Alan Macleod (2020-05-13). Wall Street Will Likely Be the Only Winners in the Pandemic Housing Crisis. mintpressnews.com 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.

Alan Macleod (2020-05-13). American Weapons Manufacturers Are Thriving Even as the US Economy Suffers. mintpressnews.com The economy has crashed. A nationwide pandemic that has (officially) claimed some 84,000 Americans has also resulted in an estimated

Vijay Prashad (2020-05-13). The U.S. Military is hell-bent on trying to overpower China. mronline.org 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.

teleSUR (2020-05-13). Russia Ready to Assist the US in the Taliban Peace Agreement. telesurenglish.net Russia\'s RELATED: | \"We salute the agreement, although we warn of the importance of involving neighbors more actively so that thei…

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-13). The Longterm Social Impacts from Economic Collapse and COVID-19 Outbreaks. globalresearch.ca Economic collapse that\'s harming most ordinary people in the US, West, and elsewhere — that\'s likely to be long-lasting — is far more serious than numbers of COVID-19 infections and their aftermath. | Hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses …

South Front (2020-05-13). A Close Look at Efforts of Pro-NATO Propaganda Units Behind the Scenes of South Front Censorship. globalresearch.ca 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. (

Denijal Jegiƒá (2020-05-13). In banning Hezbollah, Germany responds to far-right, U.S. and Israeli pressure — not any security threat. thegrayzone.com Hezbollah has never been charged with any crimes in Germany nor does it have an official presence in the country….

Rima Najjar (2020-05-13). The \"Zionist Virus\" and the Future of Palestine. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Staff (2020-05-13). Don\'t Expect to See Trump\'s Tax Returns Before the Election. truthout.org 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…

Ramzy Baroud (2020-05-13). From Lebanon to Syria, the Arab World is Failing Palestinian Refugees. mintpressnews.com 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 Many were ta…

Andrew Korybko (2020-05-13). Soros Thinks That Germany Is A Greater Threat To His Plans Than COVID, Trump, Or China. thealtworld.com 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…

Staff (2020-05-13). Headlines for May 13, 2020. democracynow.org Dr. Anthony Fauci Warns Senators Reopening Too Soon Will Cause \"Suffering and Death\", House Democratic Leaders Unveil New $3 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package, Tesla CEO Elon Musk Defies Lockdown Order, Reopens California Auto Plant, L.A. Extends Lockdown for 3 Months as Cal State Cancels In-Person Fall Classes, CDC Estimates 5,000+ More New York City Coronavirus Deaths Than Officially Reported, Progressive Lawmakers Call on World Bank, IMF to Cancel Poor Countries\' Debts, Brazil Records Its Highest Daily COVID-19 Death Toll, London Transit Worker Dies After Man Claiming to Have COVID-19 Spits on Her, Aide to R…

Staff (2020-05-13). Naomi Klein: Healthcare Industry Sees \"Potential Bonanza\" of Profits in COVID-19 Crisis. democracynow.org 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.\"

Staff (2020-05-13). Screen New Deal: Naomi Klein on How Companies Like Google Plan to Profit in High-Tech COVID Dystopia. democracynow.org 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 — and how the future we\'re being rushed into could transform our lives into a \"living laboratory for a permanent — and highly profitable — no-touch future.\" She joins us to discuss what she found, and says, \"I think we\'re going to see very incomplete so-called solutions … that massively benefit private tech interests.\"

Ted Rall (2020-05-13). We Need a Centralized Medical System Too. counterpunch.org 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

Jesse Jackson (2020-05-13). The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery—And Our Continuing Terror. commondreams.org 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 …

WSWS (2020-05-13). Jeremy Corbyn discovers the class struggle—and opposes it. wsws.org 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.\"

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

Staff (2020-05-13). Trump Administration Won\'t Guarantee Universal Access to COVID-19 Vaccine. truthout.org 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…

RT (2020-05-13). Oops! FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi diplomat who helped 9/11 hijackers after years of \'national security\' stonewalling. rt.com 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 — at which point the Justice Department withdrew the filing, refusing to comment on how the mistake had been made. | Also on rt.

RT (2020-05-13). \'Summer cancelled\': Los Angeles County to extend stay-at-home order another 3 MONTHS, stoking fears of civil unrest. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Assange\'s extradition: September 7 set for resumption of delayed hearing, WikiLeaks says. rt.com \"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 (2020-05-13). \'They will not silence us\': Michigan activists undeterred after Facebook removes anti-lockdown group with 380,000 members. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Lifting lockdowns may cause new Covad-19 spike, but now we know how to respond — WHO envoy to RT. rt.com Countries should be able to swiftly identify and quarantine coronavirus hotspots instead of putting their whole societies on lockdown, but people must accept this \'new reality\' for it to work, said WHO\'s envoy to Russia. | \"I do believe that there might be a surge [in Covid-19 cases], but we\'ll be able to respond to it much quicker, having all the experience that we\'ve got, unfortunately, over the last four months,\" Dr Melita Vujnovic, who represents the World Health Organization in Russia, told RT when asked about the impact of the gradual lifting of lockdowns — that has begun in many countries — on…

RT (2020-05-13). Beijing denounces \'immoral\' US Senate bill threatening China with sanctions over Covid-19. rt.com 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…

Denis Campbell (2020-05-13). Lockdown Will Kill an Additional 18,000 Cancer Patients That Wouldn\'t Have Died Otherwise, Cancer Doctors Calculate. anti-empire.com 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. |

Peter Hitchens (2020-05-13). The Strangling of the Economy Does Threaten the NHS, Life and Health — According to the Government That Strangled It. anti-empire.com For more than six weeks I have been abused and smeared as someone who cares more about money than life, because I have warned that the smashing of the economy by the government was a major threat to the NHS which it claims to be protecting, as well as a general danger to lives and health. | Now, in Paragraph 1.1 of the government\'s new document on \'rebuilding \' the country after smashing it up, you may find the government\'s own admission that I was and am in fact absolutely right: \'The longer the virus affects the economy, the greater the risks of long-term scarring and permanently lower economic activity, with…

RT (2020-05-13). Row erupts between BoJo and Labour, as Covid-19 guidance saying care homes \'unlikely\' to become infected re-emerges. rt.com 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)

Staff (2020-05-13). The Health Care Industry Could Profit From the COVID-19 Crisis. truthout.org 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…

Julia Conley, staff writer (2020-05-13). Vowing to Be \'Fully Accountable\' to Movement, Ocasio-Cortez Joins Biden\'s Climate Crisis Task Force. commondreams.org 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 …

Mark Gruenberg (2020-05-13). Democrats\' $3 trillion stimulus includes hazard pay, PPE; Republicans say no. peoplesworld.org 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 …

PAI (2020-05-13). Beep! Beep! Union car caravan to demand Vegas casinos open safely. peoplesworld.org 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 …

RT (2020-05-13). Swedish PM says face masks for Covid-19 offer \'false sense of security\' to wearers. rt.com 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…

Janine Jackson (2020-05-13). \'Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics\' – CounterSpin interview with Ricardo Salvador on the coronavirus food crisis. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed the Union of Concerned Scientists\' Ricardo Salvador about the coronavirus food crisis for the Media…

Tim Libretti (2020-05-13). We call frontline workers \"heroes,\" but do we value them like heroes? peoplesworld.org 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, …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-13). Violent evictions in Bogotá, Colombia amid the coronavirus pandemic. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

RT (2020-05-13). UK\'s Health Ministry says confirmed Covid-19 death toll has risen by 494 to 33,186. rt.com 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…

Kenneth Surin (2020-05-13). \"Making It Up As They Go Along:\" Boris Johnson and COVID-19. counterpunch.org 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).

RT (2020-05-13). Lockdown\'s silver lining? NYC marks record-breaking 58 straight days without pedestrian deaths. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Poland to reopen hairdressers, restaurants on May 18 as \'epidemic contained to some extent\'. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Czech Republic could open borders with Austria, Slovakia in June — Prague. rt.com The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria could open their mutual borders as soon as June 8, allowing residents of the three countries to travel between them, PM Andrej Babis said in Prague on Wednesday. | The neighbors are thinking about how to open their borders at the start of the summer tourist season after making similar progress in controlling the coronavirus pandemic, Babis said. | \"I think it could somehow work out that on June 8 or 15, our three countries would open together,\" Babis said in an online interview with the Blesk newspaper website. | The three states are among at least 17 members of the Sch…

RT (2020-05-13). Tunisia relaxes curfew after 3 days without new coronavirus cases. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). 6,000 more children could die EVERY DAY in areas least fit for battling Covid-19 — UN & Johns Hopkins study. rt.com Over a million of under-5s could succumb to preventable causes within the next six months as long as the brewing Covid-19 epidemic keeps weakening countries they dwell in, UNICEF and Johns Hopkins believe. | The gruesome prediction came after Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health looked at how the coronavirus crisis could impact 118 low- or middle-income countries around the globe. | Johns Hopkins researchers, who

Suzan Mazur (2020-05-13). Virologist Luis Villarreal: \"Leery\" of COVID-19 Models, Vaccine Possible Year\'s End. counterpunch.org 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 \"with a

The Canary (2020-05-13). Pharmacist Boots looking to recruit hundreds of unpaid Covid-19 testers. thecanary.co 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…

Scott Tucker (2020-05-13). Class Struggles and Social Distancing. counterpunch.org 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

RT (2020-05-13). \'What are those white crosses?\': Badges to \'scare off\' coronavirus cause dress-code debate in Russian parliament. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Travel giant TUI plans to axe 8,000 jobs despite government bailout. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Pennsylvania Health Sec under fire after moving own mum OUT of nursing home while sending sick Covid-19 patients INTO them. rt.com 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 — though she defended herself by saying that she was simply following the wishes of the 95-year-old woman, who wanted to move. | WATCH: PA Secretary of Heath admits own mother left senior facility while coronavirus swept nursing homes. Gov Wolf nowhe…

The Canary (2020-05-13). We are vulnerable and scared, say tragic railway worker\'s colleagues. thecanary.co 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…

RT (2020-05-13). \'Example of infodemic\': Moscow slams FT & NYT reports that put Russian Covid-19 death toll 70 percent higher than official data. rt.com 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…

The Canary (2020-05-13). Hundreds of workers report employers for furlough fraud. thecanary.co 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…

Tom Coburg (2020-05-13). Even the mainstream media\'s now suggesting UK death toll could surpass 50,000. thecanary.co 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,

Joshua Hanks (2020-05-13). China reacts with zero tolerance for racist incidents. workers.org 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 . . . |

RT (2020-05-13). Does China need US or does US need China? RT\'s Boom Bust finds out. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Senate votes down anti-surveillance amendment, as both parties back warrantless spying on Americans' browser history. rt.com 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…

Dianne Mathiowetz (2020-05-13). A 21st century lynching: Justice for Ahmaud Arbery! workers.org 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 . . . |

Joshua Cho (2020-05-13). Corporate Media don\'t think Americans paid to invade Venezuela Count as mercenaries. mronline.org 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 …

RT (2020-05-13). US anti-ISIS chief says his goal in Syria is to create a \'quagmire\' for Russia, not battle terrorism. rt.com 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…

Sanket Jain (2020-05-13). In Lockdown, India is No Country for Old Men. counterpunch.org At this time, Shamshuddin Mulla would have been in the fields — repairing engines and pumps. He did step out on March 26, the second day of the lockdown when a despairing farmer from Sulkud village [in Kolhapur district\'s Kagal taluka] came to his house on a bike. \"He took me to his farm, where

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

\"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…

RT (2020-05-13). US \'knocks on closed door\' seeking to extend arms embargo against Iran — Russia\'s UN envoy. rt.com The US cannot demand the extension of an arms embargo against Tehran since it is no longer a party to the Iran nuclear deal, Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters via a video link-up. | \"I do not see any reasons why [an] arms embargo should be imposed on Iran. It expires on 18 October. It was temporary,\" TASS quoted Nebenzia as saying. \"It was not in fact even an embargo. It is the provision where Iran is allowed to export/import armaments on the consent of the [UN] Security Council,\" he noted. | Two years ago, the US \"proudly announced\" that it withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Act…

RT (2020-05-13). Pity they don\'t work against Covid-19: US drives RECORD global spending on atomic weapons, report shows. rt.com 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

Judy Greenspan (2020-05-13). At San Quentin: \'No state execution by COVID-19!\'. workers.org May 9 — It was no coincidence or geographical convenience that prisoners\' rights advocates organized a car caravan today to San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, Calif. San Quentin, a mere 11 miles from San Francisco, is the state prison where death row prisoners are incarcerated. It is also . . . |

Gabriel Kuhn (2020-05-13). Who Are You Kidding? The Democratic Party and the Joe Biden Fiasco. counterpunch.org 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.

Jack Rasmus (2020-05-13). Low-Balling the Unemployed in the Era of the 2020 Great Recession. counterpunch.org 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

Francisco Dominguez (2020-05-13). Outsourcing \'regime change\': US imperialism\'s decomposition accelerates. peoplesdispatch.org 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.

RT (2020-05-13). Ex-army chief Ashkenazi to become Israel\'s FM — Blue and White alliance. rt.com Former Israeli Army chief Gabi Ashkenazi, who spent nearly four decades in the military, will be nominated as Israel\'s next foreign minister, AFP reported Wednesday, citing his Blue and White alliance. Ashkenazi held talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jerusalem ahead of his \"appointment as minister of foreign affairs this coming Thursday,\" said Blue and White, which is led by the incoming alternate PM Benny Gantz. | A unity government agreed between Gantz and right-wing PM Benjamin Netanyahu is due to be sworn in on Thursday evening, ending more than a year of political deadlock. | Foreign affairs…

RT (2020-05-13). Was it worth it? Pompeo dons fashionable flag-themed mask at Israel airport… then takes it off for meetings. rt.com US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emerged from his plane after touching down for a flying visit to Israel sporting an especially patriotic red, white and blue striped mask — but the novelty didn\'t last long. | Pompeo disembarked from his plane at Ben Gurion Airport wearing the colorful face gear, which many news outlets described as a \"US flag\" mask. Upon closer inspection, however, it appears the face-covering could have been a creative mash-up of the US and Israeli flags, given the addition of blue and white stripes and blue stars. | @IsraeliPM

RT (2020-05-13). Merkel cites \'hard evidence\' she was victim of \'Russian hackers\', says it doesn\'t help mend ties with Moscow. rt.com 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

RT (2020-05-13). Russia BANS usage of ventilators suspected of causing deadly fires killing six Covid-19 patients. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). NASA quietly buys additional Soyuz seat as SpaceX prepares for historic manned space flight. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Break or retirement? Russia\'s \'Angelina Jolie\' of curling Anastasia Bryzgalova puts competitive career on hold. rt.com 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. | \"I wanted to take a break right after the Winter O…

RT (2020-05-13). Russian Arctic sea route shipping exceeds 10 million tons in Q1. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Flynn \'unmasking\' documents show involvement of senior Obama administration officials, including Joe Biden. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Chechen leader Kadyrov BANNED from Instagram AGAIN, loses account with 1.4 MILLION followers. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Biden campaign reacts to Flynn unmasking revelations by attacking journalist & denouncing Republicans. rt.com 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.

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-13). How Huxley\'s X-Club Created Nature Magazine and Sabotaged Science for 150 Years. strategic-culture.org 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 This project was led by a team of evolutionary virologists using a line of reasoning that \"random…

Tanuke Smith (2020-05-13). If we must die, don\'t let it be from COVID-19. peoplesworld.org 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 …

RT (2020-05-13). Class divide: Nearly TWO-THIRDS of British working class unable to do jobs from home amid Covid-19 crisis, new data reveals. rt.com 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

RT (2020-05-13). Slack goes down GLOBALLY, crippling remote work amid Covid-19 pandemic. rt.com 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. | So sorry for the trouble! We don\'t have an…

RT (2020-05-13). Belgium to partially reopen schools, markets, museums & zoos from Monday. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). \'Major concern\': Nearly 100 New York children treated for mysterious inflammatory illness thought to be linked to Covid-19. rt.com 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 (2020-05-13). Germany to keep quarantine requirement in place for non-EU visitors as border control measures relaxed from May 16. rt.com 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…

Nic Lewis (2020-05-13). Why Herd Immunity to COVID-19 Is Reached Much Earlier Than Thought. anti-empire.com A study published in March by the COVID-19 Response Team from Imperial College (Ferguson20 The \'herd immunity threshold\' (HIT) can be esti…

Don Fitz (2020-05-13). Can we simultaneously oppose Bayer/Monsanto\'s biotechnology and support Cuba\'s Interferon Alpha 2B? mronline.org 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 …

RT (2020-05-13). New clues on formation of life found in traces of fluid inside space rock 4.5 BILLION years old. rt.com 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 — and ultimately life as we know it — by analyzing ancient space rocks.

Global Research News (2020-05-13). Selected Articles: COVID-19: An Ocean of Fears and Lies. globalresearch.ca By The US federal and state governments are now hiring \"Contact Tracers\" t…

Michael Molitch-Hou (2020-05-13). Paramilitary Panda: WWF Land Grabs Rooted in Covert Apartheid History. indybay.org 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.

Donald Monaco (2020-05-13). Fifty Years Ago: The Lessons of Kent State. Open Fire on Unarmed Student Anti-War Protesters. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Staff (2020-05-13). Michigan Anti-Lockdown Protesters Spread COVID-19 to Rural Areas. truthout.org Some protesters who

teleSUR (2020-05-13). El Salvador: White Cloths to Protest Hunger. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Leon Kunstenaar (2020-05-13). San Quentin Gets Car Caravan Protest. indybay.org Protesters demand end to \"Covid-19 death camps.\"

Nithin Coca (2020-05-13). What\'s Next for Asia\'s Social Movements? thenation.com What\'s Next for Asia\'s Social Movements?

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-13). Something About Julian Assange You Should Know. strategic-culture.org 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.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Al-Kazemi calls for Iran\'s help to overcome Iraq\' economic challenges: envoy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi said on Wednesday that the New Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi has asked Iran to help Iraq overcome its economic challenges.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Russia, S Arabia agree to stabilize oil market. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Russia and Saudi Arabia\'s energy ministers agreed to stabilize the oil market.

John McEvoy (2020-05-13). Revealed: Secretive British unit planning for \'reconstruction\' of Venezuela. thecanary.co 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

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-05-13). Mysterious Murder of Coronavirus Chinese Scientist in US Leaves Many Questions Unanswered. globalresearch.ca 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 …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Iranian, Turkish researchers carry out 22 joint projects. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Iranian and Turkish researchers are conducting some 22 projects under the agreement inked between Iran\'s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Iran-Turkey Scientific Cooperation Working Group at Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [TàúBƒ∞TAK].

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-05-13). Cybersecurity Companies Selling Hyper-control Technology to Governments to \"Prevent Pandemics\" globalresearch.ca 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 …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Night of Decree observed in Yazd amid pandemic. en.mehrnews.com YAZD, May 13 (MNA) — The rituals of the Night of Decree (Laylat al-Qadr) was held in Yazd on Tuesday night by observing health protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Brenda Norrell (2020-05-13). Pine Ridge locks down for 72 hours after two Lakotas test positive for coronavirus. indybay.org 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.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Possible neurological effects of COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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, …

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

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Iran, Georgia seek improvement of customs coop. amid coronavirus pandemic. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — In a trilateral video call among Iran\'s Ambassador to Georgia Javad Ghavam Shahid, Head of Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Mehdi Mirashrafi and an official from Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia the two countries conferred on improving customs cooperation under the coronavirus pandemic.

Tony Cartalucci (2020-05-13). Holding Healthcare Hostage: The Making of a Ventilator Crisis. globalresearch.ca 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 — so …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Tehran, Kuala Lumpur ready to exchange experiences on Covid-19. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — In a phone conversation between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin on Wednesday, the two sides discussed various issues including sharing experiences on the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Mayo Clinic\'s comprehensive COVID-19 research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org \"At Mayo, we\'ve developed a comprehensive research portfolio, or what we call a COVID-19 research task force, in order to respond to every area that we need to learn more about this virus. We have scientists doing research in epidemiology. We have people doing research in immunology and vaccine development, in virology, in translational work, in …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Mayo Clinic expert discusses potential neurological effects of COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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, …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). 89,428 Iranians recover from Covid-19. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — The total number of COVID-19 cases in Iran presently stands at 112,725 of whom 6,783 have lost their lives to the deadly virus but 89,428 have recovered from it.

Staff (2020-05-13). Was Jared Kushner Testing the Waters for Cancelling Elections in November? truthout.org 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. | \"I\'m not sure I…

Staff (2020-05-13). Trump Pressures CDC to Lower COVID Death Count by Changing Calculation Method. truthout.org 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, \"The numbers ha…

WSWS (2020-05-13). White House Coronavirus Task Force member warns of \"really serious\" consequences of premature reopening. wsws.org 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.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). \"World Telecommunication Day\" to be held online amid COVID-19. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 14 (MNA) — Information Technology Organization of Iran said that \"World Telecommunication and Information Society Day\" will be held online this year due to the outbreak of coronavirus global pandemic, COVID-19.

Jastra Ilic (2020-05-13). Survey on COVID-19 Economic Impacts: More than 50% of German Companies Expect Major Revenue Drop in 2020. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-13). Authoritarians Using Coronavirus Fear to Destroy America. strategic-culture.org 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 — ramped up by a mainstream media that churns out propaganda at a level unparalleled in history — no one is allowed to enjoy themselves. | Thankfully everyone carries a smartphone these days and…

José Orduña (2020-05-13). Scenes From a Pandemic: 7. thenation.com Scenes From a Pandemic: 7…

Ceng Jing (2020-05-13). The Mind-blowing History at Fort Detrick. globalresearch.ca 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 …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Why you need to keep your child\'s vaccine schedule during COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Night of Destiny rituals observed in Tehran\'s Modarres hospital. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Laylat al-Qadr [Night of Destiny] was observed in Modarres Hospital in Tehran on 19th of the holy month of Ramadan by observing \'social distancing\' and health protocols recommended by the National Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Iran, Russia stress coop. in fight against coronavirus. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Murashko held a videoconference on Tuesday, stressing cooperation between two countries in the fight against coronavirus.

Abdel Bari Atwan (2020-05-13). Egypt and Ethiopia: Could it be war? thealtworld.com 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…

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

teleSUR-ag-la (2020-05-13). Ecuador Faces Wave of Corruption Amid Pandemic. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Lavrov slams US\' baseless accusations against Russia, China amid coronavirus pandemic. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed on Wednesday Washington\'s accusations against Russia and China as baseless, stressing that unilateral sanctions could only hinder humanitarian assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Lynda Carson (2020-05-13). Confirmed known Covid-19 cases for 2,818 federal inmates. indybay.org Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…

teleSUR (2020-05-13). Mexico Records Its Most Deadly Day Since the Start of COVID-19. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

William Walter Kay (2020-05-13). The Boston-Newark Megalopolis: Death Certification Agencies are Jacking-up their C-19 Body-counts. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Brenda Norrell (2020-05-13). Cheyenne River Lakota won\'t back down at checkpoints after South Dakota Gov\'s threats. indybay.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-13). German politicians and media laud right-wing demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions. wsws.org 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.

Lynda Carson (2020-05-13). HUD allocates relief funds to protect public housing & Section 8 tenants. indybay.org Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…

WSWS (2020-05-13). New York City education department, backed by teachers union, downplayed virus threat. wsws.org 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…

Mary Retta (2020-05-13). The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard. thenation.com The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 research at Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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. …

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2020-05-13). Return of the Brown Shirts? US Federal and State Governments to Hire Contact Tracers to \'Hunt Down New Covid-19 Cases. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Binoy Kampmark (2020-05-13). Patriotic Vaccines: The Divided Coronavirus Cause. counterpunch.org 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

Lillianna Byington (2020-05-13). As Coronavirus Spreads in Meat Plants, Nearly 200 USDA Inspectors Test Positive. globalresearch.ca As coronavirus has spread rapidly among meat plants across the country, it\'s not just the workers that are getting infected. Many people have

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

Brenda Norrell (2020-05-13). Oglala Lakota enforce coronavirus border checkpoints after South Dakota Governor\'s threats. indybay.org 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.

Renee Parsons (2020-05-13). HR 6666: The Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act. Towards a Totalitarian State? globalresearch.ca 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 …

Carly Larsson (2020-05-13). What\'s Changed Since the Virus Arrived? thenation.com What\'s Changed Since the Virus Arrived?

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Trump ally Lindsey Graham seeks China sanctions over coronavirus probe: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — A leading US Republican senator proposed legislation on Tuesday that would authorise the US president to impose far-reaching sanctions on China if it fails to give a full account of events leading to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

Brenda Norrell (2020-05-13). Wearing \'smallpox blankets\' Lakota Dakota oppose casinos reopening. indybay.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-13). US agencies drum up allegations of Chinese hacking of vaccine research. wsws.org 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.

Pepe Escobar (2020-05-13). Why China\'s President Xi Won\'t Repeat Ming Dynasty Mistakes. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Anthony Ravlich (2020-05-13). Ethical Human Rights: China criticizes New Zealand for supporting Taiwan. indybay.org 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.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Mayo Clinic receives $26 million from BARDA for COVID-19 convalescent plasma expanded access program. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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. …

teleSUR (2020-05-13). Africa: COVID Crisis Could Lead to Increase in AIDS Deaths. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Jim Hightower (2020-05-13). Trump Blasts Into a New Frontier…for War. commondreams.org 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 …

The People\'s Collective (2020-05-13). Essential For Survival: The Need Of Global Solidarity. indybay.org 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.

Staff (2020-05-13). The HEROES Act Is a Vital Step Toward Ending COVID, So of Course It Is Doomed. truthout.org 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…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Mayo Clinic launches radio campaign to encourage recovered patients of COVID-19 to donate plasma. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 …

Ellis Howard (2020-05-13). Watch as Ellis Howard breaks down, then tears apart, Boris Johnsons \"stay alert\" announcement. thecanary.co Watch more from Ellis, as well as other great Canary TV content, on our By

MDAEFG (2020-05-13). #WearOrange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day 2020 (virtual). indybay.org Social media…

teleSUR (2020-05-13). 78 Percent of Mountain Areas Are Undergoing a Snow Decline. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Conflict between Russia, Iran over Syria psychological war: Nasrallah. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Secretary General of Lebanese Resistance Movement Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah told reports on the conflict between Russia and Iran over Syria is part of the psychological warfare against Syria and its allies.

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

WSWS (2020-05-13). Elon Musk and the economics of class war. wsws.org 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.

commondreams (2020-05-13). Imposing Sanctions Is A War Crime Amid Pandemic. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-13). Colombia\'s health workers unprotected, patients without treatment: watchdogs. colombiareports.com 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…

WSWS (2020-05-13). Right-wing Facebook groups threaten to assassinate Michigan Governor Whitmer. wsws.org 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.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Iranian embassy calls on Japan to support UNSCR 2231. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Referring to the friendly and traditional relations between Iran and Japan, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Tokyo called on the Japanese government to support the UNSCR 2231.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Iranian photographer goes to Kharkiv Fest in Ukraine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 14 (MNA) — The Deputy of Art and Cinema in the Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Bushehr announced that the work of Babak Mansurian has reached the final stage of the Kharkiv International Festival of Arts in Ukraine.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Russia may start talks with Iran in future over selling armament to country: Kabulov. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry\'s Second Asia Department Zamir Kabulov said Wednesday that Russia may commence talks with the Islamic Republic over selling weaponry to the country after the removal of Iran\'s arms embargo, i.e. October 2020.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Iran delivers homegrown corona diagnostic kits to Germany: IRICA. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) said that COVID-19 serology diagnostic kits, made by the Iranian scientists, were delivered to Germany over the past two days.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Trade exchange vol. between Iran, Germany to hike by 15% in coming months. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — It is predicted that trade volume exchange between Islamic Republic of Iran and Germany will rise by 15% in the coming months.

WSWS (2020-05-13). Failure to halt COVID-19 spread leads to mass deaths in Swedish elder care homes. wsws.org 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.

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-13). Lebanon reimposes lockdown after spike in COVID-19 cases. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

WSWS (2020-05-13). New Zealand government removes more COVID-19 restrictions. wsws.org The Labour Party-led government is moving to appease big business and ignoring calls from scientists for an extension of lockdown measures.

WSWS (2020-05-13). Democrats and unions seek to suppress resistance by Amazon workers. wsws.org 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.

Staff (2020-05-13). Why Are \"Progressive Democrats\" Siding With Amazon in Seattle? truthout.org Right now in Seattle, Washington, Amazon — arguably the company positioned to No…

John Whitehead (2020-05-13). Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing: Are We on The Fast Track to a National ID? mintpressnews.com CHARLOTTESVILLE ( 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…

Azhar Azam (2020-05-13). Trump\'s Political Hoax Won\'t Revive US Economy, Retrieve Jobs. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2020-05-13). PSY-OP COVID-19: Under House Arrest! globalresearch.ca 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 …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2020-05-13). Australia: Greasing the Revolving Door: Palantir Recruits Down Under. globalresearch.ca When

Prof. Joseph H. Chung (2020-05-13). The COVID-19 Crisis in the U.S.: How Many More Innocent People Have to Die? globalresearch.ca 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 …

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2020-05-13). COVID-19: An Ocean of Fears and Lies. globalresearch.ca \"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.\" — Lao Tzu | Are you too waiting for the second wave? | What type of waves are we talking about? | Your eyes are riveted perhaps on a …

Adeyinka Makinde (2020-05-13). History of Ghana: The Tragedy of One-time Military Ruler Ignatius Acheampong: Visionary and Kleptocrat. globalresearch.ca \"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 …

True Publica (2020-05-13). The World Order Is Rapidly Changing. globalresearch.ca 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 …

John W. Whitehead (2020-05-13). The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing. globalresearch.ca \" No one is safe. | No one is immune. | No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under …

Aidan O\'Brien (2020-05-13). German Foreign Policy Is a CIA Front. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Justinas Baltrusaitis (2020-05-13). Only Three Countries Control Over 80% of Global Diamond Reserves. globalresearch.ca 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….

Thomas Knapp (2020-05-13). Republicans Can\'t Seem to Make Up Their Minds About Mail and Voting. counterpunch.org 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.

Sarah Anderson (2020-05-13). A For-Profit Postal Service Would Slam Small Businesses. counterpunch.org 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

Jonathan Cook (2020-05-13). Why is Mike Pompeo risking a One-day Trip to Israel Amid the Pandemic? dissidentvoice.org 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 — and caution — to the wind in approving the arrival on Wednesday of …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). White House hosting worst US administration, Pompeo knows nothing about ABC\'s of politics. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — In his remarks during Wednesday Cabinet Meeting, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the White House is hosting the worst American administration and the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo does not know ABC\'s of politics.

teleSUR (2020-05-13). Poverty Forces Chileans to Cook in \'the Common Pot\'. telesurenglish.net Chile\'s economic crisis unleashed by RELATED: | Thousands of people living in poor neighborhoods eat ev…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Iran to give harsh response to any military escapade by US: Envoy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Iran will give a harsh response to any military escapade that US President Donald Trump may resort to, Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali has said in an interview, commenting on Trump\'s veto of a congressional resolution limiting his ability to conduct military operations against Iran without congressional approval.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Ulyanov reacts to US allegations of Moscow\'s support for JCPOA. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Russia\'s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov has reacted sarcastically to the US allegations of Moscow\'s support for JCPOA and prevention from the extension of Iran\'s arms embargo.

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

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-13). IndustriALL questions violations of worker rights by Shell in Nigeria. peoplesdispatch.org 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.\"

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). UNICEF dispatches dressings for EB patients in Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 — The United Nations Children\'s Fund (UNICEF) has dispatched dressings for Iranian children suffering from Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Iran, Afghanistan to comment joint investigations on Herat incident. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Afghanistan ministry of foreign affairs announced on Wednesday that Tehran and Kabul will start mutual investigations on Herat incident; the tragic deaths of a number of Afghan migrants near the Iran-Afghanistan border in Early May, as of Thursday.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Police busts one ton of drugs in Saravan County. en.mehrnews.com Zahedan, May 13 (MNA) — The anti-narcotic forces of Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran, have captured one tone of different illicit drugs in a single operation in Saravan county.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Front pages of Iran international dailies on May 13. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Here are the front pages of Iran-based international newspapers on Wednesday, May 13.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Iran approves to grant a five-year residence permit to foreign investors: official. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Babak Dinparast Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Regional Development of the Ministry of Interior announced on Wed. that groundwork has been laid for the issuance of a five-year residence permit to foreign investors and depositors investing in the country.

Mark Hertsgaard (2020-05-13). The Covid-19 Stimulus Debate Is a Pivotal Climate Story. thenation.com The Covid-19 Stimulus Debate Is a Pivotal Climate Story…

Staff (2020-05-13). Trump\'s \"Lightning Fast\" COVID-19 Test May Be Seriously Flawed, New Study Shows. truthout.org President Donald Trump has frequently bragged about the amount of testing being conducted across the United States in response to COVID-19 — but a recent study from New York University suggests that the testing going on within the White House itself is faulty. | The White House utilizes a testing kit from Abbott Laboratories called the ID NOW test, administering COVID-19 tests on everyone who might come into contact with the president, including governors, lawmakers, reporters and other…

ACLU Northern California (2020-05-13). ACLU of California Legislative Webinar: COVID-19, Current Bills, & Building Community. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

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

WSWS (2020-05-13). Australian university union agrees to unprecedented pay and job cuts. wsws.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-13). 33 London bus drivers killed by COVID-19: \"We are expendable like diesel\" wsws.org Workers fear infections will soar following Sunday night\'s \"phased exit\" announced by the Johnson government…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Science Saturday: Regenerative approaches could foster healing from COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 (2020-05-13). Connecting Patients: COVID-19 and transplant patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 …

Santa Cruz Police News (2020-05-13). 21-Year-Old Dies in Santa Cruz County Jail. indybay.org 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.

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

The Canary (2020-05-13). Results of tens of thousands of Covid-19 tests disappear into \'black hole\'. thecanary.co 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 — managed by consultancy firm Deloitte — is not available. | Sent at the weekend from a regional NHS incident centre, the email said: \"No new national testing programme (NTP) data will be reported in this brief from 4 May until further notice. | \"This is due to the NTP testing numbers increasin…

Sarah Lahm (2020-05-13). Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools. progressive.org For education \"disruptors\" like Bill Gates and Betsy DeVos, COVID-19 isn\'t a crisis—it\'s an opportunity.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Spring cleaning takes on a new importance during COVID-19 pandemic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 …

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

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). Masking your kids during COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 (2020-05-13). What COVID-19 does to your lungs. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-13). California nurses denounce lack of access to PPE. wsws.org \"We don\'t know how many medical workers have died here because of COVID-19 because neither the hospital nor the union tells us.\"

WSWS (2020-05-13). Kawasaki-like disease afflicting young children and teens after infection with SARS-CoV-2. wsws.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-13). UK COVID-19 related deaths top 60,000, according to Financial Times. wsws.org Yesterday, the government reported another 627 deaths in its daily briefing, taking the manipulated official fatalities toll to 32,490.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). Confirmed worldwide Covid-19 death toll passes 293,000. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Worldwide, the number of confirmed infections stands above 4.3 million, with 293,037 deaths and approximately 1.6 million recoveries.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-13). National Nurses Day: Not all heroes wear capes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 (2020-05-13). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 …

WSWS (2020-05-13). Sri Lankan president \"reopens economy\" despite pandemic. wsws.org The Rajapakse regime is seeking to overcome the economic crisis at the expense of the health and lives of working people.

Dan Bacher (2020-05-13). Delta Tunnel Forges Ahead in Pandemic: Agreement in Principal Reached for SWP Contract Amendment. indybay.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-13). New York state to begin reopening in certain regions this weekend. wsws.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-13). UK: Exercise Cygnus leak confirms Tory government\'s criminal inaction over pandemic threat. wsws.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-13). New York police brutality continues unabated in midst of pandemic. wsws.org 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.

commondreams (2020-05-13). Afghanistan: Pregnant Women and Babies Attacked in Kabul Hospital. commondreams.org ______________________________…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-13). India\'s 2nd ship of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan docks at Shahid Beheshti port. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — India\'s second consignment of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan has arrived in Chabahar\'s Shahid Beheshti Port, said the director-general of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Department.

The hills are alive (2020-05-13). Speak out against oil drilling in Brentwood. indybay.org 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).

WSWS (2020-05-13). Anger simmers over restart of production by Detroit automakers. wsws.org 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.

Vijay Prashad (2020-05-12). The US military is hell-bent on trying to overpower China. peoplesdispatch.org 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

RT (2020-05-12). President Ghani orders Afghan troops to switch to \'offensive mode\' after new attacks. rt.com 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…

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-12). Strained China-US Relations. Renewed Trade War Ahead? New Cold War? globalresearch.ca 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 …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-12). Trump Regime Hardliners Want Social Security and Medicare Eliminated. globalresearch.ca Social Security and Medicare are insurance programs, not welfare — funded by equal worker-employer payroll tax deductions. | Self-employed workers pay what\'s called the Self Employment Contributions Act (SECA) tax. | Both programs are federally established contractual obligations to eligible recipients, the …

F. William Engdahl (2020-05-12). Coronavirus and Dodgy Death Numbers. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers (2020-05-12). Pivot To Peace Must Replace US Pivot To War With China. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

South Front (2020-05-12). Video: Al-Qaeda Launches Large-scale Attack in Northwestern Hama Under Cover of Ceasefire Deal. globalresearch.ca 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 …

teleSUR (2020-05-12). President Maduro Extends State of Alarm in Venezuela. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2020-05-12). Syria spinmeisters fumble attempts to narrative manage OPCW leaks. mronline.org 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.

Staff (2020-05-12). Justice Thomas Said Forcing Trump to Release His Taxes Weakens the President. truthout.org 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 District Attorney from Manhattan, Cyrus Vance Jr., is seeking to obtain…

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

Andrew Korybko (2020-05-12). Germany Wants to Replace Poland\'s \"Patriotic Government\" with \"Europhile Puppets\"? globalresearch.ca 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 …

Staff (2020-05-12). Los New Yorkers: Essential, Underprotected Undocumented Immigrants Struggle to Survive in Epicenter. democracynow.org 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.

Staff (2020-05-12). Headlines for May 12, 2020. democracynow.org Dr. Fauci to Warn Lawmakers of \"Needless Suffering and Death\" If Lockdowns End Too Soon, European Countries Report New Spikes as They Reopen Economies, Trump Makes False Claim About Testing Capacity, Tells Reporter Weijia Jiang to \"Ask China\" About Coronavirus, PA Plant Canceled Trump Visit over Concern for Worker Health, New Study Finds Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Help COVID-19, Can Cause Heart Attacks, China Threatens \"Countermeasures\" for U.S. Journalist Visa Restrictions, Meatpacking Union Condemns Reopening of Factories Amid Pandemic, India Starts to Ease Lockdown as Cases Mount, Coronavirus Cases Mount in W…

Staff (2020-05-12). \"Losing the Fabric of the City\": COVID-19 Took Chicago Black Lives First & Exposed Structural Racism. democracynow.org 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.

Ajamu Baraka (2020-05-12). Trump wins! Completing Obama\'s Pivot to Asia and the Confrontation with China. dissidentvoice.org Even before becoming the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump had one consistent foreign enemy — China. Partly fueled by his intrinsic white supremacy and his antipathy for the liberal elite \"globalists\" who evoked his personal inferiority complex, Trump has never waivered from his fierce opposition to what he saw as the \"yellow …

Patrick Cockburn (2020-05-12). Iraq Will be Hit Harder by Falling Oil Prices Than COVID-19 or ISIS. counterpunch.org 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.

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

Andre Vltchek (2020-05-12). On May Day, the \"Opposition\" Again Acted Foolishly and Irresponsibly. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

Philip Giraldi (2020-05-12). Israel to Annex the United States. globalresearch.ca 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 …

WSWS (2020-05-12). Bernie Sanders\' interview with the Washington Post: The thin gruel of Democratic Party politics. wsws.org 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.

RT (2020-05-12). China lifts tariffs on US goods despite Trump\'s threat to rip up trade deal. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). Oil giant Saudi Aramco profits crash amid coronavirus-driven energy market rout. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). Yemen govt forces \'to confront armed rebellion\' in south after separatists declared self-rule. rt.com 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…

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-12). The \'See-No-Evil\' Phase of Russiagate. strategic-culture.org 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…

Dennis Broe (2020-05-12). \'Home Before Dark\' and fading patriarchal power. peoplesworld.org 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. …

RT (2020-05-12). Turkey says 5 states forming \'alliance of evil\' as they denounce Ankara\'s policies in E. Mediterranean, Libya. rt.com 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 — where Turkey has been drilling for potential hydrocarbon deposits in an offshore area where Cyprus has exclusive economic righ…

RT (2020-05-12). Spanish govt orders 2-week quarantine for incoming travelers on May 15-24. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). Restaurants could go bust & leave millions without jobs if government fails to help, award-winning chef tells Boom Bust. rt.com 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 — who managed to continue working for delivery and to go orders amid lockdowns in the US — making a profit, the virus is a disaster for the industry which is the second largest employer in America right behind the Defense Department, according to the award-winning chef. | However, working for delivery is \"a drop in a bucket\" and not a viable solution for most restaurants as they ca…

RT (2020-05-12). Russia becomes world's second hardest-hit country with 230,000+ confirmed Covid-19 cases, surpassing Spain & UK. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). Lebanon to be \'fully shut down\' from Wednesday evening to Sunday — govt. rt.com The government in Beirut on Tuesday decided to fully shut down the country from Wednesday evening until Monday morning at the recommendation of the health minister. The move comes in the wake of the biggest spike in weeks in the numbers of coronavirus cases. | \"The general lockdown measures will include exceptions as in the first phase,\" Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi told reporters after a Cabinet session at the presidential palace in Baabda. \"We will carry out a reevaluation on Sunday and the expat repatriation process will continue.\" | Information Minister Manal Abdul Samad said \"the full lockdown will be…

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

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…

RT (2020-05-12). No HEROES here: Democrats seek tax breaks for rich donors & lobbyists in $3 TRILLION Covid-19 wishlist bill. rt.com 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

RT (2020-05-12). Canada teams up with Chinese scientists to co-produce potential Covid-19 vaccine and test it on humans. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). US reports record $738 BILLION budget deficit in April due to Covid-19. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). Trump lawyer brands CNN\'s Stelter \'propagandist\' as pair clash over fiery Covid-19 press conference. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). Police officer rants about \'tyrannical\' & \'unconstitutional\' Covid-19 measures… gets in trouble for \'insubordination\' (VIDEOS). rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). Antibody tests show Ohio had first Covid-19 cases as early as JANUARY — state health director. rt.com There were at least five coronavirus infections in Ohio as far back as January, the state\'s health director said, suggesting the illness began spreading there weeks earlier than previously thought. | The five early cases — believed to have emerged across five Ohio counties between January 7 and 27 — were announced on Monday by Department of Health Director Dr Amy Acton, who said the previously unknown infections were picked up amid ramped up antibody testing. | \"We actually have a new date of onset. We have found five cases now when the date of onset of symptoms was in January,\" Acton told a statehou…

Daniel Wighton (2020-05-12). Switzerland Bends the Knee to Swedish Model, Dismantles Lockdown a Month Ahead of Schedule. anti-empire.com 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 While some of these had been announced previously,…

RT (2020-05-12). \'Humans are not herds\': WHO thrashes \'brutal arithmetic\' of herd immunity to beat Covid-19 pandemic. rt.com 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, 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 (2020-05-12). Norway dipping into its massive piggy bank to battle Covid-19 crisis. rt.com 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…

Robin McDowell, Margie Mason (2020-05-12). Crime doesn\'t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic. peoplesworld.org MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work. Sometimes they earn pennies an hour, or nothing at all, making masks and hand sanitizer to help guard others from the coronavirus. Those same men and women have been cut off …

Nina Eichacker (2020-05-12). Learning All the Wrong Lessons From the 2008 Financial Crisis – NYT should not fixate on debt as governments respond to the coronavirus pandemic. fair.org I recently wrote a piece for FAIR (

Stephen Cooper (2020-05-12). U.S. Dishonors Navajo with Death Penalty. counterpunch.org 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 — the second largest Indigenous tribe in America — through its pursuit of the death penalty for Lezmond Mitchell.

RT (2020-05-12). Singapore plans coronavirus tests for all migrant workers as some businesses reopen. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). \'Europe needs a break\': EU may open borders closed by Covid-19 lockdowns for tourism as industry faces \'grave danger\'. rt.com 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 — which has been seen and leaked by

RT (2020-05-12). 2nd virus wave in Denmark is \'unlikely\' says expert, as govt plans increased testing. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). Russian border may not open fully UNTIL 2021 — Tourism Union. rt.com With countries around the world beginning to loosen their anti-coronavirus measures, many people are starting to ask one thing: when can I travel again? If you\'re planning to come to Russia, you might need to wait until next year. | According to a letter written by President of the Russian Tourist Industry Union (PCT) Andrey Ignatiev and President of the Russian Hotel Association (RGA) Gennady Lamshin, it might take until January 1, 2021 for passage through Russia\'s border to get back to normal. | The letter, which was sent to Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov and the head of Russia\'s Federal…

RT (2020-05-12). \'It couldn't have happened,\' says head of Chinese lab accused by US of leaking Covid-19. rt.com 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…

Emily Apple (2020-05-12). A Cornish charity helping Grenfell survivors is responding brilliantly to the coronavirus crisis. thecanary.co A Cornish charity Cornwall Hugs was set up to provide free holidays in Cornwall, matching people in need with holiday homes. Since the

RT (2020-05-12). Shock at low US confidence in Trump\'s coronavirus narrative ignores decades of governments abusing Americans\' trust. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). '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 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 (2020-05-12). Fire erupts at Saint Petersburg Covid-19 hospital after ventilator malfunctions, 5 dead. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). New study says herd immunity is a myth and countries relying on it, including Sweden, chose the wrong strategy. rt.com Herd immunity may be an unrealistic tactic for dealing with Covid-19, new research has warned, calling into question the strategy of several countries — such as Sweden — who shied away from quarantine measures in its favor. | Europe is a long way from reaching the levels of exposure required for herd immunity, according to a new study published by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). Belgium tops the list, with just 6.2 percent of its population exposed to Covid-19 so far, and Sweden — with no enforced lockdown measures — is even lower down the list at just 2.

Combined Sources (2020-05-12). Even White House documents show Trump is lying. peoplesworld.org 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 …

RT (2020-05-12). Oil is back in demand as drivers return to the roads. rt.com 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…

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2020-05-12). U.S. hand in recent assaults on Cuba, Venezuela. peoplesworld.org 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\" — who actually \"defend health care as a human right,\" according to Cuba\'s foreign minister. …

RT (2020-05-12). Black US journalists & public figures shamed into dropping out of Huawei-sponsored Covid disinfo panel. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). China to test ENTIRE POPULATION of Wuhan for Covid-19 after disease reemerges. rt.com 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…

Paul Kawika Martin (2020-05-12). Action Alert: Call Your Rep to Cut Pentagon Spending. peaceaction.org ‚òéÔ∏èüó£Call your Reps. to ‚úÇ 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 — during a time of relative peace — we have already increased annual Pentagon spending by more than …

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

\"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…

RT (2020-05-12). Bitcoin ready for \'big bull run & best is yet to come,\' director of business development tells RT\'s Keiser Report. rt.com 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 Bitcoin was purpose-built to be a new sound money, says Held, noting: \"That message resonates really loudly with this sort…

RT (2020-05-12). College forced to apologize after trying to CENSOR professor over \'offensive\' questions about \'Islamic terrorism\'. rt.com 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 — and about where in Islamic doctrine and law they take these justifications from. | The quiz prompted a complaint…

The Alternative World (2020-05-12). British propaganda efforts in Syria may have broken UK law. thealtworld.com 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…

Betsey Piette (2020-05-12). Sanctions = Health terrorism. workers.org 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 . . . |

RT (2020-05-12). PROPAGANDA has diminished the Soviet Union\'s role in victory over fascism — Russian foreign minister. rt.com The White House shocked the internet on May 8 when it posted a now-infamous tweet declaring the USA and the UK as the victors of World War II, omitting the USSR. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes propaganda is to blame. | Speaking at a press conference, Lavrov recalled how, at the Holocaust Forum in January, US Vice President Mike Pence forgot that the Soviets liberated Auschwitz. | \"To be frank, it doesn\'t surprise me to hear such things,\" he said, following an online meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers. \"It\'s not because we suspect that any particular politician is deliberately obscuring hi…

Dr. Steven Shapiro (2020-05-12). Chief Medical Officer for 40-Hospital UPMC Network Trashes the Case for Continued Lockdown in Senate Hearing. anti-empire.com 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…

The Canary (2020-05-12). How the four UK nations and Ireland are approaching lockdown. thecanary.co 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 — and the Republic of Ireland — differ in their approach to exiting the restrictive regime which was imposed across the board on 23 March. | — England | Everyone has a role to…

RT (2020-05-12). Gunmen attack MSF-backed hospital in Kabul, witnesses report suicide bombing & civilians trapped inside. rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). \'I feel terrible\': Bill Gates says he warned Trump of pandemic threat in 2016, regrets not doing more. rt.com 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…

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2020-05-12). The War Against the Wolves of Alaska. counterpunch.org 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…

RT (2020-05-12). Suicide blast at funeral of Afghan police commander in Nangarhar \'kills, wounds dozens\' — reports. rt.com Some 40 people are believed \"to have been killed or wounded\" in a suicide blast on Tuesday at the funeral of a police commander in Afghanistan\'s eastern province of Nangarhar, according to Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the local government. The attacker detonated his explosives in the middle of the ceremony, Khogyani said. | At least 10 people were killed in the attack, TASS said, citing a report by Afghanistan\'s Ariana News TV channel. | No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Nangarhar, a province near the Pakistan border, has long been a stronghold for both Islamic State (IS, former…

Philipp Bagus (2020-05-12). The Lockdown Crisis Is Driving the EU to the Brink. anti-empire.com The eurozone is a gigantic machine of monetary 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…

Eds. (2020-05-12). Genocide and Military Occupation: The five most important keys to the Guaidó-Silvercorp contract. mronline.org 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.

Teresa Gutierrez (2020-05-12). Political Prisoners Teach-In: Mumia, migrant rights and cages. workers.org 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 . . . |

Dave Welsh (2020-05-12). Survival of our public postal service threatened. workers.org 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 — without success. The strike resulted in creation of an independent U.S. Postal . . . |

Robert Hunziker (2020-05-12). The Wet-Bulb Peril Has Arrived… Way Too Early. counterpunch.org 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

Dan Kovalik (2020-05-12). Finding Hope in Times of Despair: New World is Possible. counterpunch.org \"For me, I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.\" — Winston Churchill We are living in seemingly very dark times. I don\'t need to tell you that. You know. We are all living through a pandemic, the likes of which few of us, if any, have ever seen

CP Editor (2020-05-12). Trump Is Using COVID-19 As An Excuse To Let Polluters Destroy. counterpunch.org …

Dean Baker (2020-05-12). The Pandemic\'s Catastrophic Hit to the Labor Market. counterpunch.org 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

RT (2020-05-12). 'Is it Kylie Jenner?' Mexico star accidentally posts NAKED snaps with topless model (PHOTOS). rt.com 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 (2020-05-12). Six big lies you have been told about \'Russiagate\'. rt.com 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

RT (2020-05-12). Six big lies you have been told about Russiagate. rt.com \'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

RT (2020-05-12). Biden says \'responsible\' journalists have duty to investigate Reade claims… yet will not authorize opening his archives. rt.com \"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\" — but refuses to open sought-after archives. | The former vice president joined Good Morning America on Tuesday to once again deny the allegations of sexual assault brought against him by former staff assistant Reade. \"I think women should be believed,\" Biden said. \"They should have an opportunity to have their case and state it forthright, what their case is.\" | The presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party…

Staff (2020-05-12). Trump Is Using COVID-19 As An Excuse To Let Polluters Destroy The Earth. therealnews.com Trump\'s former coal lobbyist EPA administrator is letting oil, gas, and coal take advantage of the global pandemic.

Staff (2020-05-12). Stir Crazy! Episode #32: Don\'t Make Us Regret This! therealnews.com 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.

Lauren Kuhlik (2020-05-12). During COVID-19 Crisis, We Must Prioritize the Release of Pregnant People. aclu.org This piece was first published on

Mark Gruenberg (2020-05-12). COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada zero. Why? peoplesworld.org 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, …

RT (2020-05-12). \'Current health crisis revealed ideological bankruptcy of our leaders\': Marine Le Pen slams govt as France eases quarantine. rt.com 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…

Matt Sedlar (2020-05-12). Etazini vle depà≤te yon gwo asasen an Ayiti. cepr.net 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 …

Prabir Purkayastha (2020-05-12). Disease capitalism and COVID-19: Hunger in the belly of the beast. mronline.org 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.

Mark Gruenberg (2020-05-12). COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada 0. Why? peoplesworld.org 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, …

RT (2020-05-12). Test or 2-week quarantine: Iceland plans to ease restrictions on international visitors\' arrivals. rt.com 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.

Bahia Mahmud Awah (2020-05-12). Saharawi political prisoner Bachir Khada: \"I only dream of my freedom\" peoplesdispatch.org 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…

RT (2020-05-12). Android apps with more than 4.2 BILLION downloads leaked user data through Google\'s Firebase — study. rt.com Some 24,000 Android applications have been leaking sensitive data — including mobile phone numbers and passwords — through improperly configured storage on Google\'s Firebase development platform, a new study has found. | The critical lack of security was

Susan Price (2020-05-12). Ecuador\'s neoliberal war on public sector worsens COVID-19 catastrophe. greenleft.org.au

Susan Price (2020-05-12). Tax-havened companies bailed out while poverty doubles amidst pandemic. greenleft.org.au

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2020-05-12). US lowers threat perception on Iran. iranian.com The drawdown of US military presence in the Middle East, especially from Saudi Arabia, may not be an automatic open sesame — to borrow the magical phrase in the story of \"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves\"— leading to the hidden treasure of regional peace and stability, but it does open up a tantalising vista that is …

Vanessa Beeley (2020-05-12). SND Live with Vanessa Beeley. thealtworld.com 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\".

Fight Back (2020-05-12). Leaders from sanctioned countries condemn U.S. sanctions amid COVID-19 pandemic. fightbacknews.org 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Germany: Far-Right Encourages Radical Anti-Confinement Protests. telesurenglish.net 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: | \"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…

Project Censored (2020-05-12). Kent State 50th with Mickey Huff. projectcensored.org 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Bolivia Police Repress Protesters That Can\'t Afford Lockdown. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-12). Unions in UK protest bid by P&O Ferries to lay off 1,100 workers. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Bolivia: Inmates Riot Due to COVID Outbreak in Prison. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

John Buell (2020-05-12). Why Unemployment under Trump is way worse than Numbers Suggest. zcomm.org \"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.\"

ISDBICC (2020-05-12). [Research Paper] Mapping of variations in child stunting, wasting and underweight within the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000—2017. thelancet.com 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.

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-12). Duque used Colombia\'s peace funds to pay for presidential approval poll. colombiareports.com 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….

Orinoco Tribune (2020-05-12). Cuba Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Its Fight Against COVID-19. globalresearch.ca 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 …

sputniknews (2020-05-12). NATO Chief Urges Berlin to \'Protect Peace and Freedom\' by Stationing US Nukes. sputniknews.com 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.

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Hondurans Stranded in Spain Ask to Return to Their Country. telesurenglish.net At least 235 Honduran citizens with few economic resources are trapped in Spain and living in a very critical situation. | RELATED: | \"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. | \"They have been without pay for more than two months and they no longer have money. They need to return to Honduras because they have their families…

Dan Bacher (2020-05-12). New California oil permits rose 7.8% in 2020\'s first quarter as oil prices plunged. indybay.org 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.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Hashd al-Sha\'abi captures 15 ISIL members in Iraq\'s Nineveh. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Iraq\'s Popular Mobilization Units, also known as Hashd al-Sha\'abi forces managed to capture 15 ISIL members in Iraq\'s Nineveh Governorate during the Ramadan operation.

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Saudi Arabia Takes Austere Economic Measures Amid COVID-19. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Maria Paez Victor (2020-05-12). What If Armed Terrorists Threatened the Prime Minister of Canada? counterpunch.org 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 — let\'s call it Statesland — intent on taking over

Andrea Woods (2020-05-12). Dallas County Officials are Leaving Vulnerable People to Catch COVID-19 in Jail. aclu.org 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 — for meals, downtime, sleeping, bathing, everything — Mr. Bailey knew that he…

Fight Back (2020-05-12). Jacksonville demands justice for Ahmaud Arbery, justice for all victims of racist terror. fightbacknews.org Jacksonville, FL — A crowd of more than 200 people, practicing social distancing and mostly wearing face masks, gathered in front of the Duval County courthouse, May 8, in response to the brutal murder of Ahmaud Arbery in nearby Brunswick, Georgia. The Jacksonville Community Action Committee (JCAC), Northside Coalition, and the New Florida Majority put the demonstration of solidarity together; UNF Students for A Democratic Society (SDS) was represented as well. Even community members from Brunswick, where Arbery was killed, drove down to attend the demonstration. | Several speakers shared their thoughts, re…

Fight Back (2020-05-12). Court hears appeal of dismissed lawsuit by family of man killed by Salt Lake police. fightbacknews.org 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…

Tom Tomorrow (2020-05-12). The Media Is \'Both-Sides\'-ing the Coronavirus Disaster. thenation.com The Media Is \'Both-Sides\'-ing the Coronavirus Disaster…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Iran sends 1st medical aid to Tajikistan to fight coronavirus. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Iran has sent the first medical aid to Tajikistan to help the country in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday.

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Brazil: Native Communities Face Rise in COVID-Related Deaths. telesurenglish.net Brazil\'s Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) reported a COVID-19 related cases. | RELATED: | 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…

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-12). America\'s Percentage of World\'s Coronavirus Cases Is Now Declining, but America\'s libertarian policies on coronavirus remain catastrophic. strategic-culture.org Eric ZUESSE | At At the start of the day on May 10th, the U.S. had

Farooque Chowdhury (2020-05-12). COVID-19 Pandemic: Time for Bold programs from the Left to Help the People. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

Roger Harris (2020-05-12). Biden Ridin\' the Pandemic to the White House, Trump to Take Hit for Neoliberalism\'s Failures. counterpunch.org 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

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). VIDEO: 1,100 foodstuff packages distributed in Quchan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Some 1,100 foodstuff packages as part of the \'Equality and Sincere Assistance Maneuver\' have been distributed among needy people amid the coronavirus pandemic in Quchan in Khorasan Razavi province.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). UNICEF ships fifth cargo of protective supplies to Iran amid COVID-19 outbreak. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — The United Nations Children\'s Fund (UNICEF) has delivered the fifth consignment of supplies to Iran to help the country in the fight against the coronavirus, according to Iran\'s deputy health minister.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). View Intl. Quds Day\'s rally online via Instagram program, other social platforms in English from S. Africa. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — This year\'s International Quds Day will be held online through Instagram program as well as other social networks in English language from S Africa due to the outbreak of coronavirus, COVID-19.

WSWS (2020-05-12). Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf begins unsafe reopening of 37 counties. wsws.org 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.

Lynda Carson (2020-05-12). During COVID-19 pandemic the California Guitar Trio releases a new music video. indybay.org Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Iran coronavirus updates: 1,401 new coronavirus cases, 48 deaths. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Iranian Health Ministry announced on Tuesday that 1,401 new COVID-19 infections have been identified in the country during the past 24 hours.

WSWS (2020-05-12). While coronavirus spreads, lockdowns lifted across Europe. wsws.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-12). Rising number of COVID-19 deaths in Germany\'s retirement and care homes. wsws.org As the German government is effectively ending its coronavirus lockdown, reports about people dying of COVID-19 in retirement and care homes are increasing.

WSWS (2020-05-12). Biden attacks Trump for \"hampering\" the reopening of business. wsws.org 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.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Kremlin spokesman tests positive for coronavirus. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed that he has contracted COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Bharat Dogra (2020-05-12). How pandemics are related to ecological crises. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

The Canary (2020-05-12). Empowering local services is key to fighting virus, says public health expert. thecanary.co 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…

Omer SB, Malani P, del Rio C. (2020-05-12). The COVID-19 Pandemic in the US: A Clinical Update. jamanetwork.com 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 more.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Eid al-Fitr prayers to be held in Tehran if permitted: governor. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Tehran Governor-General Anoushirvan Mohseni-Bandpei announced on Tuesday that the Eid al-Fitr (fasting feast) prayers will be held in the Iranian capital in case the National Committee on Combating Coronavirus issues the permit.

Sinha A. (2020-05-12). King Lear Under COVID-19 Lockdown. jamanetwork.com 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.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Worldwide COVID-19 infections climbs to 4.2mn. en.mehrnews.com 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.

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-12). A World Health Crisis? — So Ramp Up Confrontation and Deploy Nuclear Bombers. strategic-culture.org The Pentagon is excelling itself in its enthusiastic march to war. There are countless thousands suffering from the effects of the Covid-19 virus, including hundreds of members of the U.S. armed services, while the world\'s despots are relishing their freedom to persecute minorities, and the poor and downtrodden are dying in hideous misery because of starvation and lack of medical care. But the propaganda war against China continues, concurrent with ramping up of anti-China confrontation by Washington in its ongoing deployment of nuclear attack warships and bombers to the Western Pacific and the South China Sea.

Staff (2020-05-12). COVID-19 Took Chicago Black Lives First and Exposed Structural Racism. truthout.org 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Nicaragua Requests OAS Lift Sanctions Due to COVID Crisis. telesurenglish.net Nicaragua\'s representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) demanded on May 11 that sanctions cease against Cuba, Venezuela, and his nation. | RELATED: | 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…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Iran unveils nano-test kit for coronavirus. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — In a ceremony participated by Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari in Shiraz, Fars province, domestically produced nao-test kit for coronavirus was unveiled for the first time in the world.

Bauchner H, Sharfstein J. (2020-05-12). Medical Students and Public Health Service for the COVID-19 Pandemic. jamanetwork.com 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.

Belle Chesler (2020-05-12). Covid-19 Has Made Our Broken School System Worse. thenation.com Covid-19 Has Made Our Broken School System Worse…

Sanders JM, Monogue ML, Jodlowski TZ, et al. (2020-05-12). Pharmacologic Treatments for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). jamanetwork.com 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).

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Iranian researchers attain knowledge of producing corona drugs. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — An official with the Health Ministry said that Iranian researchers managed to attain the technical knowhow and knowledge of producing the novel coronavirus drugs.

Dr. Russell Blaylock (2020-05-12). Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy. globalresearch.ca \"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.\" — Russell Blaylock, MD | Researchers found that about a third of …

Lynda Carson (2020-05-12). Mosser Company is among the landlords facing a rent strike in Oakland. indybay.org Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Coronavirus restrained in many parts of Iran: health min. en.mehrnews.com 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.

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Lebanon to Enter 4-Day Lockdown After Jump in COVID-19 Cases. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Coronavirus may put an end to EU: George Soros. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — The billionaire George Soros has said that the coronavirus could bring about the end of the EU for it is what he called \'an incomplete union\'.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Israeli regime acting against Iran\'s interests amid Covid-19 pandemic: MP. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 11 (MNA) — Chairman of the Iranian Parliament\'s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mojtaba Zonnour said on Tuesday that while the world is distracted with the coronavirus pandemic, the Zionist regime is doing its best to put Iran\'s interests at risk.

Azhar Azam (2020-05-12). China Might be a \"Silver Bullet\" for Countries in the Middle East. Might Jeopardize Relations with Washington. globalresearch.ca 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 Giving a …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). China responds to US allegations about Covid-19. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — In a statement titled as \"Reality Check of US Allegations Against China on COVID-19\", Chinses ministry of foreign affairs responded to allegations of the US politicians and media outlets allegations seeking to shift the blame to China for their inadequate response to COVID-19.

Scott Ritter (2020-05-12). In a world gone mad, China must build MORE NUKES to make disarmament possible. thealtworld.com 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

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-12). France\'s Earlier Detection of COVID-19 Raises Questions on Global Origin. strategic-culture.org 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

Rob Woodward (2020-05-12). Boris Johnson Shifts COVID-19 Blame Game to the Public. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Michael Snyder (2020-05-12). Fragile Economic System: It Is Much Worse Than You Are Being Told. globalresearch.ca 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 …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). FM spox rejects US claims over Tehran\'s delay in prisoner swap. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman strongly rejected a claim put forward by a US official who had said that Iran is delaying the process of the prisoner swap.

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

Colin Todhunter (2020-05-12). The Scourge of Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience. dissidentvoice.org 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…

WSWS (2020-05-12). Polish government forced to call off presidential elections at last minute. wsws.org Polish media reports suggest that panic and chaos now reign in Warsaw.

Ian Cobain (2020-05-12). \"Operation Volute\": Covert UK Propaganda Efforts in Syria May Have Broken UK Law. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Staff (2020-05-12). After 18 Memorial Days of the \"War on Terror,\" Will We Ever Learn? truthout.org \"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 — at least for those of us removed from the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis. Isolated inside a Boston apartment, I typically sought new ways to shake the snow globe, to see the same bubble — the same stuff — differently. | Quarantine has entered a new season. The month of May has brought da…

WSWS (2020-05-12). World Health Organization warns premature return to work risks resurgence of pandemic. wsws.org 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.

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Women, Migrants & Blacks Most Affected by COVID-19 in Latam. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Kuehn BM. (2020-05-12). Despite Gains, Progress Toward TB Elimination Has Slowed. jamanetwork.com 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.

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-12). Colombia\'s farmers claim government lifting import tariffs puts domestic food production at risk. colombiareports.com 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…

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-12). Colombia considering guaranteed minimum income as famine looms. colombiareports.com 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…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). World Council of Churches calls for lifting US sanctions against Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — In a letter to the chairman of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization Ebrahimi Torkaman World Council of Churches (WCC) Acting General Secretary Ioan Sauca said that WCC calls for the lifting of sanctions against the Iranian people.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Leader condoles on martyrdom of navy sailors. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tue. offered his deep condolences on the martyrdom of a number of Navy members in the southern territorial waters.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Serbian president calls for expanding economic relations with Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Serbian President received the credential of Iran\'s new ambassador to Belgrade Rashid Hassanpour on Tuesday and emphasized on promoting cooperation with the Islamic Republic in various fields, especially economy and trade.

Johanna Ross (2020-05-12). UK Government Causes Widespread Confusion with New COVID-19 Guidelines. globalresearch.ca 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 …

WSWS (2020-05-12). Nigeria: COVID-19 compounds economic recession provoked by oil price slump. wsws.org 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.

graham (2020-05-12). Over 5 million people now suffering food insecurity in lockdown. truepublica.org.uk 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 …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-12). Workers\' lives at risk Tesla to resume production in defiance of lockdown rules. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

Mark Taliano (2020-05-12). COVID-19 Scientific Statements Contradict Government Lockdown Policies. globalresearch.ca 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), …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Envoy urges EU for \'practical support\' to JCPOA, multilateralism. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Iran\'s Ambassador to Croatia called on the European countries for a change of approach and adopting practical support to multilateralism and the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Tom Conway (2020-05-12). Why America Cannot Afford to Let the U.S. Postal Service Go Bankrupt. counterpunch.org 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

Raul Diego (2020-05-12). No Stimulus for the Weary: The US is Now Sitting on an Inflation Time Bomb. mintpressnews.com 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.

Telesur (2020-05-12). Cuba to Begin Mass-Scale COVID-19 Testing. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2020-05-12). The Diabolical \"Game\" with Fear as an Instrument of Domination. The Reflex of Obedience. globalresearch.ca 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 — whether medieval popes, modern dictators or so-called philanthropists — …

Mike Adams (2020-05-12). Hundreds of Children Brain Damaged by the Swine Flu Vaccine to Receive $90 Million in Financial Compensation from UK Government. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2020-05-12). The Important \"Plandemic\" Documentary that Has Justifiably Gone \"Viral\" globalresearch.ca 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 …

Dr. Judy Mikovits (2020-05-12). Video: Plandemic Documentary: The Hidden Agenda Behind COVID-19. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Salimah Valiani (2020-05-12). South Africa: COVID-19 Crisis Unmasks Dangers of Profit Oriented Healthcare. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Dr. Judy Mikovits (2020-05-12). Video: Dr. Judy Mikovits Exposes Dr. Fauci For Contradicting Statements On Hydroxychloroquine. globalresearch.ca …

Felix Tih (2020-05-12). Madagascar Slams WHO for Not Endorsing Its Herbal Cure. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Lee Harpin (2020-05-12). UK Jewish Students and Youth Movement Oppose \"Unilateral Annexation of West Bank\" globalresearch.ca 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 …

Prof Rodrigue Tremblay (2020-05-12). Will the Current Serious Economic Recession Evolve into a Full-fledged Global Economic Depression? globalresearch.ca \"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. …

Nina Beety (2020-05-12). Who\'s Protecting the Moon? globalresearch.ca \"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth,\" — Henry David Thoreau | The moon is in trouble. And so are we. | Bruce Gagnon: | NASA is not really looking for the \'origins of …

Kenneth Good (2020-05-12). Cardinal George Pell and the Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in Victoria. counterpunch.org 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,

Sam Pizzigati (2020-05-12). Last Year America\'s CEOs Said They Cared About Us…They Lied. counterpunch.org Last August, the nabobs of Corporate America — the nearly 200 top CEOs who make up the prestigious Business Roundtable — sort of asked for forgiveness. Twenty-two years earlier, the Business Roundtable had released an official policy statement that celebrated the notion that corporations essentially have only one responsibility: to make money for shareholders. Corporate

Project Censored (2020-05-12). The Censorship of Inequality in the Covid-19 Era: How Corporate and Market-Based Metrics Rule the News, and Why it Matters. projectcensored.org 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Cuba Asks the US for Answers on the Attack on Its Embassy. telesurenglish.net Cuba\'s RELATED: | \"Twelve days after the attack, the State Department is complicit…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Thousands Flee Violence in Nigeria, Seek Refuge in Niger: UNHCR. telesurenglish.net 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: | \"We are working closely with authorities in Niger to relocate at least 7,000 refugees to safety … where water, food, shelter, access to he…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Rejection to Genetically Modified Seeds Grows in Bolivia. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Covid-19: Russia Is Second Most Affected Country in the World. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Spain to Close Sea and Air Borders within the Schengen Area. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). At Least 14 People Killed in Afghanistan Hospital Attack. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Italy Includes 11 Women in Its Main COVID-19 Advisory Teams. telesurenglish.net Italy\'s RELATED: | This incorporation is the consequence of the harsh criticism the Italian government has received because of the low number of women…

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Universal Basic Income to Help Most Affected by COVID-19: ECLAC. telesurenglish.net 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: | ECLAC\'s Executive Secretary Alicia Barcena presented at a vi…

WSWS (2020-05-12). Russian court keeps historian of Stalinist massacres jailed amid COVID-19 outbreak. wsws.org 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.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Arms embargo on Iran to expire on Oct.: Ulyanov. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Russia\'s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mikhail Ulyanov said the restrictions on the supply of 7 categories of weapons to Iran will expire on October 18.

Michael K. Smith (2020-05-12). Joe Biden Suffers Massive Stroke! dissidentvoice.org 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 …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Iran, Pakistan discuss border security on phone. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Chief of Staff of Iran\'s Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri and Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army General Qamar Javed Bajwa held a phone conversation on the security of borders and latest regional developments.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Lebanon buys copyright of Iranian book \'Boxer\'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — The copyright of the picture book, \"Boxer\" was sold to Dar Al-Hadaeq, the Lebanon-based Publications.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Trump administration\'s incompetence putting intolerable burden on nurses. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 10 (MNA) — The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman lambasted the administration of US President Donald Trump for incompetency in protecting its frontline nurses in the battle against COVID-19 pandemic.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Iran Parl. to address motion against Israeli regime\'s hostile measures. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — An Iranian lawmaker said that the Parliament will address a double urgency motion today on the required actions against hostile measures adopted by the Israeli regime.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). UNICEF delivers flood relief cargo to Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — The United Nations Children\'s Fund (UNICEF) has delivered a 32-ton cargo of flood relief equipment to Iran to help the country overcome challenges by heavy precipitations.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Funeral processions of 19 martyrs of Iranian Navy. en.mehrnews.com KONARAK, May 12 (MNA) — Funeral processions of 19 martyrs of Iranian Navy was held on Tuesday in Konarak County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province. Iranian Navy announced Monday that the naval mishap for its light vessel in Konarak has led to the martyrdom of 19 and wounding of 15 personnel.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Headlines of Iranian dailies on May 12. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Mehr News takes a look at the headlines of Iranian dailies on Tuesday, May 12.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). VIDEO: Inverted tulips in Zanjan. en.mehrnews.com ZANJAN, May 12 (MNA) — The fritillaria imperialis tulips, known as inverted tulips, have now blossomed in the mountainous areas of Zanjan, western Iran. The flower sprouts on the plains of Iran since the middle of March. The full bloom of this flower is spectacular, but the flower\'s lifespan is short.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Front pages of Iran international dailies on May 12. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Here are the front pages of Iran-based international newspapers on Tuesday, May 12,…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Iranian futsal winger Tayyebi on Benfica\'s radar. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — According to a report, Portugal\'s S.L. Benfica is trying to sign with Iranian futsal player Hossein Tayyebi for the next season.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Iranian police seize over 22 tons of narcotics in a week. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Iran\'s anti-narcotics police forces have busted over 22 tons of illicit drugs in the country in the last week, according to an official.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Need to be prepared for post-corona period by taking constructive plan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that \"we should prepare ourselves for post-corona period and decisive and constructive measures should be taken in this field.\"

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). EU must take decisive action to maintain JCPOA balance: envoy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to Brussels Ghoamhossein Dehghani said on Tue. that the European Union [EU], as one of parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] that benefits from all its aspects, must take decisive action to maintain balance of JCPOA.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). MPs chant \'Down with Israel\' after initial endorsement of anti-Zionism motion. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Iranian lawmakers approved the double-urgency of a motion which, if eventually endorsed, will oblige the Iranian government to take certain measures against hostile measures of the Israeli regime.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Police bust 4.2 tons of opium in Iranshahr. en.mehrnews.com ZAHEDAN, May 12 (MNA) — The anti-narcotic forces of Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran, have captured over 4,000 kilograms of opium in a single operation in Iranshahr.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Iran urges US to correct its behavior instead of making excuses. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the US government should correct its behavior instead of making excuses.

WSWS (2020-05-12). 19 Iranian sailors killed in live-fire exercise. wsws.org 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.

Peter Bolton (2020-05-12). Obama\'s halo is slipping, and that\'s a good thing. thecanary.co One of the major chapters in the so-called

Staff (2020-05-12). Trump Labor Dept. Pushes States to Help Employers Report Workers Who Stay Home. truthout.org With the stated goal of rooting out \"

Staff (2020-05-12). New York City\'s Budget Must Stop Robbing Our Children to Pay the NYPD. truthout.org It\'s that time of year again — New York City\'s budget process is underway. Unfortunately, the

Staff (2020-05-12). Ignoring Trump and Right-Wing Think Tanks, Red States Expand Vote by Mail. truthout.org 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…

Staff (2020-05-12). Pharmaceutical Company Pushes New, Unproven COVID Treatment Drug. truthout.org The patient arrives in the emergency department breathing three to four times faster than normal — a physiologic response to the lungs\' inability to transmit sufficient oxygen to the body. It creates a sensation one might feel if they were drowning. She looks scared. Desperate. I introduce myself as an emergency medicine physician and try to reassure her that she\'ll feel more comfortable with the supplemental oxygen the nurse is busily setting up. | The patient has already been diagnosed with COVID-…

Kate Oh (2020-05-12). President Trump\'s Assault On Inspectors General Threatens Our Civil Liberties. aclu.org 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

WSWS (2020-05-12). Detroit autoworkers oppose rush to reopen plants as COVID-19 death toll rises. wsws.org 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.

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

Anish R (2020-05-12). We don\'t need empty praise: Nurses\' unions demand better protection, rights. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

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

Fight Back (2020-05-12). Minneapolis vigil honors Carlos Ernesto Escobar-Mejia, first person to die of COVID-19 in ICE detention. fightbacknews.org 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…

Fight Back (2020-05-12). Minnesota Nurses Association plans to march on the State Capitol to demand safety for nurses. fightbacknews.org 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…

commondreams (2020-05-12). House Unveils New COVID-19 Relief Package Draft With Loopholes for Fossil Fuel Corporations. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Thierry Meyssan (2020-05-12). La transformation des sociétés à l\'occasion du Covid-19 annonce la militarisation de l\'Europe. thealtworld.com 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…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-12). Serbian housing rights collective organizes relief work for COVID-19. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-12). Halting conflict globally is the only way to effectively tackle COVID-19, says report. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

PPAFVL (2020-05-12). Latinx Communities & Accessing Reproductive Health Care During COVID-19. indybay.org Online via Instagram livestream…

WSWS (2020-05-12). Governments worldwide respond to COVID-19 by saving profits, not lives. wsws.org 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.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-12). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Maintaining routine vaccine schedules during COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 …

James K. Galbraith (2020-05-12). We need a radically different model to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. zcomm.org 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 more…

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

| 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…

Monique Ryser (2020-05-12). Corona: US military develops rapid Covid-19 test. indybay.org \"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.

WSWS (2020-05-12). In criminal pursuit of profits, Tesla CEO Elon Musk restarts production at California facility. wsws.org 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.

WSWS (2020-05-12). UK COVID-19 death rate far higher in working class. wsws.org Millions of workers employed in what the ONS terms \"elementary\" jobs, including cleaners and low-skilled construction workers, had the highest risk of death.

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-12). Mountains Of Evidence Show COVID-19 Was All Over The World Oct/Nov 2019, Why Is It Being Ignored? thelastamericanvagabond.com 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 …

The Canary (2020-05-12). Herd immunity for Covid-19 is a \'dangerous\' concept says World Health Organisation. thecanary.co 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 — such as babies before they reach the age at which they can be immunised. | Asked about the concept being applied to the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO said \"no-one is safe until ev…

WSWS (2020-05-12). Australian Labor Party exploits pandemic to scapegoat foreign workers. wsws.org 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.

Matt Sedlar (2020-05-12). Consumer Price Index Plunges 0.8 Percent, Core Falls 0.4 Percent. cepr.net 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 …

Corey Robin (2020-05-12). The Pandemic is the Time to Resurrect the Public University. zcomm.org 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…

Dean Baker (2020-05-12). Pandemic Causes Loss of 20,500,000 Jobs, Unemployment at 14.7 Percent. zcomm.org 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…

NationAction (2020-05-12). Fight Mass Incarceration Amidst the Pandemic. thenation.com Fight Mass Incarceration Amidst the Pandemic…

WSWS (2020-05-12). US nursing students discuss impact of the pandemic on medical education. wsws.org 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.

NationAction (2020-05-12). Fight Mass Incarceration Amid the Pandemic. thenation.com Fight Mass Incarceration Amid the Pandemic…

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Deadly suicide attack targets funeral in Afghanistan\'s Nangarhar. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 10 (MNA) — A suicide bomber in eastern Afghanistan killed and wounded at least 50 men on Tuesday in an attack on the funeral of a police commander attended by government officials and a member of parliament, officials said.

en.mehrnews (2020-05-12). Afghanistan\'s Ghani, Abdullah reach power-sharing agreement: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, his political rival, have reached a deal to form a unity government, a source in the presidential palace said on Monday.

WSWS (2020-05-12). Trump crony appointed as new head of US Postal Service. wsws.org 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.

graham (2020-05-12). WATCH: Prof Ashton — The beginning of the end of Boris Johnson? truepublica.org.uk This is a government of slogans, where confusion now reigns. As Brexit crashes down the list of important policies and is replaced with public health, priorities towards key workers, education, policing and the economy — all behind tackling the C19 crisis, Boris Johnson is losing his new found base in the North, where casualties are …

graham (2020-05-12). Britain\'s political-media complex in the COVID-19 war. truepublica.org.uk 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 …

Prerss TV (2020-05-12). US must stop acting callously, let Iranian hostages go: Foreign Ministry. iranian.com 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 …

teleSUR (2020-05-12). Brazil: Bolsonaro Says Gyms, Salons are \'Essential Activities\'. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

sputniknews (2020-05-12). Indian Markets Nosedive in Opening Trade as Spike in COVID-19 Cases Continues. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). Russia to Consider Caracas\' Request for Help in Probe of Invasion If Asked – Lavrov. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). Russia, Turkey Carry Out 10th Joint Patrolling in Syria\'s Idlib — MoD. sputniknews.com SARAQIB, Syria (Sputnik) – The Russian and Turkish military on Tuesday conducted the tenth joint patrol along the M4 highway in Syria\'s northern Idlib de-escalation zone, the Russian Defence Ministry\'s centre for the reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria said in a statement on Tuesday.

sputniknews (2020-05-12). Ex-Russian Public Health Chief Slams Reports on Russia\'s Low COVID-19 Death Toll as Hype. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov Hospitalised with COVID-19. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). WHO Says US and Brazil Failed to Take Warnings About Virus Outbreak Seriously From the Start. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). Back to Normal? Scenes of Daily Life in Europe as Countries Start Lifting Coronavirus Restrictions. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). Oxfam Calls Efforts to Reach Global Ceasefire Amid Coronavirus \'Catastrophic Failure\'. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). From Shah Rukh To Sonu Sood, Bollywood Stars Actively Help Lockdown-Affected Indians Get Going. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). US Commits $3.6 Million to Assist India with Rapid COVID-19 Testing. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). Stand-off Between Indian, Chinese Troops Escalates as Fighter Jet, Helicopters Scramble in Ladakh. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). US, UK Poisoning Ties With China, Basing COVID-19 Responses On \'Politics, Not Science\', Author Says. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). Church Vandalised in Pakistan Allegedly by Armed Men Over Land Dispute – Video. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). US Mercenaries Went Ahead With Venezuela Invasion Despite Being Outed on TV Weeks Earlier — Video. sputniknews.com The fallout continues from \'Operation Gideon\', the brazen May 3-4 attempt by a US security contractor to invade Venezuela, kidnap its president and take him back to the United States. The White House remains in damage control mode, denying any responsibility for the plot while seeking to bring the captured US mercenaries involved back home.

sputniknews (2020-05-12). Israeli Soldier Killed by a Rock in West Bank Raid is First IDF Casualty of 2020. sputniknews.com 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 (2020-05-12). Russian Federal Security Service Detains Man Planning to Set Gov\'t Buildings on Fire in Tver Region. sputniknews.com The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Tuesday announced the prevention of a terrorist attack in the city of Kimry, in Tver Region.

sputniknews (2020-05-12). Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Holds Press Conference After CIS Foreign Ministers\' Meeting – Video. sputniknews.com 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.

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2020-05-12). House Democrats Denounced for Covid-19 Relief Bill That Leaves \'Door Wide Open\' for Fossil Fuel Bailouts. commondreams.org 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 …

Julia Conley, staff writer (2020-05-12). Warning Against Swift Reopening of Economy, Fauci Admits Covid-19 Death Toll \'Almost Certainly Higher\' Than Official 80,000. commondreams.org 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 …

yenisafak (2020-05-12). COVID-19: Turkey confirms death of 507 expats. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). Ethiopian minister lauds Turkey for rapid response. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). N. Cyprus slams joint declaration on E. Mediterranean. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). Africa reports over 3,000 new COVID-19 cases. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). Bangladeshi nurses serve frontline amid drawbacks. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). Belgian air carrier to cut jobs, fleet. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). S. Korea sees mass COVID-19 cases linked to night clubs. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). Hard to make vaccines for \'tricky\' coronavirus: UN body. yenisafak.com \"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

yenisafak (2020-05-12). Dubai turns Burj Khalifa into coronavirus charity box. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). Spain to isolate international arrivals, cases stabilize. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). Virus puts Australia on path for largest budget deficit. yenisafak.com 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%

yenisafak (2020-05-12). Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tests positive for coronavirus. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). EU signs contract with Philips on ventilators. yenisafak.com 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 (2020-05-12). Suicide attack targets funeral prayer in Afghanistan. yenisafak.com 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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Quinn-Jacobs (2020-05-11). Saturday, May 16, Second Webinar, 12-1 PM EDT Disarm and Divest During Covid-19. kingsbayplowshares7.org 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…

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

Halah Ahmad (2020-05-11). The Fight for the Democratic Platform on Racial Justice, Palestine. commondreams.org 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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2020-05-11). The Elders Issue Scathing Rebuke of Israel\'s Trump-Approved West Bank Annexation Plan. commondreams.org \"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 …

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

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-11). New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC. strategic-culture.org 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…

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

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

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

Eds. (2020-05-11). Refusing to die for a confusing slogan. mronline.org THE government\'s latest injunction—Stay alert, Control the virus, Save lives—has come under instant criticism as providing ineffective advice.

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

Mark Gruenberg (2020-05-11). Trumka proposes universal federal jobs payments. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Sticking to a here-and-now solution to coronavirus-caused joblessness, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka proposed the federal government guarantee paid employment — by actually shelling out the money — for all workers. Employers would be a pass-through, nothing more. In a 13-minute speech posted on the federation\'s Facebook page, Trumka said that with unemployment at highs …

The Canary (2020-05-11). Rush-hour commuters \'nervous\' after PM eases lockdown measures. thecanary.co 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 — which is normally one of London\'s busiest — during Monday morning\'s rush-hour, with only a few dozen walking through the main concourse at any one time.It came after prime minister Boris Johnson

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

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

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

RT (2020-05-11). \'Arrest me\': Elon Musk DEFIES Covid-19 quarantine by reopening Tesla plant in California. rt.com 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 I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it onl…

The Canary (2020-05-11). Key points from the PM\'s address to the nation. thecanary.co 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…

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

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

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

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

Patrick Anderson (2020-05-11). The Execution of Julian Assange. mintpressnews.com 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 After a decade of being shuttled from house arrest to confinement in an embassy to Belmarsh Prison to, if the United States government ge…

Raul Diego (2020-05-11). The US Keeps Trying, and Failing, to Deport a Former CIA Operative Back to Haiti. mintpressnews.com Emmanuel \"Toto\" Constant was supposed to board an ICE deportation flight along with 100 other Haitian nationals in what is the third such flight the Trump administration has carried out to Haiti in the last several weeks.

Julie Hollar (2020-05-11). New York State tries to suspend Democracy; NYT and WaPo shrug. mronline.org 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.

RT (2020-05-11). \'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 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 (2020-05-11). \'Binders full of women' anyone? Biden blasted for 'calendar model' VP search. rt.com 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

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

RT (2020-05-11). Huawei goes FULL WOKE with black \'Covid-19 misinformation\' panel to battle White House criticism. rt.com The US branch of Chinese tech giant Huawei has chosen a stunning and brave new public relations strategy to combat criticism, announcing web events with black journalists, environmentalists and women in technology. | Arguing that Covid-19 misinformation is \"hitting African American, Asian, Hispanic, rural & low-income Americans hard,\" Huawei USA announced a May 13 event with musician will.i.am and CNN contributor and former Obama adviser Van Jones — among others — hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists. | #Misinformation on

teleSUR (2020-05-11). US-Based Advisers From Guaido\'s Team Quit Over Foiled Coup Plot. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-11). Chomsky, Sanders, Others Launch Progressive International. telesurenglish.net 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: | \"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…

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2020-05-11). Rights Groups Work to Stop \'Unnecessary and Potentially Disenfranchising Purges\' of Voter Rolls in Pennsylvania. commondreams.org 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 …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-11). Iraqis seek justice for murdered protesters, political transformation. peoplesdispatch.org 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.

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-11). Fresh protests in Iraq demand elections, justice for those killed by security forces. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-11). Bolivia: Citizens Protest Against De Facto Government. telesurenglish.net Bolivian citizens protested in many cities on Monday against coup-born government and its health crisis management. | RELATED: | 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…

Fight Back (2020-05-11). Minnesota: Life of Jaffort Smith honored, demand justice for man murdered by St. Paul police. fightbacknews.org 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…

Fight Back (2020-05-11). Tampa Bay SDS demands justice for Ahmaud Arbery. fightbacknews.org \"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…

Martin Begemann, Jan Seidel, Luise Poustka, Hannelore Ehrenreich (2020-05-11). Accumulated environmental risk in young refugees — A prospective evaluation. thelancet.com Young refugees, arriving in hosting countries with alarming \'risk burden\', should be considered as highly vulnerable towards development of global functional deficits, behavioral abnormalities, and neuropsychiatric disorders. Rapid proactive integration or sustainable support of those who will return to rebuild their countries are mandatory.

Jessica Corbett (2020-05-11). Fears of Bolsonaro\'s Threat to the Amazon Realized as New Data Shows Rainforest Destruction Up 55%. globalresearch.ca \"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 …

news.un (2020-05-11). UN peacekeepers killed in improvised explosive attack in Mali. news.un.org 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.

teleSUR (2020-05-11). Yemen\'s Aden Declared \'Infested\' as COVID-19 Cases Jump. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Maximilian Werner (2020-05-11). An Irrational Fear of Predators Drives Utah Politics. counterpunch.org 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

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-11). 6 months after the civic-military coup in Bolivia, Evo Morales denounces setbacks. peoplesdispatch.org 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\"

Leonardo Flores (2020-05-11). The Botched Infiltration of Venezuela Leaves Guaidó Tainted Beyond Repair. mintpressnews.com 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.

Fight Back (2020-05-11). Philippines: 5 peasants killed by police and military in Sorsogon Massacre. fightbacknews.org 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-11). UN Condemns Killings of Ex-FARC, Social Leaders in Colombia. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Nanjala Nyabola (2020-05-11). Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus. thenation.com Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus…

teleSUR (2020-05-11). France Begins Deconfinement with Strict Measures for Paris. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

The Canary (2020-05-11). London boroughs to collaborate on project to feed the vulnerable. thecanary.co 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…

news.un (2020-05-11). \'Urgency to act\' for sustainable development, greater than ever as coronavirus pandemic continues. news.un.org 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).

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

news.un (2020-05-11). UN issues \'wake-up call\': Don\'t sideline AIDS response during COVID-19 crisis. news.un.org 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.

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-11). Colombia fails to regulate local coronavirus lockdown exemption plan. colombiareports.com 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…

Musuk Nolte, The Nation, Magnum Foundation (2020-05-11). Covid-19 Is Forcing an Exodus From Peru\'s Cities. thenation.com Musuk Nolte, The Nation, Magnum Foundation Covid-19 Is Forcing an Exodus From Peru\'s Cities…

Children\'s Health Defense (2020-05-11). Video: Here\'s Why Bill Gates Wants Indemnity for Vaccines — Are You Willing to Take the Risk? globalresearch.ca Why are the world\'s top vaccine promoters, like Paul Offit and Peter Hotez, frantically warning us about the unique and frightening dangers inherent in developing a coronavirus vaccine? | Scientists first attempted to develop coronavirus vaccines after China\'s 2002 …

teleSUR (2020-05-11). China: New COVID-19 Outbreak Spreads Concern. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-11). UK: Johnson Criticized for Opening Economy Amid Pandemic. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Alex Lantier (2020-05-11). Macron Government Ending France\'s Coronavirus Lockdown Beginning this Monday. globalresearch.ca 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 …

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

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-11). Bolsonaro Is Facilitating U.S. Intervention in Latin America. strategic-culture.org 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 In retaliation for suggesting health measures to avoid the pandemic spreading, Bo…

Alastair Crooke (2020-05-11). On the Battleground of the Virus, The Fox Laughs Last. thealtworld.com The story of the Coronavirus in the West exposes our hidden fragility of presuming upon life to be both secure — and predictable. | U.S. professor of history at John Hopkins University, Mike Vlahos, in a series of

news.un (2020-05-11). Tedros highlights complex challenges posed by COVID-19 resurgence, following easing of lockdowns. news.un.org 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.

teleSUR (2020-05-11). China Sent Medical Aid to Zimbabwe. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Promise Li, Esther K (2020-05-11). Chinatowns Must Radicalize to Survive. thenation.com Chinatowns Must Radicalize to Survive…

Matt Sedlar (2020-05-11). Mothers on the Frontlines of a Pandemic Need More than Flowers. cepr.net 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 — 7.5 million — are also …

Richard Falk (2020-05-11). Acknowledging Disorientation After COVID-19: Beyond Horizons of Fear and Doubt. globalresearch.ca 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, …

news.un (2020-05-11). Battle \'not yet over\' against locust invasions in East Africa and Yemen. news.un.org 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.

commondreams (2020-05-11). 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 ______________________________…

Finian Cunningham (2020-05-11). From WWII to COVID-19 Denial. thealtworld.com 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…

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

Christopher Black (2020-05-11). May 9th World War II Commemoration: Russian Victory, NATO Defeat. globalresearch.ca 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 …

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

Fréa Lockley (2020-05-11). Boris Johnson just drew a line in the sand for class war. thecanary.co On 10 May, Boris Johnson gave a pre-recorded

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-11). How Much Are You Prepared to Pay for Your \'Free\' Press? Arab Media Wars Are Driving Us All Towards Twitter. strategic-culture.org In the coming months, it is likely that more Arab media titles in the region will fold following the financial crisis and the vociferous media wars which they conduct which are costly and self-defeating. How do you like your fake news? With or without a media banner? | World Press Day passed like a thief in the night in the Arab world. It\'s largely seen as something lauded by western countries who use it to chastise what they see as backward countries with authoritarian leaders who only know the one model of journalism in their countries: pay-as-you-go. | Or, if you like, the advanced version of the state dictati…

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-11). ICC looking into Colombia\'s private sector terrorism support: report. colombiareports.com 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-11). Colombia: Avianca Airlines Declares Bankruptcy Due to COVID-19. telesurenglish.net Colombian airline Avianca announced Sunday that they are declaring bankruptcy after an 80% income drop due to the health crisis. | RELATED: | 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…

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-11). Colombia\'s military to surrender illegal spying evidence to prosecution. colombiareports.com 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,…

Gordon Duff (2020-05-11). Will COVID Crack America\'s Racist Egg? thealtworld.com 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…

Leonardo Flores (2020-05-11). Botched Infiltration of Venezuela Leaves Guaid√≥ Tainted Beyond Repair. commondreams.org 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 …

John Krzyzaniak (2020-05-11). Nuclear Weapons: The Anatomy of a U.S. STRATCOM \"Disinfographic\" globalresearch.ca United States Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for the nation\'s nuclear weapons, recently released an

Roger D. Harris (2020-05-11). Joe Biden is Ridin\' the Pandemic All the Way to the White House. mintpressnews.com A ruling class consensus is coalescing that Trump will be the fall guy, blamed for the increasingly undeniable defects of the neoliberal model.

The Global Research Team (2020-05-11). Global Research: Breaking Down Divisions and Building Dialogue. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2020-05-11). The Cost of Big Pharma\'s COVID-19 Vaccine Will be Paid in Lives and in Billions of Dollars. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Prof Susan Babbitt (2020-05-11). Bees and the \"Eternally Not Talked About\" globalresearch.ca 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 …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-11). Israeli Troops Shoot, Injure and Abduct Two Palestinian Youths. imemc.org 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 …

PCHR (2020-05-11). PCHR: In the Context of Israel\'s Policy of Collective Punishment, Occupation Forces Demolish Home of Palestinian Detainee\'s Family in Ramallah. imemc.org 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 & Agencies (2020-05-11). Palestinian PM Seeks to Counter Israel\'s Threats over Prisoners\' Monthly Allowances. imemc.org 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 News (2020-05-11). Undercover Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 13 Palestinians In Silwan. imemc.org 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 …

Ali Salam (2020-05-11). Palestinian Worker Shot, Injured by Israeli Forces in West Bank. imemc.org 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, …

Henry Giroux (2020-05-11). Radical Politics and Pandemic Nightmares. counterpunch.org 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

Thomas Klikauer — Nadine Campbell (2020-05-11). The Politics of Framing and the Framing of Politics. counterpunch.org We know how to frame from picture framing, and we also know the frame in which a picture is placed can influence how we see a picture. Well, virtually the same thing applies to politics. The way in which politics is framed can influence how we perceive politics. Social scientists have known about this for

John Feffer (2020-05-11). Debunking Trump\'s Nonsense. counterpunch.org 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

Leonard C. Goodman (2020-05-11). Once Again, Congress Will Let Wall Street Pillage Main Street. counterpunch.org 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

CP Editor (2020-05-11). Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee. counterpunch.org …

Michael Arney (2020-05-11). COVID-19 election question: Can absentee voting preserve democracy? peoplesworld.org …

teleSUR (2020-05-11). Venezuela Captures 14 Mercenaries in the Last 24 Hours. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan State Security Forces captured In the last 24 hours a total of 14 mercenaries involved in an armed maritime incursion. | RELATED: | \"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…

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

teleSUR (2020-05-11). Bahrain Blocks Event Criticizing Normalization With Israel. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-11). HIV Deaths Could Double in Sub-Saharan Africa Due to COVID-19. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

teleSUR (2020-05-11). Iran: Military Vessel Accident Leaves 19 Dead and 15 Injured. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Paul Craig Roberts (2020-05-11). Brazilian Interview with PCR Concerning Brazil\'s Economic Policy. thealtworld.com 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. |

Trudy Hess (2020-05-11). Senator Nina Turner has something to Share! peoplesparty.org has something to share! | I\'m happy to say that after her courageous show of support last weekend, Senator Nina Turner will be joining us on a National Call soon. She wanted me to let you know she\'s been watching our movement with admiration for some time. | SNT has a history of standing up for what is right, even in the face of immense pressure and adversity. She is not afraid to stand up for bold new ideas. | | Justice for Ahmaud Arbery | Join the call at 8 pm ET on May 13. |

Shanna Hanbury (2020-05-11). Studies Reveal Climate Tipping Points Could Be Here Much Sooner Than We Thought. commondreams.org 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 …

Yves Engler (2020-05-11). Planet of the Humans Backlash. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

commondreams (2020-05-11). Vote Climate U.S. PAC Urges Americans to Vote Climate and Vote-by-Mail. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Staff (2020-05-11). Trump Judge Argues the Government Can Execute People Any Way It Wants. truthout.org As we noted in April, President Donald Trump has appointed a staggering number of judges to the federal bench, including The success of these judicial nominees, it turns out, is in part attributable to cold, hard cash — or donations to members of the…

Staff (2020-05-11). Pence Insists on No Masks at Public Meeting Despite His Staffer Testing Positive. truthout.org On Friday evening, Katie Miller, the press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence (and spouse of Trump adviser Stephen Miller), 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…

Staff (2020-05-11). Trump Admin Wants to Cut Social Security in Exchange for Direct COVID Payments. truthout.org Suddenly concerned about the growing national debt now that corporations have secured access to

Billy Easley (2020-05-11). Our Privacy is on the Clock. aclu.org This piece originally appeared in

Derrick Broze (2020-05-11). This Is Why You Can\'t Trust The Fact Checkers. thelastamericanvagabond.com 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 …

James Zogby (2020-05-11). The End of US Empire: Covid-19 Exposes Once-Great Superpower as Epic Failure. commondreams.org 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 …

P.E. Moskowitz (2020-05-11). One Hospital System\'s Response to Covid-19? Union-Busting. thenation.com One Hospital System\'s Response to Covid-19? Union-Busting.

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-11). US continues deportation of Haitians tested positive of COVID-19. peoplesdispatch.org 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…

Fight Back (2020-05-11). Wisconsin: COVID — 19 outbreaks at Brown County meat packing plants show hypocrisy of \"essential worker\" designation. fightbacknews.org Green Bay, WI – While Wisconsin business owners and their political allies claimed local COVID-19 cases were on the decline and pressed to repeal Governor Ever\'s Safer at Home order, manufacturing plants in Brown County were experiencing a huge outbreak of the deadly viral disease amongst the workers. Cases at three meatpacking plants – JBS Packerland, American Foods Group, and Salm Partners – have accounted for over half of the county\'s cases, even as the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union fought for and won vital hazard pay, safer working conditions, and personal protection equipment (PPE) for its…

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-11). Doctors Speak Out About COVID 19 & The Violent Suppression Of Your Rights. thelastamericanvagabond.com 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 …

Linda Wiggins-Chavis (2020-05-11). We Also Face a Pandemic of Racism. progressive.org COVID-19 sheds light on America\'s systemic oppression of people of color.

news.un (2020-05-11). UN officials call for release of detained Palestinian children amid pandemic. news.un.org 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.

splcenter (2020-05-11). SPLC fights to keep children out of juvenile detention, other confined settings during pandemic. splcenter.org …

graham (2020-05-11). Bank of England secret bail out of big business — over £100bn committed in 3 weeks. truepublica.org.uk By TruePublica: While small and independent businesses are struggling to survive, the Bank of England is creating billions in new money to bail out Britain\'s biggest companies — in secret. As public money, we deserve to know where this is being spent, and which companies are receiving it. As part of their activities to …

Eleanor J. Bader (2020-05-11). College Faculty Are Speaking Out Against Billionaire Donors. progressive.org Resignations from a growing number of professors bring attention to the undue influence of deep-pocketed donors like Charles Koch.

Anne Khodabandeh (2020-05-11). Coronavirus gives Albanian PM Edi Rama unique opportunity to control MEK. iranian.com A petition addressed to Albania\'s Prime Minister Edi Rama has reached over ten thousand signatures. The petition was created by estranged families who need help to contact their loved ones trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) cult\'s closed camp \'Ashraf 3\' in Albania. The families are demanding that PM Rama ensures they get this contact. …

Tasnim News (2020-05-11). Iran\'s Chabahar Sees 15-Fold Rise in Basic Commodity Arrivals. iranian.com Iran\'s import of basic commodities in the current Iranian year —a period of around 7 weeks- via the southeastern port city of Chabahar has risen by more than 15 times compared to the corresponding period a year earlier, an official said. Director general of the Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization of Iran in the southeastern …

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2020-05-11). As Covid-19 Devastates Already Struggling Industry, New Blueprint Sets Forth Bold Vision to Save Local Journalism. commondreams.org As the coronavirus pandemic continued to devastate local news outlets across the United States—even as some have seen audience and subscription boosts—the group Free Press Action on Monday unveiled a proposal to provide crucial financial relief to newsrooms and reporters while envisioning a more sustainable future for the industry. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12220862621.jpg …

Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2020-05-11). \'Why Me, Specifically?\' Says Asian-American Reporter After Trump Tells Her to \'Ask China\' About Testing. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/wh_lawn.jpg …

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2020-05-11). \'Time for a Major Shift\': Groups Demand Biden Vow End to Endless Wars and Destructive US Foreign Policy. commondreams.org In a letter Monday to former Vice President Joe Biden, over 50 groups urged the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president to embrace \"a principled foreign policy, one that prioritizes diplomacy and multilateralism over militarism.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1192534199.png …

Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2020-05-11). Despite Haitians Who Tested Positive for Covid-19 Given Last-Minute Reprieve, Dems Demand Total Moratorium on Deportations During Pandemic. commondreams.org \"Deporting people to Haiti in the midst of a global pandemic is both inhumane and unsafe.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/ice_7.jpeg …

Howie Hawkins (2020-05-10). Fight COVID-19 Not Venezuela. dissidentvoice.org The Keystone Cops have nothing on the rag-tag group of soldiers of fortune who failed earlier this week in their implausible plot to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, trigger a military coup, and install the US puppet, Juan Guaidó, in the presidency. We know all about the hair-brained scheme due to a falling out of …

teleSUR (2020-05-10). Iran Slams Failed US Incursion to Overthrow Venezuelan Leader. telesurenglish.net The Islamic Republic of Iran categorically rejected the U.S.-led armed incursion into Venezuela, which was intended to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. | RELATED: | Iran\'s Foreign Ministry called on Washington to stop meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, now and forever, while also ending their inhuman blockade of these countries. | \"The terrible report on the failed U.S.-led terrorist plo…

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-10). Russian Journalists Accuse NY Times of Stealing Stories That Earned It Pulitzer Prize — for Second Time. strategic-culture.org The New York Times has apparently stolen its Pulitzer Prize-winning stories from Russian journalists — the same liberal anti-Putin reporters its correspondents have lionized | Ben NORTON | The New York Times has been accused for a second time of stealing major scoops from Russian journalists. One of those stories won the Times a Pulitzer Prize this May. | The journalists who have accused the Times of taking their work without credit also happen to be the same liberal media crusaders against Vladimir Putin that Western correspondents at the Times and other mainstream outlets have cast as persecuted heroes.

Ali Salam (2020-05-10). European Committee: \"Concrete Measures\" Needed to Counter Israel\'s Annexation Plans. imemc.org The European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP), expressed concerns, last week, over Israel\'s planned annexation of the occupied West Bank, in a letter sent to the European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. The committee criticized the inaction of …

RT (2020-05-10). Trump to blame — again! Atlanta mayor pins controversial shooting of Ahmaud Arbery on WH \'rhetoric\' giving \'permission to racists\'. rt.com Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has used the controversial shooting of Ahmaud Arbery to attack the \"rhetoric\" being used by US President Donald Trump and his administration. | \"It\'s 2020 and this was a \'lynching\' of an African American man,\" Bottoms told CNN on Sunday about the case of Arbery, a black jogger who was allegedly chased and killed by two white men in Georgia at the end of February. | Arbery\'s case has gained national attention mainly due to the fact that murder charges were not filed until a cellphone video showing the 25-year-old man being confronted went viral in recent days. Gregory McMichae…

The Canary (2020-05-10). Government faces new legal challenge over \'recurrent and systemic\' PPE failures. thecanary.co A legal challenge demanding an immediate inquiry into the government failure to provide adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline staff has been issued by health professionals.They say that action must be taken quickly so that \"lessons can be learnt\" from the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis to help shape future responses, should the UK be hit by further waves of the virus.A pre-action letter sent by the Doctor\'s Association UK (DA) and the Good Law Project (GLP), who are bringing the challenge, details a list of \"recurrent and systemic\" failures in PPE procurement and supply.The list includes the la…

RT (2020-05-10). \'Plans to be at WH tomorrow\': Pence\'s office DENIES he's self-isolating over Covid-19 fears. rt.com Spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence has refuted media reports the official was planning to enter self-quarantine after one of his aids tested positive for the coronavirus. | \"Vice President Pence will continue to follow the advice of the White House Medical Unit & is not in quarantine. Additionally, VP Pence has tested negative every single day & plans to be at the White House tomorrow,\" Pence spokesperson Devin O\'Malley said Sunday, shortly after Bloomberg reported that he would be staying away from public duties after one of his advisers tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday | BREAKING scoop: Vice Pr…

The Canary (2020-05-10). Doctor with passion for photography captures hospital\'s coronavirus experience. thecanary.co A doctor on the coronavirus front line has refocused his passion for photography to document his hospital\'s battle with the virus.Tuck Goh, who always carries a small camera in his pocket, has been capturing candid shots of his colleagues in the emergency department of the Ulster Hospital near Belfast as they respond to the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis.Goh, an associate specialist who has worked in the hospital\'s ED for 23 years, has travelled extensively pursuing his lifetime love of street photography.At the outset of the pandemic, as the hospital undertook a major reconfiguration in preparation for the virus\'

The Canary (2020-05-10). Government\'s new coronavirus slogan draws widespread scorn. thecanary.co The government\'s new slogan for the next phase in the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19)has drawn a lot of scorn, and a certain amount of praise.After the successful bluntness of the shutdown message of \"stay at home, save lives, protect the NHS\", Britons are now set to be asked to \"stay alert, control the virus, save lives\".Top-selling Harry Potter author JK Rowling immediately hit out by saying: \"Is Coronavirus sneaking around in a fake moustache and glasses? If we drop our guard, will it slip us a Micky Finn? What the hell is \'stay alert\' supposed to mean?\" | Is Coronavirus sneaking around in a fake moustach…

RT (2020-05-10). CNN\'s Stelter LOSING IT over Flynn news shows depths media will go to divert attention away from stories they DON\'T LIKE. rt.com CNN\'s Brian Stelter got plenty of attention when he lost it on air over \"right-wing media\" paying too much attention to Michael Flynn and not enough to Covid-19 — and ramming the message home by likening it to 9/11 \"every day.\"

Steve Topple (2020-05-10). Starmer just doubled down on a disastrous weekend of coronavirus pledges. thecanary.co It might be possible that Keir Starmer has a Miley Cyrus song stuck in his head. Either that, or he really is taking a leaf out of Boris Johnson\'s \'crisis management\' book. Because either way, the Labour leader has managed to take a wrecking ball to the party\'s coronavirus (Covid-19) position in the space of just over 24 hours. | On Saturday…: | First off, as The Canary previously

Tom Coburg (2020-05-10). Coronavirus data contractors engaged in dirty tricks and disinformation campaigns. thecanary.co A number of coronavirus (Covid-19) datasets are currently being re-organised by the NHS into a single \'datastore\'. These datasets include sensitive health details of potentially everyone in the UK. To assist in this, Healthtech, a UK government blog, explains that the government

Vincent Tsai and Camden Goetz (2020-05-10). New York pandemic spending favors wealthy over workers. liberationnews.org New York politicians have recently barreled forward with plans for massive cuts to public spending.

RT (2020-05-10). Trump WON\'T bail out states, but could help cover \'unexpected\' costs of Covid-19 lockdown — adviser. rt.com US President Donald Trump is open to compensating hard-hit states for expenses incurred in their Covid-19 responses — but isn\'t looking at complete bailouts, his economic adviser said, after Congress was asked to send aid. | \"Of course if we go to a phase-four deal, I think President Trump has signaled that, while he doesn\'t want to bail out the states, he\'s willing to help cover some of the unexpected Covid expenses that might have come their way,\" White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told CNN. | In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the federal government…

RT (2020-05-10). Elon Musk resorts to insults in RUSSIAN to defend capitalism. rt.com As Elon Musk sues Californian authorities for stopping a Tesla factory from reopening, he has found a somewhat novel way of dealing with his critics — dismissing them with short Russian insults. | The target of Musk\'s Cyrillic ire is Robert Reich, an economist and labor secretary under the Clinton administration. A well-known proponent of fairer distribution of wealth, Reich shared a story about the Tesla CEO\'s plans for legal action in the Golden State with the comment: \"Elon Musk threatens to take away people\'s jobs unless he\'s allowed to risk their health. Capitalism at its worst.\" | Elon Musk threate…

RT (2020-05-10). NYC more than doubles number of \'social-distancing ambassadors\' after cops\' enforcement of Covid-19 rules causes backlash. rt.com Following troubling viral videos of arrests and concerns about racial disparity in enforcing Covid-19-related social distancing, Mayor Bill De Blasio says he is increasing \"ambassadors\" in the city from 1,000 to 2,300. | \"Enforcement has always been the last resort,\" the mayor said at a press conference Sunday. | His comment comes in the wake of the city having come under increased scrutiny thanks to a viral video, of what some have flagged as police brutality, showing NYPD officers arresting several people suspected of breaking social-distancing rules, and also to statistics showing the last few months have s…

teleSUR (2020-05-10). Indigenous Protest as KXL Pipeline Construction Begins. telesurenglish.net Indigenous rights defenders protested last week with a virtual banner ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äãas major oil company TC Energy Corporation (formerly TransCanada Corporation) started placing pipes in the ground despite legal challenges to its pipeline project. | RELATED: | \"Not Today. Not Tomorrow. Not Ever. No KXL. Mni Wiconi,\" read the ban…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-10). COVID-19 Has Exposed Collapse of American Dream: V. peoplesdispatch.org As the world struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic and distancing becomes the new normal, loneliness and the lack of touch has emerged as one of the greatest losses, says activist and playwright V…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-05-10). Two Palestinian Youths Shot, Wounded by Israeli Army Fire in Hebron. imemc.org Palestinian media sources reported, on Sunday, that Israeli troops, stationed around the Alfawwar refugee camp in southern Hebron city in the West Bank, opened fire towards local Palestinian youths, injuring at least two of them. The sources said that the Israeli army\'s fire came amidst protests by angry youths, at …

teleSUR (2020-05-10). 3 Mercenaries Arrested in Venezuela With Ties to Foiled Coup. telesurenglish.net Venezuela\'s government announced Sunday that its Special Forces apprehended three mercenaries with ties to the foiled May 3 plot in the northern state of Aragua, which borders Caracas. | RELATED: | The detainees were identified as First Lieutenant Jairo Betemy, Army Second Sergeant Franco Jonathan, and Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) First Sergeant Evan Rincon, who are now in the custody of the corresponding authorities.

Ricardo Vaz (2020-05-10). [UPDATED] Venezuela Makes Fresh Arrests as Opposition Splinters over Failed Coup. venezuelanalysis.com Trump said the operation \"was not a good attack,\" again denying any US involvement.

Steve Topple (2020-05-10). Nicola Sturgeon just blew a key Johnson coronavirus claim wide open. thecanary.co Just as Boris Johnson Stay what…?: | On Sunday 10 May, Twitter was

Fight Back (2020-05-10). Demands placed on Mayor Lightfoot to address impact of pandemic, economic crisis on Chicago students. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Close to 400,000 students in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) are in their seventh week of remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this haze of attempting to teach the children of Chicago one thing is becoming crystal clear: disparity. According to NBC Chicago 52% of coronavirus deaths are of African American people and 25% are Latinos. Working-class African American and Latino neighborhoods on the South and West Sides are being hit much harder than predominantly white neighborhoods downtown and on the North Side. | This disparity is being felt in \'schools.\' Remote learning is impossible w…

teleSUR (2020-05-10). WHO Halts Activities in Houthis-Controlled Areas in Yemen. telesurenglish.net The World Health Organization (WHO) halted Saturday its activities in Yemen\'s areas controlled by the Houthis in order to pressure the group \"to be more transparent about suspected coronavirus cases,\" Reuters reported Sunday. | RELATED: | An order was sent to staff in Sanaa, the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, the northern province of Saada, and the central province of Ibb, to stop \"all movements, meetings, or any other activity,\" until further not…

The Canary (2020-05-10). Devolved leaders and Sage scientist challenge Johnson\'s new \'stay alert\' slogan. thecanary.co Boris Johnson risks giving people the green light to socialise and jeopardising the gains made by the coronavirus lockdown in dropping the \"stay home\" slogan, a scientist advising the government has said. | Behavioural expert Professor Susan Michie, who is a member of the scientific advisory group for emergencies (SAGE), said Johnson\'s new messaging is \"a long way\" from being clear and consistent. | Johnson is dropping his \"stay home, protect the NHS, save lives\" slogan in favour of \"stay alert, control the virus and save lives\" as he seeks to get people back to work. | Scientists belonging to SAGE, like the devo…

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-10). Trump Hails Defeat of Fascism as He Paves War With China. strategic-culture.org The memory of those who gave their lives in the historic defeat of Nazi fascism could not be more insulted than this: U.S. President Donald Trump this week hailed the 75th anniversary marking the fall of the Third Reich, while at the same time embarking on a reckless war path with China. | Trump is accusing China of responsibility for the Covid-19 pandemic which has ravaged the world and the United States in particular. With the world\'s highest number of deaths from the disease and the U.S. economy facing ruination, Trump is angrily trying to scapegoat China for the crisis, rather than being held to account for t…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-10). Victory Day and the continuing battle against Fascism. peoplesdispatch.org Victory Day marks the surrender of Nazi Germany during World War II. However, today, Neo-Nazi movements continue to thrive in Europe even as there are concerted attempts to deny the role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Germany. The people, however, are in the forefront of the struggle against these groups.

news.un (2020-05-10). Moving towards 100% renewable power in Hawaii (with a little help from sheep). news.un.org The US island state of Hawaii has committed to generating 100 per cent of its power using renewable energy by 2045, demonstrating to other US states and island communities across the world, that sustainable energy can be a reality. UN News travelled to Hawaii with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to talk to a power company executive and a sheep farmer to find out how they are contributing to that goal.

Ali Salam (2020-05-10). Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure 2 Palestinians in Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli forces, on Saturday, fired towards Palestinian citizens in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, wounding two young men, Quds News Network reported. Morad Eshteiwi, Coordinator of the Popular Resistance in Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, said that Israeli troops shot and wounded two Palestinian youths, during confrontations after Israeli forces …

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