Colombia\'s great coronavirus exodus
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
After years of receiving foreigners, from tourists and immigrants to refugees, the coronavirus pandemic abruptly reversed this trend and triggered a mass exodus from Colombia. The most dramatic migration is…
colombiareports.com/colombias-great-coronavirus-exodus/
Why did the World Health Organization wait until March to declare a global pandemic?
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-29
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO\'s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/29/why-did-the-world-health-organization-wait-until-march-to-declare-a-global-pandemic/
Why Did the World Health Organization Wait Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic?
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO\'s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-did-the-world-health-organization-wait-until-march-to-declare-a-global-pandemic/
What are the underlying transmission patterns of COVID-19 outbreak? An age-specific social contact characterization
Yang Liu, Zhonglei Gu, Shang Xia, Benyun Shi, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Yong Shi, Jiming Liu | thelancet.com | 2020-04-29
With an in-depth characterization of age-specific social contact-based transmission, the retrospective and prospective situations of the disease outbreak, including the past and future transmission risks, the effectiveness of different interventions, and the disease transmission risks of restoring normal social activities, are computationally analyzed and reasonably explained. The conclusions drawn from the study not only provide a comprehensive explanation of the underlying COVID-19 transmission patterns in China, but more importantly, offer the social contact-based risk analysis methods that can readily be appl…
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30098-5/fulltext?rss=yes
Guatemalans Stage a Funeral Procession to Protest
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
After staging a funeral procession through the streets of Guatemala City on Tuesday, social activists and workers came together in the Constitution Square to denounce the poor management of the health emergency by President Alejandro Giammattei administration. | RELATED: | Guatemala: President Giammattei Reaches 100 Days in Office | \"Basic services were c…
telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemalans-Stage-a-Funeral-Procession-to-Protest-20200429-0001.html
\'Coronavirus used as excuse to roll back Colombia\'s peace process and democracy\'
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
President Ivan Duque and his far-right party are using the coronavirus to cover up \"assaults\" on Colombia\'s peace process while promoting authoritarianism, the country\'s peace movement told the United Nations…
colombiareports.com/coronavirus-used-as-excuse-to-roll-back-colombias-peace-process-and-democracy/
Cuba: Interferon\'s Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Confirmed
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
Cuban scientific authorities confirmed this week that the use of Interferon to treat COVID-19 patients was indeed effective. | RELATED: | French NGO Nominates Cuban Medical Brigades For Nobel Peace Prize | Eulogio Pimentel Vazquez, President of the Cuban Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), affirmed that the Interferon application complies with Cuban Health Ministry (Minsap) protocols. Pimentel stated that it is part of a patients\' treatment but not for those in…
telesurenglish.net/news/cuba-interferons-effectiveness-against-covid19-confirmed-20200429-0002.html
Chilean police repress a peaceful protest in Santiago, detain 30
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-29
On April 27, the Chilean national police force, the Carabineros, violently repressed a peaceful protest at the Dignity Plaza in the capital Santiago. The protest was called for by several social organizations against the Carabineros on their 93rd anniversary and against the right-wing government led by President Sebastián Piñera. | Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of Chileans, wearing face masks and maintaining social distance, gathered at the iconic Dignity Plaza, to express their rejection of the Carabineros, on their 93rd anniversary. The protesters expressed their repudiation of the police force by banging…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/29/chilean-police-repress-a-peaceful-protest-in-santiago-detain-30/
Let Prisoners Go During COVID-19 pandemic
Jesse Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
Across the United States and across the world, prisoners are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. Overcrowded facilities, shortages of food and medicine, and totally inadequate testing expose prisoners who are disproportionately poor and afflicted with prior conditions that render them vulnerable to the disease. Prisoners increasingly are protesting their conditions, objecting to being…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/let-prisoners-go-during-covid-19-pandemic/
A Different Kind of COVID-19 Protest
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
Amidst a deadly pandemic set to kill millions of people it is hard not to become reactionary and short-sighted. The coronavirus for all intents and purposes is the new Trump for the libs. On the one hand a force that remains criminally underrated in its capacity for destruction despite its overwhelming popularity and attention from…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/a-different-kind-of-covid-19-protest/
April 25, 2020: Nationwide Cancel Rents Protests
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
We face a second rent day, May 1, when at least one third of renters nationwide will not be able to pay the rent due to the pandemic lockdown. Yet no governor, Democrat or Republican, has demanded that the rent be cancelled since the renters who live from paycheck to paycheck face immediate eviction when the lockdown ends as they cannot pay any back rent.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/27/18832659.php
Wild in the Streets? Mayday 1971
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
During the last week of April and the first few days of May in 1971, tens of thousands of US residents protested in the streets of Washington, DC. Their goal was to force an immediate and complete withdrawal of all US forces from Southeast Asia. Although they did not accomplish their goal, they did force…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/wild-in-the-streets-mayday-1971/
Your Freedoms Don\'t Have to be Muzzled Just Because You\'re Wearing a Mask
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
\"If 2019 was the year of the street protest, of tear gas and rubber bullets, 2020 might be the year the street protest died, or perhaps fell into a deep sleep, and went online.\"–Journalist Christopher Miller | Despite all appearances …
globalresearch.ca/your-freedoms-dont-have-muzzled-because-youre-wearing-mask/5711198
Controversies About Covid-19, Biotech Safety & US China Rivalry with Sam Husseini
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
ournalist Sam Husseini with The Institute of Public Accuracy discusses the growing controversies about where Covid-19 came from, what it is and the issue of bio-tech safety and biological warfare.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/28/18832675.php
Coronavirus Capitalism and \"Exceptional\" America
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
United States capitalism system was already on the verge of a major recession before COVID-19 hit. All the classic signs were there: absurdly inflated P/E ratios s (an absurdly inflated stock market), massively deb-leveraged corporations, giant consumer and student debt, savage economic inequality (so extreme that the top tenth of the U.S. upper 1 percent had more wealth than the nation\'s bottom percent), tens of millions living just one inadequate paycheck away from being unable to meet basic living expenses , and more. If the virus hadn\'t broken that camel\'s back, something else would have done the job, albeit…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/coronavirus-capitalism-and-exceptional-america/
Bernie Sanders and the Future of the Movement
James L Cowan | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/25/18832641.php
Will the Coronavirus Change the World? On Gramsci\'s \'Interregnum\' and Zizek\'s Ethnocentric Philosophy
Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion:…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/will-the-coronavirus-change-the-world-on-gramscis-interregnum-and-zizeks-ethnocentric-philosophy/
Trump orders meatpacking plants to remain open, as coronavirus sickens thousands of workers
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
Trump\'s executive order is aimed squarely at shielding the profits of Tyson Foods and other corporate firms, not at defending the food supply chain or the safety of workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/meat-a29.html
Capitalism must go! Celebrate May Day 2020!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-29
May 1 is International Workers Day. It is a day to celebrate the accomplishments of our class and to look to the future. We have real challenges in front of us. The corporate elite – the monopoly capitalists, who rule this country – can\'t do anything right. They are mesmerized by profit and short-term gain. The same goes for their political representatives in the White House and Congress. Tens of thousands of people who could have lived have perished in the pandemic. Capitalism has once again shown itself to be a failed system, and on May Day 2020, we stand committed to ending the reign of this criminal system.
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/4/29/capitalism-must-go-celebrate-may-day-2020
KPFA LSB Secretary Wofley\'s Effort To Cancel Local Station Board Meeting
Follow The Bylaws Committee | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
KPFA Local Station Board Secretary Carol Wolfley in alliance with the losers on the Local Station Board in the Pacifica corporate bylaw changes is now cancelling KPFA Local Station Board meetings. The supporters of the coup at WBAI and the corporate bylaws that were voted down by two to one are now flagrantly violating the bylaws by refusing to have meetings for many months. This allows the management of KPFA to operate without any oversight or transparency with the elected station board.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/25/18832642.php
UN genocide prevention chief looking into Colombia\'s mass killing of rights defenders
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
The United Nations\' genocide prevention chief wants to visit Colombia while looking into the ongoing mass killing of human rights defenders, community leaders and demobilized guerrillas. The UN\'s Special Adviser…
colombiareports.com/un-genocide-prevention-chief-looking-into-colombias-mass-killing-of-rights-defenders/
Colombia\'s southeast in crisis as coronavirus breaks out and promised medical aid is missing
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
The government of Colombia\'s southeastern Amazonas province urged for help on Tuesday after a coronavirus outbreak almost instantly collapsed its healthcare system. The National Health Institute (INS) reported that the…
colombiareports.com/colombias-southeast-in-crisis-as-coronavirus-breaks-out-and-promised-medical-aid-is-missing/
Turkey\'s lack of coop. with Iran in road transport sector criticized
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)
Turkey\'s TIKA donates personal care items for Rohingya
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), a state-run aid body, donated 5,000 personal care packages for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh\'s camps.The distribution run through Wednesday starting on Saturday in various camps set up in the southern Cox\'s Bazar district, TIKA\'s Dhaka office said in a statement on Wednesday.\"COVID-19 affects Rohingya refugees just as it affects the whole world. TIKA has also not forgotten the Rohingya refugees and has distributed cleaning supplies to help them fight the coronavirus,\" said Ismail Gundogdu, the agency\'s Bangladesh coordinator.The package included produ…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkeys-tika-donates-personal-care-items-for-rohingya-3518234
Riot erupts at coronavirus-hit prison in Sierra Leone
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
Smoke billowed from the central prison in Sierra Leone\'s capital and gunfire could be heard from nearby streets on Wednesday after a riot broke out following the confirmation of a coronavirus case there, a Reuters reporter said.Inmates at Pademba Road Prison had earlier set some buildings on fire in a protest that police and security forces were subsequently able to quell, Information Minister Mohamed Rahman Swaray told reporters.\"There are casualties, but these are early days. When the dust settles we will be able to give you a more comprehensive account,\" Swaray said in a video streamed online.The prison was r…
yenisafak.com/en/world/riot-erupts-at-coronavirus-hit-prison-in-sierra-leone-3518237
Arab League warns against escalation in Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
The Arab League on Wednesday warned of Lebanon\'s \"slide into the unknown\" following bloody clashes between the army and protesters. | At least one protestor died and a dozen others injured in clashes in Tripoli, the country\'s second largest city, late Monday.Anger over the crash of Lebanon\'s national currency that sent food prices soaring led to street violence. Protests were witnessed in the capital Beirut, and the city of Sidon as well. The Arab League, in a statement, expressed its deep concern regarding \"the accelerating developments on the Lebanese scene.\"\"There is a hope that the wisdom of the army\'s leader…
yenisafak.com/en/world/arab-league-warns-against-escalation-in-lebanon-3518236
US teachers\' unions vow action against early reopening
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
Major teachers\' unions in the US are gearing up to call for strikes or major protests if states reopen schools without taking proper precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic.The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and The National Education Association (NEA), the nation\'s two biggest teachers\' unions, told Politico news outlet Tuesday that they will not remain silent when it comes to student safety.AFT President Randi Weingarten said schools need funding to implement public health measures, including personal protective equipment, to prevent possible exposure to the virus.If schools reopen without proper safet…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-teachers-unions-vow-action-against-early-reopening-3518235
Two Policemen Injured in Stone Pelting by Migrant Workers at Top Indian IT Institute in Hyderabad
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-29
New Delhi (Sputnik): In March, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of poor migrants left bigger cities on foot to return to their homes. States were instructed to take care of daily wagers wherever they were stuck.
sputniknews.com/india/202004291079133071-two-policemen-injured-in-stone-pelting-by-migrant-workers-at-top-indian-it-institute-in-hyderabad/
Malaysian activists say \'let Rohingya boats land\'
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-29
Healthcare Refugees & migrants Alex SalmonIssue 1263 Malaysia COVID-19 Rohingya refugeesApril 29, 2020A boat carrying 200 Rohingy…
greenleft.org.au/content/malaysian-activists-let-rohingya-boats-land
New book gives eyewitness acount of Hong Kong protests
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-29
Democracy Alex SalmonIssue 1263 China Hong KongApril 29, 2020City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong | By Anthony Daripan | Scribe Publications, 2020 | 320pp, $35 | \"Heung gong jan, gaa jau!\" (Hong Kongers, add oil) is a rallying cry that could be translated to mean \"Go…
greenleft.org.au/content/new-book-gives-eyewitness-acount-hong-kong-protests
Russia slams US maximum pressure policy against Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)
Iran to give slap in face to any violator of its interests, territorial waters
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)
PG islands to be converted into residential properties
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)
Global arms spending tops $1.9 trillion as fight against COVID-19 is starved of resources
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
The continued spending of trillions on arms and war amid the present pandemic represents a crime against humanity.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/mili-a29.html
Iranian short film wins Jury award at Italian filmfest
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)
Death: A Simple Idea With A Powerful Punch
Edward Curtin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-29
Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality any of us have experienced, it is the most frightening idea there is and also quite simple. It is the ultimate unknown. It has always haunted human beings, whether consciously or unconsciously. It lies at the root of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/death-a-simple-idea-with-a-powerful-punch/
Demanding Women: Quarintine Conversations About Gun Violence w/ Sen. Elizabeth Warren
MDAEFG | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
Facebook livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/28/18832670.php
The spoils of playing war
Marzena Zukowska | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
Video games play a key role in sustaining the global military-industrial complex…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-spoils-of-playing-war/
The U.S. aims at Greenland, targets the Arctic
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-04-29
By G. Dunkel and Paddy Colligan The United States, even in the midst of a pandemic, doesn\'t want to relax its imperialist exploits in the Arctic. Global warming is proceeding more rapidly in the Arctic than in any other region of the world. As it proceeds, resources, until recently buried . . . | Continue reading The U.S. aims at Greenland, targets the Arctic at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/48000/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-u-s-aims-at-greenland-targets-the-arctic
The British Military Information War Waged on Their Own Population
Mike Robinson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Last Wednesday, during the daily UK Government Coronavirus livestream, the head of the British Army, General Sir Nick Carter, bragged: | We\'ve been involved with the Cabinet Office Rapid Response Unit, with our 77th Brigade helping to quash rumours | …
globalresearch.ca/the-british-military-information-war-waged-on-their-own-population/5711223
NYC mayor blasted for \'anti-Semitism\' after threatening to arrest Jews for flouting Covid-19 distancing rules at rabbi\'s funeral
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A tightly-packed funeral procession of Orthodox Jews attracted the ire of Bill de Blasio, but netizens had something to say about the mayor\'s own distancing policy and said his outburst had \"invited anti-Semitism.\" | The New York City mayor tweeted his anger at members of Brooklyn\'s Jewish community who gathered on Tuesday night for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz. \"My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,\" he wrote. | Photos of the procession were circulated in the media, with many of the participants visibly defying social distancing rules, w…
rt.com/usa/487184-de-blasio-coronavirus-jews/
Trump and McConnell Aren\'t Waging War on COVID. They\'re Waging War on Us
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
Trump has been treating the delivery of federal aid to the states like his own personal spoils system: rewarding loyalty, punishing critics, and demanding to be praised for doing his job whenever he actually does it, but especially when he doesn\'t…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-and-mcconnell-arent-waging-war-on-covid-theyre-waging-war-on-us/
New Humanitarian Crisis Brewing in Yemen as Outbreak Looms: UN
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
The United Nations (U.N.) warned Tuesday against a worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã. They said there was \"a very real probability\" that the new coronavirus is already circulating undetected in the war-torn country. | RELATED: Yemen\'s Houthis Seize Strategic Northern City: Officials | \"There is now a very real probability that the virus has been circulating…
telesurenglish.net/news/New-Humanitarian-Crisis-Brewing-in-Yemen-as-Outbreak-Looms-UN-20200428-0024.html
2 Iranian filmmakers receive awards at European Independent Film Fest
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)
WATCH Russian Tu-160 bombers shadowed by NATO jets in cat-and-mouse game over Baltic Sea
rt.com | 2020-04-29
Flying a routine mission over neutral Baltic waters, a pair of Tu-160s were approached by NATO fighter jets which swarmed so close to the Russian planes that their crew could easily see the small roundels on their chasers\' wings. | A one-minute video clip, released by Russia\'s Defense Ministry, shows the two Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic bombers
Massive global crime syndicate in UK operates with impunity
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-29
By Rob Woodward
COVID-19 Means a Systemic Human Development Crisis, UNDP Warns
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Wednesday warned of the \"enormous differences\" in the countries\' capabilities to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, which is not only a global health emergency but also a systemic human development crisis. | RELATED: | Sub-Saharan Africa Won\'t Be Spared in Health, Economic Crisis: IMF | \"It is a systemi…
telesurenglish.net/news/COVID-19-Means-a-Systemic-Human-Development-Crisis-UNDP-Warns-20200429-0004.html
Go battle Covid-19 at home! Chinese Navy \'expels US warship from territorial waters\'
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A US warship was \"expelled\" from disputed South China Sea waters after Beijing\'s navy scrambled fighter jets and naval assets to escort it away, accusing Washington of \"provocative\" actions at sea. | The USS \'Barry,\' a guided missile destroyer, \"trespassed\" into Beijing\'s territorial waters near the disputed Xisha Islands
Are \"Temporary Roads\" Ecologically Invisible?
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
I recently had a representative of one of the \"conservation groups\" in the Greater Yellowstone area tell me that they supported logging/thinning on the Custer Gallatin National Forest because the agency was mostly accessing the timber by way of \"temporary\" roads. What this fellow conservationist appears to ignore or is unaware of is that…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/are-temporary-roads-ecologically-invisible/
The British Military Information War Waged on Their Own Population
Mike Robinson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Last Wednesday, during the daily UK Government Coronavirus livestream, the head of the British Army, General Sir Nick Carter, bragged: | We\'ve been involved with the Cabinet Office Rapid Response Unit, with our 77th Brigade helping to quash rumours | …
globalresearch.ca/the-british-military-information-war-waged-on-their-own-population/5711223