her first \"no-cause\" eviction in which she was forced out of her apartment simply because she was not bound by a lease, she was 19 and a single mother of a 6-month-old daughter. When she saw her second no-cause eviction in 2012, Portland, Oregon, was an even less hospitable place. Housing prices had soared as tech jobs came in, and Portland was branded as the next hip place for urban professionals to relocate to
2020 Art & Writing Challenge
Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-04-18
Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center | 1035 Carol Lane | Lafayette, CA 94549…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/17/18832456.php
COVID-19 and the Wasting Disease of Normalcy
Brian Terrell | zcomm.org | 2020-04-18
From his prison cell in a year of mass movements to end the war in Vietnam and mobilizations for nuclear disarmament, Daniel Berrigan diagnosed normalcy as a disease and labeled it an obstacle to peace…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-19-and-the-wasting-disease-of-normalcy/
2020 Art & Writing Challenge
Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-04-18
Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center | 1035 Carol Lane | Lafayette, CA 94549…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/17/18832456.php
Mexico Prohibits Cremation of People Killed by COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-18
Mexico\'s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador administration Friday prohibited the cremation of unclaimed bodies who died because of COVID-19. | RELATED: | Protests Follow Deaths at US Factories in Mexican Border Town | This decision obeys the Law on the Forced Disappearance and Search of Persons, which establishes that \"corpses or remains of persons…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Prohibits-Cremation-of-People-Killed-by-COVID-19-20200418-0002.html
Governance and Social Conflict in a Time of Pandemic
Cinzia Arruzza & Felice Mometti | zcomm.org | 2020-04-18
Source: Viewpoint Magazine On Monday March 29th, General Electric factory workers staged a protest against the thousands of layoffs announced by the company\'s management, demanding the reconversion of production and asking a simple question:…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/1032216/
Brazilian nurses strike over deadly conditions as COVID-19 deaths mount
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
This week, after a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases in Brazil, protests and work stoppage spread to hospitals and other health care units.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/braz-a18.html
\'Fire Fauci, let us work\': No social distancing as Alex Jones joins hundreds in rally against Covid-19 lockdown measures in Texas
rt.com | 2020-04-18
Texans flocked to the state\'s Capitol in Austin to protest Covid-19 lockdown measures, refusing to practice social distancing and cheering for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be fired by President Donald Trump. | In attendance at Saturday\'s \'You Can\'t Close America\' Rally were InfoWars founder Alex Jones and host Owen Shroyer, who led the crowd of some 200 people in chants against the mainstream media and officials like Fauci. | Shroyer, who referred to the doctor as \"fascist Fauci,\" asked the crowd: \"Do you think Anthony Fauci should be fired?\", before leading them in chants of \"Fire Fauci.\" | Lots of protest speakers s…
rt.com/usa/486227-alex-jones-coronavirus-austin-protest/
US right-wing protesters, supported by Trump, organize against stay-at-home orders
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-18
Different States in the United States are faced with threats of armed resistance from right-wing and conservative groups who are opposing measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. So far, Michigan and a few others States have had or are set to have thousands of protesters defying stay-at-home orders passed by their respective governments. Unsurprisingly, president Donald Trump has come out in support of such dangerous acts. | On April 17, president Donald Trump tweeted in support of these right-wing protests in the States which are led by Democratic governors. The tweets include content like \"LIBERATE MICHIGAN\",…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/18/us-right-wing-protesters-supported-by-trump-organize-against-stay-at-home-orders/
Trump tweets support for far-right protests against social distancing orders
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
Having announced his plan for the state-by-state reopening of the economy, Trump is seeking to mobilize his far-right base to press for a rapid lifting of barriers to corporate profit-making.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/trum-a18.html
#ClimateStrike: Virtual Protest Against Chase Bank to #Stop The Money Pipeline
350.org Bay Area & many others | indybay.org | 2020-04-18
Online protest actions…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/16/18832428.php
If Trump Thinks It\'s Safe for Followers to Gather at Protests, Why Won\'t He Attend One?
Robert Mackey | zcomm.org | 2020-04-18
From a very safe distance on Friday, Donald Trump urged his supporters to risk infection with the deadly coronavirus by attending in-person protests to \"liberate\" Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia from stay-at-home orders issued by their Democratic governors.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/if-trump-thinks-its-safe-for-followers-to-gather-at-protests-why-wont-he-attend-one/
Trump Plans for Economic Reopening While Protests Over Lockdown Grow
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-18
On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon & Lee Stranahan talked with guests about recent positive and negative news in the ongoing novel coronavirus crisis, the nature of organizing during the lockdown, and inquired into our country\'s economic foundations and political dichotomies.
sputniknews.com/radio_fault_lines/202004181079002081-trump-plans-for-economic-reopening-while-protests-over-lockdown-grow/
Venezuela Blasts Trump After Central Bank Assets Quietly Transferred to Guaido\'s Fed Account
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-18
The Trump administration quietly ordered the transfer of some $342 million in funds from a Venezuelan central bank account at Citibank to an account controlled by opposition leader and self-proclaimed Venezuelan \'president\' Juan Guaido at the New York branch of the US Federal Reserve.
sputniknews.com/latam/202004181079009570-venezuela-blasts-trump-after-central-bank-assets-quietly-transferred-to-guaidos-fed-account/
\"Gangster in the White House\"
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-04-18
Interview on COVID-19, WHO, China, Gaza and Global Capitalism…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/gangster-in-the-white-house/
Bill Gates and the Depopulation Agenda. Robert F. Kennedy Junior Calls for an Investigation
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-18
For over twenty years Bill Gates and his Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have been vaccinating foremost children by the millions in remote areas of poor countries, mostly Africa and Asia. Most of their vaccination program had …
globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-and-the-depopulation-agenda-robert-f-kennedy-junior-calls-for-an-investigation/5710021
COVID-19 May Exacerbate Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-18
Concern about the deepening of Afghanistan\'s humanitarian crisis is enhancing due to the number of COVID-19 cases, lack of tests to detect the disease, and political instability. | RELATED: | Taliban Delegation in Kabul for Prisoner Exchange Process | On Saturday, Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz reported on 27 new confirmed patients and 933 people infected in the country so far. | According to local outlet Tolo News, fear is increasing because of the lack of tests and other health…
telesurenglish.net/news/COVID-19-May-Exacerbate-Humanitarian-Crisis-in-Afghanistan-20200418-0003.html
Colombia: Not Even the Pandemic Halts Killing of Social Leaders
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-18
Colombia\'s National Agrarian Coordinator (CNA) denounced that social leader Teodomiro Sotelo was assassinated on Friday while working on his farm in the El Tambo municipality. | RELATED: | Latam: COVID-19 Puts Imprisoned Environmental Defenders at Risk | \"Armed individuals entered his property to murder him in front of his family and workers,\" local outlet El Colombiano reported and recalled that several farmers are migrating out of the area to avoid being new victims of violen…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Not-Even-the-Pandemic-Halts-Killing-of-Social-Leaders-20200418-0006.html
U.S. economy crumbles as millions of workers lose jobs
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-04-18
At least 17 million workers in the United States lost their jobs from the second week of March to the second week of April. That\'s 10 percent of the total workforce. The real number of workers without a job is higher, since the computer systems used to enroll workers in . . . | Continue reading U.S. economy crumbles as millions of workers lose jobs at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/47801/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-economy-crumbles-as-millions-of-workers-lose-jobs
Philadelphia failure to empty jails causes COVID-19 death
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2020-04-18
The first COVID-19 death in Philadelphia jails occurred on April 14. She was Yvonne Harris, a 48-year-old woman incarcerated at Riverside Correctional Facility. In the meantime, city judges have mocked the danger our incarcerated neighbors face and have only reduced the jail population by 13 percent in the past . . . | Continue reading Philadelphia failure to empty jails causes COVID-19 death at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/47797/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=philadelphia-failure-to-empty-jails-causes-covid-19-death
Evo Morales: Police Put Cochabamba Population\'s Health at Risk
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-18
Bolivia\'s former President Evo Morales Saturday denounced that the police entered the Cochabamba Department without taking due sanitary precautions and challenging the local population, which expelled several officers from the Shinahota Municipality on Thursday. | RELATED: | Bolivia Indigenous Denounce Añez for Discrimination | \"The Police have…
telesurenglish.net/news/Evo-Morales-Police-Put-Cochabamba-Populations-Health-at-Risk-20200418-0005.html
Bolsonaro Closes Brazil\'s Embassy and Consulates in Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-18
Amid a health crisis that has made Brazil the country with the largest number of COVID-19 cases in Latin America, President Jair Bolsonaro\'s administration closed its embassy and consulates in Venezuela on Friday. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro Wants Borders Reopened, Says Worth Risk | At least 38 people boarded in a Brazilian Air Force plane bound for Brasilia. Among the r…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolsonaro-Closes-Brazils-Embassy-and-Consulates-in-Venezuela-20200418-0004.html
Brazil\'s Bolsonaro Wants Borders Reopened, Says Worth Risk
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-18
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called Friday for the reopening of the country\'s borders, as he pushes to restart South America\'s largest economy. Still, he conceded he might be blamed if the new coronavirus outbreak worsens as a result. | RELATED: | Brazil\'s COVID-19 Denialist President Fired His Health Minister | Bolsonaro fired his health minister on Thursday after clashing with him over lockdown measures, which the president argues are overly damaging to the economy and…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazils-Bolsonaro-Wants-Borders-Reopened-Says-Worth-Risk-20200417-0017.html
99-year-old Veteran Raises Millions for UK\'s Health Workers
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-18
A 99-year-old war veteran has raised more than 21 million pounds (about 26 million U.S. dollars) for the National Health Service (NHS) by completing 100 laps of his garden. | RELATED: | New York Governor: Trump Is \'Passing Buck\' on Pandemic Response | With the aid of a walking frame, Tom Moore, a retired civil servant and Second World War veteran, had planned to do 100 laps of his garden in Bedfordshire, England, before his 100th birthday on April 30. | He finished the challenge…
telesurenglish.net/news/99-year-old-Veteran-Raises-Millions-for-UKs-Health-Workers-20200417-0018.html
At least 2 troopers killed in militant attack on paramilitary police in Indian-controlled Kashmir
rt.com | 2020-04-18
At least two paramilitary police have been killed by unknown assailants in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region, local media reported. The attackers fled the scene, prompting a manhunt. | Unidentified militants reportedly opened fire on a joint patrol of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and local police in the Sopore area of north Kashmir\'s Baramulla district on Saturday, wounding a number of troopers. | The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, where at least two CRPF personnel were pronounced dead on arrival. Other media reports indicate that the third trooper died at the hospital shortly afterwar…
rt.com/news/486217-police-killed-kashmir-india/
As US deaths soar, bipartisan back-to-work drive guarantees the explosive spread of pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
Trump and the political establishment are seeking to enforce a return to work despite the warnings of medical experts that the US is nowhere near prepared to reopen safely.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/viru-a18.html
Trump slams \'rude & nasty\' Dems admitting Covid-19 cooperation bad between parties
rt.com | 2020-04-18
Donald Trump slammed Democrats for a \"rude and nasty\" phone call with the vice president over the Covid-19 pandemic, and theorized nothing will satisfy them as they try to \"fool\" America in November\'s election. | \"No matter what you do for the Do Nothing Democrats, no matter how GREAT a job you are doing, they will only respond to their Fake partners in the Lamestream Media in the negative, even in a time of crisis,\" Trump tweeted on Saturday. | He added that his working relationship with Democrats during the Covid-19 pandemic has been \"even worse\" than before and revealed senators held a \"rude and nasty\" conf…
rt.com/usa/486230-trump-coronavirus-dems-rude-nasty/
Connecting Patients: A different kind of grief in these times
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-18
Grief is the natural reaction to loss. Grief is both a universal and a personal experience. Individual experiences of grief vary and are influenced by the nature of the loss. During this time of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been and continues to be much loss. And different definitions of grief are being revealed. The …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/connecting-patients-a-different-kind-of-grief-in-these-times/
Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Critical care units prepare for COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-18
An intensive care unit (ICU) is a special unit in a hospital where patients who are very ill can be under constant supervision by their health care team. The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed ICU and critical care units in hot spots where the virus had spread widely. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Daniel Brown, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-critical-care-units-prepare-for-covid-19/
Someone fixed the care worker badge for Matt Hancock, and it\'s damning
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-04-18
Matt Hancock\'s care worker badge hasn\'t exactly gone down well. People have criticised the health secretary\'s attempt to acknowledge the social care sector during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. But someone decided the badge needed a reworking
Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-18
After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it\'s easy to see how epidemiology came next.
mronline.org/2020/04/18/decades-of-science-denial-related-to-climate-change-has-led-to-denial-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=decades-of-science-denial-related-to-climate-change-has-led-to-denial-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic
Australian ruling elite seizes on pandemic to demand harsh economic restructuring
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
Governments and big business are using the COVID-19 crisis to accelerate the decades-long assault on social spending and workers\' jobs, wages and conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/rest-a18.html
\'Journos like everyone else\': CNN\'s Brian Stelter goes on Twitter Covid-19 breakdown
rt.com | 2020-04-18
CNN host Brian Stelter claimed through Twitter that he \"hit a wall,\" \"crawled in bed\" and \"cried for our pre-pandemic lives,\" but many aren\'t buying into the Covid-19 breakdown. | \"Disturbed by the [government\'s] shortcomings\" and \"dismayed by political rhetoric that bears no resemblance to reality,\" Stelter says it was all too much to bear for him on Friday night. | The journo cried \"tears that have been waiting a month to come out\" over worries about \"friends who are losing jobs; kids who are missing school; and senior citizens who are living in fear.\" | The \'Reliable Sources\' host said on Saturday he was mo…
rt.com/usa/486232-brian-stelter-breakdown-coronavirus-twitter/
Intl. NGOs urge Bahrain to release prisoners amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-18
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA)
142 Iranian students, citizens return to home from Azerbaijan amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-18
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA)
When to seek emergency care during COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-18
In an effort to reduce the burden on hospitals due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to lower the risk of disease transmission, people are asked not to go to emergency rooms if they think they may have COVID-19 symptoms but otherwise feel okay. Instead, they\'re asked to call their primary care provider to discuss their …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/when-to-seek-emergency-care-during-covid-19-pandemic/
As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, States Are Failing Incarcerated People
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-18
On April 6, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order allowing \"medically vulnerable\" incarcerated people to be temporarily released on medical furlough for the duration of the state\'s disaster proclamation. Furloughs are typically temporary releases from prison, usually for no more than 14 days. Pritzker\'s executive order extends the order indefinitely during the pandemic; it is unclear whe…
truthout.org/articles/as-coronavirus-spreads-through-prisons-states-are-failing-incarcerated-people/
Positive responses to the coronavirus pandemic could be a sign of the communities to come
Peadar O\'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-04-18
Amidst the tragedy and lockdown of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, people have started discussing changes occurring across the UK. In addition to the work being done by frontline staff in the NHS, local people are responding in their communities. | Such efforts include helping people forced to self-isolate to get food essentials and prescriptions. Some projects already underw…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/04/18/positive-responses-to-the-coronavirus-pandemic-could-be-a-sign-of-the-communities-to-come/
Cash for Clunkers 2.0? Car industry will need incentives to help recovery, analysts tell Boom Bust
rt.com | 2020-04-18
Many auto majors are reopening their facilities after long shutdowns triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, but the demand for cars might not pick up as quickly as they hope amid a dire economic situation. | \"Believe me, they want to sell cars and there\'s gonna be incentives to get these cars sold because people are gonna be getting check stimulus around the world. And they\'re hoping and praying that they are going to use that to purchase a vehicle,\" auto industry expert Lauren Fix told RT\'s Boom Bust. | However, the $1,200 checks the US government provided as part of its massive program to keep the economy af…
rt.com/business/486212-car-sector-hard-recovery/
The pandemic, profits and the capitalist justification of suffering and death
wsws.org | 2020-04-18
For the financial-corporate oligarchy, the pandemic has been viewed, above all else, as an economic crisis. Its principal concern from the start was not the potential loss of life but the destabilization of the financial markets, the disruption of the process of profit extraction, and, of course, a substantial decline in the personal wealth of the members of the oligarchy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/18/pers-a18.html
Iran, Turkey interior ministers discuss coronavirus pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-18
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA)
Flights bring home Iranians from Oman amid coronavirus pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-18
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA)
Trump slams \'rude & nasty\' Dems admitting Covid-19 cooperation bad between parties
rt.com | 2020-04-18
Donald Trump slammed Democrats for a \"rude and nasty\" phone call with the vice president over the Covid-19 pandemic, and theorized nothing will satisfy them as they try to \"fool\" America in November\'s election. | \"No matter what you do for the Do Nothing Democrats, no matter how GREAT a job you are doing, they will only respond to their Fake partners in the Lamestream Media in the negative, even in a time of crisis,\" Trump tweeted on Saturday. | He added that his working relationship with Democrats during the Covid-19 pandemic has been \"even worse\" than before and revealed senators held a \"rude and nasty\" conf…
rt.com/usa/486230-trump-coronavirus-dems-rude-nasty/
Mayo Clinic responds to COVID-19 financial impact
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-18
Mayo Clinic staff are doing extraordinary work, leading in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are proud of, and committed to, our staff and our communities as they come together to fight this global health crisis. Mayo Clinic is facing unprecedented challenges as a result of these circumstances, including a financial impact that requires significant …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-responds-to-covid-19-financial-impact/
Iran, Turkey interior ministers discuss coronavirus pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-18
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA)