2020-05-16: Social Media Postees

Please be social by posting these \'POSTEES\' on social media! (Copy the text of the postee below, then paste it on social media and the story images will also appear.)

Missing the Context of De Blasio\'s \'Jewish Community\' Tweet
Ari Paul | fair.org | 2020-05-16
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio\'s tweet ( 4/28/20) to \"the Jewish community.\" | Time for a Yiddish lesson: Shanda, meaning a shame or disgrace; a scandal. | Right-wing voices throughout the media thought they found one with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio\'s tweet ( 4/28/20) about a Hasidic funeral that violated Covid-19 social-distancing rules. But their shoddy coverage was the real shanda. | The background is this: Some Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, members of a strictly Ort…
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Global Capitalism, \"World Government\" and the Corona Crisis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. | The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. (President Dwight D. Eisenhower | …
globalresearch.ca/global-capitalism-world-government-and-the-corona-crisis/5712312

Global Capitalism, \"World Government\" and the Corona Crisis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. (President Dwight D. Eisenhower | …
globalresearch.ca/global-capitalism-world-government-and-the-corona-crisis/5712312

The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is \"Agenda ID2020\"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
WHO has most likely received orders from \"above\", from those people who also manage Trump and the \"leaders\" (sic) of the EU, European Union. The final decision to go ahead NOW with COVID-19 pandemic, was taken in January 2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos – behind very much closed doors.
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-effects-real-danger-agenda-id2020/5706153

On Nakba Day, Palestinians vow to continue resistance
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-16
May 15 is the anniversary of the Nakba, which means catastrophe or disaster. The day marks the forced exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes during the formation of Israel in 1948. This year, despite the COVID-19 quarantine, Palestinians across the world will mark the Nakba. Despite Netanyahu\'s apartheid policies and Trump\'s fradulent deal of the century, the resistance of the people of Palestine continues.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/16/on-nakba-day-palestinians-vow-to-continue-resistance/

US University Leading COVID Response Leaves Black Workers Behind
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-16
On May Day, food service workers led a socially distanced protest at the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, taking part in the international day of action to defend workers and highlight the disparate impact COVID-19 is having across the country. Donning masks, the workers read the names of their 188 colleagues who have been laid off amid the pandemic, 98 percent of whom are Black, according to UNITE HERE…
truthout.org/articles/us-university-leading-covid-response-leaves-black-workers-behind/

Protest at Fort Mason Against CCSF Cuts
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
People young and old protest CCSF cuts in programs that benefit seniors, immigrants and working people.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/15/18833052.php

[Comment] Offline: Don\'t let COVID-19 divert us completely
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-05-16
Dr Robert Spencer, a trustee of Dr Edward Jenner\'s House, Garden and Museum in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, wrote to me last week on the 40th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox (May 8). He was polite but disappointed: \"On this day in 1980 the WHO announced the eradication of smallpox from the world. This infection, which probably caused more deaths than any other disease, was finally condemned to the history books. Sorry to see you had no space in this week\'s edition of The Lancet to commemorate this milestone, especially at a time of COVID-19 pandemic.\" Dr Spencer was right to admonish me.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31130-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] Reviving the US CDC
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-05-16
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen in the USA with 1 ∑3 million cases and an estimated death toll of 80‚Äà684 as of May 12. States that were initially the hardest hit, such as New York and New Jersey, have decelerated the rate of infections and deaths after the implementation of 2 months of lockdown. However, the emergence of new outbreaks in Minnesota, where the stay-at-home order is set to lift in mid-May, and Iowa, which did not enact any restrictions on movement or commerce, has prompted pointed new questions about the inconsistent and incoherent national response to the COVID-19…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31140-5/fulltext?rss=yes

Al-Nujaba calls on Iraqi emulation sources to condemn Saudis\' insult to Shahid al-Muhandis
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Washington places Cuba and Venezuela on \"terror\" list
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
After fostering an abortive mercenary invasion aimed at overthrowing Venezuela\'s government and murdering its president, the US placed Caracas on a list of governments deemed uncooperative in the \"war on terrorism.\"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/cuba-m16.html

Venezuela calls on UK government to \'abandon coup-mongering plans\' after The Canary\'s investigation
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2020-05-16
Following an investigation by The Canary, the Venezuelan government has formally called on the UK to \"abandon Washington\'s coup-mongering plans and any destabilizing initiative\". | Venezuela Reconstruction Unit: | On 13 May, The Canary revealed the existence of a specialist unit within the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) dedicated to the \'reconstruction\' of Venezuela. Files obtained un…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/16/venezuela-calls-on-uk-government-to-abandon-coup-mongering-plans-after-the-canarys-investigation/

MP warns about relocation of ISIL terrorists to Iraq
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Trump Wants to Cut Off China in Guilt-Projection Meltdown
Finian Cunningham | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-16
China involved in pandemic cover-up? That\'s the most audacious American guilt-projection since the \"War on Terror\". | So President Trump, the self-declared business genius, wants to cut off the whole relationship with China and \"save America $500 billion a year\". That\'s what he told Fox News this week in an interview referring to the US trade deficit with China. The fault of the chronic US trade deficit with China (and much of the world), like that of the Covid-19 crisis in America, is classic 3-D Trump: dissembli…

Trump Wants to Cut Off China in Guilt-Projection Meltdown

Iran\'s COVID-19 cases surpass 118,000
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Worsening conditions at Hirdaramani garment plants in Sri Lanka
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
Sri Lankan apparel manufacturers have responded to the COVID-19 crisis with a wave of wage and job cuts and the imposition of increased working hours and productivity targets.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/sril-m16.html

Covid-19 infects above 4.6mn globally
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Russia\'s biggest automaker to jump-start production next week
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Major Russian car manufacturer AvtoVAZ has announced that after more than a two-week shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic it will resume production on May 18. | \"Due to the virus situation, work will be organized according to a safe schedule to avoid crowds of people in transport and at checkpoints. The start of shifts on the assembly lines and office staff work schedules will be timed,\" the company said. Starting from June 29, AvtoVAZ will switch over to a four-day work week. | Production of cars at AvtoVAZ was suspended from April 29 due to the spread of coronavirus infection in Russia, which led to a drop…
rt.com/business/488789-avtovaz-car-production-restart/

With private prison outbreak, Tennessee county leads US in per capita COVID-19 cases
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
More than half of the 2,400 inmates at the CoreCivic Trousdale Turner Correctional Center have tested positive for coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/core-m16.html

Dispatch from the Frontlines: Gender Inequality and COVID-19 (CPCC)
Congressional Progressive Caucus Ctr & others | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
Online livestream & Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833009.php

Hundreds of workers walk out at six fruit packing plants in Washington state
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
Located in the county with the highest COVID-19 infection rate in the state, the agricultural workers are demanding companies provide adequate personal protective equipment, hazard pay and safe working conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/yaki-m16.html

The murderous pseudoscience of \"herd immunity\"
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
Foreign Affairs has published an article endorsing a policy of allowing large portions of the world\'s population to be infected with COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/pers-m16.html

Senior police officer accused of \'one rule for him, and one rule for the rest of us\' after travelling to family home
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-16
A senior British Transport Police (BTP) officer has come under fire after he travelled from Glasgow to his family home in Yorkshire during lockdown.BTP confirmed chief superintendent Eddie Wylie returned to Yorkshire from his rented flat in Glasgow on two occasions between 21 March and 13 May, but said he did not breach Covid-19 regulations.It said that on both occasions he travelled home alone and by car to minimise any possible exposure to others.But Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the journeys suggest Wylie \"believes there is one rule for him, and one rule for the rest of us\", and the officers has…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/16/senior-police-officer-accused-of-one-rule-for-him-and-one-rule-for-the-rest-of-us-after-travelling-to-family-home/

House Democrats push through $3 TRILLION Covid-19 relief bill as GOP puts up resistance to \'progressive wishlist\'
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Democratic lawmakers have passed a massive $3 trillion coronavirus aid package, the largest bill to ever move through Congress, but the Senate is likely to block the law, with Republicans deeming it a progressive \"wishlist.\" | The 1,800-page bill passed 208-199 on Friday in a vote largely along party lines, with all but 14 Democrats voting in its favor, joined by a single GOP rep

Overwhelming opposition to reopening of UK schools amid worsening COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
The closure of schools is a key measure recommended by medical experts internationally to reduce the infection and death rate from the coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/scho-m16.html

War-loving \'propaganda machine\' & \'neoliberal economics\' driving humanity toward \'omnicidal destruction,\' Roger Waters tells RT
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Mankind is headed for annihilation unless societies reject unjust economic systems and media war propaganda, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters told RT, noting that the Covid-19 crisis could serve as a much-needed wake-up call. | \"Clearly what Covid-19 has told us all is that in order to face a common enemy, like a virulent virus, we\'re going to need to cooperate, to act together… as a global community,\" Waters told RT\'s Rick Sanchez on Friday. | If we don\'t cooperate, we\'re all dead. The planet\'s over. We\'re heading for the cliff of omnicidal destruction of everything. So will this be a wake-up call? I hope…
rt.com/news/488838-roger-waters-humanity-destruction/

Biggest change in 231 years: Citing Covid-19, US House of Representatives adopts proxy votes & remote meetings in party-line vote
rt.com | 2020-05-16
The US House of Representatives will allow members to cast votes for up to 10 others and hold hearings remotely. Billed as temporary due to the coronavirus outbreak, the rule change is the most radical in over two centuries. | The new rules passed on Friday evening in a 217-189 vote, with three Democrats and one Independent joining the Republicans in bipartisan opposition. | Democrats, who currently control the chamber, pushed for the change this week, calling it \"a common-sense solution to an unprecedented crisis that demands our ingenuity and adaptability as an institution,\" in the words of House Majority Le…
rt.com/usa/488835-us-house-democrats-proxy-vote/

Talks underway between Iran, Iraq to reopen Mehran border crossing amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Trump threatens to cut all ties with China
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
The US president\'s phony allegations–that China failed to prevent COVID-19 becoming a global pandemic–have been integrated into Washington\'s trade war measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/usch-m16.html

U.S. blocks vote on UN\'s bid for global ceasefire amid COVID-19
teleSUR Desk | mronline.org | 2020-05-16
The U.S. veto trashes the UN\'s efforts to convince armed factions in more than a dozen countries to call for temporary truces as the world battles the pandemic.
mronline.org/2020/05/16/u-s-blocks-vote-on-uns-bid-for-global-ceasefire-amid-covid-19/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-blocks-vote-on-uns-bid-for-global-ceasefire-amid-covid-19

\'Camera off, mask off?\' CNN reporter blasted for removing mask seconds after end of WH press briefing
rt.com | 2020-05-16
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins has been accused of Covid-19 theatrics, as she was caught hastily removing her face mask after a White House briefing. Collins has criticized Donald Trump for not wearing masks in public. | Despite the president\'s \'masks are optional\' policy at White House briefings, the CNN journalist, like most of her colleagues, wore one during the press event on Friday. | However, when Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany walked off the podium, Collins wasted no time in taking off the protective item as she brushed past other people in the room

Moscow hits lowest daily Covid-19 cases mark since early May, with 3,505 infections recorded
rt.com | 2020-05-16
The Russian capital, which accounts for a half of all Covid-19 cases and deaths in the country, has reported the lowest new daily infections number since early May. | Some 3,505 new Covid-19 cases were confirmed in Moscow on Saturday. This has become the minimum daily rate in the city since the beginning of May, the capital\'s operational headquarters for monitoring the pandemic reported. | The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the capital has now reached 138,969. According to the officials, in the third decade of April, an average of 2,700 to 2,800 cases were recorded every day in Moscow. As the t…
rt.com/russia/488853-moscow-coronavirus-infected-sobyanin/

One dead and more than 600 Irish meat processing workers infected with coronavirus
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
There are 23,956 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Republic of Ireland and 1,518 deaths–one of the highest death ratios in the world. In Northern Ireland, 4,317 people have tested positive, with 469 deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/meir-m16.html

Mississippi: Workers at Brentwood Originals pillow factory continue walkouts
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
The walkouts at the Mississippi pillow factory are part of a wave of wildcat strikes and other job actions across the United States and internationally by workers demanding protection from COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/bren-m16.html

Hospital Workers Report Failures by Management to Notify Them of COVID Exposures
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-16
Dinah Jimenez assumed a world-class hospital would be better prepared than a chowder house to inform workers when they had been exposed to a deadly virus. | So, when her boyfriend, an employee of a popular seafood restaurant in Seattle, received a call from his boss on a Sunday in late March telling him a co-worker had tested positive for COVID-19 and that he needed to quarantine for 14 days, she said she assumed she\'d get a similar call from the University of Washington Medical Center. A…
truthout.org/articles/hospital-workers-report-failures-by-management-to-notify-them-of-covid-exposures/

Cuba\'s Resilience Through Economic Crisis Prepared It for COVID Health Crisis
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-16
In times of crisis, who we are is revealed. That is true of people and of nations. What COVID-19 has exposed

\'Propaganda machine says it\'s OK for there to be Bezos & Zuckerberg\': Roger Waters tells RT how media shields Covid-19 villains
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Mankind is headed for annihilation unless societies reject unjust economic systems and media war propaganda, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters told RT, noting that the Covid-19 crisis could serve as a much-needed wake-up call. | \"Clearly what Covid-19 has told us all is that in order to face a common enemy, like a virulent virus, we\'re going to need to cooperate, to act together… as a global community,\" Waters told RT\'s Rick Sanchez on Friday. | If we don\'t cooperate, we\'re all dead. The planet\'s over. We\'re heading for the cliff of omnicidal destruction of everything. So will this be a wake-up call? I hope…
rt.com/news/488838-roger-waters-humanity-destruction/

COVID-19: Military steps up repression in war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
The government and the military are nervous about the growing unrest among workers and poor against the draconian social conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/nort-m16.html

How Covid-19 Is Affecting Military Families
Andrea Mazzarino | thenation.com | 2020-05-16
How Covid-19 Is Affecting Military Families…
thenation.com/article/society/how-covid-19-is-affecting-military-families/

Lack of Empathy Equates to a Lack of Leadership Skills
Wayne Madsen | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-16
Trump never has and never will experience empathy and thousands of Americans and others have died and are dying because of it, Wayne Madsen writes. | U.S. Army Field Manual 6-22, titled \"Leadership Development,\" states that the ability to show empathy toward others is a key factor in exhibiting Army leadership qualities. Donald Trump, who is ordering all 1000 graduating U.S. Army cadets at West Point back to campus on June 13 from sheltering at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, does not possess the leadership skills that have been drilled into each of the new Army Second Lieutenants who will be present for Tr…

Lack of Empathy Equates to a Lack of Leadership Skills

Iran condemns US\' coronavirus blame game against China
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

U.S. Sanctions: The Weaponization of the Global Financial System
IFCSS | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
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indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833018.php

Herd immunity policy in Turkey risks thousands of new deaths
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
The government is launching a \"normalization\" policy forcing employees back to work over opposition from medical experts.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/turk-m16.html

The CORONAREVAYAT Festival invites public to submit \'corona narrative\' in a variety of forms
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Iran to hold online intl. conf. on Quds to as replacement to rallies
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Leader, university studesnts to meet via videoconference
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Leftists jump the Corporate Democratic ship, leaving Sanders behind
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2020-05-16
History may record that the corporate duopoly dike was finally broken in the Time of Plague, with the defection of Bernie\'s former sheep from the Democratic Party.
mronline.org/2020/05/16/leftists-jump-the-corporate-democratic-ship-leaving-sanders-behind/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leftists-jump-the-corporate-democratic-ship-leaving-sanders-behind

Canadian unions cement anti-worker corporatist alliance with government and big business
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
The unions\' alliance with big business was epitomized by a joint statement from the Canadian Labour Congress and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/trad-m16.html

Speak out against oil drilling in Brentwood
The hills are alive | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
Powerdrive Oil & Gas Company, LLC has submitted an application to drill for oil on agriculturally zoned land in unincorporated Brentwood. Contra Costa County officials have made an preliminary determination against requiring an EIR (Environment Impact Report).
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833008.php

UK government ties Transport for London bailout to \"back to work\" drive
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
TfL, which runs the London Underground, bus and rail services, faced bankruptcy, threatening the Johnson government\'s efforts to restore corporate profits.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/lond-m16.html

Woody Allen\'s A Rainy Day in New York: A little more of an edge than usual
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
Disgracefully, A Rainy Day in New York has been suppressed in the US. The film was completed in 2018, but Amazon Studios refused to distribute it.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/rain-m16.html

Eid al-Fitr prayers to be held all across Iran: Rouhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Schools reopened in Hamedan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Iran\'s OPEC governor passes away after brain haemorrhage
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Front pages of Iran international dailies on May 16
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

\'Unreliable for allies, dangerous for rivals\': Tehran blasts \'mindless\' trio of Trump, Pompeo & US Iran envoy
rt.com | 2020-05-16
A high-ranking Iranian politician has unloaded on three of the top US officials, saying their \"mindless\" behavior paints the US government as being dangerous for rivals, unreliable for allies and incompetent for the people. | Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of Iran\'s Supreme National Security Council took aim at US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook in a series of tweets on Friday. | \"The rule of the incompetent and mindless is only a source of danger,\" Shamkhani said before proceeding to call the Americans by name. | The Trump-Pompeo-Hook triangl…
rt.com/news/488855-iran-trump-pompeo-incompetent-triangle/

Nuclear deal opponents helpless, ignorant: Ulyanov
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

\'incompetent\' Trump-Pompeo-Hook triangle is only a source of threat: Shamkhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Zarif, Zanganeh offer condolences on passing of Iran OPEC governor
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Resistance will terminate fake Israeli regime\'s existence: Amir-Abdollahian
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Headlines of Iranian dailies on May 16
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Parl. National Security Committee ratifies anti-Zionism motion
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Zarif main online speaker of intl. Quds Day on May 22
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

POLAND would gladly host American nukes if Germany refuses, US envoy claims, fanning \'Cuban missile crisis 2.0\'
rt.com | 2020-05-16
As the US ambassador to Germany

Trump vows to strip \'radical left\' of \'TOTAL COMMAND\' over FB, IG, Twitter & Google
rt.com | 2020-05-16
President Donald Trump has vowed to break the \"radical left\'s\" apparent control of social media platforms. Earlier, the president thanked his \"keyboard warriors\" for their support, as they accused the tech firms of censorship. | \"The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google,\" Trump tweeted on Saturday. \"The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation. Stay tuned, and send names & events.\" | t.co/ZQfcfD3Hk9– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) …
rt.com/usa/488860-trump-left-censorship-social-media/

Trump vows to strip \'radical left\' of \'TOTAL COMMAND\' over FB, IG, Twitter & Google
rt.com | 2020-05-16
President Donald Trump has vowed to break the \"radical left\'s\" apparent control of social media platforms. Earlier, the president thanked his \"keyboard warriors\" for their support, as they accused the tech firms of censorship. | \"The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google,\" Trump tweeted on Saturday. \"The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation. Stay tuned, and send names & events.\" | The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google. The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation. Stay tun…
rt.com/usa/488860-trump-left-censorship-social-media/

Intelsat, launcher of 1st commercial communications satellite, files for bankruptcy… it\'s a friend we didn\'t know we had
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Born in the Cold War, powered by rivalry and unhindered by free-market restrictions, Intelsat linked the planet with its satellites

Sekou Odinga: \'The right to struggle by any and all means\'
| workers.org | 2020-05-16
These slightly edited remarks were given April 24 at the \"U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners\" webinar teach-in 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. By Sekou Odinga I\'m a representative of . . . | Continue reading Sekou Odinga: \'The right to struggle by any and all means\' at Workers.org…
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Marc Lamont Hill: \'Outside the logic of the prison\' on Mumia\'s birthday
| workers.org | 2020-05-16
By Marc Lamont Hill These slightly edited remarks were given April 24 at the \"U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners\" webinar teach-in 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. Marc Lamont Hill . . . | Continue reading Marc Lamont Hill: \'Outside the logic of the prison\' on Mumia\'s birthday at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48703/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marc-lamont-hill-outside-the-logic-of-the-prison-on-mumias-birthday

Rashid Johnson: \'Prison has always served a particular political function\'
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-05-16
Remarks were given April 24 at the \"U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners\" webinar teach-in 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. Kevin Rashid Johnson, currently incarcerated in the Pendleton Correctional Facility . . . | Continue reading Rashid Johnson: \'Prison has always served a particular political function\' at Workers.org…
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\'We surrender!\' Roscosmos chief taunts Trump for bragging about \'super-duper\' US missile
rt.com | 2020-05-16
The head of Russia\'s space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, fired off a tongue-in-cheek tweet in response to Donald Trump\'s brag about the uber-powerful missile that he alleges leaves Russian or Chinese analogues far behind. | While unveiling the flag of the Space Force in the Oval Office on Friday, US President Donald Trump made some headline-grabbing remarks. | \"We have no choice. We have to do it, with the adversaries we have out there…I call it the super-duper missile, and I heard the other night [it\'s] 17 times faster than what they have right now,\" Trump bragged. | The US president didn\'t give away a single clu…
rt.com/news/488847-rogozin-trump-super-duper-missile/

Delta Tunnel Forges Ahead in Pandemic: Agreement in Principal Reached for SWP Contract Amendment
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
It is very clear that the Department of Water Resources and water contractors don\'t really care what the public and the people most impacted by the Delta Tunnel think, based on their obsession with pushing the tunnel project through at this time.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833007.php

Prices for basic foods soar in the US as pandemic disrupts supply chains
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
Grocery prices in the country rose 2.6 percent in April, the largest increase in a single month since 1974.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/pric-m16.html

Italy to lift international and domestic travel restrictions in June
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Italy will allow international travel, as well as transit between the country\'s regions, from June 3, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Saturday. | The authorities, however, have not ruled out curbing travel again in some areas

California State University, the largest public university system in the US, closes campuses for the fall semester
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, universities and colleges throughout the US are grappling with the new economic and social reality as uncertainty mounts over reopening campuses in the fall.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/coll-m16.html

Chile\'s government deploys troops in the streets as coronavirus cases soar
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
Ultra-right President Sebastian Piñera has responded to the pandemic, and signs of growing popular resistance, by increasing repressive powers in Chile.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/chil-m16.html

Unemployment soars in New Zealand
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
Having handed tens of billions of dollars to big business, the Labour Party-led government is presiding over an increase in unemployment and social misery on a scale not seen in generations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/nzjc-m16.html

We Can\'t Go Back to Normal: A Moral Respnse to Coronavirus Town Hall (PPC)
Poor People\'s Campaign & MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833013.php

Autoworkers express growing opposition on eve of industry restart
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
New cases of the virus have already emerged at FCA\'s Sterling Heights Assembly this week, even before the plants officially reopen Monday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/auto-m16.html

World Health Assembly Wrestles with Coronavirus
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
As the global coronavirus death toll tops 300,000 people, the leaders of the World Health Organization (WHO) prepare to hold their leadership meetings virtually from May 18th – 19th.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/15/18833051.php

House Passes $3 Trillion Relief Package, But Progressives Say More Must Be Done
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-16
The Democrat majority House of Representatives passed a massive, $3 trillion coronavirus relief stimulus package known as the HEROES Act roughly along party lines on Friday night despite progressive concerns over the bill\'s provisions. | \"The truth is that while a significant step in the right direction, the bill does not go far enough to provide urgently needed economic relief to the millions of people who lost their income and whose families are now standing in food lines,\" Ana Maria Archi…
truthout.org/articles/house-passes-3-trillion-relief-package-but-progressives-say-more-must-be-done/

Coronavirus crisis exposes devastating conditions in the German meat processing industry
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
German slaughterhouses have become coronavirus hotspots, with hundreds of workers, most of them sub-contracted from Eastern Europe, infected with the virus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/meat-m16.html

Can Britain Survive Boris Johnson?
Gary Younge | thenation.com | 2020-05-16
Can Britain Survive Boris Johnson?
thenation.com/article/world/uk-labour-johnson-coronavirus/

US House passes $3 trillion coronavirus \"relief\" bill
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
In a near party-line vote, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a fourth stimulus bill that has no chance of being approved by the Republican-controlled Senate.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/dems-m16.html

#Stop the Money Pipeline: Dump Climate Denier Lee Raymond from Chase Actionar
#StopTheMoneyPipeline and others | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
Online via Zoom | Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsfu6grzkrG9BKn-nueHHbOJCCFNTn5W4B…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/14/18833027.php

Citizens\' Climate Lobby: Virtual Climate Conference 2020 (Day 2)
Citizens\' Climate Lobby | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
Online/virtual conference…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/15/18833049.php

Citizens\' Climate Lobby: Virtual Climate Conference 2020 (Day 1)
Citizens\' Climate Lobby | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
Online/virtual conference…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/15/18833048.php

Intersection of the Climate Crisis & Social Justice Webinar (PPC & CRP)
Poor People\'s Campaign, Climate Reality Proj. | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833015.php

Revolutionary Boiling Point, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-16
~ | Arresting people for future crimes is called \"pre-crime\", and it\'s the stuff of dystopian horror fiction. | Violently dominating an entire planet because another country might hurt yours in the future is called \"US foreign policy\", and it\'s the stuff of mainstream news punditry. | ~ | Saying a US politician is bad on foreign policy but good on domestic policy is a bit like saying \"Yeah my boyfriend murders hitchhikers, but he cooks.\" | ~ | Dominant revolutionary thought consistently fails to adequately appreciate the power of oligarchic propaganda and its ability to manipulate the way people think, act…

Revolutionary Boiling Point, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

\"The Wuhan of the Americas\": U.S. Deports COVID-19-Positive Immigrants to Haiti & Guatemala
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-15
The United States continues to deport thousands during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean. We speak with Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat, who says \"U.S. deportations to Haiti during coronavirus pandemic are \'unconscionable,\'\" and go to Guatemala City for an update from reporter José Alejandro García Escobar.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/15/us_deportations_haiti_guatemala_coronavirus

Democracy At Stake: \"Faithless Electors\" SCOTUS Case Tests If Electoral College Members Can Go Rogue
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-15
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a case that could shape the outcome of future presidential elections. The question at hand was whether Electoral College members can \"go rogue\" and support candidates who did not win the state\'s popular vote. In 2016, one of Colorado\'s nine electors, Michael Baca, attempted to cast his Electoral College ballot for Republican John Kasich instead of Democrat Hillary Clinton. The Colorado secretary of state at the time

\"Can Democracy Survive the Pandemic?\": Election Hangs in the Balance as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-15
The coronavirus pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to the November presidential election, as President Trump and the GOP capitalize on the moment to attack voting rights. We speak with Emily Bazelon, staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, whose new cover story examines the bureaucratic and political challenges of mobilizing widespread vote-by-mail by November. We also speak with Jena Griswold, secretary of state of Colorado, which already has universal vote-by-mail and the second-highest voter turnout in the country.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/15/securing_2020_election_during_pandemic

Venezuela Shows World Under No Less Threat of War After Donald Trump\'s First Term
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-15
When Donald Trump ran for president in the 2016 election, his criticisms of regime change presented a real opportunity for anti-war voices and organizations to demand an end to U.S. regime change wars abroad. That did not happen. In fact, the Trump administration has become even more bellicose amid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. Anti-war forces in the U.S. made the mistake of believing Donald Trump would truly make a difference in the bipartisan war agenda. Venezuela is facing th…
ahtribune.com/world/americas/venezuela/4153-no-less-threat-of-war.html

Massachusetts Contact Tracing Program Handed to Clinton-Linked NGO with Questionable Past
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-15
A new contact tracing program was recently unveiled in Massachusetts in partnership with Partners in Health, an NGO with links to US regime change operations, big pharma and the Clinton Foundation.
mintpressnews.com/massachusetts-contact-tracing-partners-in-health-clinton/267534/

Roaming Charges: Unmasked and Anonymous
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
I\'m hyped for some ObamaGate action, as long as its about things that matter: health care plan designed by Heritage Foundation, bailing out Wall Street, failing to close Gitmo, droning US citizens, Afghan surge, the jailing of whistleblowers and legal harassment of journalists, the Libyan and Honduran coups, mass surveillance, the funding and arming of proxy wars in Yemen and Syria, record deportations, Deepwater Horizon, new nukes (both power plants and weapons), etc…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/roaming-charges-unmasked-and-anonymous/

\'The American friends\': New court files expose Sheldon Adelson\'s security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-15
An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson\'s Las Vegas Sands played in…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/14/american-sheldon-adelsons-us-spy-julian-assange/

Israel Perfecting Surveillance Tech
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Israel\'s external spy organization Mossad and its internal espionage equivalent Shin Bet have reputations that are much larger than their actual successes, but the one area where they have excelled is electronic intelligence gathering. Recent electronic spying around the White …
globalresearch.ca/israel-perfecting-surveillance-tech/5712987

What Happens In the Wake of the COVID-19 Lockdown? Economic Destruction, Global Poverty, Bankruptcies, Mass Unemployment. Neoliberalism to the Rescue
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
In the wake of the lockdown: Bankruptcies and mass unemployment, the economic destabilization of entire countries. | Millions of people have lost their jobs, and their lifelong savings. They are unable to pay their home mortgages. | In developing countries, poverty and …
globalresearch.ca/what-happens-in-the-wake-of-the-covid-19-lockdown-economic-destruction-global-poverty-bankruptcies-mass-unemployment-neoliberalism-to-the-rescue/5707270

Video: Coronavirus: Economic and Social Collapse: Mass Unemployment, Bankruptcy, Poverty and Despair
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
First published on April 16, 2020 | There is a serious health crisis which must be duly resolved. But there is another important dimension which has to be addressed. | Millions of people have lost their jobs, and their lifelong savings. In …
globalresearch.ca/video-corona-virus-economic-and-social-collapse-bankruptcy-debt-and-poverty/5709883

Senator Bernie Sanders Says We Must Be \"Flexible and Aggressive\" to Save Small Businesses
commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/15/senator-bernie-sanders-says-we-must-be-flexible-and-aggressive-save-small?cd-origin=rss

Starving Bolivian workers clash with troops deployed by coup regime
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
Amid the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic in Bolivia, Jeanine àÅñez\'s self-proclaimed \"interim government\" is escalating state repression.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/boli-m15.html

\'Matarife\': Colombia\'s narconovela of the decade?
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-15
Colombia\'s former President Alvaro Uribe is finally getting his own \"narconovela,\" courtesy of the journalist who got the Supreme Court to investigate his alleged rigging of the 2018 elections.
colombiareports.com/matarife-colombias-narconovela-of-the-decade/

\"Faithless Electors\" SCOTUS Case Tests If Electoral College Members Can Go Rogue
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-15
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a case that could shape the outcome of future presidential elections. The question at hand was whether Electoral College members can \"go rogue\" and support candidates who did not win the state\'s popular vote. In 2016, one of Colorado\'s nine electors, Michael Baca, attempted to cast his Electoral College ballot for Republican John Kasich instead of Democrat Hillary Clinton. The Colorado secretary of state at the time

COVID-19 Lockdown Is Liberalism Last Hurrah
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-15
Ode of a Liberal | They passed the USA PATRIOT Act—and I did nothing because I am a patriot. | They passed the USA Freedom Act—and I believe in freedom. | They nominated Hillary Clinton—and I voted for the lesser evil. | They declared medical marshal law—and I didn\'t want to kill grandma. | They said to wear a facemask—and I passively obeyed. | I believe in Joe Biden—because I am a liberal. | In 2010 Chris Hedges declared the liberal class as dead as a doornail. He was late. Liberalism had died decades earlier. All that remains is the separate components of the body of liberalism. The stinking comp…
ahtribune.com/world/covid-19/4151-lockdown-is-liberalism-last-hurrah.html

Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, America\'s Billionaires Thrive and Prosper
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-15
Although most Americans currently face hard times, with unemployment surging to the levels of the Great Depression and enormous numbers of people sick or dying from the coronavirus pandemic, the nation\'s super-rich remain a notable exception. Financially, they are doing remarkably well. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, between March 18 and April 28, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic-americas-billionaires-thrive-and-prosper/

\"My Job Is to Make Syria a Quagmire for the Russians\": CIA Doctrine Made Official Policy
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Like with the disastrous Iraq quagmire years before the US war machine came to Syria under Obama, Washington\'s rationale and justification for occupying the Syrian Arab Republic has shifted and changed drastically multiple times over. | When ultimately what started …
globalresearch.ca/make-syria-quagmire-russians-cia-doctrine-made-official-policy/5712991

In the Race for Immunity, Sweden Leads the Pack
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
In a pandemic, there is no substitute for immunity, because immunity provides the best protection against reinfection. That\'s why Sweden set its sights on immunity from the very beginning. They crafted a policy that was designed to protect the old …
globalresearch.ca/immunity-sweden/5713003

Trump\'s \"Operation Warp Speed\" for Mass Vaxxing. \"Big Bucks for Big Pharma\"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Big Pharma is poised to cash in big from mass COVID-19 vaxxing

Our Greener, Climate-Friendly Future Is Going to Be Amazing—It\'s Our Job to Tell That Story
Jamie Henn | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
The Green New Deal is a brilliant vision of sweeping, national change, but there\'s still more work to be done to translate that vision down to an individual level. (Photo: iStock/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/green_future.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/15/our-greener-climate-friendly-future-going-be-amazing-its-our-job-tell-story?cd-origin=rss

Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh °presente!
Editor | workers.org | 2020-05-15
This editorial first appeared on workers.org on May 18, 2018. We celebrate on May 19 the birthdays of two world-bending revolutionaries, Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X. Born in 1890 in central Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh was the Marxist-Leninist communist who forged and led a people\'s movement and army that . . . | Continue reading Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh °presente! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48635/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=malcolm-x-ho-chi-minh-presente-2

Arabs, UN Must Move to Swiftly Protect the Status of Palestinian Refugees
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
\'Heinous racism,\' is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon. Lebanon\'s restrictions on its ever-diminishing population of Palestinian refugees is nothing new. However, this event is particularly alarming as it may be linked to a long-term official policy regarding…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/arabs-un-must-move-to-swiftly-protect-the-status-of-palestinian-refugees/

China\'s International Solidarity Aid to the World During the Corona Pandemic
Stansfield Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-15
China\'s worldwide assistance and medical aid to other countries to combat the coronavirus is barely covered in the corporate press. Instead, the US has ramped up its anti-China campaign to cover up its own incompetence in combating the virus. As John Pilger shows in his Obama era film The Coming War on China, this is no …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/chinas-international-solidarity-aid-to-the-world-during-the-corona-pandemic/

Hunger gnaws at the edges of the World
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-05-15
On 21 April, the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley said that the world was experiencing a \'hunger pandemic\'. That day, the Global Network Against Food Crises and the Food Security Information Network released the 2020 Global Report on Food Crises.
mronline.org/2020/05/15/hunger-gnaws-at-the-edges-of-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hunger-gnaws-at-the-edges-of-the-world

DeVos\'s Channeling of CARES Act Funds Seen as Boosting \'Perennial Goal\' of Advancing Voucher Program
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
New reporting on the Education Secretary\'s directing of the money follows concern by a House Democrat that DeVos may be hampering \"the response of public school systems in the states most severely impacted by the coronavirus crisis.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/devos-cares-voucher.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/15/devoss-channeling-cares-act-funds-seen-boosting-perennial-goal-advancing-voucher?cd-origin=rss

\'Time to APOLOGIZE!\' Orban hits back at critics as he plans to hand back emergency Covid-19 powers that caused major spat with EU
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has said emergency laws granting his government the right to rule by decree during the Covid-19 crisis will be rescinded soon and those who accused him of using it as a power grab should \"apologize. | Orban secured open-ended emergency powers from parliament at the end of March, angering the country\'s opposition and triggering a spat with Brussels. The move predictably ignited a fresh round of condemnation in Western media as the PM was accused of dismantling democracy and taking another step toward \"authoritarianism.\" | Now, having announced that he expects parliament will be able to…
rt.com/news/488800-orban-covid-emergency-powers/

Dark Winter? Honey Badger Trump Don\'t Care
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
\"This coalition of the business elite, right-wing Christian evangelicals, and white nationalists and other white supremacists is very dangerous. Fascism is ultimately a death cult.\"

As US Reels From COVID-19, Trump Turns to Sanctions, War Making and Threats
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-15
The Trump admin has decisively chosen war over peace and conflict over cooperation. Yet it appears less able than ever to coerce the world into following its lead.
mintpressnews.com/us-reels-covid-19-trump-sanctions-war-threats/267592/

Study: Coronavirus Has a Been a Massive Boon for America\'s Billionaires
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-15
A new study found that in the past eight weeks alone, the country\'s super wealthy have added a further $368.8 billion to their already enormous fortunes.
mintpressnews.com/study-coronavirus-billionaires-wealth-jeff-bezos/267604/

Neither Iraq, nor Syria can afford to allow Daesh to Return as Major Challenge
Michael Jansen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Despite Covid-19, Iraqis have returned to the streets to demand an end to mismanagement, corruption and sectarianism as Mustafa Al Kadhimi was confirmed as the country\'s new prime minister. His first act was to mollify protesters by calling for the …
globalresearch.ca/neither-iraq-nor-syria-can-afford-to-allow-daesh-to-return-as-major-challenge/5713032

Bolivia: Añez Backs Down, Annuls Decree Against Speech Freedom
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
Due to pressure stemming from human rights defenders, Bolivia\'s coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez Thursday was forced to repeal a decree allowing it to extend restrictions on freedom of expression during the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Bolivia De-Facto Govt Repress Protesters That Can\'t Afford More Lockdown | The ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äãdecree issued on May 7 aimed at…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivias-coupborn-annuls-decree-against-freedom-of-expression-20200515-0003.html

Finland: Schools Reopen Despite Health Situation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
Finland\'s Education Ministry reopened Thursday schools after a two-month closure period due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Pre-school and elementary school children were the first to return their activities. | RELATED: | Tense Calm in Montenegro After Day of Mass Protests | \"Experts affirm schools reopening would have a minimal impact on the pandemic, but grand benefits for children,\" Education Minister Li Andersson said, adding that her office instructed municipality authorities to enforce p…
telesurenglish.net/news/finland-schools-reopen-despite-health-situation-20200515-0002.html

500,000 Germans apply to take part in Stuttgart lockdown protest, but police RESTRICT rally to 5,000 due to \'social distancing\'
rt.com | 2020-05-15
The city of Stuttgart has reluctantly agreed to let a demonstration go ahead on Saturday, ordering that masks be worn on public transport and people stay apart, after dissent over the lockdown swept across Germany last weekend. | Five thousand protesters are set to hit the streets of the southwestern city to protest Covid-19 restrictions. And that\'s only one percent of the half a million who applied to take part in the rally against Covid-19 prevention measures. | The local government has permitted only a limited number of protestors, and also requires them to maintain social distancing. Anyone caught travelin…
rt.com/news/488790-social-distancing-protesting-germany/

Tampa students demand COVID-19 relief for undocumented students
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-15
Tampa, FL – On May 14, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a car protest at the University of South Florida (USF) to demand COVID-19 relief funds for undocumented students. USF has offered no financial help for undocumented students during the pandemic and the only COVID-19 aid for students is the CARES Act Fund, for which DACA and undocumented students are ineligible. | Students and SDS members parked near the USF president\'s mansion on campus for socially-distanced speeches and chants demanding that USF provide relief for undocumented students. Simon Rowe, a member of SDS stated, \"DACA stude…
fightbacknews.org/2020/5/15/tampa-students-demand-covid-19-relief-undocumented-students

Ecuador: Human Rights Organizations Denounce Police Brutality
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
Ecuador\'s Human Rights organizations Thursday denounced that police force abuse against pacific protesters in Guayaquil. Claimers denounced the negligence of health authorities in corpses counting and handling. | RELATED: | Ecuador Faces Wave of Corruption Amid Pandemic | Protesters gathered at Centenary Park for a sit-in demonstration against both President Lenin Moreno\'s budget cuts and lack of economic aid for those in need. | \"We are mourning and resisting,\" was their protest\'s maxim. Cit…
telesurenglish.net/news/ecuador-human-rights-organizations-denounce-police-brutality–20200515-0009.html

Anonymous shootings target students as violence against activists increases in Chile
Carole Concha Bell | thecanary.co | 2020-05-15
Chile has had a turbulent few months. And at the end of April, a dozen people were shot from an unmarked car in one of Santiago\'s most populated suburbs, La Florida, during a peaceful protest. This was not an isolated incident. Violence against students and protesters by anonymous attackers has…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/05/15/anonymous-shootings-target-students-as-violence-against-activists-increases-in-chile/

MI Legislature Cancels Work as \"Reopen\" Protesters Call for Whitmer\'s \"Lynching\"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-15
The Michigan state legislature called off meetings scheduled to take place on Thursday as demonstrations were set to take place against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\'s stay-at-home order. | According to state police, 200 individuals took part in a demonstration near the capitol building in Lansing against Whitmer\'s social distancing measures, which were put in place in order to stem the spread o…
truthout.org/articles/mi-legislature-cancels-work-as-reopen-protesters-call-for-whitmers-lynching/

Climate Crisis: KXL Ruling, Unity Task Force, California Pollution, and TRNN\'s New Climate Reporter
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-15
Climate activists get a big court win on Keystone XL as the Biden and Sanders camps unite. California has delayed air pollution rules at the behest of industry during COVID-19 as polluting oil tankers line its coast.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-kxl-ruling-unity-task-force-california-pollution-and-trnns-new-climate-reporter

Jailing people who use Covid-19 as bioweapon would be \'discrimination.\' So better lock up everyone instead?
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Accidentally spreading Covid-19 is wanting grandma dead, say opponents of ending lockdowns. Yet activists now worry that proposed laws to punish those who threaten to spread it deliberately would discriminate against minorities. | A Florida man spat and coughed on a police officer responding to a domestic violence call, and faces up to five years in prison on a federal charge of biological weapons hoax (he was negative for Covid-19). Another man in Texas, who falsely claimed on Facebook that he paid someone to spread the virus at local grocery stores, was charged with the same thing. A Michigan man who wiped h…
rt.com/usa/488692-criminalizing-covid-discrimination-minorities/

Give Peace a Chance: Saudi Arabia and the UAE Jostle for Position in War-Ravaged Countries for Contracts
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-15
Is the coronavirus, which has hit GCC countries quite hard, going to fuel proxy wars further with the economic objective of fortunes to be made, once the fighting stops? Or dig them in deeper? Don\'t overlook Russia in the scramble for reconstruction contracts. | The bigger they are, the harder they fall. This certainly applies to countries in the GCC which are attempting to pick themselves up again. It\'s a cruel irony, some might argue, that the UAE\'s diversification in its economy away from oil dependency, made it more vulnerable than Saudi Arabia\'s and so was hit harder by the virus. An economy dependent on tou…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/15/give-peace-chance-saudi-arabia-and-uae-jostle-for-position-war-ravaged-countries-contracts/

Puebla Group Discusses Peace in Colombia and Pandemic Crisis
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
The Puebla Group today is discussing the peace process in Colombia, the health crisis, and the regional economy, during a new virtual meeting that brings together progressive leaders from Latin America. | RELATED: | Puebla Group to Analyze COVID-19 Crisis in Latin America | Colombia is the host of the new virtual meeting, in the voices of former President Ernesto Samper and former Minister of Labor Clara Lopez Obregon. | \"Peace measures are the level of civilization of a country,\" sa…
telesurenglish.net/news/puebla-group-to-discuss-peace-in-colombia-and-pandemic-crisis-20200515-0010.html

Jordan\'s king warns Israel of \'massive conflict\' if it proceeds with West Bank annexation plans
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Jordan\'s King Abdullah II warned Israel of a \"massive conflict\" if it proceeds with plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank. | Israel has vowed to annex Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley. The move could spell the end of the long-stalled peace process by making it virtually impossible to establish a viable Palestinian state. | \"Leaders who advocate a one-state solution do not understand what that would mean,\" Jordan\'s king said in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel. | European Union foreign ministers met on Friday to discuss what action the bloc might take in response to Israe…
rt.com/newsline/488812-jordan-israel-conflict-annexation/

No Lockdowns: The Terrifying Polio Pandemic of 1949-52
Jeffrey A. Tucker | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-15
World War II had ended four years earlier and the U.S. was trying to return to peace and prosperity. Price controls and rationing were ended. Trade was opening. People were returning to normal life. The economy started humming again. Optimism for the future was growing. Harry Truman became the symbol of a new normacy. From Depression and war, society was on the mend. | As if to serve as a reminder that there were still threats to life and liberty present, an old enemy made its appearance: polio. It\'s a disease with ancient origins, with its most terrifying effect, the paralysis of the lower extremities. It mai…
anti-empire.com/no-lockdowns-the-terrifying-polio-pandemic-of-1949-52/

A universal appeal for humanity to end militarism and stop war
Abdallah El Harif | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-15
On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text that called for a ban on nuclear weapons and that would eventually be signed by almost 2 million people. The appeal was made up of three elegant sentences: | -We demand the outlawing of atomic weapons as instruments of intimidation and mass murder of peoples. We demand strict international control to enforce this measure. | -We believe that any government which first uses atomic weapons against any other country whatsoever will be committing a crime against humanity and should be dealt with as a war criminal. | -We call on a…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/15/a-universal-appeal-for-humanity-to-end-militarism-and-stop-war/

US Senator Richard Burr steps down as intelligence chairman amid investigation into pre-pandemic stock dump
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
As part of an ongoing Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission\'s probe into insider trading, FBI agents have seized the North Carolina senator\'s personal cell phone.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/burr-m15.html

Venezuelan TV Exposed US Mercenaries\' Names, Photos and Incursion Plan a Month Before It Happened
Ryan Parry | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-15
The Americans behind the failed Venezuelan coup went ahead with the ill-fated mission even though the country\'s ruling regime publicly exposed their plan on live TV more than a month earlier. | In footage unearthed by DailyMail.com Venezuelan state television claimed its government had infiltrated the \'mercenaries\' and even aired photographs of the coup\'s US leader, Jordan Goudreau. | They also appeared to have the names of the other two Americans captured and paraded on TV this week, ex Green Berets Luke Denman and Airan Berry. | The revelation, alongside the apparent lack of funding and adequate equipment fo…
anti-empire.com/venezuelan-tv-exposed-us-mercenaries-names-photos-and-incursion-plan-a-month-before-it-happened/

Canadians Must Ask Questions About the Mercenary Raid on Venezuela
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Details of the failed armed mercenary incursion on Venezuela are surfacing daily thanks to the prompt public information system from Venezuela and scant corporate media reports. The so-called Operation Gideon took off from Colombia on May 3 and was effectively …
globalresearch.ca/canadians-must-ask-questions-about-mercenary-raid-venezuela/5712996

For Cuba and Venezuela, US Silence May Not Be Golden
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
The U. S. President and his Secretary of State frequently expound about the supposed failings of enemies abroad. Recently they\'ve blasted China\'s response to the pandemic, Venezuela\'s dictatorship, Cuba\'s \"slave doctors\" overseas, and even Iranian border guards beating up on Afghan migrants. But they\'ve been mostly silent about two recent disruptions of the imperialist status…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/for-cuba-and-venezuela-us-silence-may-not-be-golden/

Guaidó and the Failed Military Operation Against Venezuela: a Story of Betrayal and Financial Corruption
Patricio Zamorano | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
Now that we have had a few days to study the failed, illegal paramilitary incursion by a group of American and Venezuelan mercenaries into Venezuela, some key details have emerged in this incredible story. They reveal the internal dynamics of the fractured, demoralized, and financially corrupt nature of the hardline sectors of the opposition. Much…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/guaido-and-the-failed-military-operation-against-venezuela-a-story-of-betrayal-and-financial-corruption/

\'Together We\'ll Overcome\' ANC Leader Tells the World\'s Peoples
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
The African National Congress (ANC) General Secretary Elias Sekgobelo Magashule Friday delivered a public lecture about the significance of human solidarity and internationalism and the role of the Cuban revolution in the struggle against imperialism and colonialism. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces US at UN Security Council | \"We are proud and much encouraged that young…
telesurenglish.net/news/Together-Well-Overcome-ANC-Leader-Tells-the-Worlds-Peoples-20200515-0011.html

Socialism and Collective Responses: Attacking Venezuela in a Pandemic
Macdonald Stainsby | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
That feeling of international solidarity. This pandemic has brought terror in daily life to many, including this home where a 79 year old with COPD resides. Global calls of \"we are all in this together\" have served to blunt the bleakness in the face of unprecedented threats to our collective health. However, the initial rush…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/socialism-and-collective-responses-attacking-venezuela-in-a-pandemic/

Up to Five Iranian Tankers en Route to Venezuela Carrying Much-Needed Gasoline
Irina Slav | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-15
An Iranian tanker loaded with gasoline has set sail for Venezuela, Reuters reports, citing tanker tracking data. The cargo should help alleviate a growing shortage of gasoline in the sanctions-stricken South American country. | The Clavel, a medium tanker, loaded in March at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, and this week passed the Suez Canal, the data showed. | TankerTrackers.com co-founder Samir Madani confirmed the data to Oilprice.com, noting that there were several vessels en route from Iran to Venezuela, with the cargo all or mostly gasoline. | twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1261022167669…
anti-empire.com/up-to-five-iranian-tankers-en-route-to-venezuela-carrying-much-needed-gasoline/

If the media\'s on Starmer\'s side, you know something\'s very, very wrong
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2020-05-15
The last five years have been a nightmare. And as a result, we have a government whose handling of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has been fatally incompetent. Another result is a new opposition leader who seems to have the disgraced media establishment firmly behind him. | To escape this nightmare, we need to learn from it. | Five years of establishment terror: | The political and econ…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/05/15/if-the-medias-on-starmers-side-you-know-somethings-very-very-wrong/

US-Backed Militants Steal a Bank of the Syrian State in Hasakah City then Hand It to US Forces
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-15
Armed groups of the US-backed \"Syrian Democratic Forces\" have stolen the Syrian Commercial Bank located within the security square of the Syrian state in Hasakah city. | Local sources from Hasaka said that during daylight hours, a large number of \"SDF\" militants attacked the bank and took control of the entire building after expelling the guards and employees from it and stealing the money and contents there. | The sources pointed out that after controlling the bank, the militants broke the iron fences and the walls surrounding it, then they stole its contents and transferred them to their centers before they…
ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/4150-militants-steal-a-bank-in-hasakah.html

How Economic Misery Helped Fuel the Syrian War
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
Ever since the civil war began in Syria in early 2011, the left has largely ignored the social and economic circumstances that led to a conflict costing over a half-million deaths and the migration–internal and external–of half the population. The tendency was to see Syria as a piece on a global chessboard with…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/how-economic-misery-helped-fuel-the-syrian-war/

From US to Easter Island \'everyone is in same situation\': RT Documentary embarks on WORLD TOUR of Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-15
As coronavirus paralyzes the planet, RT documentary channel RTD has gone on an online world tour to learn from locals about the common dreads and unique problems caused by the pandemic faced by the world\'s nations. | Documentary filmmaker Natalya Karachkova was just recently tracking polar bears and Siberian tigers with her crew

In less than a month, Brazil sees two health ministers leave office
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-15
Oncologist Nelson Teich asked to step down from his position as Minister of Health on Friday morning May 15, according to the government. A press conference will be held in the afternoon. | Teich took over the position as Health Minister on April 17, after Luiz Henrique Mandetta was fired from the position. In Teich\'s speech when assuming the position, he affirmed that he would work to ease social isolation measures, but in a \"technical and scientific\" way. | As of now, the individual expected to take over the position is General Eduardo Pazuello, the current number two in the ministry. | History: | While…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/15/in-less-than-a-month-brazil-sees-two-health-ministers-leave-office/

Brazilian Health Minister Teich resigns after just weeks in job
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned on Friday after just weeks in the job. President Jair Bolsonaro had criticized Teich as being too timid in the push to reopen the economy and to advocate the use of anti-malarial drugs. | Military members of the Brazilian cabinet are pushing for deputy health minister Eduardo Pazuello, an army general on active duty, to become the new health minister, making permanent his interim role, Reuters reported, citing a government source. | Teich is the second health minister to resign amid the pandemic in Brazil. He replaced Nelson Mandetta, who was fired on April 16 fo…
rt.com/newsline/488802-brazilian-minister-resigns-bolsonaro/

Masking your kids during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Do you or don\'t you wear a mask? If you do, what material is best? And what about children? Questions around masks during the COVID-19 pandemic abound, especially in light of the recent recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that all Americans wear masks in public settings. \"The direction around face masks has …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/masking-your-kids-during-covid-19/

COVID-19: How Many are Really Unemployed and how Many British Companies are Going Bust
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
The total amount of people who are unemployed right now seems to something of a closely guarded secret as is the amount of financial support that is really being dished out by the government. I suspect this has something to …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-how-many-are-really-unemployed-and-how-many-british-companies-are-going-bust/5713026

COVID-19: Construir os empregos do futuro AGORA!
Flávio Gonàßalves | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Reconstruir as economias depois da pandemia de COVID-19 parece ser uma tarefa impossível dado ao contrário do que sucede numa guerra convencional nà£o há infra-estruturas a reconstruir, o que criaria emprego e relanàßaria a economia. Ou será esta a oportunidade …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-construir-os-empregos-do-futuro-agora/5713039

New Yorkers confused as Gov. Cuomo extends NY Pause and stay-at-home orders to seemingly contradictory dates
rt.com | 2020-05-15
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has extended the state\'s \"NY Pause\" economic shutdown until the end of May while stretching the stay-at-home order halfway into June, confusing residents already chafing under extended lockdown. | With both measures set to expire at midnight and five of the state\'s 10 economic regions entering the first phase of reopening, Cuomo poured cold water on any premature celebration by downstate residents on Friday, extending both Covid-19 executive orders by several weeks. | For those regions that haven\'t met the governor\'s stated criteria involving a decrease in hospital admissions, te…
rt.com/usa/488813-cuomo-ny-pause-lockdown-extended/

Spring cleaning takes on a new importance during COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released reopening guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting public spaces, workplaces, businesses, schools and homes. Dr. Gregory Poland, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases expert, suggests taking a practical approach to spring cleaning. If no one in your household has been infected, he says standard spring cleaning practices …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/spring-cleaning-takes-on-a-new-importance-during-covid-19-pandemic/

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

One week after promising health supplies to southeast Colombia, government vows aid to bury the dead
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-15
Colombia\'s government vowed to send cement to build repositories of Covid-19 deaths in the southeastern Amazonas province after promised health supplies never arrived. The situation in Colombia\'s most remote province…
colombiareports.com/week-after-promising-health-supplies-to-southeast-colombia-government-vows-aid-to-bury-the-dead/

COVID-19 Planning: Is It Time to Nationalize Big Pharma?
Michael Barker | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
Pharmaceutical corporations make billions providing drugs to help improve some people\'s lives, in much the same way that privately-run hospitals provide care to those who can afford to pay. But Big Pharma is not a caring industry. Big Pharma has done some truly despicable things over the past hundred years or so. This is why…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/covid-19-planning-is-it-time-to-nationalize-big-pharma/

\'Worrying data\' reveals more than 12,500 people in care homes have now died with Covid-19
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-15
More than 12,500 people living in care homes have now died with Covid-19, with the majority dying in their care home, new figures show.Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals that just over one in four of all deaths of care home residents in England and Wales between March 2 and May 1 involved Covid-19.Of 45,899 care home residents who died during this period, 27% (12,526) had Covid-19 mentioned on their death certificate.Some 9,039 (72%) of the deaths occurred within a care home and 27% were in hospital.(PA Graphics)The latest data includes all care home residents who died with coronavirus eit…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/15/worrying-data-reveals-more-than-12500-people-in-care-homes-have-now-died-with-covid-19/

FDA issues emergency use authorization for algorithm designed to improve detection of heart failure during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
The FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization to Eko, a digital health company, for the heart screening algorithm developed by Mayo Clinic. The AI-driven algorithm can detect weak heart pump, which is commonly detected by echocardiogram, a test that is not normally conducted during a physical exam, requires specially trained technicians to record, and requires prolonged contact with …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/fda-issues-emergency-use-authorization-for-algorithm-designed-to-improve-detection-of-heart-failure-during-covid-19/

First child dies in France from rare Kawasaki-like disease unwisely linked to Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-15
A nine-year-old boy in France has died from the mysterious Kawasaki-like disease, which some medics link to Covid-19. It\'s the first such case in that country, but similar child fatalities were earlier recorded in the US and UK. | The cause of the boy\'s death was \"neurological injury related to a cardiac arrest,\" Fabrice Michel, head of the pediatric intensive care unit at La Timone hospital in Marseille, said. | The child was rushed to hospital with heart problems in early May. Doctors have been fighting for his life for a whole week, but the young patient passed away on Saturday. | While in hospital, the bo…
rt.com/news/488814-first-child-death-france-kawasaki/

Essential Sanitary Workers Strike for Hazard Pay and PPE in New Orleans
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-15
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick up trash in eastern New Orleans. Last week, they walked off the job and went on strike, demanding hazard pay and a $15 living wage. | Without \"hoppers,\" as the workers are known, garbage would pile up on the streets and contribute to the spread of disease and other public health problems. However, the group of hoppers in New Orleans say their employers did not provide them with hazar…
truthout.org/articles/essential-sanitary-workers-strike-for-hazard-pay-and-ppe-in-new-orleans/

Coronavirus outbreak calls for new era in our relationship with animals
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-05-15
As The Canary has previously argued, the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak has prompted profound questions about how to reorganize human society in its aftermath. Now, a new report from a major US animal welfare organization has pointed out that we must also confront fundamental questions about humanity\'s relationship with the animal world. | Tim…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/15/coronavirus-outbreak-calls-for-new-era-in-our-relationship-with-animals/

This U.S. State Has Already Established Legal Means for Mandatory Vaccinations
Derrick Broze | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-15
While the U.S. government and global health \"authorities\" debate how quickly they can roll out Contact Tracing surveillance programs and fast track vaccines, Americans are left wondering and debating over whether the vaccinations programs for COVID-19 might end up being mandatory. It is true that Donald Trump has acknowledged that, \"We are looking for a …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/this-us-state-already-established-legal-means-mandatory-vaccinations/

Mayo Clinic\'s comprehensive COVID-19 research
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinics-comprehensive-covid-19-research/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Possible neurological effects of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Originally identified as a respiratory disease, some COVID-19 patients exhibit neurologic symptoms including stroke, loss of consciousness, headache, and even the loss of taste and smell. What\'s unknown is whether these are direct effects of the virus entering the nervous system, or consequences of the disease\'s effect on the body. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-possible-neurological-effects-of-covid-19/

#Unis4all: An Open Letter to the U.S. Higher Education Community
Maxximilian Seijo | mronline.org | 2020-05-15
Universities can immediately bypass feckless state & federal legislatures & finance themselves directly with \"Unis\" supported by the Federal Reserve For a growing majority of outspoken administrators and faculty, the economic fallout associated with the Covid-19 crisis threatens to catapult U. S. higher education into a draconian age of austerity, layoffs, and closures. The question, …
mronline.org/2020/05/15/unis4all-an-open-letter-to-the-u-s-higher-education-community/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unis4all-an-open-letter-to-the-u-s-higher-education-community

Psychiatrists fear a \'tsunami\' of mental illness following pandemic
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-15
Mental health services could be overwhelmed by a \"tsunami\" of referrals when coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown measures end, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has warned. | A survey by the College found almost half (45%) of psychiatrists had seen a reduction in routine mental health appointments. Its led to fears that patients are avoiding support until they reach crisis point. | Meanwhile, 43% of psychiatrists had seen an increase in their urgent and emergency caseloads, where patients were showing the most serious conditions. | Professor Wendy Burn, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists said: We are alr…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/15/psychiatrists-fear-a-tsunami-of-mental-illness-following-pandemic/

South Africa To Protect Groundwater From Massive Burials
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
The South African Cemeteries Association (SACA) Friday warned that burial land could not be sufficient given the current spreading rate of the COVID-19. | RELATED: | China: 5 Five Vaccines to Go Into Large-Scale Testing by July | Because of the likely proliferation of makeshift cemeteries, bacteria, decomposition resulting substances, and the virus could seep into underground water reserves. | Sanitary authorities must take into account circumstances such as grave depth, buries…
telesurenglish.net/news/South-Africa-To-Protect-Groundwater-From-Massive-Burials-20200515-0006.html

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

Convalescent plasma advocate donates at Mayo Clinic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
A recovered COVID-19 patient who has become a strong nationwide advocate for the Convalescent Plasma Expanded Access Program made a plasma donation at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Chaim Lebovits became involved with the program in March and since then has rallied thousands, who have also recovered, to donate.The initiative, which Mayo Clinic is leading, studies …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/convalescent-plasma-advocate-donates-at-mayo-clinic/

Plan Now for Vaccination Decisions to Come
Joe Amon | progressive.org | 2020-05-15
Who should be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine once it is available?
progressive.org/op-eds/plan-for-vaccination-decisions-to-come-amon-200515/

National Nurses Day: Not all heroes wear capes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Photo and article are courtesy of Mayo Clinic News Center andMayo Clinic Employee Facebook. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear scrubs, protective equipment and step out in difficult times to be there for others. As COVID-19 continues to spread and people heed notices to socially distance themselves and hunker down in their homes, there …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/national-nurses-day-not-all-heroes-wear-capes/

Workingman\'s Blues (COVID 19 Version)
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
I went back to work last week. Even though neither I most of my fellow workers are convinced library books are an essential service, the fact that we are once again loaning them out appeals to a certain pretense that they are. This is despite the fact that libraries–both public and academic–are often the first…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/workingmans-blues-covid-19-version/

VIRUS: COVID-19 registry first to track global ICU experience to shed light on trends in care of critically ill patients
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
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Why you need to keep your child\'s vaccine schedule during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Millions of children may be at risk of missing or delaying their routine childhood vaccines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine specialist, says she understands being thoughtful about taking your children outside the home for doctor\'s visits during this time. \"The current situation with the novel coronavirus shows us how scary …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/why-you-need-to-keep-your-childs-vaccine-schedule-during-covid-19/

New collaboration on COVID-19 response to include new serology test
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced it will expand its response to the COVID-19 pandemic by developing a total antibodies test in collaboration with WuXi Diagnostics and Mayo Clinic. The new test is the result of ongoing collaboration between all three organizations, including clinical evaluation and support from Mayo Clinic. Thermo Fisher will seek U.S. FDA …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/new-collaboration-on-covid-19-response-to-include-new-serology-test/

Still in the Dark in Wisconsin
Bill Lueders | progressive.org | 2020-05-15
Health officials don\'t have an up-to-date count of people who got COVID-19 after attending a \'large gathering.\'…
progressive.org/dispatches/still-in-the-dark-in-wisconsin-lueders-200515/

Define \'distribute\'! Trump mobilizing MILITARY to deliver Covid-19 vaccine \'assuming we get it,\' sparks conspiracy frenzy
rt.com | 2020-05-15
US President Donald Trump said the military is gearing up to distribute a coronavirus vaccine when one is ready, unleashing a torrent of takes from conspiracy-minded netizens, many sounding alarms over mandatory inoculations. | American GIs are already being mobilized to parcel out a future vaccine to \"most of the population,\" Trump told Fox Business\' Maria Bartiromo in an interview on Thursday, giving a highly optimistic end-of-the-year time frame even as many experts suggest a remedy won\'t be ready for mass distribution for another 12 to 18 months. | \"We\'re mobilizing our military on the basis that we do hav…
rt.com/usa/488691-trump-military-distribute-vaccine/

Government £1.6bn bailout of TfL will be paid for by \'ordinary people doing the right thing\'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-15
Public transport users in London will be hit by fare increases and restrictions on free travel due to the Government\'s £1.6 billion bailout of Transport for London (TfL).Mayor Sadiq Khan accused the Department for Transport (DfT) of \"making ordinary Londoners pay the cost for doing the right thing on Covid-19\".The department said it included a series of caveats as part of the funding package \"in order to safeguard services in the future\".Temporary measures consist of stopping free travel for children and only allowing people over 60 or with a disability to travel for free outside peak hours.London bus and t…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/15/government-1-6bn-bailout-of-tfl-will-be-paid-for-by-ordinary-people-doing-the-right-thing/

Mayo Clinic receives $26 million from BARDA for COVID-19 convalescent plasma expanded access program
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Mayo Clinic was awarded a $26 million contract today from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The financial support is for the Expanded Access Program (EAP) for convalescent plasma to fight COVID-19. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-receives-26-million-from-barda-for-covid-19-convalescent-plasma-expanded-access-program/

Why Capitalism Can\'t Cure Global Pandemics
Prabir Purkayastha | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as \"the third plague\" (because it was \"the third major bubonic plague outbreak to affect European society\") killed millions from the 1890s to the 1950s in Asia\'s southern, southeastern, and eastern regions, continuing well…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/why-capitalism-cant-cure-global-pandemics/

MILLIONS of Americans dead from Covid-19? 85k jobs lost? What? Joe Biden commits gaffe after gaffe in confusing broadcast
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Joe Biden has once again caught flak for his creative and often confusing oratory, this time after the former VP and presumptive Democratic nominee struggled to relay how many Americans have died from coronavirus. | Speaking during a \"virtual round table,\" Biden argued that playing the \"blame game\" during the ongoing health crisis would be counterproductive. But when it came time to relaying exactly what politicians might blame each other for, the presidential candidate faltered. | …
rt.com/usa/488756-biden-millions-covid-deaths-gaffe/

As Corporations Adapt to a COVID-19 Economy, the Working-Class Prepares for a Paradigm Shift
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-15
As social distancing measures persist across the country, corporations are setting in a \"new normal\" where most people are safely squirreled away in their homes, with paradigm-shifting implications for the working classes.
mintpressnews.com/corporations-adapt-covid-19-digitized-economy-working-class-paradigm-shift/267630/

Russia ends federal COVID-19 shutdown measures as it surges to second place in infections worldwide
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
There are now more coronavirus infections in Russia than anywhere else in the world, with the exception of the United States and Spain.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/russ-m15.html

Trump Unveils Plan That Would See Big Pharma Reap Massive Profits from COVID-19 Vaccine
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-15
President Trump has revealed a plan to mobilize the US military to deliver mass vaccinations across the country, coupled with Operation Warp Speed, a \"Manhattan project-style\" race to produce a COVID-19 vaccine.
mintpressnews.com/trump-plan-big-pharma-massive-profits-covid-19-vaccine/267617/

Trump says govt will work at \'WARP SPEED\' to deliver vaccine BEFORE year\'s end
rt.com | 2020-05-15
President Donald Trump has promised to deliver a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year or earlier, saying that the government will invest in potential candidates. He added that, vaccine or no vaccine, America will reopen. | Speaking to reporters in the White House Rose Garden on Friday, Trump unveiled \"Operation Warp Speed,\" a public-private partnership aimed at accelerating the development of a vaccine for Covid-19, the deadly virus that has infected more than 4.5 million people worldwide and killed more than 300,000. | \"This is an endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project…
rt.com/usa/488811-trump-vacine-warp-speed/

UPS Teamsters plan call-in to demand hazard pay
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-15
Salt Lake City, UT – UPS Teamsters are working extremely long hours in hazardous conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, putting themselves and their families at risk with no hazard pay. UPS was late to provide sufficient personal protective equipment for workers and only did so after workers demanded it. Still, many areas lack the appropriate PPE to stay safe at work. The Teamsters union has not put hazard pay on the negotiating table for UPS Teamsters; workers are organizing on the shop floor to win their demand. UPS recently announced their quarterly profits at almost $1 billion. | \"UPS is making hundreds of…
fightbacknews.org/2020/5/15/ups-teamsters-plan-call-demand-hazard-pay

Trump Appoints Big Pharma Exec Connected to Bill Gates to Head Vaccine Developments
Derrick Broze | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-15
On Friday, Donald Trump announced his appointment of Moncef Slaoui, a former executive with vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, to lead \"Operation Warp Speed\", Trump\'s plan to fast track the development of vaccines for COVID-19. Slaoui will serve in a volunteer position, assisted by Army Gen. Gustave Perna, the commander of United States Army Materiel Command. According …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/trump-appoints-big-pharma-exec-connected-bill-gates-head-vaccine-developments/

Mayo Clinic reopens orthopedics and sports medicine facility in downtown Minneapolis
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
MINNEAPOLIS

After FCA Sterling Heights Assembly workers contract COVID-19, anger mounts over premature return to work
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
Anxiety over a premature return to work has been heightened after reports that several workers in the Detroit area have already been sent home with suspected COVID-19 infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/cars-m15.html

Dispatch from the Frontlines: Gender Inequality and COVID-19 (CPCC)
Congressional Progressive Caucus Ctr & others | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Online livestream & Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833009.php

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Because cancer treatments can weaken the immune system, cancer patients are at increased risk of complications from COVID-19. Despite these concerns, cancer patients often still need treatment, including going to the clinic or to the hospital, and many have questions about whether cancer should be treated differently during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the Mayo Clinic …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-cancer-treatment-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 research at Mayo Clinic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Thanks to its combination of practice, education, and research, Mayo Clinic has a strong foundation to respond quickly to a medical crisis such as COVID-19. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread worldwide, a research task force was formed at Mayo Clinic to review and approve research proposals related to the virus and the disease it causes. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-covid-19-research-at-mayo-clinic/

US Deports COVID-Positive Immigrants to Haiti and Guatemala, Spreading Virus
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-15
The United States continues to deport thousands during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean. We speak with Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat, who says \"U.S. deportations to Haiti during coronavirus pandemic are \'unconscionable,\'\" and go to Guatemala City for an update from reporter José Alejandro García Escobar. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AMY GOODMAN: We turn now…
truthout.org/video/us-deports-covid-positive-immigrants-to-haiti-and-guatemala-spreading-virus/

Confirmed known Covid-19 cases for 2,818 federal inmates
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833003.php

The Japanese Art of Avoiding Your Relatives (Or Why Covid-19 Flopped in Japan)
Ash Warren | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-15
Let\'s say you do not get along with your mother-in-law and you do not wish to have contact with her like, ever. | Here are two possible methods you might employ. | The first is to burn down your house, fake your own death and move somewhere else under an assumed identity, or failing that to dig up the entire road between your place and hers, blow up her car and steal all her shoes. | This may discourage the urge to visit. | The other is to just not open the door when she knocks. | In many countries as we all well know, in order to avoid coming in contact with the dreaded Covid-19, which is possibly even more i…
anti-empire.com/the-japanese-art-of-avoiding-your-relatives-or-why-covid-19-flopped-in-japan/

The Covid-19 Testing Fiasco
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
From the start, testing for Covid-19 in the U.S. has been abysmal. Experts agree that without adequate testing, the disease cannot be stopped. Poor testing means no idea how many are infected or how to trace and quarantine their contacts or how to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. There has been speculation that the Trump…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/the-covid-19-testing-fiasco/

Covid-19 changes to NHS services may lead to worsening health inequalities
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-15
The decision to suspend non-urgent services at NHS hospitals in response to the Covid-19 pandemic will lead to worsening health inequalities.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197534/covid-19-changes-nhs-services-lead-worsening

As evidence mounts for Covid-19 lockdown causing additional deaths, answers seem no closer
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Around 8,000 more people than usual have died in the UK in their homes since the beginning of the pandemic and four fifths of them from non-Covid causes. Apparently, coronavirus isn\'t the only killer on the loose these days. | The Guardian recently conducted their own analysis using data from the Office of National statistics (ONS), the UK government\'s statistics department. They found that in total, there have been 8,196 additional deaths above the 5-year aver…
rt.com/uk/488829-covid-additional-deaths-mystery/

The 2003 SARS epidemic: How Canada\'s elite squandered the chance to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
Canada\'s disastrous response to the pandemic is all the more criminal given the impact of SARS and the repeated government vows that the country\'s health system would be well-prepared for any future novel virus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/sars-m15.html

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 news briefing
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic\'s Vaccine Research Group, covers the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Poland discusses how the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is changing, and how scientists and researchers are rapidly gaining new knowledge about the virus and the disease that it …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-covid-19-news-briefing/

Do the Most Severe Lockdowns Coincide to the Highest COVID-19 Death Rates?
Winslow Wheeler | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
The organization Our World in Data is running an article on the severity of government lockdown policies used to deal with the Covid-19 disease, \"How Are Governments Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic?\". It is shows rankings of the severity (\"stringency\") on nine measures of lockdown policies throughout the world; it also addresses testing and tracking.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/do-the-most-severe-lockdowns-coincide-to-the-highest-covid-19-death-rates/

Corona-hounds: UK launches trials for \'Covid-19 SNIFFER DOGS\'
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Trials have begun in the UK to find out if dogs can be trained to detect Covid-19. If successful, the bio-detection canines could be used as a \"non-invasive\" way to identify people sick with coronavirus. | Researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will carry out the first phase of the trial, working with the charity Medical Detection Dogs and Durham University. It will be funded by money from a £500 million ($605 million) UK government pot set up to assist \"innovative schemes\" in the fight against Covid-19. | Dogs are famous for their incredible sense of smell and have fo…
rt.com/uk/488825-coronavirus-covid-sniffer-dogs/

Is Universal Basic Income the Way Out of the Current Economic Crisis?
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Philip\'s third interview with Ellen Brown focused on the Universal Basic Income, which Philip believes is the ONLY way out of the current economic crisis. The social distancing forced by the COVID-19 epidemic has shut down the country, and one-time …
globalresearch.ca/universal-basic-income-current-economic-crisis/5712994

Nurses Say: Guaranteed Health Care Is Fundamental to COVID-19 Response
commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/15/nurses-say-guaranteed-health-care-fundamental-covid-19-response?cd-origin=rss

Chile Digs Thousands of Graves to Face COVID-19 Deaths Surge
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
Santiago city\'s general cemetery is digging thousands of graves to deal with the possible increase in deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Chile Announces Strict Measures to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 | The alarms went off when Chile recorded 2,660 infections in a single day on Wednesday. \"So far, about 1,000 graves have been set up,\" the general cemetery director Rashid Saud said. | Although the cemetery clears unclaimed graves every year, it is the first time this…
telesurenglish.net/news/chile-digs-thousands-of-graves-to-face-covid19-deaths-surge–20200515-0001.html

US sailors return to coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier only to test positive AGAIN, despite months of containment efforts
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Five American sailors have tested positive for Covid-19 for a second time after resuming duty on board an aircraft carrier that saw a major outbreak in March, even after a full evacuation of its crew and months of deep cleaning. | Though the Navy imposed several layers of screenings before allowing sailors to re-board the ill-fated USS \'Theodore Roosevelt\'

US grocery stores and retailers move to cut pandemic pay to workers
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
Kroger, Starbucks and other companies plan to end hazard-related bonuses, including pay increases and paid work leave, even as the number of new COVID-19 infections and deaths in the US continues to rise.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/groc-m15.html

Night of Qadr observed in Abadan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-15
ABADAN, May 16 (MNA)

China: 5 Five Vaccines to Go Into Large-Scale Testing by July
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
China\'s National Health Commission (NHC) predicts that five coronavirus vaccines that have entered the second phase of clinical trials will pass that phase in July. | RELATED: | Trump Threatens to Break Ties With China Over COVID-19 Issues | \"We have registered none serious adverse effects on the volunteers during the tests. If everything goes as planned, the projects would finish the second part of their tests in July,\" the NHC deputy director Zeng Yixin said. | China has five…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-5-Five-Vaccines-to-Go-Into-Large-Scale-Testing-by-July-20200515-0005.html

Mayo Clinic launches radio campaign to encourage recovered patients of COVID-19 to donate plasma
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Entercom Communications to launch a radio campaign that raises awareness in Detroit, New York City, Miami and Chicago of the federally-sponsored national Expanded Access Program (EAP) for Convalescent Plasma. The Food and Drug Administration announced Mayo Clinic as the lead site for the EAP program to speed access and increase availability of investigational convalescent plasma for hospitalized patients …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-launches-radio-campaign-to-encourage-recovered-patients-of-covid-19-to-donate-plasma/

The Secretive Police Commission The Justice Department Doesn\'t Want You To Notice
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-15
PAR learns about life under lockdown with COVID-19 from a guest just released from 10 months of incarceration, and examines the secretive police commission created by Attorney General Barr.
therealnews.com/stories/police-accountability-report-secret-police-commission-justice-department-attorney-general-barr

Mayo Clinic expands in-person care on all campuses
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-15
Mayo Clinic will expand in-person care on all of its campuses as COVID-19 executive orders are lifted for elective procedures by governors in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin. \"Our patients\' health and safety is always our top priority,\" says Amy Williams, M.D., Mayo Clinic Executive Dean for Practice. \"We have taken several extra precautions to …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-expands-in-person-care-on-all-campuses/

India: Right wing uses COVID-19 to implement 12-hour workday, 72-hour week
IndustriALL | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-15
Some Indian states are using coronavirus as a pretext to attack working conditions. Many have increased the working day to 12 hours, while others have suspended or provided exemptions to labor law. State governments, including Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh, have increased the workday to 12 hours and the standard workweek to …
peoplesworld.org/article/india-right-wing-uses-covid-19-to-implement-12-hour-workday-72-hour-week/

\'We were totally helpless\': Russian woman jailed for SLAPPING \'abusive\' Californian husband, mother tells RT
rt.com | 2020-05-15
What looked like an intercontinental fairytale romance turned into a story of domestic violence, when a Russian woman was arrested for slapping the American husband her mother says abused her. | When she married a Californian man last year, 30-year-old Krasnodar native Alina Alipatova couldn\'t have imagined that the line between romance and fear could be crossed so fast. She met her future husband while holidaying in Miami and quickly fell in \"big love\" with him, the woman\'s mother, Elena Gertsog, told RT this week. | Once engaged, the happy couple spent two months at the Californian\'s house in San Luis Obispo…
rt.com/russia/488726-russian-woman-abused-us/

\'Disturbing\': Messi freaks out fans with sloppy music video kiss with wife Antonela Roccuzzo (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Lionel Messi can curl in free-kicks from 30 yards but his kissing skills leave a lot to be desired, if the reaction to a clumsy viral smooch with wife Antonela Roccuzzo is anything to go by. | Messi and partner Roccuzzo were filmed locking lips for the latest video by Puerto Rican rapper Residente. | The track – titled \'Before the World Ends\' – features couples canoodling all around the world, including famous faces such as Hollywood star Ben Affleck and actress partner Ana de Armas, and Mexican boxer Saul \'Canelo\' Alvarez and his beau Fernanda Gómez. | But it\'s the appearance of six-time Ballon d\'Or wi…
rt.com/sport/488796-messi-kiss-wife-antonella-music-video-residente/

PDF download of May 14 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-05-15
Download entire 12-page PDF here. Justice for Ahmaud Arbery. Kent State and Jackson State. Also: COVID‚Äë19: capitalism\'s end stage; workers resist. Editorial: Changing narrative in Michigan. World: China, Vietnam, Haiti, Ecuador. Tear down prisons: victory in PA; San Quentin caravan; No cages for migrants; Global prisons & white supremacy; Solidarity . . . | Continue reading PDF download of May 14 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48613/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-download-of-may-14-issue

\'Not their business\': Iran slams US threats to reimpose UN sanctions
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-15
The US has threatened to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran if its draft resolution to extend the arms embargo is vetoed in the UN Security Council…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/15/not-their-business-iran-slams-us-threats-to-reimpose-un-sanctions/

U.S. Sanctions: The Weaponization of the Global Financial System
IFCSS | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Zoom Meeting ID: 873 3950 1810 | Password: 795705 | Join Zoom meeting: | us02web.zoom.us/j/87339501810?pwd=cXJtNkwzYTBUUjI3eEphOW1BejZhZz09 | Call in: +1 669-900-9128 | Look up int\'l numbers: zoom.us/u/kcOFhaNgyn…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833018.php

Head of the Hydra: The Rise of Robert Kadlec
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-15
WASHINGTON DC ( The Last American Vagabond)

Colombia\'s opposition filing criminal charges against 9 generals and Duque ally over illegal spying
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-15
Colombia\'s opposition announced criminal charges against nine army generals and an ideologue of President Ivan Duque\'s far-right political party, which again found itself accused of having ties to the mafia….
colombiareports.com/colombias-opposition-filing-criminal-charges-against-9-generals-and-duque-ally-over-illegal-spying/

The positive side of Colombia: ambassador can eat two families\' monthly income in just one lunch
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-15
Many Colombians may have no food, but that doesn\'t mean their Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland, can\'t have lunch that could sustain two families for…
colombiareports.com/the-positive-side-of-colombia-ambassador-can-drink-two-families-monthly-income-in-just-one-lunch/

The positive side of Colombia: ambassador can eat two families\' monthly income in just one lunch
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-15
Many Colombians may have no food, but that doesn\'t mean their Ambassador to Geneva can\'t have lunch that could sustain two families for a month for lunch. One cannot form…
colombiareports.com/the-positive-side-of-colombia-ambassador-can-drink-two-families-monthly-income-in-just-one-lunch/

Fake pandemic science and conspiracy theories a key part of far-right agenda
Kimball Cariou | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-15
When is science not actually scientific? One answer is that research which cherry-picks and manipulates facts to support a preconceived hypothesis is not truly scientific. Long after Galileo and Copernicus demolished the Ptolemaic theory, some highly educated scientists kept creating astronomical models showing that the sun, planets, and stars revolve around Earth. The sheer weight …
peoplesworld.org/article/fake-pandemic-science-and-conspiracy-theories-a-key-part-of-far-right-agenda/

My Birth Control Experience Is Why I\'m Fighting to Ensure Access for Everyone
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-15
The issue of birth control is particularly important to me as a woman of color from an immigrant community in Pennsylvania. Beyond my own experience, I also understand the difficulties other marginalized communities face in obtaining this essential health care. | The first time I sought birth control, the provider lectured me based on stereotypes she had of people from my \"culture.\" She also insisted repeatedly that I choose a birth control method which I was not comfortable with because it w…
truthout.org/articles/my-birth-control-experience-is-why-im-fighting-to-ensure-access-for-everyone/

Immigrant Rights Groups Call on Governors, Health Officials to Release People in Immigration Detention
commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/15/immigrant-rights-groups-call-governors-health-officials-release-people?cd-origin=rss

Democrats\' Relief Bill Would Let Lobbying Giants Access Small Business Aid
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-15
House Democrats\' newest coronavirus relief proposal would allow influential Washington lobbying groups

Can We Simultaneously Oppose Bayer/Monsanto\'s Biotechnology and Support Cuba\'s Interferon Alpha 2B?
Don Fitz | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
Genetically engineered crops are a form of food imperialism. This technology allows mega-corporations like Bayer/Monsanto to patent seeds, lure farmers into buying them with visions of high yields, and then destroy the ability of small farmers to survive. Genetic engineering produces an artificial combination of plant traits which often results in foods with less nutritional…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/can-we-simultaneously-oppose-bayer-monsantos-biotechnology-and-support-cubas-interferon-alpha-2b/

Trump salutes his \'keyboard warriors,\' but has he actually curtailed corporate online censorship?
rt.com | 2020-05-15
President Donald Trump has paid his respects to the legions of online meme-makers and \"keyboard warriors\" who helped him get elected. But among these netizens, many feel the president hasn\'t done enough to fight online censorship. | \"Thank you to all of my great Keyboard Warriors,\" Trump tweeted on Friday. \"You are better, and far more brilliant, than anyone on Madison Avenue (Ad Agencies). There is nobody like you!\" | Thank you to all of my great Keyboard Warriors. You are better, and far more brilliant, than anyone on Madison Avenue (Ad Agencies). There is nobody like you!– Donald J. Trump (@realDonald…
rt.com/usa/488798-trump-keyboard-warriors-censorship/

Speak out against oil drilling in Brentwood
The hills are alive | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Powerdrive Oil & Gas Company, LLC has submitted an application to drill for oil on agriculturally zoned land in unincorporated Brentwood. Contra Costa County officials have made an preliminary determination against requiring an EIR (Environment Impact Report).
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833008.php

Declassified Mueller investigation transcripts confirm no evidence WikiLeaks colluded with Russia
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
The \"Russian connection\" was baldly asserted by the Democratic Party, US intelligence officials and the corporate media…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/assa-m15.html

Biden Can\'t Return Things to Normal, Because Trump Is a Normal US President. That\'s the Problem
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-15
To be clear, this is not a good thing. Trump has kept the bloodthirsty imperialism, corporate cronyism, Orwellian oppression, neoliberal exploitation and police militarization that holds the US empire together ticking along in basically the same way as his predecessors, in some ways more egregiously and in some ways less so.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/15/biden-cant-return-things-to-normal-because-trump-normal-president/

Iran\'s sponge iron production vol. exceeds 2.5mn tons in 1st month of current year
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-15
TEHRAN, May 15 (MNA)

Iran Is Not A Victim, It Is One of The Most Influential and Strong-Minded Nations on Earth
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-15
When facing mortal danger, its people unite, harden themselves and get ready to face invaders, no matter how threatening they might be. | Iran is home to one of the oldest and deepest cultures in the world, and it\'s precisely this culture that helps Iranian people to survive the most frightening moments. | And one such moment is sadly, right now. | *** | US battleships are sailing right next to the Iranian territorial waters. One mistake, one false move, and war could erupt, engulfing the entire region in flames. Iran is a proud nation, and it takes its independence extremely seriously. | Right now, the countr…
ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/iran/4154-not-a-victim.html

The Real Coronavirus Victims: Relations between People
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
\"Only touch, medicine and speech can truly heal. ª |

Video: Bill Gates\' and Rockefeller Foundation\'s Plan to Track Americans
Dr. Joseph Mercola | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Bill Gates

Video: Ted Cruz to Zuckerberg: Is There Facebook Political Bias?
Mark Zuckerberg | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pressed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on whether or not there is a political bias at the social media giant. | . | . | . | …
globalresearch.ca/video-ted-cruz-zuckerberg-facebook-political-bias/5712986

Video: Bill Gates\' and Rockefeller Foundation\'s Plan to Track Americans
Dr. Joseph Mercola | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Bill Gates

\"Truth in America R.I.P.\": In America there is only Official Truth, and It\'s a Lie
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
In \"freedom and democracy\" America there is only official truth, and it is a lie. A person or website that speaks real truth is shunted aside as a \"conspiracy theorist,\" \"Russian agent,\" \"racist,\" \"anti-semite,\" or other such name with the …
globalresearch.ca/truth-america-r-i-p/5712999

The Real Coronavirus Victims: Relations between People
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
\"Only touch, medicine and speech can truly heal. ª |

WHO special envoy sets out what\'s wrong with Johnson\'s timetable to end lockdown
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-15
The World Health Organisation\'s coronavirus special envoy has warned the government against releasing lockdown measures until a comprehensive testing, tracking and isolating system is in place. | Dr David Nabarro said rather than giving specific dates for individual measures to be lifted, the government should say they will release the lockdown \"when we know that we\'ve got the defence mechanisms in place\". | Nabarro added that the test, track and isolate strategy has \"been shown in other countries to be the key to living with the virus\". | He also stressed that a test, tracking and isolating defence system must b…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/15/who-special-envoy-sets-out-whats-wrong-with-johnsons-timetable-to-end-lockdown/

War and Plagues: Military Spending During a Pandemic
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-15
Conn HALLINAN\"There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet plagues and wars take people equally by surprise\" |

Sanders, Gillibrand, Booker, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Harris Introduce Emergency Health Care Guarantee Act
commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/15/sanders-gillibrand-booker-warren-markey-merkley-harris-introduce-emergency?cd-origin=rss

The Trump administration vs. science
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
The president\'s attack on his top coronavirus advisor, Anthony Fauci, is part of an appeal to the most backward and reactionary forces to support the deadly policy of \"reopening\" the US economy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/pers-m15.html

\'But will it fly at ludicrous speed?\' Trump teases mysterious \'SUPER DUPER MISSILE\' at Space Force flag unveiling ceremony
rt.com | 2020-05-15
US President Donald Trump has offered a sneak peak into the future of American military tech, talking up what he called a \"super duper missile,\" but his scientific terminology was simply too much for some netizens to take. | The comment came during an Oval Office ceremony to unveil the official flag of the Space Force on Friday, with Trump taking a brief detour into state-of-the-art hardware under development at the Pentagon. | \"We have, I call it the Super Duper Missile. And I heard the other night [it\'s] 17 times faster than what they have right now,\" Trump said. | TRUMP: \"We have, I call it the \'Super Duper…
rt.com/usa/488832-trump-super-duper-space-force/

War and Plagues: Military Spending During a Pandemic
Conn Hallinan | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
Welcome to the world of the hypersonic weapons, devices that are not only superfluous, but which will almost certainly not work, They will, however, cost enormous amounts of money. At a time when countries across the globe are facing economic chaos, financial deficits and unemployment at Great Depression levels, arms manufacturers are set to cash in big.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/war-and-plagues-military-spending-during-a-pandemic/

Six Essential Questions for Trump\'s \'Warp Speed\' Vaccine Program
commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/15/six-essential-questions-trumps-warp-speed-vaccine-program?cd-origin=rss

Matt Hancock refuses to commit to a pay rise for nurses
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-15
Matt Hancock has refused to promise a pay rise for nurses after the coronavirus crisis. He\'s said that he would fight for them to have \"fair reward\" but without making specific commitments. | Speaking at the Downing Street press conference, the health secretary said he agreed \"very strongly\" with the statement that nursing is a \"highly skilled profession and it deserves decent pay\". | But he stopped short of making any promises, saying only: We put up nurses\' pay last month and in fact last year we had the biggest rise in pay, especially for nurses when they were starting their career, the lowest paid nurses got a…
thecanary.co/uk/2020/05/15/matt-hancock-refuses-to-commit-to-a-pay-rise-for-nurses/

Corruption and the Pandemic Bailout
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
Neil Irwin had an interesting New York Times piece on how concerns about moral hazard in the bailout may damage the recovery. The gist of the article is that the fear that bad actors will be wrongly rewarded will prevent us from spending enough money to get the economy back on its feet. Irwin\'s point…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/corruption-and-the-pandemic-bailout/

US whistleblower warns premature return to work will bring \"unprecedented illness and fatalities\"
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
Dr. Rick Bright warned yesterday that the pandemic \"has the potential to eclipse the devastation wrought by the 1918 influenza, which globally claimed over 50 million lives.\"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/covi-m15.html

The drums of economic nationalism are beating louder
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
A series of comments published in the New York Times in recent days points to the rise of economic nationalism within the US political establishment the logic of which is war against China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/ustr-m15.html

Foreign Policy Sees \'Repression\' in Vietnam\'s Fight Against Coronavirus – In the US, government may surveill you, but at least it doesn\'t protect your health
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2020-05-15
Foreign Policy ( 5/12/20) illustrates a story on \"repression\" in Vietnam with a photo of a \"propaganda poster\" encouraging people to wear masks. | A recent piece in Foreign Policy ( 5/12/20) is headed with a photograph of a placard that features an image of a nurse demonstrating the importance of wearing a face mask as both personal and interpersonal protection against the coronavirus. But reader beware: It\'s not pu…
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Musk\'s swarm of Starlink microsatellites to light up UK skies this weekend
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Elon Musk\'s artificial constellation of Starlink microsatellites will stream across the night skies above the UK twice this weekend, providing some fodder for amatuer astronomers but some frustration for the pros. | Musk\'s SpaceX designed the fleet of microsats to provide cheap broadband internet to neglected areas of the globe. | While this is a noble goal, the swarm of microsatellites has divided the astronomy community: amateurs have added them to the list of casual targets for a night of stargazing while professionals and researchers bemoan the additional light pollution, lampooning Musk for \'destroying\' t…
rt.com/uk/488744-starlink-satellites-uk-skies/

The struggle and personal growth
Sue Harris | workers.org | 2020-05-15
What motivates some people to dominate and/or destroy, based on their illusory sense of superiority, even when it is against their own interests? Who are these people who profess to be acting in the name of \"freedom and individual liberty,\" while gathering together and refusing to wear protective masks in . . . | Continue reading The struggle and personal growth at Workers.org…
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Political Prisoners Teach-In: \'We got out because of the people\'
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-05-15
These slightly edited remarks were given April 24 at the \"U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners\" webinar teach-in 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. By Janet Africa On the Move! Happy . . . | Continue reading Political Prisoners Teach-In: \'We got out because of the people\' at Workers.org…
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Portland, Ore.: \'U.S. mail not for sale\'
Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2020-05-15
Over 20 cars lined up to cheer postal workers during the afternoon shift change on May 8 at the Portland, Ore., United States Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center. Messages of solidarity were plastered over the cars and Elvis Presley\'s \"Return to Sender\" was playing. Portland, Ore., car caravan shows . . . | Continue reading Portland, Ore.: \'U.S. mail not for sale\' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48647/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=portland-ore-u-s-mail-not-for-sale

Andrea Circle Bear and six centuries of genocide
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2020-05-15
Andrea Circle Bear, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation near Eagle Butte, S.D., was the 29th federal inmate to die due to the coronavirus in Bureau of Prisons custody. She was sentenced to serve 26 months. Circle Bear was being held at Tripp County Jail in South Dakota up until . . . | Continue reading Andrea Circle Bear and six centuries of genocide at Workers.org…
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Political Prisoners Teach-In: \'We got out because of the people\'
| workers.org | 2020-05-15
These slightly edited remarks were given April 24 at the \"U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners\" webinar teach-in 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. By Janet Africa On the Move! Happy . . . | Continue reading Political Prisoners Teach-In: \'We got out because of the people\' at Workers.org…
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Rearranging Desires Amidst Climate Catastrophe, COVID Chaos, and Capitalist Calamity
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak states that her political goal is to rearrange desires. No goal is more pertinent to our present trying time. As Chuck Mertz refrains \"the future ain\'t what it used to be.\" The coronavirus has exposed much of what we knew to be true, but counted on avoiding. What has become plain as…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/rearranging-desires-amidst-climate-catastrophe-covid-chaos-and-capitalist-calamity/

The Fed Hasn\'t Spent a Dime Yet for Main Street Versus $735 Billion for Wall Street
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
The stimulus bill known as the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) was signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27. Among its many features (such as direct checks to struggling Americans and enhancing unemployment compensation by $600 per week for four months to unemployed workers so they could pay…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/the-fed-hasnt-spent-a-dime-yet-for-main-street-versus-735-billion-for-wall-street/

Not Liberty, Happiness
Mateo Pimentel | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
In 1863, John Stuart Mill posited the utilitarian principle as the foundation of ethics. Even today this lets us weigh actions morally: the more happiness an action promotes, the more upright it is. But if this simple calculus allows us to determine the greatest good for the greatest number of people, then how do we…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/not-liberty-happiness/

End Game for Green Utopia
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
On these two opposing types of responses to the movie \"Planet Of The Humans\": PRO: \"The key, however, is that all these [\'greenish\'] energy policies have to be carried out after capitalism has been wiped out and under conditions where production is based strictly on use.\" CON:…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/end-game-for-green-utopia/

Simple Solution to California\'s Anticipated $54 Billion Budget Deficit
Rick Baum | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
The California Department of Finance recently projected that the state is facing a $54 billion deficit. There is hope for a bailout from the federal government. Given the current political make-up of the national government, does anyone want to count on what should be viewed as the goodwill of reactionaries such as Senate Majority Leader…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/simple-solution-to-californias-anticipated-54-billion-budget-deficit/

Vice President Kamala Harris?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
The Washington Post and other generally reliable sources of Washington (or is it Wilmington?) scuttlebutt report that Kamala Harris\'s chances of becoming Joe Biden\'s running-mate are on the rise. She wiped the floor with that doddering doofus in the debates, but they say that he doesn\'t care anymore. More likely, he doesn\'t remember. It could…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/vice-president-kamala-harris/

El Diego: the Two Lives of Maradona
Tony McKenna | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
22 June 1986. A world cup quarter-final is about to play out in the Estadio Azteca stadium at the heart of Mexico City. Under the billowing blue skies and the streaming sunlight the pitch is shadowless and pastel green. The teams line up. The English in white. The Argentinians in blue. As the Argentine anthem plays, the camera moves across the team, before lingering momentarily on the solemn, stormy features of the captain

My Israeli Nemesis is Moving to America
Ariel Gold | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
My first run-in with Israeli politician Gilad Erdan took place on July 1, 2018, when I arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, passport and visa in hand. After seven hours of interrogation, I was told that Erdan had had my visa revoked and was sending me directly back to the U.S.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/my-israeli-nemesis-is-moving-to-america/

Nord Stream 2 to challenge German regulator\'s decision denying waiver of \'discriminatory\' EU rules for gas pipeline from Russia
rt.com | 2020-05-15
The company building the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has vowed to appeal Germany\'s refusal to remove the multibillion-dollar project from the restrictions laid out in the \"discriminatory\" EU Gas Directive. | The latest amendment to the EU rules was greenlighted in April last year, long after Nord Stream 2 construction began. The legislature made the rules governing the European gas market apply to all pipelines to and from third countries. The new rule means Russia\'s Gazprom, which designed the project, will be allowed to use not more than 50 percent of the pipeline capacity while allowing third parties to use…
rt.com/business/488738-germany-denies-waiver-nord-stream/

Lebanon\'s Govt. to Inquire Into Causes of Currency Devaluation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
Lebanon\'s Prime Minister Hassan Diab Friday announced that his government will investigate the devaluation of the Lebanese pound, which has brought the country\'s economy to its most critical point. | RELATED: | Over 330 People Wounded in Lebanon After Clashes in Beirut | \"The people have the right to know the causes of the increase in the price of the dollar and who is behind the devaluation our national currency,\" Diab stressed. | Currently, the dollar is quoted at 4,000 Lebanese…
telesurenglish.net/news/lebanon-to-clarify-the-causes-of–national-currency-devaluation-20200515-0008.html

Almost 3 million more applied for Unemployment Insurance last week
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-15
San José, CA – On Thursday, May 14, the Labor Department reported more bad news, saying that almost 3 million people applied for unemployment insurance in the previous week ending May 9. This means that over the last eight weeks more than 36 million people applied after losing jobs and income. Another 3.5 million are collecting the federal government\'s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, which goes to the self-employed. This brings the total number of recently unemployed people to about 40 million. | This report was worse than mainstream economists expected, with a drop of only 200,000 from the week before,…
fightbacknews.org/2020/5/15/almost-3-million-more-applied-unemployment-insurance-last-week

Delta Tunnel Forges Ahead in Pandemic: Agreement in Principal Reached for SWP Contract Amendment
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
It is very clear that the Department of Water Resources and water contractors don\'t really care what the public and the people most impacted by the Delta Tunnel think, based on their obsession with pushing the tunnel project through at this time.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833007.php

The Sound and Fury of \'America Strong\'
Mike Ervin | progressive.org | 2020-05-15
What\'s the best way to honor medical professionals during a pandemic? Why, with a public display of militarism, of course!
progressive.org/dispatches/sound-and-fury-of-america-strong-ervin-200515/

Prisons Are Using the Pandemic to Impose Lockdowns
Michelle Chen | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
New Jersey Department of Corrections. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2020-05-15_at_12.12.25_pm_1.png …
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Congress Must Guarantee Health Coverage During Pandemic
commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
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Chicagoland area Arabs and Muslims continue to fight racist, incompetent, township board during pandemic
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-15
Chicago, IL – On May 11, over 30 Arab and Muslim community members and their allies joined a Palos Township online meeting to continue demanding the resignation of the racist trustee, Sharon Brannigan. | Since the global pandemic forced the state of Illinois and its functions to be moved to digital forms, the Palos Township started to hold its monthly general meetings via Zoom. | The #ResignBrannigan coalition, which has been demanding the resignation of Brannigan since July of 2017, refused to let the quarantine get in the way of their campaign and took the fight to Zoom. | The meeting, like usual, became heated…
fightbacknews.org/2020/5/14/chicagoland-area-arabs-and-muslims-continue-fight-racist-incompetent-township-board-during

Whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright testifies winter could be \'darkest in modern history\'
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-15
Dr. Rick Bright, the top Health and Human Services official dumped by Trump for blowing the whistle on the administration\'s disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic, testified to Congress Thursday that essentially everything the president is saying about his administration\'s response to the pandemic is a lie. One of the most damaging of those lies, …
peoplesworld.org/article/whistleblower-dr-rick-bright-testifies-winter-could-be-darkest-in-modern-history/

Whistleblower: Wall Street Has Engaged in Widespread Manipulation of Mortgage Funds
Heather Vogell, ProPublica | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
Securities that contain loans for properties like hotels and office buildings have inflated profits, the whistleblower claims. As the pandemic hammers the economy, that could increase the chances of another mortgage collapse. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/whistleblower-mortgage-funds-propublica.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/15/whistleblower-wall-street-has-engaged-widespread-manipulation-mortgage-funds?cd-origin=rss

How Biosecurity Is Enabling Digital Neo-Feudalism
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-15
Italian master thinker Giorgio Agamben has been on the

UK universities prepare all-out assault on staff and students in wake of pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
With the coronavirus pandemic leading to a drop in student numbers, up to 60,000 workers could lose their jobs as universities face a £2.5 billion funding black hole.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/high-m15.html

Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools
Sarah Lahm | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
Given Gates\'s track record of expensive failures in the realm of education reform, this partnership is understandably drawing criticism from teachers and parents, as well as allegations from progressives that it is disaster capitalism at work. (Photo: Michael Cohen/Getty Images/The New York Times) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/billgates.jpg …
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Stop the $2 Billion Arms Sale to the Philippines
Amee Chew | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
A street under quarantine in Iriga City, Philippines (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/shutterstock_1691913814.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/15/stop-2-billion-arms-sale-philippines?cd-origin=rss

HEROES Act Includes Utility Shutoff Ban, $4 Billion For Broadband Access
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-15
Republicans oppose the HEROES Act provision to expand broadband, but students and educators say lack of internet access is a major roadblock to learning in low income and rural communities.
therealnews.com/columns/heroes-act-includes-utility-shutoff-ban-4-billion-for-broadband-access

The Best Way to Ensure Unemployed Workers Get Health Care? Pay for It Through Medicare
Diane Archer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
The Medicare Crisis program offers far more generous benefits than the COBRA proposal, the Worker Health Coverage Protection Act. Still, according to the economists at PERI, the cost to the federal government of the Medicare Crisis program based on coverage for 38.7 million people is $22.3 billion less than the full cost of care under the COBRA proposal, $47.5 billion vs. $69.8 billion for three months of coverage. (Photo: @AngryVoters / Twitpic) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/we_need_medicare_for_all.jpg …
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Czech Republic to allow gatherings of up to 300 people
rt.com | 2020-05-15
The Czech Republic will take major steps to relax its coronavirus lockdown measures from May 25, as the government seeks to jump-start the economy, health officials said on Friday. | The central European country of 10.7 million people has reported fewer than 100 new cases a day throughout May. As of Friday morning, it had recorded a total of 8,352 cases of which 5,249 have recovered. It has reported 293 deaths, Reuters said. | Indoor dining and hotel stays could resume on May 25 under strict hygiene rules, Health Minister Adam Vojtech said. \"After May 25, there won\'t be establishments in retail which would be…
rt.com/newsline/488794-czech-gatherings-hundreds-people/

German auto bosses demand government subsidies and job cuts
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
The German auto industry is using the coronavirus crisis to implement its long-planned transition to electro-mobility and digitalisation. Its main partner is the company union, the IG Metall.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/auto-m15.html

Burundi Kicks Out WHO Meddlers
AFP | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-15

\"Burundians greet each other by shaking hands and often continue holding hands for several minutes after starting a conversation. Figurative or literal references to cattle is an important part of the greetings. For example, both parties might wish each other large cattle herds, a sign of prosperity.\"

| Burundi has ordered the country\'s top World Health Organization (WHO) representative and three other experts coordinating the coronavirus response…
anti-empire.com/burundi-kicks-out-who-meddlers/

Rushed relaxation of coronavirus measures in Germany puts thousands of lives at risk
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
With the general relaxation of the coronavirus measures, cases in schools, retirement homes, local transport, industry and the entire working population are inevitably on the rise again.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/rela-m15.html

USPS Reportedly Considering Price Hikes as Trump\'s Takeover Accelerates
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-15
With the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service soon to be completely under the control of President Donald Trump\'s appointees, the agency has reportedly launched a review of its package prices and bulk delivery contracts as it faces the possibility of imminent collapse due in large part to the coronavirus crisis. | According to the Washington Post, USPS has in recent weeks \"sought bids from consult…
truthout.org/articles/usps-reportedly-considering-price-hikes-as-trumps-takeover-accelerates/

The Virus, the Press, and the Comfortable Class
Michael Massing | thenation.com | 2020-05-15
The Virus, the Press, and the Comfortable Class…
thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-press-new-york/

We Can\'t Go Back to Normal: A Moral Respnse to Coronavirus Town Hall (PPC)
Poor People\'s Campaign & MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833013.php

If They Walk Like Fascists and Talk Like Fascists
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-05-15
If They Walk Like Fascists and Talk Like Fascists…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-gop-coronavirus-fascism/

Baseball\'s Plan to Reopen Is All Risk for the Players
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2020-05-15
Baseball\'s Plan to Reopen Is All Risk for the Players…
thenation.com/article/society/mlb-baseball-coronavirus/

Ari Berman on Voter Suppression and Coronavirus
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-05-15
Media…
fair.org/home/ari-berman-on-voter-suppression-and-coronavirus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ari-berman-on-voter-suppression-and-coronavirus

Back to work, or else: Trump administration tells states to pull unemployment benefits
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-15
WASHINGTON–GOP President Donald Trump\'s Labor Secretary, Eugene Scalia, and his #2 who runs the agency that oversees jobless benefits want employers to report–and states to bar benefits from–workers who fear returning to their old jobs because their employers won\'t protect them against the coronavirus. The memo, from John Pallasch, a GOP operative, an advocate for …
peoplesworld.org/article/back-to-work-or-else-trump-administration-tells-states-to-pull-unemployment-benefits/

\"Corona demonstrations\" in Germany: Neo-Nazis join hands with Free Democrats, Christian Democrats and Left Party
wsws.org | 2020-05-15
The FDP\'s leader in Thuringia, Thomas Kemmerich, participated in a demonstration against the measures put in place to restrict the spread of the coronavirus. Like other such mobilisations in Germany, it was dominated by the extreme right.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/15/kemm-m15.html

Wearing \'smallpox blankets\' Lakota Dakota oppose casinos reopening
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Wearing \'smallpox blankets,\' Standing Rock Lakota and Dakota opposed the plan to re-open casinos. This comes as two coronavirus cases were reported after group testing at Standing Rock.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833001.php

Vast majority support Scottish government\'s lockdown strategy
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-15
The majority of the public back the Scottish government\'s lockdown approach, according to polling announced by Nicola Sturgeon.At her daily coronavirus briefing on Friday, the first minister said government polling shows 84% support a \"slow and gradual\" lifting of restrictions, while 82% agree that before further significant changes to lockdown are made the impact of those already introduced should be assessed.The survey also found 86% said \"decisions on when and how to lift restrictions must be based on saving lives and protecting the NHS\".Nicola Sturgeon said she will outline her thoughts on easing lockdown nex…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/15/vast-majority-support-scottish-governments-lockdown-strategy/

Gaza Holds Its Breath as the Threat of Coronavirus Looms
Ahmed Abu Artema | thenation.com | 2020-05-15
Gaza Holds Its Breath as the Threat of Coronavirus Looms…
thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-gaza-crisis/

#Stop the Money Pipeline: Dump Climate Denier Lee Raymond from Chase Actionar
#StopTheMoneyPipeline and others | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Online via Zoom | Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsfu6grzkrG9BKn-nueHHbOJCCFNTn5W4B…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/14/18833027.php

Intersection of the Climate Crisis & Social Justice Webinar (PPC & CRP)
Poor People\'s Campaign, Climate Reality Proj. | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833015.php

Citizens\' Climate Lobby: Virutal Climate Conference 2020 (Day 1)
Citizens\' Climate Lobby | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Online/virtual conference…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/15/18833048.php

Citizens\' Climate Lobby: Virtual Climate Conference 2020 (Day 2)
Citizens\' Climate Lobby | indybay.org | 2020-05-15
Online/virtual conference…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/15/18833049.php

\'Boogaloo Boy\' Arrested in Texas, Charged With Plotting To Murder Cops on Facebook Live
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-15
\"Boogaloo Boys\"

Breonna Taylor Was Murdered for Sleeping While Black
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-05-15
Breonna Taylor Was Murdered for Sleeping While Black…
thenation.com/article/society/breonna-taylor-was-murdered-for-sleeping-while-black/

Germany in recession with economy in worst plunge since global financial crisis
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Germany\'s economy shrank by 2.2 percent in the first quarter compared to the final three months of 2019, preliminary official statistics have shown. It\'s the biggest slump in a decade for Europe\'s largest economy. | Figures for the final three months of 2019 were revised to show a contraction of 0.1 percent, which means German GDP growth has been negative for two consecutive quarters, the technical definition of a recession. | The numbers are expected to get worse; Germany\'s Statistical Office has forecast a ten percent plunge in GDP for the second quarter, depending on the success of lifting lockdown measures…
rt.com/business/488749-germany-sharp-recession-financial-crisis/

Quarantined & lonely? Find a \'SEX BUDDY,\' Dutch government advises
rt.com | 2020-05-15
Dutch authorities have decided that sex is a necessity, even in times of lockdown. Ever the pragmatists, they suggest that quarantined singletons \"make arrangements\" with a willing partner. | With more than 43,000 people infected with the coronavirus and a death toll of 5,600, the Netherlands has been on lockdown since late March. Citizens are allowed to have up to three visitors in their homes, provided they keep a distance of 1.5 meters from each other. Naturally, this precludes most sexual activity. | However, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has admitted that two se…
rt.com/news/488821-netherlands-coronavirus-sex-partner/

Steny Hoyer Ripped by Progressive Primary Challenger for Backing Fossil Fuel Bailout in Covid-19 Bill
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
\"This is not the time to invest in dirty energy through federal petroleum purchases.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/hoyer.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/15/steny-hoyer-ripped-progressive-primary-challenger-backing-fossil-fuel-bailout-covid?cd-origin=rss

Calling on Americans to Vote Trump Out, The Lancet Eviscerates US President Over \'Incoherent\' Covid-19 Response
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
Esteemed medical journal The Lancet on Friday took an unusual step towards calling on American voters to remove President Donald Trump from office in November, condemning the Trump administration\'s \"incoherent\" response to the coronavirus pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1223495095_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/15/calling-americans-vote-trump-out-lancet-eviscerates-us-president-over-incoherent?cd-origin=rss

\'The Future We Want\': London Joining Global Trend of Car-Free Streets to Cut Pollution, Fight Covid-19
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
Following in the footsteps of leaders in Milan and New York City who are heeding global calls to #BuildBackBetter from the coronavirus pandemic, London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday unveiled plans to create \"one of the largest car-free zones in any capital city in the world\" to improve local air quality and encourage more walking and cycling. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12127988601.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/15/future-we-want-london-joining-global-trend-car-free-streets-cut-pollution-fight?cd-origin=rss

Former Inslee Staffers Urge Biden and House Dems to Embrace $1.2 Trillion Green Stimulus as Part of Covid-19 Recovery
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
Advisers who helped develop Washington Gov. Jay Inslee\'s widely-praised climate action plan during his 2020 presidential run are now calling on congressional Democrats to adopt the bold initiatives Inslee proposed in order to include a shift to a renewable energy economy. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/jay_inslee_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/15/former-inslee-staffers-urge-biden-and-house-dems-embrace-12-trillion-green-stimulus?cd-origin=rss

When Patients Die Alone, How Do Families and Health Workers Cope, Relieve Suffering?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-14
We look at the tremendous emotional toll the coronavirus is taking on families when loved ones are forced to battle COVID alone in hospitals or at home, with Dr. Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and a professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She helped start a 24-hour palliative care hotline for COVID-19 patients in New York City that served nearly 900 people in a four-week period.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/14/diane_meier_palliative_care

Coronavirus Pandemic Prompts Global Mental Health Crisis as Millions Feel Alone, Anxious & Depressed
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-14
Is the coronavirus pandemic generating a mental illness crisis? Millions face isolation, poverty and anxiety. We speak with psychology professor and author Andrew Solomon, as the United Nations calls on governments to put mental health \"front and center\" in their response to the crisis.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/14/andrew_solomon

\'Zombie Neocon\': How This Iran Contra Architect Is Leading Trump Policy
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-14
Hawk Elliot Abrams, reborn as a U.S. envoy, is at the spear point of recent aggressive moves in Venezuela. | Barbara BOLAND | As we await answers on who funded the plot to use a handful of mercenaries and ex-Green Berets to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, it\'s worth taking a closer look at the man behind regime change policy, the special envoy on Venezuela, Elliott Abrams. | Called the \"neocon zombie\" by officials at the State Department, Abrams is know…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/14/zombie-neocon-how-this-iran-contra-architect-is-leading-trump-policy/

Hell No, You Can\'t be Safer at Home
Ruth Conniff | progressive.org | 2020-05-14
Wisconsin Supreme Court, in act of \'blatant . . . judicial activism,\' strikes down state rules meant to curb spread of COVID-19.
progressive.org/dispatches/hell-no-you-cant-be-safer-at-home-conniff-200514/

\'Tyrannical\' Wisconsin court ruling puts lives in danger amid pandemic
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-14
In a ruthless display of power, the right-wing-dominated Wisconsin Supreme Court threw the state\'s response to the COVID-19 pandemic into \"chaos,\" putting the lives of millions of residents in danger. The ruling, termed \"tyrannical\" by one dissenting justice, struck down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers\'s administration\'s ability to issue statewide emergency safer-at-home orders during the pandemic, …
peoplesworld.org/article/tyrannical-wisconsin-court-ruling-puts-lives-in-danger-amid-pandemic/

\'Unlawful & invalid\': Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down state\'s stay-at-home order
rt.com | 2020-05-14
Measures purportedly enacted to stop the spread of coronavirus in Wisconsin have been overturned by the state\'s Supreme Court, which ruled that the orders violate the law and cannot be enforced. | The state\'s highest court issued a 4-3 ruling describing the restrictions as \"unlawful, invalid, and unenforceable.\" The decision comes after Republican lawmakers sued Department of Health Services Secretary-designee Andrea Palm, after she unilaterally extended the state\'s \"Safer at Home\" emergency order in mid-April. The measures were first implemented in March and were set to expire on May 26. | Wisconsin has alrea…
rt.com/usa/488600-wisconsin-supreme-court-lockdown-unlawful/

Western media concerned coronavirus \'hasn\'t killed more Russians\'
rt.com | 2020-05-14
US and allied media outlets seem frustrated that the pandemic isn\'t killing more Russians, so they\'re claiming the death toll is higher, despite a lack of evidence

President Maduro: New Mercenary Groups are Formed in Colombia
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
Venezuela\'s president, Nicolas Maduro, denounced this Thursday that \"new groups of mercenaries are being formed in Colombia\" under the complicity of the Ivan Duque government, with the purpose of attempting new attacks against his country. | \"New groups of hitmen, mercenaries and terrorists are being formed in Colombia; We have the names, the place where they are, those who protect them and everything points to Ivan Duque again \", denounced the president while leading the day with the health sector to evaluate the protocols implemented in the combat of Covid-19. | The head of state asserted that those who pro…
telesurenglish.net/news/President-Maduro-New-Mercenary-Groups-are-Formed-in-Colombia-20200514-0022.html

Surveillance Tech: Leave It to the Mossad and Shin Bet to Profit Militarily and Financially from Coronavirus
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-14
Israel\'s external spy organization Mossad and its internal espionage equivalent Shin Bet have reputations that are much larger than their actual successes, but the one area where they have excelled is electronic intelligence gathering. Recent electronic spying around the White House and other federal buildings in Washington carried out by the Israeli Embassy demonstrates that Israel does not differentiate much between friends and enemies when it conducts espionage. In fact, spying targeting the U.S. is probably its number one priority due to the fact that the Jewish state is so heavily dependent on American su…
ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/palestine/4149-surveillance-mossad-shin-bet.html

Bolivia: Scholastic Organizations Join Hunger Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
Bolivia\'s educators joined on May 13 the strikes against coup born government, after massive layoffs amidst the ongoing pandemic due to the Covid-19 outbreak. | RELATED: | Rejection to Genetically Modified Seeds Grows in Bolivia | According to the Confederation of Urban Education Workers of Bolivia (CETUB) leader, Vladimir Laura, about 800 professors and education specialists who were instructing other teachers were dismissed in early May. Laura stressed their employers breached the…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-educators-organizations-join-hunger-protests-20200514-0008.html

Protests break out after paramilitary forces kill civilian for \"jumping a checkpoint\" in Kashmir
Umer Beigh | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-14
The killing of a 25-year-old civilian has triggered massive protests across central Kashmir. The security forces have responded by firing tear gas canisters and pellets, injuring scores of protesters…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/14/army-kills-civilian-for-jumping-a-checkpoint-in-kashmir/

Slovenian Left protests amendments to Nature Conservation Act
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-14
The amendments proposed by the Slovenian government make it more difficult for organizations to attain the status of a nature conservation organization in public interest. This is believed to be a step towards the sale of the country\'s resources…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/14/slovenian-left-protests-amendments-to-nature-conservation-act/

Tense Calm in Montenegro After Day of Mass Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
Montenegro was under a cloak of tense calm on Thursday, after mass protests in several cities, which were strongly repressed by the police and during which people were arrested and injured, including minors. | RELATED: | Montenegrin Police Violently Repress Religious-Law Protesters | The origin of the situation was the detention of Orthodox Archbishop Joanikij and eight other clergymen who were saying mass in honor of Saint Vasilije Ostrovski on May 12, when thousands of people…
telesurenglish.net/news/Tense-Calm-in-Montenegro-After-Day-of-Mass-Protests-20200514-0021.html

The 1930s and now: Looking back to move forward
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2020-05-14
While there are great differences between the crises and political movements and possibilities of the 1930s and now, there are also important lessons that can be learned from the efforts of activists to build mass movements for social transformation during the Great Depression. My aim in this paper is to illuminate the challenges faced and …
mronline.org/2020/05/14/the-1930s-and-now-looking-back-to-move-forward/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-1930s-and-now-looking-back-to-move-forward

The Colombian Political System is Ravaged by Corruption: Pablo Beltrán
Sasha Yumbila Paz | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-14
The ELN, took up arms in 1964. Since 1989, it has held peace talks with five administrations. The government of Juan Manuel Santos and the ELN advanced an agenda to end the conflict. The last round of negotiations was held in Havana, Cuba, where the ELN\'s Dialogue Delegation continues to work for a political solution to Colombia\'s armed conflict. | The government of Iván Duque Márquez, since taking office in August 2018, has ignored the Agenda for Peace Talks, including the security protocols and the return of the ELN to Colombia; and in January 2019 it terminated all dialogue. | Over 56 years, the armed conflict…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/14/the-colombian-political-system-is-ravaged-by-corruption-pablo-beltran/

Richard Burr to step down as Senate intel chair during FBI\'s probe into suspicious stock dumps before Covid-19 market crash
rt.com | 2020-05-14
Republican Senator Richard Burr will step down from his post as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee pending a probe into suspicious stock trades he made before the Covid-19 crisis hit US markets. | Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Burr had contacted him to say he would not remain in the role \"during the pendency of the investigation.\" | McConnell said it had been agreed that the decision was \"in the best interests of the committee\" and would be effective from the end of the day on Friday. | The decision comes hours after FBI agents seized the North Carolina senator\'s private…
rt.com/usa/488673-burr-steps-down-intel/

Revealed: Secretive British Unit Planning for \'Reconstruction\' of Venezuela
John McEvoy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
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 …
globalresearch.ca/british-unit-planning-reconstruction-venezuela/5712896

Brazil: Face Masks Are Mandatory in Rio de Janeiro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
Brazil\'s Legislative Assembly in Rio de Janeiro (Alerj) decreed on Thursday that mask-use is mandatory and a preventive measure against Covid-19. The 92 Rio de Janeiro municipalities will enforce this norm. | RELATED: | \'Brazil Is a Ship Sailing Towards Disaster\' Lula Da Silva Warns | According to the bill, mask-use is legally required. If police and authorities catch a citizen with an uncovered face, the offender will receive a warning. In case of a recurrence, violators will…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-masks-are-mandatory-in-rio-de-janeiro—20200514-0014.html

Brazil: Coronavirus Kills Historic Leader of Amazonian Peoples
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
Messias Kokama, the main Indigenous leader of the Manaus city, died a victim of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on Wednesday. His community mourns his departure without being able to pay homage to him with their traditional rituals. | RELATED: | Brazil: Manaus Collapses as COVID-19 Hits Indigenous People | \"We lost a man who dreamed of the first Indigenous neighborhood inside a city. Today he leaves us his example of persistence, struggle, and courage in the face of conflicts and obstacl…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Coronavirus-Kills-Historic-Leader-of-Amazonian-Peoples-20200514-0015.html

WHO warns Covid-19 may \'never go away\' as Trump clashes with Fauci over US reopening
rt.com | 2020-05-14
US President Donald Trump has pushed for reopening schools, against the advice of his chief epidemiologist. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus may become endemic and never really disappear. | After meeting with governors of Colorado and North Dakota in the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he won\'t consider any state fully open until the schools are back up and running. | \"I think you should absolutely open the schools. Our country has got to get back and it\'s got to get back as soon as possible, and I don\'t consider our country coming back if the schools are closed,\" T…
rt.com/usa/488590-who-coronavirus-never-trump-fauci/

COVID-19 Response Fund: Cutting-edge technologies advance coronavirus fight
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-14
Imperial researchers are driving forward the fight against coronavirus with new healthcare innovations and data insights.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197517/covid-19-response-fund-cutting-edge-technologies-advance

Strong typhoon slams into pandemic-hit Philippines, making social distancing \'almost impossible\'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-14
A strong typhoon has hit the Philippines after authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people while trying to avoid the coronavirus (Covid-19) risks of overcrowding emergency shelters.The first typhoon to hit the country this year rapidly gained force as it blew from the Pacific then barged ashore in San Policarpio town in Eastern Samar province around noon local time, weather agency administrator Vicente Malano said.The typhoon came as the Philippines is trying to fight Covid-19 outbreaks largely by locking Filipinos in their homes and prohibiting gatherings that can set off infections. More than 11,600 infec…
thecanary.co/discovery/2020/05/14/strong-typhoon-slams-into-pandemic-hit-philippines-making-social-distancing-almost-impossible/

How dare you… use CHINESE drones!? US lawmakers \'grill\' feds over spying on lockdown-violating Americans
rt.com | 2020-05-14
A group of House Republicans has called on federal agencies to shed light on drones used by police across the country to surveil and enforce Covid-19 lockdowns, arguing that Chinese devices could compromise \"sensitive US data.\" | The 14 GOP representatives, all on the House Judiciary Committee, penned two letters to the Departments of Homeland…
rt.com/usa/488593-lawmakers-chinese-drones-spying/

At Least 100,000 Health Workers Contracted COVID-19 Worldwide
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) Thursday informed that at least 100,000 health workers have contracted COVID-19 so far and asked governments to publish more complete figures on this worrying situation. | RELATED: | Southeast Asia Witnesses Significant Rise in COVID-19 Cases | In some European countries, over 10 percent of coronavirus-infected people are health workers. In Spain, the proportion of affected reached 19 percent, although the ICN stressed that international c…
telesurenglish.net/news/At-Least-100000-Health-Workers-Contracted-COVID-19-Worldwide-20200514-0009.html

Health leaders say it will take months for NHS services to fully resume
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-14
It will be months before the NHS is able to fully restart services in the face of coronavirus (Covid-19), health leaders say. | Experts from the Health Foundation, the King\'s Fund and the Nuffield Trust will tell MPs on 14 May of the significant challenges facing the health service as it tries to create a \"new normal\". | It comes as NHS waiting list data is due to be published which is expected to show the number of people waiting for treatment has swollen during the pandemic. | The waiting list for planned treatment stood at around 4.4 million before the coronavirus outbreak but is now expected to be much higher…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/14/health-leaders-say-it-will-take-months-for-nhs-services-to-fully-resume/

Bay Area car caravan: Stop state executions by COVID-19!
Patricia Gorky | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-14
More than 80 cars drove around San Quentin prison in Marin County, California on Sat. May .
liberationnews.org/stop-state-executions-0509/

Trump Threatens to Break Ties With China Over COVID-19 Issues
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
U.S. President Donald Trump further hardened his rhetoric towards China Thursday, saying he no longer wishes to speak with Xi Jinping and warning that he might cut ties over the rival superpower\'s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Trump Was Real Time Informed During COVID-19 Outbreak in China | Tensions have ratcheted up between Washington and Beijing as they trade barbs over the origin of the pandemic –which first appeared in late 2019 in the Chinese city of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Threatens-to-Break-Ties-With-China-Over-COVID-19-Issues-20200514-0017.html

\'Don\'t give 2 rats\' a**es about your cops\': NYC police unions call on health commissioner to resign after refusal to provide masks
rt.com | 2020-05-14
Unions representing New York City police officers have demanded the dismissal of the city\'s health commissioner after she scoffed at a request to provide the force with surgical masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. | Dr. Oxiris Barbot refused to provide the city\'s police with 500,000 masks as Covid-19 began to spread in March, telling a high-ranking law enforcement official, NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan: \"I don\'t give two rats\' asses about your cops.\" The conversation, first reported by the New York Post, was confirmed to the media by the NYC Health Department. Barbot has since apologized to Monaha…
rt.com/usa/488598-nyc-police-health-commissioner-masks-resign/

America\'s Newest Wedge Issue and the Tale of the Bizarre 2020 Presidential Elections
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-14
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to dominate the news and life of the American Republic. With currently no end in sight it is not paranoid to wonder if and how the pandemic will affect the presidential elections coming up in November. Two World Wars, The Civil War, The Great Depression and the Spanish Flu were not enough to stop voting for some congressmen and the top executive of the United States as planned. Now for the first time there are rumors moving…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/14/america-newest-wedge-issue-and-tale-bizarre-2020-presidential-elections/

We shouldn\'t mourn the loss of high street fashion giants. They represent some of the worst aspects of globalization
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-05-14
On both sides of the Atlantic major retail clothing chains have been struggling in the midst of coronavirus-related (Covid-19) shutdown measures. Economic commentators have been fretting about the potential fallout. Yet, although the inevitable loss of jobs is regrettable, we shouldn\'t mourn the decline of these \'fast fashion\' giants. In many respects, they represent all that is wrong and destructive ab…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/05/14/we-shouldnt-mourn-the-loss-of-high-street-fashion-giants-they-represent-some-of-the-worst-aspects-of-globalization/

Pandemic Spending Will Force US Defense Budget Cuts–Some of Which Should Come From Nuclear Weapons Programs
Lawrence Korb | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Even supporters of increased US defense budgets expect that, because the US government will likely spend trillions of dollars trying to rescue the economy from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, military spending in the United States is likely …
globalresearch.ca/pandemic-spending-force-us-defense-budget-cuts-nuclear-weapons-programs/5712918

US Should Release Occupational Data in COVID-19 Death Reports
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-05-14
Earlier this week, the Guardian reported that UK women working in care occupations are two times as likely to die from COVID-19 as women in professional and technical occupations. In addition, UK men in low-paid, manual jobs are four times as likely to die from the virus as men in professional and technical jobs. The …
cepr.net/us-should-release-occupational-data-in-covid-19-death-reports/

Israel Strips Financial Aid From Palestinian Prisoners, Leaving Them To Face COVID-19 Alone
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-14
Calls and visits are denied to many of Israel\'s Palestinian prisoners, leaving their fate in the pandemic unknown.
therealnews.com/stories/israel-financial-aid-from-palestinian-prisoners-coronavirus

\'Major\' Mental Health Crisis Looming Due to COVID-19: UN
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
The COVID-19 outbreak risks sparking a major global mental health crisis, the United Nations warned Thursday, calling for urgent action to address the psychological suffering brought on by the pandemic. | RELATED: | COVID-19 Means a Systemic Human Development Crisis, UNDP Warns | While protecting physical health has been the primary concern during the first months of the crisis, it is also placing substantial mental strains on large swathes of the global population, the U.N. sai…
telesurenglish.net/news/Major-Mental-Health-Crisis-Looming-Due-to-COVID-19-UN-20200514-0020.html

COVID crisis in Puerto Rico worsened by US neglect
Surangya | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-14
After hurricanes and earthquakes, the COVID-19 pandemic is the third major health crisis in Puerto Rico in three years. There have been around 2,300 COVID cases and around 115 deaths in the Caribbean island as of May 14. This crisis is exacerbated in the region because of the historical neglect and because of its colonial relationship with the United States.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/14/covid-crisis-in-puerto-rico-worsened-by-us-neglect/

Imperial MBBS medics deliver action plans for London GPs and local communities
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-14
Third-year medical students have partnered with community, voluntary, health & social care leaders to respond to local needs in the era of COVID-19.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197237/imperial-mbbs-medics-deliver-action-plans

AI-Powered Medical \"Pre-Crime\" Is Officially Here To \"Fight COVID-19\"
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-14
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 (5/13/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/ai-powered-medical-pre-crime-officially-here-fight-covid-19/

COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be Ready Within a Year: EU
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready for approval within a year in an \"optimistic scenario\". | RELATED: | Cuba: In Test Phase Vaccine That Activates Innate Immune System | \"I don\'t think a vaccine could be ready by September of this year,\" EMA vaccine department chief Marco Cavaleri said at a press conference. | For Cavaleri, the world could look on the optimistic side that the vaccine will be ready within a year, in 2021. | C…
telesurenglish.net/news/covid19-vaccine-could-be-ready-within-a-year-eu-says-20200514-0013.html

After COVID-19 infection discovered, 300 workers walk out of Mississippi pillow factory
wsws.org | 2020-05-14
Concern over a possible plantwide spread of the virus was mounting for days when a worker at the plant told supervisors that her husband–also employed at the factory–had tested positive for coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/14/miss-m14.html

Education unions in Morocco prevent private schools\' profiteering from COVID-19 Crisis Fund
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-14
A federation of for-profit private schools, many of which are collecting fees during the lockdown without providing online classes or teachers\' pay, had sought financial assistance through the COVID-19 fund…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/14/education-unions-in-morocco-prevent-private-schools-profiteering-from-covid-19-crisis-fund/

\'We\'re in deep s**t\': Ousted \'whistleblower\' Dr. Bright becomes new anti-Trump hero pinning blame on White House
rt.com | 2020-05-14
Mainstream media has elevated National Institutes of Health whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright to heroic status after his congressional testimony denounced Trump\'s Covid-19 response as borderline criminally negligent. | Bright, the director of the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) until he was unceremoniously dismissed last month, painted a disturbing picture of a government flying blindly into disaster on Thursday during his testimony on the administration\'s Covid-19 response before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. | \"We\'re in deep shit\"

China Says They are Not Stealing US Data on COVID-19 Vaccine
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
China\'s Foreign Ministry called the allegations made by the United States defamatory, saying that Beijing-backed hackers are trying to steal data related to advances in the new coronavirus vaccine from the country. | RELATED: | WHO to Receive $30 Million From China to Fight COVID-19 | \"China expresses strong dissatisfaction and opposition to such defamation,\" ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said during a press conference. | The U.S. \"has conducted the world\'s largest cyber-robbery o…
telesurenglish.net/news/china-claims-not-trying-to-steal-us-data-on-covid19-vaccine-20200514-0006.html

First COVID-19 Case at Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
A Rohingya refugee has become the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in the vast camps in Cox\'s Bazar, Bangladesh, that house almost a million people, officials said Thursday. At the same time, humanitarian groups have warned the infection could devastate the crowded settlement. | RELATED: | Bangladesh: Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees Stranded at Sea | The local health coordinator, Abu Toha Bhuiyan, initially said two refugees had been put into isolation. The World Health Organ…
telesurenglish.net/news/First-COVID-19-Case-at-Rohingya-Refugee-Camps-in-Bangladesh–20200514-0016.html

UN economic commission backs guaranteed minimum income in Colombia
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-14
The United Nations\' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) supports an urgent guaranteed minimum income (GMI) as proposed in Colombia\'s senate. The proposal was coined by some…
colombiareports.com/un-economic-commission-backs-guaranteed-minimum-income-in-colombia/

Fruit pickers, garment workers strike as opposition grows to reopening US economy
wsws.org | 2020-05-14
Migrant workers in the state of Washington and garment workers at a Mississippi pillow-making factory are striking as the number of job actions demanding safe conditions surpasses 200.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/14/work-m14.html

The Other Americans: Trump is Spreading the Virus
Jeff Abbott | progressive.org | 2020-05-14
Deportations of migrants are exacerbating already weakened health care systems in Latin America.
progressive.org/dispatches/trump-is-spreading-the-virus-abbott-200514/

Guatemala: Doctors Demand Better Working Conditions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
Guatemalan health workers demanded May 13 better working conditions, medical supplies, and biosafety equipment. | RELATED: | Guatemala Receives Migrants Deported from US | According to local news media, doctors in the station hospital located in Industrial Park sai they don ¥t have necessary equipment and health supplies to cover their daily necessity. | As they said, authorities gave them trash bags as makeshift protective suits. Furthermore, they stated food portions are not e…
telesurenglish.net/news/guatemala-doctors-demand-better-working-conditions-20200514-0010.html

Fed chief calls for more money for Wall Street and corporations
wsws.org | 2020-05-14
Powell\'s remarks effectively poured water on the claim that once lockdowns are lifted, as being demanded by the \"return to work\" advocates, the American economy will immediately snap back in a so-called V-shaped recovery.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/14/powe-m14.html

Banking on the Nuclear Bomb Are Citi, Chase, BofA, Wells and Goldman Sachs
Matthew Russell Lee | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
This article was originally published in 2018. | Among the top ten investors in nuclear weapons are banks which stand to benefit from the de-regulatory bill S.2155 in Washington, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, State Street …
globalresearch.ca/banking-bomb-citi-chase-bofa-wells-goldman-sachs-icp-asks-why-un-global-compact/5712845

Corona-Crisis and Two Models of Capitalism
Dimitris Konstantakopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
It is clear that we are entering worldwide an era of very grave social, political and international conflicts and we cannot exclude new wars, writes Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, former adviser to the Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and former Member …
globalresearch.ca/corona-crisis-two-models-capitalism/5712898

America\'s Military Vaccine Mandate? Dept. of Defense Purchasing 500 Million ApiJect Syringes to Inject Every Person in America with Coronavirus Vaccine
Mike Adams | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Anyone who thought the US military was preparing to force vaccinate every American with a coronavirus vaccine has just found strong evidence to confirm the plan. According to a press release from the US Dept. of Defense, featuring an …
globalresearch.ca/military-vaccine-mandates-defense-purchasing-500-million-apiject-syringes-inject-every-person-america-coronavirus-vaccine/5712859

A Well-Planned Epidemic
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Evidence demonstrates that the Coronavirus Operation started well before the \"lockdowns\" and the Fear campaigns. | Consider, for example, that whereas the WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 30, 2020 (1) the Coronavirus Aid Relief …
globalresearch.ca/well-planned-epidemic/5712856

Unholy Shambles: Johnson\'s COVID Response Falling Apart at the Edges
Ian Dunt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
As soon as they had to do anything, the whole thing fell down. From the slogan, to the statement, to the guidance, it is an unholy shambles, a near-ceaseless demonstration of cack-handed inadequacy. | It\'s not like they didn\'t have time …
globalresearch.ca/johnson-covid-response-falling/5712841

Why China is not the aggressor
Walter Smolarek | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-14
The war hawks want you to believe that China is bullying and threatening the United States. Don\'t fall for it

Toothless Congress Fails to Limit Presidential War Powers
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-14
Some weeks ago, the world woke up to the fact that World War III had just started without anyone being invaded or shots fired. It began when American President Donald J. Trump declared himself to be a \"war president\" in the fight against the coronavirus, an assertion that now has been followed by a claim that the disease is actually \"…really the worst attack we\'ve ever had. This is w…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/14/toothless-congress-fails-to-limit-presidential-war-powers/

In the hearts and minds of Nicaraguan people Augusto Sandino, °presente!
| workers.org | 2020-05-14
By Camilo Mejía Nicaraguan-born antiwar organizer and Iraq war resister Camilo Mejía gave a talk on Feb. 21 at the United National Antiwar Coalition meeting at The People\'s Forum in New York. Below is an excerpt from his remarks in tribute to General Augusto Nicolás Calderón de Sandino y José . . . | Continue reading In the hearts and minds of Nicaraguan people Augusto Sandino, °presente! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48629/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-the-hearts-and-minds-of-nicaraguan-people-augusto-sandino-presente

U.S. global prison model: white supremacy on display
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2020-05-14
The United States has institutionalized white supremacist violence at home and abroad through its use of police and prisons. This does not come as revelation, but as a call to action. Whether we examine photographs coming out of El Salvador\'s prisons, or surveillance software used by U.S. police and Immigration . . . | Continue reading U.S. global prison model: white supremacy on display at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48593/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-global-prison-model-white-supremacy-on-display-a-ww-commentary

US muscle-flexing threatens to open Arctic front in new Cold War with Russia
Scott Ritter | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-14
The US Navy is on the cusp of conducting confrontational freedom of navigation operations in the Arctic that threaten Russian economic and national security interests. | The recent resumption by the US Navy of a Barents Sea Patrol represents muscle-flexing on the part of Washington and its NATO allies unseen since the end of the Cold War. | Three American destroyers and a British frigate, accompanied by a supply ship, ventured into the Arctic body of water last week. The…

US muscle-flexing threatens to open Arctic front in new Cold War with Russia

Why Xi Won\'t Repeat Ming Dynasty Mistakes
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-14
China has learned from its own rich history and is applying those lessons to re-emerge as a major 21st century power | Pepe ESCOBAR | With hybrid warfare 2.0 against China reaching fever pitch, the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative, will continue to be demonized 24/7 as the proverbial evil communist plot for economic and geopolitical domination of the \"free\" world, boosted by a sinister disinformation campaign. | It\'s idle to discuss with simpletons. In the interest of an informed debate, what matters is to find the deeper roots of Beijing\'s strategy

Corruption and the Pandemic Bailout
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-05-14
(This piece was originally posted on my Patreon page.) Neil Irwin had an interesting New York Times piece on how concerns about moral hazard in the bailout may damage the recovery. The gist of the article is that the fear that bad actors will be wrongly rewarded will prevent us from spending enough money to …
cepr.net/corruption-and-the-pandemic-bailout/

Who\'s Fighting The War Against Cash?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-14
Mastercard, Visa, and Bill Gates are all pushing for polices to make it harder to use cash, hoping to keep closer tabs on the population through the trail of electronic transactions.
therealnews.com/stories/who-is-fighting-war-against-cash-visa-mastercard-bill-gates

US Uses \"Humanitarian Intervention\" to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests
Roger D. Harris | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-14
No More War focuses on the one nation in recent times that has been continuously engaged in wars of aggression. In fact, that nation has been engaged in wars or military occupations in all but five years since its founding in 1776. Author and professor of human rights law at the University of Pittsburgh, Dan …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/us-uses-humanitarian-intervention-to-advance-economic-and-strategic-interests/

3.5 billion people may face \'unlivable\' heat in 50 years
Ian Angus | mronline.org | 2020-05-14
Every degree of global warming will push a billion people out of the human survival zone.
mronline.org/2020/05/14/3-5-billion-people-may-face-unlivable-heat-in-50-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-5-billion-people-may-face-unlivable-heat-in-50-years

\'God Friended Me\' Was the Strangest Show on TV
Erin Schwartz | thenation.com | 2020-05-14
\'God Friended Me\' Was the Strangest Show on TV…
thenation.com/article/culture/god-friended-me-was-the-strangest-show-on-tv/

You have to experience everything
Olujimi Alade | workers.org | 2020-05-14
My life today is completely different than it was four years ago: I am a college graduate and now a member of the workforce

Working class democracy and centralism
Makasi Motema | workers.org | 2020-05-14
Painting shows V. I. Lenin speaking to soldiers and civilians. We are taught in school that the United States is a democracy, but this claim is completely divorced from the reality of class struggle. The wealthy ruling class, which owns the greater proportion of our economy through the stock market . . . | Continue reading Working class democracy and centralism at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48598/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=working-class-democracy-and-centralism-ww-commentary

Truth in America R.I.P
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-14
In \"freedom and democracy\" America there is only official truth, and it is a lie. A person or website that speaks real truth is shunted aside as a \"conspiracy theorist,\" \"Russian agent,\" \"racist,\" \"anti-semite,\" or other such name with the purpose of discrediting the message and the messenger. | For example, when I told the truth that Russiagate was a hoax, which it has proved to be, an anonymous website, possibly a CIA or NATO operation called \"PropOrNot,\" included this website among its fake list of 200 \"Russian agents/dupes.\" The Washington Post, a believed long-time CIA asset, hyped the PropOrNot revelation a…

Truth in America R.I.P.

US: Nearly 3 Million Newly Unemployed Ask for Subsidies
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
Nearly 3 million U.S. workers filed for jobless benefits last week, bringing the total number of people applying for unemployment since the coronavirus pandemic erupted in March to 36 million. | RELATED: | US House $3T Stimulus Bill Dismisses Key Progressive Proposals | The U.S. Labor Department announced Thursday that 2.98 million people have applied for unemployment benefits in the country. | This brings the total number of unemployed people in the nation who took advantage o…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-nearly-3-million-newly-unemployed-ask-for-subsidies-20200514-0011.html

The jungle–pandemic edition
David Ruccio | mronline.org | 2020-05-14
Like nursing homes, the U.S. meatpacking industry has become one of the hotspots of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
mronline.org/2020/05/14/the-jungle-pandemic-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-jungle-pandemic-edition

Prisons Are Using the Pandemic to Impose Lockdowns
Michelle Chen | progressive.org | 2020-05-14
Advocates say the extreme restrictions on movement are punitive and dangerous.
progressive.org/dispatches/prisons-using-pandemic-lockdowns-chen-200514/

U.S. pandemic unemployment grows again, but so does the number of billionaires
PAI | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-14
WASHINGTON–Some 2.981 million more people filed for jobless benefits in the week ending May 7, the Labor Department said Thursday, bringing total unemployment insurance claims since the coronavirus pandemic-caused shutdowns began to 36.5 million. Progressive analysts at the Economic Policy Institute predict jobless figures will only get worse, especially for low-wage workers, women workers, and …
peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-pandemic-unemployment-grows-again-but-so-does-the-number-of-billionaires/

Reserve army–pandemic edition
David Ruccio | mronline.org | 2020-05-14
In particular, the existence of a reserve army serves to discipline labor, keeping its wage demands in check, since employed workers are forced to compete with unemployed and underemployed workers for the available jobs.
mronline.org/2020/05/14/reserve-army-pandemic-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reserve-army-pandemic-edition

Local county officials in California bow before billionaire\'s demand to reopen Tesla factory
wsws.org | 2020-05-14
Earlier this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reopened his 10,000-employee factory in defiance of the orders of Alameda County health officials.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/14/tesl-m14.html

Reopening: A Chronicle of Needless Deaths Foretold
Gregg Gonsalves | thenation.com | 2020-05-14
Reopening: A Chronicle of Needless Deaths Foretold…
thenation.com/article/society/reopening-coronavirus-needless-deaths/

There Is Only One Way to Prevent Mass Deaths in Prisons: Let Them Out
Daniel Fernandez | thenation.com | 2020-05-14
There Is Only One Way to Prevent Mass Deaths in Prisons: Let Them Out…
thenation.com/article/activism/coronavirus-prison-danbury/

More than £30,000 raised for family of rail worker who died after being spat at
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-14
A fundraising campaign for the family of a rail worker who died with coronavirus after being spat at on a station concourse has topped £30,000 as her union issued demands over staff safety.The gofundme initiative has received more than 1,700 individual donations following the shocked reaction to the death of Belly Mujinga.British Transport Police has launched an investigation after Mujinga died a fortnight after the incident at London\'s Victoria station.(Gofundme/PA)The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) said many of its members were now fearful for their safety.Officials contacted Mujinga\'s emplo…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/14/more-than-30000-raised-for-family-of-rail-worker-who-died-after-being-spat-at/

Undocumented Workers in Coronavirus Crisis
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-05-14
Undocumented Workers in Coronavirus Crisis…
thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-undocumented-workers-california/

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

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

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

[UPDATED] Venezuelan Oil Sector Continues Slump Amid Pandemic, US Sanctions
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-13
The Maduro government is working to repair refineries with Chinese and Iranian assistance to tackle fuel shortages.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14874

Stamping Out the Outbreak of the Zionism Virus of the 1948 Nakba
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-13
Every day, I wait for Cuomo\'s briefing impatiently and watch while perched, tense and hyper-alert, at the edge of my seat, mesmerized by the shifting lines of his charts that, I swear, often morph into the outline of the map of Palestine. | My mind automatically sucks in Cuomo\'s words and echoes them back at the TV in an altered form. I am Muslim, but the dynamic gripping me is one akin to the relationship between a pastor and his congregation at a black church. Cuomo calls and I respond, sometimes aloud. I hold back from hollering and shouting at his image, so as not to scare my family. | I take in every word…
ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/palestine/4146-zionism-virus-1948-nakba.html

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

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

Georgia politicians, activists demand action for poultry workers
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-13
Gainesville, GA – COVID-19 virus is spreading quickly among poultry workers and their families in Georgia. In Hall County, northeast of Atlanta, there is a hotspot with over 2000 cases and 29 deaths as of May 12. With roughly 16,500 workers employed by 14 chicken plants across Georgia, and most immigrant families living with two or three generations in one house, the situation is code red. There needs to be an emergency response from the government and the corporations. | Chicken processing is dirty, demanding and dangerous work done mainly by immigrants from Mexico, many of whom are women. The big corporations,…
fightbacknews.org/2020/5/13/georgia-politicians-activists-demand-action-poultry-workers

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

FDA orders Bill Gates-funded program to HALT at-home Covid-19 self-testing
rt.com | 2020-05-13
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered a Seattle-based Covid-19 testing project funded by Bill Gates to stop screening for the virus, putting the program on ice as it provided hundreds of at-home test kits each day. | The billionaire Microsoft icon announced the initiative in a blog post this week

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WFTU announcement about the effects of COVID-19 pandemic in Arab countries
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-13
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following May 13 statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions. | The World Federation of Trade Unions follows the developments about the situation of workers of Arab countries, which is being deteriorated due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Except for the consequences on their health, the workers are called to pay the price for the consequences that the Pandemic and the lockdowns have brought upon to the economies of their countries. | In Algeria, Air Algeria plans to reduce the salaries of its employees. In Jordan, the government reduced the salaries of 100.000 wor…
fightbacknews.org/2020/5/13/wftu-announcement-about-effects-covid-19-pandemic-arab-countries

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

U.S. Officials Chart a Course for Greenland\'s Future
Edward Hunt | progressive.org | 2020-05-13
Trump\'s talk of buying the island fits a broader pattern of efforts to keep the island under U.S. influence.
progressive.org/dispatches/us-officials-course-for-greenland-future-hunt-200513/

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

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

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

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

Reading Dickens during the pandemic
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-13
Chicago, IL – I have lived into my sixties without giving really serious thought to 19th century English literature. My Catholic school teachers like Sister Irene and Sister Bridget continuously tried, but 45 years ago I was living the life of Eric Forman from That 70s Show. Younger and hipper lay teachers successfully introduced me to African American authors like Claude Brown, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes and James Baldwin. As a result, at the time I consumed Charles Dickens\' literature largely through a series of second-rate movies, cartoons and uneven theatrical performances that typically undermined the a…
fightbacknews.org/2020/5/13/reading-dickens-during-pandemic

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump\'s Ex-Security Company and Their Botched Plot to Overthrow the President of Venezuela
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-12
Reports coming out of Venezuela and Miami, Florida in the United States are boarding on the hilarious. If you thought you had seen it all with Venezuela\'s hard right-wing opposition and their allies in the U.S. with their actions to overthrow the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro, well, think again. In recent days, images of two captured North American mercenaries have been flooding the air waves in the South American country of Venezuela where Maduro remains the president, despite harsh U.S. economic sanctions. | Accord…
ahtribune.com/world/americas/venezuela/4143-trump-security-company-silvercorp.html

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

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

Kent State 50th with Mickey Huff
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-05-12
50 years have passed since Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War. Four students were killed and nine wounded. On this week\'s…
projectcensored.org/kent-state-50th-with-mickey-huff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kent-state-50th-with-mickey-huff

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

Civilian Taxi Driver Shot and Killed by US Military in Deir Ezzor
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-12
Before the outbreak of the Syrian conflict, Yasser Aslan used to teach programming. With the war and ever-dwindling economy, Yasser, the only breadwinner in the family of six, had to look for additional sources of income. Like thousands of other Syrians, he turned his car – a KIA Rio – into a taxi, and drove along the dangerous roads of Deir Ezzor province in an attempt to make the ends meet for himself, his wife and four daughters (15-years-old teenager and 4-years-old triplets). | Deir-Ezzor, as well as other eastern provinces of Syria, still suffers from small-scale yet lethal attacks carried out by remnant…
ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/syria-crisis/4142-us-killed-taxi-driver-yasser-aslan.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Breakdown of Academic Integrity at Universities, 9/11 to COVID-19
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-12
The subject matter of Robin\'s letter below provides insight into a case study among many others that demonstrates the failure of the academy to put the quest for truth and understanding above political expediency and successful fund raising. The implications of this pervasive failure in the academy are slowly but surely making their way into venues of public discourse. | One of the precedents set in transforming universities into pawns of powerful lobbies, including the Israel lobby, has animated the continuing failure of academic institutions to protect realms of multi-faceted academic research, publication a…
ahtribune.com/world/4144-academic-integrity-at-universities.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\"COVID-19 Has Been Racialized\": Black Scholar Jill Nelson Arrested for Chalking \"Trump = Plague\"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-11
Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City\'s response to the spread of COVID-19. We speak with author and activist Jill Nelson, who was herself arrested by NYPD in April for writing \"Trump = Plague\" in chalk on an abandoned building in her Washington Heights neighborhood. The 67-year-old scholar was handcuffed, taken to the police station and held for five hours. Now she is speaking out. The president is \"telling us that as people of color, and older people, we should just die,\" says Nelson. \"It\'s ridiculous.\"
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/11/jill_nelson_nypd_arrest_trump_plague

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

Trump Death Clock: Creator Eugene Jarecki Says \"Reckless Mishandling\" of COVID-19 Must Be Quantified
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-11
As the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States surpasses 80,000, an unusual new billboard called the Trump Death Clock in New York City\'s Times Square keeps tally of lives lost to government inaction. \"What we found was that there was an amazing and very dark truth underlying the numbers that spoke to reckless mishandling of a pandemic by the president and his team, and we felt that ought to be quantified,\" says Eugene Jarecki, the award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and activist behind the project.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/11/eugene_jarecki_trump_death_clock

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

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

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

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

Was the Latest Coup Plot Against Democratic Venezuela Made in the US?
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-11
UN Charter Article 2(4) states the following: | \"All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.\" | Since US grand theft of half of Mexican territory in the mid 19th century, long before the UN Charter\'s existence, the US time and again waged wars by hot and other means against nations threatening no one, including countless coups

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

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

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

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

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

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

[UPDATED] Venezuela Makes Fresh Arrests as Opposition Splinters over Failed Coup
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-10
Trump said the operation \"was not a good attack,\" again denying any US involvement.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14869

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

Women In Prisons Say They\'re Being Punished For Speaking Out About COVID-19 Risks
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-09
Women say they\'re being punished for contacting people outside about their living conditions. Activists are planning an action May 23 at Jessup Correctional Facility in response.
therealnews.com/stories/women-in-prisons-say-theyre-being-punished-for-speaking-out-about-covid-19-risks

Are People Getting Sick Staying Home Alone? That\'s Not What a Misinterpreted Survey Said
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-05-09
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it\'s \"shocking\" that most Covid-19 hospital patients \"had been staying at home\" (CNBC, 5/6/20)–but did his survey really find that? | \"Who Are the New Covid-19 Hospitalizations in New York?\" asked a WNBC headline ( 5/6/20). \"The Breakdown Is Worrisome.\" | \"\'The People Were at Home\': Cuomo Details Surpri…
fair.org/home/are-people-getting-sick-staying-home-alone-thats-not-what-a-misinterpreted-survey-said/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-people-getting-sick-staying-home-alone-thats-not-what-a-misinterpreted-survey-said

\"Gene-Edited\" Future Justified By COVID-19 & France Admits Athletes Infected At Wuhan Military Games
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-09
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 (5/8/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/gene-edited-future-justified-by-covid-19-france-admits-athletes-infected-at-wuhan-military-games/

Largest Public Utility To Outsource Hundreds Of Jobs Amid Covid-19
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-09
Despite Trump\'s \'America First\' policy, the Tennessee Valley Authority is outsourcing hundreds of federal jobs overseas.
therealnews.com/stories/largest-public-utility-to-outsource-hundreds-of-jobs-amid-covid-19

\'We Can Pool the World\'s Science to Develop Better Medical Tools\' – CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on Covid-19 and the drug industry
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2020-05-09
Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen\'s Peter Maybarduk about the drug industry and Covid-19 for the May 1, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
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HBO Docuseries Points To Many Suspects In Atlanta Child Murders, Including The Klan
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-09
Atlanta\'s mayor re-opened the 40-year-old case of 30 missing and murdered Black children in Atlanta. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation operated a secret investigation that pointed towards a Klan member for at least one of the murders.
therealnews.com/columns/hbo-docuseries-points-to-many-suspects-in-atlanta-child-murders-including-the-klan

Eyewitness: Russia\'s 70th V-Day
I.V. Sta | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-09
In addition to beautiful parades, fireworks and concerts, I was able to witness multitudes of people sharing with each other something wholly priceless: the gratitude of being alive thanks to those who fought fascism.
liberationnews.org/eyewitness-russias-70th-v-day-2/

As Oil Price Plummets, Call to Nationalize Industry Rises
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-09
The price of oil dropped below zero, prompting new subsidies from the Federal Reserve. Progressive voices in the U.S. and Canada have a different idea: nationalization as a way to wind down the sector, tackle the climate crisis and create a just economic transition.
therealnews.com/stories/as-oil-price-plummets-call-to-nationalize-industry-rises

\"A Terrible Price\": Mardi Gras Story Lays Bare How COVID-19 Is Devastating Black America
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-08
We look at the deadly disparate impact of the pandemic on African Americans as told through an in-depth story for The New York Times Magazine by writer Linda Villarosa in her new piece, \"\'A Terrible Price\': The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America,\" that tells what happened to the Zulu club, a Black social organization in New Orleans, during and after Mardi Gras. She reports that the experience is usually a joy, but the coronavirus made it a tragedy.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/8/coronavirus_racial_disparity_zulu_club_new

Trump Death Clock: Times Square Billboard Tallies Lives Lost to COVID-19 Inaction
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-08
A 56-foot billboard called the Trump Death Clock was unveiled in Times Square in New York City. The tally of lives lost to government inaction was created by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who says, \"On behalf of all of those who needlessly lost their lives to this failed leadership in a pandemic, we need a symbol, a symbol that cries out not only for accountability, but also for more responsible and responsive stewardship, going forward.\" As of the Friday morning broadcast, the death toll count was nearly 47,000 and growing.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/8/times_square_trump_death_clock_covid

As States Loosen Pandemic Restrictions, Dr. Leana Wen Warns \"We Are Not Ready for a Safe Reopening\"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-08
As more than 40 states begin to reopen, President Trump is downplaying the need for mass COVID-19 testing, even as he himself is now being tested every day for the virus. We speak with emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen, who says, \"Widespread testing is so critical. … Why shouldn\'t this testing be available to all Americans?\"
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/8/dr_leana_wen_covid_19_testing

\"A Lynch Mob\": After Months of Inaction, 2 White Men Are Charged with Murder of Ahmaud Arbery in GA
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-08
The two white men caught on camera shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African American man, were arrested and charged Thursday with murder. The arrests came two days after video of the attack in February was shared with the public, sparking widespread outrage. Today would have been Arbery\'s 26th birthday. We speak with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents the Arbery family and formerly represented Trayvon Martin.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/8/ahmaud_arbery_murder_benjamin_crump

Silvercorp co-founder speaks with The Grayzone: What did State Department know about failed Venezuela invasion?
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-08
The Grayzone speaks to Drew White

Foreign Correspondent: Biden vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2020-05-08
The differences are not as great as you might suspect, but there is a clear winner.
progressive.org/dispatches/biden-vs-trump-on-foreign-policy-erlich-200508/

Palestinians And Israelis Remember Casualties Together
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
The alternative memorial service organized by peace organizations in Israel/Palestine challenges the racist official memorial services of the State of Israel in which only Israeli casualties are remembered.
therealnews.com/stories/palestinians-israelis-remember-casualties-memorial-service

HIGH-FREQUENCY failure of combination antiretroviral therapy in paediatric HIV infection is associated with unmet maternal needs causing maternal NON-ADHERENCE
Jane R. Millar, Nomonde Bengu, Rowena Fillis, Ken Sprenger, Vuyokazi Ntlantsana, Vinicius A. Vieira, Nisreen Khambati, Moherndran Archary, Maximilian Muenchhoff, Andreas Groll, Nicholas Grayson, John Adamson, Katya Govender, Krista Dong, Photini Kiepiela, Bruce D. Walker, David Bonsall, Thomas Connor, Matthew J. Bull, Nelisiwe Nxele, Julia Roider, Nasreen Ismail, Emily Adland, Maria C. Puertas, Javier Martinez-Picado, Philippa C. Matthews, Thumbi Ndung\'u, Philip Goulder, the Ucwaningo Lwabantwana Consortium | thelancet.com | 2020-05-08
The success of early infant testing and cART initiation strategies is severely limited by subsequent cART non-adherence in HIV-infected children. Although there are practical challenges to administering paediatric cART formulations, these are overcome by mothers who themselves are cART-adherent. These findings point to the ongoing obligation to address the unmet needs of the mothers. Eliminating the particular barriers preventing adequate treatment for these vulnerable women and infants need to be prioritised in order to achieve durable suppression of viraemia on cART, let alone HIV cure/remission, in HIV-infecte…
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30088-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Ricardo Salvador on the Food System & Covid-19
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-05-08
Media…
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New York State Tries to Suspend Democracy; NYT and WaPo Shrug
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2020-05-08
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. The Washington Post ( 4/27/20) frames the cancellation of dem…
fair.org/home/new-york-state-tries-to-suspend-democracy-nyt-and-wapo-shrug/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-york-state-tries-to-suspend-democracy-nyt-and-wapo-shrug

U.S. to roll back infection control rules in nursing homes in midst of pandemic
Aviva Levine | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-08
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of long-term care facilities were failing to maintain appropriate standards of hygiene and disease prevention.
liberationnews.org/u-s-to-roll-back-infection-control-rules-in-nursing-homes-in-midst-of-pandemic/

Stir Crazy! Episode #31: Cancel Corporate Media
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
On today\'s show: TRNN climate reporter Aman Azhar, The Progressive Army founder Ben Dixon, and TRNN Executive Producer Lisa Snowden-McCray. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-31-cancel-corporate-media

In NYC pandemic used as excuse to crackdown on the homeless
Vincent Tsai | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-08
This follows incitement by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo against the homeless.
liberationnews.org/in-nyc-pandemic-used-as-excuse-to-crackdown-on-the-homeless/

Let\'s Save the Postal Service
Sarah Anderson | progressive.org | 2020-05-08
The coronavirus-related plunge in mail revenue is threatening to bankrupt USPS–Trump doesn\'t want to help.
progressive.org/op-eds/save-the-postal-service-anderson-200508/

Climate Crisis: False Techtopia, Tariffs Accounting, Orphan Wells, And The Dead Cow
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
Recent studies debunk the false techtopianism in climate science models, U.S. import tariffs failed climate accounting, and Argentina\'s shale industry is flailing. As fracking goes bust, what happens to orphaned wells?
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-false-techtopia-tariffs-accounting-orphan-wells-and-the-dead-cow

Profiting from the Pandemic: Will Pharmaceutical Giants Use Patents to Limit Access to COVID Drugs?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-07
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide approaches 4 million and the pandemic could be with us for months or years, we look at who can access drugs like remdesivir, being developed by pharmaceutical giant Gilead, which has the patent for the drug and is poised to make massive profits. We look at how much drugs like remdesivir will cost, and who can access them, with writer Achal Prabhala, coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil and South Africa.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/7/remdesivir_gilead_achal_prabhala

How Russia Became the Next COVID-19 Hot Spot: Infection Rate Soars with 10,000 New Cases Each Day
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-07
We go to Moscow for an update on the pandemic in Russia, where the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, with at least 10,000 new cases a day and the second-highest infection rate in the world, and more than 100 medical workers have died fighting the virus, and many have reported lack of personal protective equipment. Meanwhile, three Russian healthcare workers mysteriously fell from hospital windows over the past two weeks. Two died, and the one who is hospitalized had posted a video online to note the lack of medical equipment and said he had to keep working despite testing positive. We speak with Joshua Yaffa, Mos…
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/7/russia_spike_in_coronavirus_cases_joshua

Sanders Is Back On The NY Primary Ballot
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
Before the ruling was announced, TRNN spoke with Norman Solomon and Marcus Ferrell about how the split between establishment Democrats and progressives could help hand Trump the November election.
therealnews.com/stories/bernie-sanders-new-york-primary-ballot-ruling-progressives-establishment-split

UK Supreme Court Reverses BDS Ban
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the largest British Palestinian solidarity group, successfully petitioned to reverse a 2016 ban preventing local governments divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation.
therealnews.com/stories/uk-supreme-court-reverses-bds-ban-palestine-solidarity-campaign

US Investigating Ex-Green Beret, Denies \'Direct\' Involvement in Failed Venezuela Coup
Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-07
New documents confirm that the Venezuelan opposition signed a contract with Florida-based Silvercorp to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14867

[Correspondence] Calling for a COVID-19 One Health Research Coalition
John H Amuasi, Christian Walzer, David Heymann, Hélène Carabin, Le Thi Huong, Andrew Haines, Andrea S Winkler | thelancet.com | 2020-05-07
Emerging from its ancestral bat host in December, 2019,1 possibly at a wildlife trading market in Wuhan, China,2 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had by mid-April, 2020, spread globally, infecting more than 2 million individuals and causing at least 130‚Äà000 deaths. Travel restrictions were imposed, borders sealed, schools and businesses closed, and more than half of humanity locked down, all to reduce the spread of this virus.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31028-X/fulltext?rss=yes

Women In Prison Need More Than Cuomo\'s Order To Help Against COVID-19
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-07
Incarcerated women still face inadequate testing and an inability to self-isolate, and few will be helped by Cuomo\'s announcement releasing pregnant and elderly women.
therealnews.com/stories/women-prison-cuomo-release-covid-19

How capitalism and racism hold back a COVID-19 cure
Neal Sweeney | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-07
In a few short months, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has swept the world without any proven treatment or vaccine.
liberationnews.org/how-capitalism-and-racism-hold-back-a-covid-19-cure/

Reflections on the Coronavirus Economic Relief Bills
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2020-05-07
When coronavirus relief bills were being discussed a couple of months ago, I proposed the following non-exhaustive scheme: | Paid Leave. Create a one-month sickness allowance for those who need to take leave from work because they contracted the virus. Create a family leave benefit for those who need to take leave from work because they need to take care of family, e.g. due to school closures. | Unemployment Insurance. Expand unemployment benefits by replacing 100 percent of prior earnings up to $8,…
peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/05/07/reflections-on-the-coronavirus-economic-relief-bills/

Ecuador\'s Moreno govt persecutes opponents as coronavirus catastrophe exposes its neoliberal war on public sector
Denis Rogatyuk | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-06
Sentencing former President Rafael Correa and Jorge Glas to eight years in jail and barring them from public office for…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/06/ecuadors-moreno-persecutes-coronavirus/

[Correspondence] COVID-19-associated nephritis: early warning for disease severity and complications?
Oliver Gross, Onnen Moerer, Manfred Weber, Tobias B Huber, Simone Scheithauer | thelancet.com | 2020-05-06
Among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), parameters for the prediction of the need for admission to intensive care units (ICUs) are urgently needed to enable appropriate resource allocation. Here we report that analysis of a urine sample on admission to hospital can be used to detect systemic capillary leak syndrome, which can be a predictor of fluid overload, respiratory failure, need for ICU admission, and death.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31041-2/fulltext?rss=yes

A Massive \"COVID-19\" Cover Up Is Underway & \'US Mercenaries\' Caught In Venezuelan Coup Attempt
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-06
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 (5/5/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/massive-covid-19-cover-up-underway-us-mercenaries-caught-venezuelan-coup-attempt/

Horrifying Glimpse Into How DARPA Will \"Save\" You From COVID-19 & Venezuela Coup Tied Back To Trump
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-06
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 (5/6/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/horrifying-glimpse-into-how-darpa-will-save-you-from-covid-19-venezuela-coup-tied-back-to-trump/

Straight to Streaming: Recently Released Movies to Watch During Quarantine
Asher Luberto | progressive.org | 2020-05-06
Here\'s a list of new films to watch on streaming services–the closest we can get to a movie theater right now.
progressive.org/covid-19/recently-released-movies-quarantine-luberto-200506/

Ruling class tells workers: your job or your life
Bratton Young | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-06
Workers across the country are bracing for a premature return to their jobs despite public health warnings of a second spike in Coronavirus infections.
liberationnews.org/ruling-class-tells-workers-your-job-or-your-life/

Trump Must Choose Between a Global Ceasefire and America\'s Long Lost Wars
Nicolas J S Davies | progressive.org | 2020-05-06
Despite a U.N. call for ceasefire and his promise to bring troops home, Trump is continuing U.S.\'s unwinnable wars.
progressive.org/dispatches/trump-choose-ceasefire-war-benjamin-200506/

Stir Crazy! Episode #29: Our Headline Writers are Still Recovering From Cinco de Mayo
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-06
On today\'s show: TRNN visual producer Andrew Corkery, Chinatown Collective founding member Leandro Lagera, and writer and organizer Jesse Myerson. Hosted by Kim Brown…
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-29-our-headline-writers-are-still-recovering-from-cinco-de-mayo

Clase dominante a los obreros: tu labor o tu vida
Bratton Young | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-06
Los trabajadores de todo el país se preparan para un regreso prematuro a sus trabajos a pesar de las advertencias de salud pública de un segundo aumento en las infecciones por el Coronavirus. Un total de 23 estados, con una población combinada de 120 millones de personas, han emitido órdenes de \"regreso al trabajo\" que entrarán en vigencia en los próximos días.
liberationnews.org/clase-dominante-a-los-obreros-tu-labor-o-tu-vida/

California And Trump Push Geoengineering–A Fraught Climate Crisis Fix
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-06
California has endorsed the use of direct air capture to reverse engineer the climate crisis with technology. The controversial method already has Big Oil\'s support–and the Trump administration\'s.
therealnews.com/stories/california-trump-geoengineering-direct-air-capture-technology

US refuses to extradite CIA agent who killed UK teen Harry Dunn
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-05
As the US government hunts Julian Assange, it refuses to extradite a CIA agent who killed UK teen Harry Dunn…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/05/us-refuses-to-extradite-cia-agent-who-killed-uk-teen-harry-dunn/

New PSL book: \'Climate Solutions: Beyond Capitalism\'
Sunil Freeman | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-05
\"It is a small book, but expansive in outlook in a way that echoes the holistic eco-socialist society we will need…\"
liberationnews.org/new-psl-book-climate-solutions-beyond-capitalism/

Venezuela: Two US Citizens Captured in Botched Coup Attempt
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-05
Two former green berets were arrested in a second failed assault on Venezuelan shores on Monday.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14864

[Correspondence] Acute limb ischaemia in two young, non-atherosclerotic patients with COVID-19
Paolo Perini, Bilal Nabulsi, Claudio Bianchini Massoni, Matteo Azzarone, Antonio Freyrie | thelancet.com | 2020-05-05
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was announced a pandemic by WHO on March 11, 2020.1 As of May 3, 2020, Italy is one of the countries hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 28‚Äà884 confirmed deaths.2 In addition to pulmonary insufficiency, COVID-19 is associated with other life-threatening complications such as sepsis, heart failure, and pulmonary embolism.3,4 Here we describe patients with COVID-19 who presented with acute limb ischaemia but did not have atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, or pre-existing blood clotting disorders.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31051-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Is the HScore useful in COVID-19?
David L Leverenz, Teresa K Tarrant | thelancet.com | 2020-05-05
Puja Mehta and colleagues1 suggest using the HScore2 to detect hyperinflammatory states in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The HScore is validated for the diagnosis of secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH), a condition that shares a similar cytokine profile to severe COVID-19.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31057-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Letter] Pandemic-related excess mortality (COVID-19), public health measures and funerary rituals
Eric Crubézy, Norbert Telmon | thelancet.com | 2020-05-05
Faced to COVID-19, the earliest public health recommendations in France [1] forbade washing of the body and mandated inhumation and cremation within 24 h, recommendations similar to those when case-patients were, more likely than non–case-patients, to have participated in funeral rituals. When a patient is hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2, family and friends were not allowed to be with him or her, and the farewells were done as the patient got into the ambulance. The grieving process, however, implies three phases [2]: viewing of the body, performing a collective ceremony to support those affected, and finally a…
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30102-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus co-infection
Elena Cuadrado-Payán, Enrique Montagud-Marrahi, Manuel Torres-Elorza, Marta Bodro, Miquel Blasco, Esteban Poch, Alex Soriano, Gaston J Piñeiro | thelancet.com | 2020-05-05
Since December, 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been an international public health emergency.1–3 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mimics the influenza virus regarding clinical presentation, transmission mechanism, and seasonal coincidence.3 Thus, co-infection by both viruses is feasible. To the best of our knowledge, only one case of co-infection is known, although the diagnosis was sequential.4 Here, we present four cases of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza co-infection, diagnosed simultaneously.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31052-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Paramilitary invasions in Venezuela: Made in USA
Nic de la Riva | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-05
Attempted invasion taken care of swiftly and efficiently by the Venezuelan government.
liberationnews.org/paramilitary-invasions-in-venezuela-made-in-usa/

Detainees put at high risk for COVID-19 at Madison, Wi., jail
Annika Lee | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-05
To protect them from COVID-19, incarcerated people must be freed.
liberationnews.org/detainees-put-at-high-risk-for-covid-19-at-madison-wi-jail/

Why White Supremacists Are Targeting Zoom Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-05-05
White supremacists have harassed people through the video conferencing app Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, part of a broader trend in which they exploit emerging online platforms to promote hate before companies can sufficiently adapt to their presence.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/why-white-supremacists-are-targeting-zoom-meetings-during-covid-19-pandemic

Anatomy of a fake news campaign: Media spreads lie from US govt-funded Korean outlet that Kim Jong-un died
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-04
Corporate media outlets spread fake news claiming North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had died. The lie originated with a Seoul-based…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/04/fake-news-ned-north-korea-kim-dead/

Coronavirus Gives a Dangerous Boost to DARPA\'s Darkest Agenda
Whitney Webb | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-04
Technology developed by the Pentagon\'s controversial research branch is getting a huge boost amid the current coronavirus crisis, with little attention going to the agency\'s ulterior motives for developing said technologies, their potential for weaponization or their unintended consequences. In January, well before the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis would result in lockdowns, quarantines and economic devastation …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/coronavirus-gives-dangerous-boost-darpas-darkest-agenda/

Facebook Is Go-To Platform For Organizing Protests Against Social Distancing
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
As COVID-19 continues to pose a lethal threat worldwide, fringe, right-wing activists are using Facebook to mobilize protests of stay-at-home orders in several states.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/05/facebook-go-platform-organizing-protests-against-social-distancing

[Correspondence] The arrival of SARS-CoV-2 in Venezuela
Alberto E Paniz-Mondolfi, Emilia M Sordillo, Marilianna C Márquez-Colmenarez, Lourdes A Delgado-Noguera, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales | thelancet.com | 2020-05-04
We read with interest the World Report about the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Venezuelan migrants.1 We concur wholeheartedly that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a negative impact on Venezuelans who have taken refuge in neighbouring countries.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31053-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Obesity could shift severe COVID-19 disease to younger ages
David A Kass, Priya Duggal, Oscar Cingolani | thelancet.com | 2020-05-04
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 was first reported in China in late December, 2019, and has since evolved into a global pandemic. As of April 29, 2020, COVID-19 has been confirmed in more than 3 million individuals in 185 countries and regions, with an overall mortality rate of more than 6%.1 Severe disease involves bilateral interstitial pneumonia requiring intensive care unit (ICU) ventilatory support and can evolve into adult respiratory distress syndrome with high mortality.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31024-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] The COVID-19 response for vulnerable people in places affected by conflict and humanitarian crises
David Nott | thelancet.com | 2020-05-04
Next year I will have worked full time in the UK\'s National Health Service (NHS) for 40 years. I seem to be a survivor not only from the political rollercoaster that various governments have enacted on the NHS, but also from volunteering my surgical skills in places affected by conflict and natural disasters for the past 25 years. The experiences of the patients I have served whose lives have been impacted by war, injustice, and inhumanity during this time have given me insight into what life is really about.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31036-9/fulltext?rss=yes

Venezuela: 45 Killed in Guanare Prison Riot
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-04
The government pledged to investigate the May 1 riot, which it described as an attempted breakout.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14863

Special Guests Nicholas Baham, III, Anthony DiMaggio
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-05-04
This week\'s program focuses on the media\'s response to the current Covid-19 pandemic. Mickey\'s first guest is ethnic studies professor Nicholas Baham, III, who outlines his \"Covid Chronicles,\" a continuing…
projectcensored.org/special-guests-nicholas-baham-iii-anthony-dimaggio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=special-guests-nicholas-baham-iii-anthony-dimaggio

Amid pandemic, poultry workers must be protected
Carmen Martinez | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Recently, there has been an outpouring of praise for essential workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.
splcenter.org/news/2020/05/05/amid-pandemic-poultry-workers-must-be-protected

Anti-LGBTQ Group Pushes Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories Amid COVID-19
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-05-04
Family Research Council (FRC) has branched out of its usual anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice rhetoric to push longtime right-wing conspiracy theories about voting by mail. It\'s a narrative that is gaining popularity during COVID-19 restrictions with regard to public gatherings and social distancing.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/06/anti-lgbtq-group-pushes-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories-amid-covid-19

[Letter] A reality check on the use of face masks during the COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong
Victor CW Tam, Shing Yau Tam, Wai Kwong Poon, Helen Ka Wai Law, Shara WY Lee | thelancet.com | 2020-05-03
Despite the rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) into a pandemic, an \'east-west\' divide remains between the recommendations of different health authorities on the use of face masks in the community [1,2]. We respectfully differ from the WHO recommendation on its effectiveness [3]. In our opinion, mass masking in the community is one of the key measures that controls transmission during the outbreak in Hong Kong and China. Moreover, it would be futile to convince individuals who experienced the SARS or swine flu outbreaks, not to wear face masks for protection.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30100-0/fulltext?rss=yes

Venezuelan Armed Forces: Paramilitary Incursion Neutralized
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-03
Former US green beret Jordan Goudreau, reported to have led preparations for a coup, confirmed the operation.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14861

Former US Special Ops Soldier Led Plot to Invade Venezuela: Sources
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-02
AP reports that the Venezuelan opposition and Colombian authorities were aware of the plan.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14859

OSHA abandons essential workers
Joyce Chediac | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-02
Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, OSHA has ignored the pleas of scores of trade unions to protect workers.
liberationnews.org/osha-abandons-essential-workers/

In memoriam: Dr. Roh Kil-nam, beloved fighter for reunification of Korea
Preston Wood and Michael Prysner | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-02
\"Ken Roh embodied the spirit of eternal optimism in the long road of struggle of the Korean people for freedom and reunification.\"
liberationnews.org/in-memoriam-dr-roh-kil-nam-1944-2020/

During pandemic, Austin, TX police kill Mike Ramos days after damning city report
Brianna Griffith | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-02
As with so many police shootings, the Austin PD\'s first instinct was to spin the story and criminalize the victim.
liberationnews.org/during-pandemic-austin-tx-police-kill-mike-ramos-days-after-damning-city-report/

PSL condemns terrorist attack on Cuban Embassy
Party for Socialism and Liberation | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-01
Cuba is not alone. The world stands with Cuba.
liberationnews.org/psl-condemns-terrorist-attack-on-cuban-embassy/

PSL denuncia ataque terrorista a Embajada Cubana
Party for Socialism and Liberation | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-01
Cuba no está sola. El mundo está con Cuba.
liberationnews.org/psl-denuncia-ataque-terrorista-a-embajada-cubana/

US to Mobilize Military Reservists in \'Anti-Drug\' Operation Against Venezuela
Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-30
The Trump administration is also targeting oil-for-food deals involving the Venezuelan government and Mexican companies.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14857

[Correspondence] Considering BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19
Nigel Curtis, Annie Sparrow, Tedros A Ghebreyesus, Mihai G Netea | thelancet.com | 2020-04-30
In addition to its specific effect against tuberculosis, the BCG vaccine has beneficial nonspecific (off-target) effects on the immune system that protect against a wide range of other infections and are used routinely to treat bladder cancer.1,2 This has led to the suggestion that vaccination with BCG might have a role in protecting health-care workers and other vulnerable individuals against severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31025-4/fulltext?rss=yes

Dismantling The Superficial \"China Did It\" Narrative (Origin Unknown) & CDC \"Suspends\" Flu Reporting
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-30
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 (4/29/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/dismantling-superficial-china-did-narrative-origin-unknown-cdc-suspends-flu-reporting/

[Articles] Remdesivir in adults with severe COVID-19: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial
Yeming Wang, Dingyu Zhang, Guanhua Du, Ronghui Du, Jianping Zhao, Yang Jin, Shouzhi Fu, Ling Gao, Zhenshun Cheng, Qiaofa Lu, Yi Hu, Guangwei Luo, Ke Wang, Yang Lu, Huadong Li, Shuzhen Wang, Shunan Ruan, Chengqing Yang, Chunlin Mei, Yi Wang, Dan Ding, Feng Wu, Xin Tang, Xianzhi Ye, Yingchun Ye, Bing Liu, Jie Yang, Wen Yin, Aili Wang, Guohui Fan, Fei Zhou, Zhibo Liu, Xiaoying Gu, Jiuyang Xu, Lianhan Shang, Yi Zhang, Lianjun Cao, Tingting Guo, Yan Wan, Hong Qin, Yushen Jiang, Thomas Jaki, Frederick G Hayden, Peter W Horby, Bin Cao, Chen Wang | thelancet.com | 2020-04-29
In this study of adult patients admitted to hospital for severe COVID-19, remdesivir was not associated with statistically significant clinical benefits. However, the numerical reduction in time to clinical improvement in those treated earlier requires confirmation in larger studies.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31022-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Preventing major outbreaks of COVID-19 in jails
Justin T Okano, Sally Blower | thelancet.com | 2020-04-29
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections are now being found in jails throughout the USA. Conditions in jails are very conducive to the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, and social distancing is impossible. Therefore, there is widespread concern that there could be major outbreaks in jails and that jails could amplify transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in surrounding communities.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31015-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Institutional, not home-based, isolation could contain the COVID-19 outbreak
Borame L Dickens, Joel R Koo, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Alex R Cook | thelancet.com | 2020-04-29
In the absence of vaccines, non-pharmaceutical interventions such as physical distancing, intensive contact tracing, and case isolation remain frontline measures in controlling the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.1 In Wuhan, China, these measures were implemented alongside city lockdown, mass quarantine, and school closure during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in January and February, 2020.2 Critical to Wuhan\'s success, cases identified through liberal testing, regardless of symptom profile, were immediately isolated in purpose-built shelters, as delays in isolation fro…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31016-3/fulltext?rss=yes

What are the underlying transmission patterns of COVID-19 outbreak? An age-specific social contact characterization
Yang Liu, Zhonglei Gu, Shang Xia, Benyun Shi, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Yong Shi, Jiming Liu | thelancet.com | 2020-04-29
With an in-depth characterization of age-specific social contact-based transmission, the retrospective and prospective situations of the disease outbreak, including the past and future transmission risks, the effectiveness of different interventions, and the disease transmission risks of restoring normal social activities, are computationally analyzed and reasonably explained. The conclusions drawn from the study not only provide a comprehensive explanation of the underlying COVID-19 transmission patterns in China, but more importantly, offer the social contact-based risk analysis methods that can readily be appl…
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30098-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Remdesivir for COVID-19: challenges of underpowered studies
John David Norrie | thelancet.com | 2020-04-29
In The Lancet, Yeming Wang and colleagues1 report a randomised trial of remdesivir (200 mg on day 1 followed by 100 mg on days 2–10, in single daily infusions) versus placebo for adults with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in ten hospitals in Wuhan, China. The authors report on 236 patients (140 [59%] men and 96 [41%] women; median age 65 years [IQR 56–71]), with inconclusive findings on the primary outcome of time to clinical improvement, defined as a two-point improvement on a 6-point ordinal scale,2 a hazard ratio of 1 ∑23 (95% CI 0 ∑87–1 ∑75; favouring remdesivir), and…
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Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-29
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 (4/28/19). 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 …
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[Comment] What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity
Daniel M Altmann, Daniel C Douek, Rosemary J Boyton | thelancet.com | 2020-04-27
About a third of the world is under lockdown as a public health measure to curb the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Policy makers are increasingly pressed to articulate their rationales and strategies for moving out of lockdown; the process of re-emergence is already cautiously starting in Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Wuhan, and some US states. As the counterpoise between further disease spread and socioeconomic costs is debated, it is essential that policy makers in all affected countries have the best possible d…
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Venezuela Rolls out Cabinet Change, Economic Measures to Combat Inflation
venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-27
Measures include a 60 percent wage increase and a push to bring food prices under control.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14855

Peter Kuznick and The Global Covid 19 Solidarity Manifesto
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-27
Historian Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of \"The Untold History of the United States,\" returns to the Project Censored Show to discuss his latest project: working with a team of other…
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Evidence US Gov Knew Of COVID Before November 2019 & Anti-China Talking Points Expose CV Cover Up
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-26
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 (4/25/19). 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 …
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Their Second Recession: For the Second Time in Their Lives, Millennials Will Head to the Polls with an Economic Depression Looming
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-25
By Nolan Higdon On Election Day 2020, millennials face a difficult choice: vote or stay home. Either way, their decision will need to be accompanied by wide-spread activism, something they…
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[Research Paper] A study of type-specific HPV natural history and implications for contemporary cervical cancer screening programs
Maria Demarco, Noorie Hyun, Olivia Carter-Pokras, Tina R. Raine-Bennett, Li Cheung, Xiaojian Chen, Anne Hammer, Nicole Campos, Walter Kinney, Julia C. Gage, Brian Befano, Rebecca B. Perkins, Xin He, Cher Dallal, Jie Chen, Nancy Poitras, Marie-Helene Mayrand, Francois Coutlee, Robert D. Burk, Thomas Lorey, Philip E. Castle, Nicolas Wentzensen, Mark Schiffman | thelancet.com | 2020-04-24
HPV type and persistence are the major predictors of progression to CIN3+; at a minimum, distinguishing HPV16 is clinically important. Dividing the other HPV types into three risk-groups is worth considering.
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Venezuela: Guaido to Use Funds Frozen in US to Pay Loyalists $5000 Monthly Salaries
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-23
Pro-Guaido lawmakers and diplomats will take nearly a third of an $80 million \"Liberation Fund.\"
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14853

[Editorial] Reflecting on World Asthma Day in the era of COVID-19
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine | thelancet.com | 2020-04-23
On May 2, 2020, World Asthma Day will again focus on the needs of people with asthma across the globe. Previous themes have included managing asthma and living with the disease. These themes resonate more than ever this year, as any discussions are likely to be dominated by current debates in relation to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its effects on asthma care and management.
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Is Trump\'s \"Shoot Down And Destroy\" Tweet About Boosting Oil Prices Or A Harbinger Of War With Iran?
Whitney Webb | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-22
Trump\'s recent tweet to \"shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships\" has sparked concern over a new war in the Middle East. However, the more immediate effect of Trump\'s tweet has been a big boost in oil prices and a rise in the stock market. Was that Trump\'s …
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Trump Administration Orders Chevron to Shutter Venezuela Operations
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-22
The latest measures followed reports of fresh dialogue between the government and the opposition.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14852

\"Artificial Intelligence Plan\" That Became \"Coronavirus Plan\" & \"China Did It\" Narrative Is WMDs 2.0
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-22
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 (4/21/19). 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 …
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[Commentary] SARS-CoV-2 pandemic expanding in sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for COVID-19 in people living with HIV
Paul K. Drain, Nigel Garrett | thelancet.com | 2020-04-21
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, started a global pandemic of respiratory illness, termed COVID-19 [1]. The spectrum of COVID-19 has ranged from a mild, self-limiting respiratory tract illness to severe progressive pneumonia, multi-organ failure, and death [2]. Older patients and those with a weaker immune system appear to have a greater risk of death [3]. Thus far, the vast majority of deaths from COVID-19 have occurred in Italy, China, Iran, and Spain–all Northern hemisphere countries with good health care resources and a low HIV prevalence.
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US \'Plunders\' $342m of Venezuelan Funds as COVID-19 Hotspot Breaks Out at Baseball Academy
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-20
The money has been transferred from a Venezuelan Central Bank account at Citibank to an account at the US Federal Reserve.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14850

Andy Lee Roth, April Anderson, and Peter Obstler Discuss LGBTQ Issues
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-20
For the first half of the program, sociologist Andy Lee Roth describes his latest work with research librarian April Anderson indicating that Google and other internet giants are filtering out material…
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[Editorial] COVID-19: endgames
The Lancet Infectious Diseases | thelancet.com | 2020-04-17
As of April 14, 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has killed more than 120‚Äà000 people and led to nearly 2 million confirmed infections worldwide. At least a third of the global population is in some form of lockdown, treading the fine line between health services overwhelmed with rapidly rising infections and an economic recession with its own detrimental health consequences. Although this surreal situation might seem like a plot from the Avengers franchise, the hard reality is that the selfless actions of health-care workers will not alone restore the world to normality.
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[Correspondence] Blood transfusion strategies and ECMO during the COVID-19 pandemic
David Koeckerling, Daniel Pan, N Lakmal Mudalige, Oluwatobiloba Oyefeso, Joseph Barker | thelancet.com | 2020-04-16
In The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Ramanathan and colleagues1 describe the provision of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) services for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We would like to make further comment.
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[Correspondence] Kidney transplant programmes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Francesca Martino, Mario Plebani, Claudio Ronco | thelancet.com | 2020-04-16
We would like to express our concern about kidney transplant programmes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Although we recognise the importance of kidney transplants for dialysis patients, we cannot ignore the potential safety issues during this pandemic.
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Venezuelan Crude Production Falls amid Coronavirus Crisis
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-16
The Caribbean country has seen worsening gasoline shortages as the US ramps up secondary sanctions.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14847

[Correspondence] Impact of COVID-19 on people with cystic fibrosis
Carla Colombo, Pierre-Régis Burgel, Silvia Gartner, Silke van Koningsbruggen-Rietschel, Lutz Naehrlich, Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus, Kevin W Southern | thelancet.com | 2020-04-15
Early and detailed characterisation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged principally through publications from China, where the disease was first identified.1 As the pandemic spread to Lombardia, Northern Italy and then globally,2 evaluating the impact on people with cystic fibrosis has become imperative, because the prevalence of this inherited condition is much higher in populations derived from Europe than in other populations.3 Since the beginning of the outbreak in Lombardia, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections have been reported in ten patients with cystic f…
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Mickey Talks With Dr. Steve Macek
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-14
Mickey\'s guest for the hour is media scholar Dr. Steve Macek of North Central College in suburban Chicago. Macek, a long time contributor to Project Censored\'s annual volume, compiled Chapter 4 of…
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Venezuela Extends COVID-19 Quarantine as Pope Criticizes Sanctions
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-13
This is the first time the Pontiff has spoken out against the measures.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14842

European Left Slams EU Support for Trump\'s Venezuela \'Transition\' Plan
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-08
The European Union took \"positive note\" of Washington\'s initiative.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14839

[Correspondence] POCUS in COVID-19: pearls and pitfalls
Jonathan Chun-Hei Cheung, Koon Ngai Lam | thelancet.com | 2020-04-07
Danilo Buonsenso and colleagues1 described in their Correspondence how lung ultrasound could replace stethoscopes in the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which could possibly reduce the risk of exposure.1 Indeed, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has an exemplary role in many specialties, especially emergency and critical care medicine. Nevertheless, this technology is still relatively new so we would like to highlight the pearls and pitfalls for POCUS users to use this tool to its full potential and ensure optimal patient care and safety.
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Senate Bill Challenges Online Encryption, Constitutional Rights to Speech and Privacy
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-06
A Senate bill, the EARN IT Act of 2020, introduced by Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) in March 2020, appears to revise regulations aimed at preventing online sexual…
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[Comment] Understanding pathways to death in patients with COVID-19
Jean-Louis Vincent, Fabio S Taccone | thelancet.com | 2020-04-06
Since the first cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), were identified in China in December, 2019, we have witnessed increasing numbers of infections and associated deaths worldwide. Although the case fatality rate for SARS-CoV-2 infection (ie, the total number of deaths in patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 divided by the total number of people with a positive test) is not high, given the huge scale of the pandemic, the actual numbers of deaths are considerable.
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Venezuela Braces for Migrant Return as Coronavirus Rattles Latin America
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-06
The Caribbean country\'s 159 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 7 deaths is considerably lower than its neighbours\' tallies.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14835

Media Scholar Victor Pickard Explains the Historical Roots of the Current News Crisis
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-06
Mickey\'s guest for the full hour is media scholar and author, Victor Pickard. Pickard is associate professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss…
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[Comment] Do chronic respiratory diseases or their treatment affect the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection?
David M G Halpin, Rosa Faner, Oriol Sibila, Joan Ramon Badia, Alvar Agusti | thelancet.com | 2020-04-03
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is an acute respiratory disease that can lead to respiratory failure and death.1 Previous epidemics of novel coronavirus diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), were associated with similar clinical features and outcomes.2 One might anticipate that patients with chronic respiratory diseases, particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, would be at increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and more severe present…
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Capitalism Drains America\'s Blood Banks as Exports Bring in $1.4 Billion
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-03
Hospitals are desperate for blood donors: more than 4,000 blood drives were canceled in the US because of the coronavirus, according to the American Association of Blood Banks. This situation,…
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Unions Disregard Call for Large Scale Climate Action Strikes
VINS | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-03
Students are leading the way with Global Climate Strikes across the country to persuade the government and leaders of the country to take impactful action to remedy the current climate…
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US Sends Navy Ships to Caribbean in \'Anti-Drug\' Mission Targeting Venezuela
Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-02
Venezuela denounced an attack on one of its naval vessels in recent days.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14832

[Comment] Monitoring the COVID-19 epidemic in the context of widespread local transmission
Alberto L García-Basteiro, Carlos Chaccour, Caterina Guinovart, Anna Llupià , Joe Brew, Antoni Trilla, Antoni Plasencia | thelancet.com | 2020-04-02
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel viral disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December, 2019.1 Given the fast spread, the severity of disease, the increasing number of cases outside China, and the number of affected countries, WHO declared the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 a pandemic on March 11, 2020.2 The availability of reliable surveillance platforms is crucial to monitor the COVID-19 epidemic in a timely manner and to respond with adequate control measures.
thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30162-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] COVID-19 pandemic in west Africa
Melisa Martinez-Alvarez, Alexander Jarde, Effua Usuf, Helen Brotherton, Mustapha Bittaye, Ahmadou L Samateh, Martin Antonio, Joan Vives-Tomas, Umberto D\'Alessandro, Anna Roca | thelancet.com | 2020-04-01
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, which started in the Hubei province of China in 2019, has now spread to all continents, affecting 177 countries by March 27, 2020.1 Successful efforts in containing the COVID-19 virus in Asia resulted in WHO declaring Europe as the epicentre of the disease on March 13.2 Whether warmer temperatures will slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been a point of much speculation. This hypothesis has led some European countries to produce initial policies relying on decreased transmission rates during the…
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Venezuela Blasts US \'Transition\' Plan as \'Tutelage\'
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-31
Washington has threatened to \"increase\" crippling sanctions until Caracas accepts the deal.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14830

[Comment] SARS-CoV-2: a time for clear and immediate action
Gregory A Poland | thelancet.com | 2020-03-31
I have spent a 33-year career studying respiratory RNA viruses, devising vaccine approaches against them, and unravelling the human immune response to these viruses and vaccines, as well as promoting policies to minimise their effects. Over the past 10 weeks, I and many others have been in the thick of explaining what we know about coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses, and extrapolating this knowledge to understand severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to many health-care providers, organisations, media, and lay people.
thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30250-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Will financial innovation transform pandemic response?
Susan L Erikson, Leigh Johnson | thelancet.com | 2020-03-30
The mounting death toll from COVID-19 recently prompted The Guardian to declare, \"The World Bank\'s $500m pandemic scheme accused of \'waiting for people to die\'\".1 Similarly, as the number of deaths from Ebola increased in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), there was outrage in prominent journals. \"The World Bank has the money to fight Ebola but won\'t use it\" wrote Garrett in Foreign Policy.2 Others3–7 too describe the malfeasance of the financial innovation called the pandemic bond. Hailed by former World Bank president Jim Kim as an instrument that \"would rapidly respond to future outbreaks by deliver…
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Rosneft Dodges US Sanctions by Transferring Venezuela Operations to Russian State Firm
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-30
Moscow insists that its support for the Venezuelan government and role in its oil industry will remain unchanged.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14829

Former Venezuelan General Hands Himself over to US Authorities
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-29
Cliver Alcala had recently confessed to plotting a coup against the Venezuelan government.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14827

[Comment] Epidemic preparedness in urban settings: new challenges and opportunities
Vernon J Lee, Marc Ho, Chen Wen Kai, Ximena Aguilera, David Heymann, Annelies Wilder-Smith | thelancet.com | 2020-03-27
In recent decades, many emerging infectious diseases have been occurring at an increasing scale and frequency–i.e. Ebola virus disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian and pandemic influenza, Middle-East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the recently emerged coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The outbreaks of these diseases resulted in wide ranging socioeconomic consequences, including loss of lives and disruption to trade and travel. Preparedness is a crucial investment because its cost is small compared with the unmitigated impact of a health emergency.
thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30249-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[UPDATED] Venezuela Registers First Coronavirus Deaths
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-27
There are 113 diagnosed cases as of Friday evening.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14826

Venezuela Dismisses US Justice Department \'Narco-terrorism\' Accusations
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-26
Cliver Alcala, also indicted, confessed to organizing a coup plot against the Maduro government.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14825

[Correspondence] Considering inequalities in the school closure response to COVID-19
Richard Armitage, Laura B Nellums | thelancet.com | 2020-03-26
As COVID-19 is declared a pandemic and several countries declare nationwide school closures, these measures are affecting hundreds of millions of children.1 More countries are entering delay and mitigation phases of pandemic control, with an urgent need for proactive and multifaceted responses addressing children\'s social, economic, and health needs to avoid widening disparities and honour commitments to the UN Convention on Child Rights and Sustainable Development Goals.2…
thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30116-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Antihypertensive drugs and risk of COVID-19?
Joshua D Brown | thelancet.com | 2020-03-26
Lei Fang and colleagues1 extrapolated results from a molecular study of coronaviruses, which showed that this group of viruses uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to target cells on the epithelium of the lungs, intestine, kidneys, and blood vessels.2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), would probably share these properties.
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[Correspondence] Antihypertensive drugs and risk of COVID-19?
Kevin Bryan Lo, Peter A McCullough, Janani Rangaswami | thelancet.com | 2020-03-26
Lei Fang and colleagues1 postulate that because severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) binds to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor to facilitate host cell entry,2,3 disease severity and mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) might be increased in patients taking angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) during the COVID-19 pandemic, because the ACE2 receptor might be upregulated with use of ACEIs and ARBs.
thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30156-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Antihypertensive drugs and risk of COVID-19?
Christopher J Tignanelli, Nicholas E Ingraham, Matthew A Sparks, Ronald Reilkoff, Tamara Bezdicek, Bradley Benson, Timothy Schacker, Jeffrey G Chipman, Michael A Puskarich | thelancet.com | 2020-03-26
Lei Fang and colleagues1 suggest that clinicians should consider withholding angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) because of a potential increased risk of worse clinical outcomes in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and they suggest calcium channel blockers as an alternative. The hypothesis behind this suggestion is that the entry point for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the ACE2 receptor and that ACEIs and ARBs have the potential to upregulate ACE2.
thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30153-3/fulltext?rss=yes

UN, EU Urge Venezuela Sanctions Relief as Coronavirus Outbreak Intensifies
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-25
The South American nation has 91 reported COVID-19 cases so far.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14823

[Comment] The role of CT in case ascertainment and management of COVID-19 pneumonia in the UK: insights from high-incidence regions
Felix Chua, Darius Armstrong-James, Sujal R Desai, Joseph Barnett, Vasileios Kouranos, Onn Min Kon, Ricardo José, Rama Vancheeswaran, Michael R Loebinger, Joyce Wong, Maria Teresa Cutino-Moguel, Cliff Morgan, Stephane Ledot, Boris Lams, Wing Ho Yip, Leski Li, Ying Cheong Lee, Adrian Draper, Sze Shyang Kho, Elisabetta Renzoni, Katie Ward, Jimstan Periselneris, Sisa Grubnic, Marc Lipman, Athol U Wells, Anand Devaraj | thelancet.com | 2020-03-25
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the seventh pathogenic human coronavirus to be identified and the third with a predilection for causing potentially fatal pneumonia, after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection is highly transmissible but has a relatively low death rate (1 ∑0–3 ∑5%), except in older people (aged >70 years) with comorbidities.1,2 It is estimated that 15–20% of people infected develop severe pneumonia and 5–10% require critical care.
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[Comment] Early in the epidemic: impact of preprints on global discourse about COVID-19 transmissibility
Maimuna S Majumder, Kenneth D Mandl | thelancet.com | 2020-03-24
Since it was first reported by WHO in Jan 5, 2020, over 80‚Äà000 cases of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been diagnosed in China, with exportation events to nearly 90 countries, as of March 6, 2020.1 Given the novelty of the causative pathogen (named SARS-CoV-2), scientists have rushed to fill epidemiological, virological, and clinical knowledge gaps–resulting in over 50 new studies about the virus between January 10 and January 30 alone.2 However, in an era where the immediacy of information has become an expectation of decision makers and the general public alike, many of th…
thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30113-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Management of pregnant women infected with COVID-19
Yongwen Luo, Kai Yin | thelancet.com | 2020-03-24
Since December, 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which originated in Wuhan, China, has become a global public health threat.1 On Feb 28, 2020, WHO upgraded their assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level. By March 10, 2020, 116‚Äà166 cases have been reported globally, causing 4088 deaths. The epidemic has spread to 118 countries around the world.2…
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[Comment] SARS-CoV-2: virus dynamics and host response
Yu Chen, Lanjuan Li | thelancet.com | 2020-03-23
Since December, 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected more than 100‚Äà000 patients globally.1 COVID-19 is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has a case-fatality rate of 2 ∑3%, with higher rates among elderly patients and patients with comorbidities.2 Person-to-person transmission is efficient, with multiple clusters reported. Clinically, patients with COVID-19 present with respiratory symptoms, which is very similar to the presentation of other respiratory virus infections.
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[Correspondence] COVID-19: mitigating transmission via wastewater plumbing systems
Michael Gormley, Thomas J Aspray, David A Kelly | thelancet.com | 2020-03-23
By its very design, the wastewater plumbing system is a harbinger of pathogenic microorganisms with, under some circumstances, the potential to enable airborne transmission of viruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Venezuela Suspends Rent Payments, Protects Wages as Coronavirus Cases Rise to 77
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-23
The economic measures come as the country enters its seventh day of national lockdown.
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[Comment] Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic
Shuo Feng, Chen Shen, Nan Xia, Wei Song, Mengzhen Fan, Benjamin J Cowling | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that caused coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the use of face masks has become ubiquitous in China and other Asian countries such as South Korea and Japan. Some provinces and municipalities in China have enforced compulsory face mask policies in public areas; however, China\'s national guideline has adopted a risk-based approach in offering recommendations for using face masks among health-care workers and the general public.
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[Correspondence] COVID-19 outbreak: less stethoscope, more ultrasound
Danilo Buonsenso, Davide Pata, Antonio Chiaretti | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
In their Correspondence in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Jonathan Cheung and colleagues stressed the need to ensure staff safety in the airway management of patients with 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).1 This safety should be guaranteed from the patient\'s first assessment. In fact, maintaining the safety of the doctor, who meets many people during his daily activity, avoids the spread of the disease to other patients and the possible creation of new epidemic outbreaks. However, patients with fever and respiratory symptoms do still need to be seen.
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[Comment] Treatment for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome from COVID-19
Michael A Matthay, J Matthew Aldrich, Jeffrey E Gotts | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
In The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Kollengode Ramanathan and colleagues1 provide excellent recommendations for the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for patients with respiratory failure from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) secondary to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The authors describe pragmatic approaches to the challenges of delivering ECMO to patients with COVID-19, including training health-care personnel, resolving equipment and facilities issues, implementing systems for infection control and personal protection, providing overall support for health-care staff, and mitiga…
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[Correspondence] Use of antiviral drugs to reduce COVID-19 transmission
Oriol Mitjà , Bonaventura Clotet | thelancet.com | 2020-03-19
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads, efforts are being made to reduce transmission via standard public health interventions based on isolation of cases and tracing of contacts. In their modelling study, Joel Hellewell and colleagues1 predict that such a strategy could contribute to reducing the overall size of an outbreak, but will still be insufficient to achieve outbreak control of COVID-19 when the basic reproduction number (R0) is higher than 1 ∑5 or the proportion of contacts traced is lower than 80%.
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[Correspondence] Estimation of COVID-19 outbreak size in Italy
Ashleigh R Tuite, Victoria Ng, Erin Rees, David Fisman | thelancet.com | 2020-03-19
Italy is currently experiencing an epidemic of COVID-19 which emerged in the Lombardy region.1 During the interval between Feb 25–29, 2020, we identified 46 cases of COVID-19 reported in 21 countries in Europe, Africa, North America, and South America that were either in individuals with recent travel from Italy, or who had presumed infection by a traveller from Italy.2 In six cases, in four of the affected countries (Switzerland, France, Austria, and Croatia), land travel was a likely route of introduction, or was documented to have been the route of introduction.
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[Correspondence] COVID-19 in Italy: momentous decisions and many uncertainties
Marzia Lazzerini, Giovanni Putoto | thelancet.com | 2020-03-18
On March 10, at 00: 30 h, the official news was posted on the website of the Italian Ministry of Health: a new decree effective until at least April 3 limits the movement of individuals in the whole Italian national territory unless strictly motivated (in written form) by reasons of work or health. Schools, museums, cinemas, theatres, and any other social, recreational, or cultural centre must stay closed. Any gathering in public spaces is forbidden, including sporting events and funerals. Most shops must stay closed.
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[Corrections] Correction to Lancet Glob Health 2020; 8: e123–33
thelancet.com | 2020-03-12
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)–Americas Working Group. Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys. Lancet Glob Health 2020; 8: e123–33. In this Article, members of the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)–Americas Working Group have been indexed as authors in PubMed. This correction has been made as of March 12, 2020.
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[Comment] Taking the right measures to control COVID-19
Yonghong Xiao, Mili Estee Torok | thelancet.com | 2020-03-05
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which originated in Wuhan, China, in December, 2019, has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by WHO.1 By March 2, 2020, 80‚Äà026 confirmed cases had been reported in China, causing 2009 deaths, and the epidemic had spread to 25 countries around the world.2 On Jan 20, 2020, China declared the disease a second-class infectious disease but has introduced management measures for a first-class infectious disease (considered the most dangerous category of infection).
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[Comment] A phage-based decolonisation strategy against pan-resistant enterobacterial strains
Laurent Poirel, Patrice Nordmann, José Manuel Ortiz de la Rosa, Mzia Kutateladze, Sà∂ren Gatermann, Mario Corbellino | thelancet.com | 2020-03-05
An outbreak of carbapenemase-producing and colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was reported in north-east Germany in 2019.1 The alert raised by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Oct 28, 2019,1 emphasised that a pandrug-resistant K pneumoniae clone had spread in three hospitals and one rehabilitation clinic, with specimens recovered from 17 patients (six infected and 11 colonised).1 The strain showed a broad resistance pattern to most antibiotics; it was resistant to all beta-lactams (including ceftazidime-avibactam) because of co-production of two carbapenemases, NDM-1 and OXA-48.
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[Comment] Progress in the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis
Marlies Wijsenbeek | thelancet.com | 2020-03-05
Pulmonary fibrosis encompasses a wide range of fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) with different underlying causes. In the past two decades, most focus has been on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), the most prevalent and relentlessly progressive type of fibrosing ILD.1,2 For other forms of fibrosing ILD, data on the proportion of patients who develop progressive pulmonary fibrosis are still scarce and depend on the disease studied and criteria used.3 Guidelines seem dedicated to assessing the likelihood of IPF versus another fibrosing ILD, as treatment, trial options, and prognosis differ.
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[Comment] Transdisciplinary work against antimicrobial resistance
Alena Kamenshchikova, Petra F G Wolffs, Christian J P A Hoebe, Klasien Horstman | thelancet.com | 2020-03-05
In 2015, WHO issued a Global Action Plan emphasising One Health as an essential approach to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).1 One Health aims to bridge human, animal, and environmental sectors to address shared health concerns.2 One of the gaps in knowledge articulated by the Global Action Plan is scant understanding of social science and behaviour. In that context, One Health offers a potential for transdisciplinary collaborations, including between social and biomedical disciplines. WHO states that the role of social sciences in the One Health approach to AMR is dedicated to support effective antimicrobia…
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[Correspondence] Covert COVID-19 and false-positive dengue serology in Singapore
Gabriel Yan, Chun Kiat Lee, Lawrence T M Lam, Benedict Yan, Ying Xian Chua, Anita Y N Lim, Kee Fong Phang, Guan Sen Kew, Hazel Teng, Chin Hong Ngai, Li Lin, Rui Min Foo, Surinder Pada, Lee Ching Ng, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah | thelancet.com | 2020-03-04
Dengue and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are difficult to distinguish because they have shared clinical and laboratory features.1,2 We describe two patients in Singapore with false-positive results from rapid serological testing for dengue, who were later confirmed to have severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, the causative virus of COVID-19.
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[Correspondence] Outbreak investigation for COVID-19 in northern Vietnam
Hai Nguyen Thanh, Truong Nguyen Van, Huong Ngo Thi Thu, Binh Nghiem Van, Binh Doan Thanh, Ha Phung Thi Thu, Anh Nguyen Thi Kieu, Nhung Nguyen Viet, Guy B Marks, Greg J Fox, Thu-Anh Nguyen | thelancet.com | 2020-03-04
Two Vietnamese adults returned to their home province of Vinh Phuc in northern Vietnam on Jan 17, 2020, from Wuhan, China, where they had been living since Nov 15, 2019, for a business trip. They presented with mild respiratory symptoms to their local health facilities at 4 days and 8 days, respectively, after arrival in Vinh Phuc. Both individuals were initially placed into respiratory isolation in hospital. Case 1 tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative organism of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), on Jan 30, 2020, and remained in isolation until recove…
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[Correspondence] A family cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infection involving 11 patients in Nanjing, China
Rui Huang, Juan Xia, Yuxin Chen, Chun Shan, Chao Wu | thelancet.com | 2020-02-28
Human infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global health concern.1,2 Currently, human-to-human transmission of the virus accounts for most infections worldwide.3 We report a family cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infection involving 11 patients in Nanjing, China.
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[Comment] Efficient transmission of viral gastroenteritis in Dutch households
Paul A Gastañaduy, Umesh D Parashar | thelancet.com | 2020-02-20
Community cohorts of acute gastroenteritis, such as the one presented by Franke Quee and colleagues1 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, provide a crucial opportunity to understand the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of different enteric viruses that could be targeted to prevent diarrhoea in vulnerable populations.
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[Correspondence] Open access epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak
Bo Xu, Moritz U G Kraemer, Open COVID-19 Data Curation Group | thelancet.com | 2020-02-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly across China, and as of Feb 16, 2020, had been reported in 26 countries globally. The availability of accurate and robust epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory data early in an epidemic is important to guide public health decision-making.1 Consistent recording of epidemiological information is important to understand transmissibility, risk of geographic spread, routes of transmission, and risk factors for infection, and to provide the baseline for epidemiological modelling that can inform planning of response and containment efforts to reduce the burden…
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[Correspondence] An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time
Ensheng Dong, Hongru Du, Lauren Gardner | thelancet.com | 2020-02-19
In December, 2019, a local outbreak of pneumonia of initially unknown cause was detected in Wuhan (Hubei, China), and was quickly determined to be caused by a novel coronavirus,1 namely severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The outbreak has since spread to every province of mainland China as well as 27 other countries and regions, with more than 70‚Äà000 confirmed cases as of Feb 17, 2020.2 In response to this ongoing public health emergency, we developed an online interactive dashboard, hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins Univ…
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[Comment] Contact precautions: no benefits, no indication
Lena M Biehl, Maria J G T Vehreschild | thelancet.com | 2020-02-19
In view of the global increase in multidrug-resistant bacteria, applying contact precautions during the care of affected patients seems, at first, a rational approach to decrease the spread of these organisms. Increasing the distance between sources of multidrug-resistant organisms and potential recipients and using disposable equipment, such as gloves and gowns, for any contact with the patient and their environment might appear to be logical and harmless precautions. However, as a growing body of evidence has shown, contact precautions do harm.
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[Comment] Face-mask sampling or sputum to diagnose lung tuberculosis?
Graham H Bothamley, Viktoria Spong | thelancet.com | 2020-02-18
More than a third of people estimated to have tuberculosis in 2018 were undiagnosed or detected but not notified.1 In India, a review of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control programme in 2013 estimated that 72% of individuals with tuberculosis reached a diagnostic centre, 60% were diagnosed, and 53% registered for treatment.2 To improve this situation, people who fear they might have tuberculosis should have access to cheap diagnostic tests, which can be posted or otherwise delivered to a laboratory and that provide sufficient information so the individual can receive the result and begin treatment if needed…
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[Comment] A conditional cash transfer programme in Brazil improves leprosy treatment outcomes
Alberto Novaes Ramos, Jorg Heukelbach, Maria Leide Wand-Del-Rey Oliveira | thelancet.com | 2020-02-14
Despite advances in the past three decades in implementing multidrug therapy against leprosy, by the end of 2018 approximately 210‚Äà000 new leprosy cases globally have been reported to WHO.1 Brazil, in particular, has a high burden of neglected tropical diseases,2 including leprosy. The country has an important role in generating scientific evidence to achieve leprosy control, as it accounts for the second highest number of new leprosy cases worldwide notified by a single country. There have been about 30‚Äà000 new cases notified in Brazil in 2018, representing 93% of all case…
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[Comment] Anti-interleukin-5 therapy in patients with severe asthma: from clinical trials to clinical practice
Richard Beasley, James Harper, Matthew Masoli | thelancet.com | 2020-02-14
The development of monoclonal antibody therapy targeting the type 2 inflammatory pathway and the application of personalised medicine through the identification and management of treatable traits represent two major advances in the management of asthma within recent decades. These two approaches are intricately linked. Biomarkers are used to identify patients with a type-2-predominant endotype and select the likely responders to such therapeutic regimens. However, uncertainties exist that limit application in clinical practice.
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[Comment] Towards protective immune responses against malaria in pregnant women
Claudia A Daubenberger | thelancet.com | 2020-02-04
Plasmodium falciparum infection was estimated to affect around 11 million pregnancies in 2018 in 38 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.1 Malaria-associated maternal anaemia is a major driver of low birthweight in newborn babies and WHO have estimated that malaria infections in pregnancy have resulted in an estimated 872‚Äà000 babies born with low birthweight in 2018.1 Low birthweight results in a higher risk of death, stunting, and poor cognitive development later in life.2 WHO recommends a combination of insecticide-treated nets and the use of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with ma…
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