2020-05-17: Social Media Postees

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Normalized Relations with Russia Can Improve Baltic Economies During Pandemic
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
In 2020, Lithuania\'s and Latvia\'s gross domestic product (GDP) will decrease by seven per cent, according to a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development report published only days ago. Estonia\'s GDP is projected to decline by six percent. A six …
globalresearch.ca/normalized-relations-russia-can-improve-baltic-economies-pandemic/5713165

Video: Syrian Army Suffers Casualties in Daraa. Militants Attack Russian-Turkish Patrol
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
The security situation has been escalating in southern Syria. Over the past 24 hours, at least 3 pro-government fighters and a civilian have been killed in attacks by gunmen in al-Musayfrah and Saida-al-Taebah. The attacks followed the March 14 and …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-suffers-casualties-daraa-militants-attack-russian-turkish-patrol/5713174

Russia\'s COVID Game of Elites
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
Implementing President Putin\'s directives, Russian federal authorities intensified their efforts to contain both the economic and social impact of the nation-wide coronavirus lockdown, and also some local authorities\' overzealous efforts. This move was impatiently awaited by the Russian society for …
globalresearch.ca/russia-covid-game-elites/5713171

Remembering Palestine on Nakba Day: Use the Hashtag COVID1948
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
Palestinians worldwide have an annual day of remembrance called Nakba Day. Nakba comes from the Arabic al-Nakbah and means \"disaster\" or \"catastrophe.\" It takes place on May 15th, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israeli …
globalresearch.ca/remembering-palestine-nakba-day/5713135

Big Oil Takes $1.9 Billion in CARES Act Tax Breaks Intended for Small Businesses
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-17
Sen. Bernie Sanders was among critics outraged that the fossil fuel industry is using tax breaks in the CARES Act meant to help businesses keep workers employed to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes

Trump Regime Aims to Block Legal Cooperation Between Iran and Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
The US is at war by hot or others means against all nations unwilling to subordinate their sovereign rights to its interests. | Russia and China top its regime change target list, Iran and Venezuela close behind. | The Islamic and Bolivarian …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-aims-block-legal-cooperation-between-iran-venezuela/5713152

Bloomberg changes headline YET AGAIN amid backlash over article on why Covid-19 \'didn\'t kill more Russians\'
rt.com | 2020-05-17
Bloomberg has yet again had to correct the title of an article, after rolling out a report about why Covid-19 hasn\'t \"killed more Russians.\" Moscow has argued that Western media distort Russia\'s fight against the disease. | US-based Bloomberg News had published the story, originally titled \"Experts Want to Know Why Coronavirus Hasn\'t Killed More Russians,\" on Wednesday. The news piece was ostensibly about how Russia\'s relatively low death toll from Covid-19 \"puzzles health experts,\" especially since the nation has the second-highest number of officially-recorded cases of the disease, trailing only behind the…
rt.com/news/488893-bloomberg-story-russia-covid19/

Why U.S. Must Be Prosecuted for Its War Crimes Against Iraq
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
The reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them, and international law crumbles until they become prosecuted and severely punished for what …
globalresearch.ca/why-u-s-must-prosecuted-war-crimes-against-iraq/5713149

The sad story of Colombia\'s Supreme Court judge who only accidentally gets people in legal trouble
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-17
Colombia\'s Supreme Court magistrate Cristina Lombana seems to have a special gift to accidentally get her allegedly criminal former army buddies in legal trouble. Since President Ivan Duque swore in…
colombiareports.com/the-sad-story-of-colombias-supreme-court-judge-who-only-accidentally-gets-people-in-legal-trouble/

Trump and GOP Oppose New House Economic Stimulus Measure
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
On Friday, the Dem-controlled House narrowly passed a new $3 trillion stimulus package

\'Questioning EU\'s ability\': Eurocrat accuses Russian media of spreading Covid-19 \'CONSPIRACIES,\' offers no examples
rt.com | 2020-05-17
An EU Commission spokesperson alleged, giving no details, that the Russian media and \"Kremlin-friendly\" sources push conspiracy theories about Covid-19. The news comes on the heels of anti-lockdown protests in Germany and the UK. | Not mincing his words, Peter Stano told German paper Bild am Sonntag: \"Our observations show that various official and state-backed sources from Russia

Protest at Fort Mason Against CCSF Cuts
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-05-17
People young and old protest CCSF cuts in programs that benefit seniors, immigrants and working people.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/15/18833052.php

America\'s Newest Wedge Issue and the Tale of the Bizarre 2020 Presidential Elections
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-17
The answer to 1776 is not 1984 and if anything needs to be protested it would be any efforts by the government to make elections \"go digital\". Ironically such a move would actually be the way that the Chinese and Russians could actually get the guy they want in the Oval Office.
strategic-culture.org/video/2020/05/17/americas-newest-wedge-issue-and-tale-bizarre-2020-elections/

Latin America Sees Rise in COVID-19 Cases as Economies Reopen
teleSUR-la | telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-17
Latin American countries on Saturday reported a further increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths, as some are gradually reopening their economies. | RELATED: | Puebla Group Discusses Peace in Colombia and Pandemic Crisis | Brazil reported a total of 15,633 deaths from COVID-19 and 233,142 confirmed cases, after 816 more patients died of the disease and 14,919 infections were detected in the past 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry. | Sao Paulo, the most populous state, was h…
telesurenglish.net/news/Latin-America-Sees-Rise-in-COVID-19-Cases-as-Economies-Reopen-20200517-0001.html

\'War and Peace\' to go on screen in Italian film festival
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

\'Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness\' to vie in PyeongChang Intl. Peace Filmfest
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

China was, is, will be peace builder and promoter in ME: Chinese amb
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Afghanistan: Rivals Ghani and Abdullah Sign Power-Sharing Deal
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-17
Afghanistan\'s President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah signed Sunday a power-sharing deal, ending months of political deadlock since the September 2019 polls. | RELATED: | Pompeo Arrives in Afghanistan to Revive Faltering Peace Talks | \"We will share the burden and our shoulders, God willing, will be lighter,\" Ghani said at the signing ceremony, adding the day is \"historic\" as the agreement was reached without any international mediation. | With the deal, Abdullah…
telesurenglish.net/news/Afghanistan-Rivals-Ghani-and-Abdullah-Sign-Power-Sharing-Deal-20200517-0005.html

[Letter] Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing surgeries during the incubation period of COVID-19 infection. What are the implications for the commencement of elective surgery?
Gary L Ross | thelancet.com | 2020-05-17
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30129-2/fulltext?rss=yes

[Letter] Can we operate our patients without fear during the period of COVID-19 infection?
Jean-Jacques Tuech, Lilian Schwarz | thelancet.com | 2020-05-17
We read the paper by Shaoquin LEI and colleagues [1] with great interest. The authors reported 34 patients in whom the infection was revealed after surgery was performed. In this group of patients 15 (44.1%) needed ICU care and 7 (20.5%) died. This retrospective cohort study is the first one to describe the outcome of operative patients with SARS-Cov-2 infection.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30126-7/fulltext?rss=yes

[Commentary] The imperative for universal healthcare to curtail the COVID-19 outbreak in the USA
Alison P. Galvani, Alyssa S. Parpia, Abhishek Pandey, Charlotte Zimmer, James G. Kahn, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick | thelancet.com | 2020-05-17
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States is growing steeply and spreading widely. As of March 26, national incidence surpassed every other country, and as of April 28 has reported over a million cases. The COVID-19 crisis is exposing the systemic frailties in our healthcare system. More than 78 million people in America do not have access to adequate health insurance [1]. Given that health insurance in the US is typically provided by employers, millions more are at risk of losing their healthcare coverage as unemployment surges.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30124-3/fulltext?rss=yes

Stuck in Colombia? Our home is your home until you\'re repatriated
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-17
Colombia may maintain its ban on international travel. Your embassy will inform you about repatriation. Meanwhile, our home is your home. President Ivan Duque\'s consideration is not unique. Because Latin…
colombiareports.com/stuck-in-colombia-our-home-is-your-home-until-youre-repatriated/

Coronavirus begins spiralling out of control in Colombia\'s major cities
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-17
Colombia\'s third largest city, Cali, and port city Cartagena rang the alarm as the country\'s healthcare system appears to slowly be falling apart because of the coronavirus pandemic. An explosive…
colombiareports.com/coronavirus-begins-spiraling-out-of-control-in-colombias-major-cities/

Colombia discards international flights \'on the short term\' amid doubts about restarting economy
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-17
Colombia\'s President Ivan Duque said Saturday that he doesn\'t believe he\'ll allow international air travel \"on the short term\" amid failures to contain the coronavirus. In his daily Facebook live…
colombiareports.com/colombia-discard-international-flights-on-the-short-term-amid-doubts-about-restarting-economy/

Colombia discards international flights \'on the short term\' amid doubts about restarting economy
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-17
Colombia\'s President Ivan Duque said Saturday that he doesn\'t believe he\'ll allow international air travel \"in the short term\" amid failures to contain the coronavirus. In his daily Facebook live…
colombiareports.com/colombia-discard-international-flights-on-the-short-term-amid-doubts-about-restarting-economy/

Operation Baton: Colombia\'s most epic military corruption probe in history?
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-17
Colombia\'s army is so corrupt, one general was even selling classified information to guerrillas, a counterintelligence operation discovered before its findings mysteriously disappeared. Operation Baton was meant to purge the…
colombiareports.com/operation-baton-colombias-most-epic-military-corruption-probe-in-history/

Ahmaud Arbery\'s Murder Shows Lynching Remains a Reality for Black America
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-17
On May 4, Ida B. Wells received a posthumous Pulitzer award. The Pulitzer board shared that she was awarded for \"her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.\" The news rang out internationally and was widely celebrated. A Financial Times headline said…
truthout.org/articles/ahmaud-arberys-murder-shows-lynching-remains-a-reality-for-black-america/

The Online Double-bind. \"Digital Revolution, …. Many More People are Crazy\"
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
The trap was set at least twenty-five years ago and the mice jumped at the smell of the cheese. I am referring to the introduction of the computer as a mass necessity and the Internet that followed. I was slow …
globalresearch.ca/online-double-bind/5713138

Johnson\'s ratings plummet and he\'s warned early lockdown will \'fracture\' UK
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-17
Boris Johnson has been warned he may cause a fracturing of national unity if he fails to listen to regional concerns about the easing of lockdown restrictions.Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham spoke out as a poll reported public support for the UK government\'s handling of the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis had slipped.Meanwhile, only 39% of Britons approve of the Government\'s response

DHS & FBI fear more attacks on 5G infrastructure fueled by Covid-19 conspiracies
rt.com | 2020-05-17
The Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies are worried that conspiracy theories, bizarrely linking the Covid-19 pandemic to the 5G technology rollout, could inspire more vandalism and violence in the US. | The DHS, FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center issued a joint warning to US law enforcement officials about the growing threat this week, while a separate DHS intelligence report, obtained by ABC News, noted that the widening online \"misinformation…
rt.com/usa/488881-dhs-fbi-5g-attacks-coronavirus/

The COVID-19 Chronicles: China
Ulson Gunnar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
With the US spiraling downward, a downward trajectory merely steepened by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, we\'d expect other nations to suffer likewise. | But China, where we are told the virus first appeared, has already bounced back. While it …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-chronicles-china/5713169

Dropshipping for Beginners – What Exactly is Dropshipping?
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-17
If you are looking to start making money through dropshipping, this overview will get you prepared to start succeeding in this type of market. Before we begin, it\'s important to understand what exactly it means to dropship items. | This particular business model allows entrepreneurs to tap into the ecommerce market and sell items without having the actual stock yourself. Instead of you physically shipping the item, a third party has your listed item shipped directly to the customer on your company\'s behalf. Sometimes even under your company\'s name as if it came from your own warehouse. All of this is done with…
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How Israel Instructed Its Worst Nightmare in the Art of War
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-17
\"We were Hezbollah trainers. It is an organization that learns quickly. The Hezbollah we met at the beginning (1982) is different from the one we left behind in 2000\". This is what the former Chief of Staff and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabi Ashkenazi, said twenty years after the Israeli unconditional withdrawal from Lebanon. | …
ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/lebanon/4164-israel-instructed-its-worst-nightmare.html

If You Think the Coronavirus Lockdown Is Worse Than the Disease, You Don\'t Understand the Disease
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-17
It\'s no accident that one of the world\'s great morons–he who thinks injecting disinfectants and shining bright lights into bodily cavities will save the world from COVID-19–should be cheering on one the world\'s most moronic public health policy choices. | The novel coronavirus–aptly dubbed the stealth virus–is highly infectious, if not peerlessly contagious. People can be infected by the virus–and spread the disease to others–for up to two weeks before showing symptoms. Or they can experience symptoms so mild that they\'re not aware they\'re ill. If we believe it\'s now safe to…
ahtribune.com/world/covid-19/4163-lockdown-understand-the-disease.html

Fourth tanker carrying Iranian fuel passes through Gibraltar: report
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

ISIS Terrorists Confess that They Have Carried Out Many Operations in Coordination with US Occupation Forces in Al-Tanf Base
Basma Qaddour | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
During a security operation carried out with the help of the Syrian Badia\'s residents, an ambush was set up against an ISIS terrorist group composed of 6 members where 3 of them were killed and the remaining ones were arrested….
globalresearch.ca/isis-terrorists-confess-carried-out-many-operations-coordination-us-occupation-forces-al-tanf-base/5713158

Why East Beat West on COVID-19
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-17
East Asia has handled and contained the pandemic far better than the West on nearly all metrics | Andrew SALMON | Perhaps the most startling trend visible in the global Covid-19 pandemic is the vast differential separating East Asia from the West when it comes to the disease\'s impact. | The chasm is visible

Video: Three ISIS-Daesh Terrorists Confess to Perpetrating a Number of Operations in Cooperation with US
SANA | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
Three Daesh terrorists confess to perpetrating a number of operations in cooperation with US occupation forces in al-Tanf. | …
globalresearch.ca/video-three-daesh-terrorists-confess-perpetrating-operations-cooperation-us/5713167

Section 230: Protecting Internet Speech, The Censors and Censorship
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
With a better world on the horizon, the old order is desperately asserting its last vestige of power. What the perpetrators of the coronavirus event were not counting on was that the pandemic would usher in a new era of …
globalresearch.ca/section-230-protecting-internet-speech-the-censors-and-censorship/5713160

China Declares the U.S. an Enemy: Sea-Change in World Affairs
Eric Sommer | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
For a long period the Chinese regime has vacillated between seeking accommodation with the U.S.-led imperialist forces to \'do business\' with the western world, and defending itself against the attempted economic, political, and military encirclement and strangulation of China by …
globalresearch.ca/china-declares-u-s-enemy-sea-change-world-affairs/5713141

Pandemic Scales Up Cases of Mental Illnesses
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
The global pandemic of the new coronavirus worsens day after day worldwide, bringing with it a series of harms for humanity. As it is known, in addition to the simple infection by the virus, the pandemic causes problems in society …
globalresearch.ca/pandemic-scales-up-cases-mental-illnesses/5713162

A Nation of Sheep
Judge Andrew Napolitano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.\"

How Biosecurity Is Enabling Digital Neo-Feudalism
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
Italian master thinker Giorgio Agamben has been on the

A Nation of Sheep
Judge Andrew Napolitano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.\"

Jews to Palestinian Whose Home They Occupy: What Do You Want?
Najwan Simri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
\"On the anniversary of the Nakba… a tour through depopulated Palestinian villages within Israel … and rare meetings between the owners of the original Palestinian homes and their current Jewish residents\"

Chinese Ridicule Trump\'s China \'Cut-Off\' Threat
Global Times | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
\"Is Trump totally insane?\" Experts and the international community couldn\'t help but ask this question after US President Donald Trump threatened to \"cut off the whole relationship\" with China on Thursday in an interview with FOX Business. Observers said that …
globalresearch.ca/chinese-ridicule-trump-china-cut-off-threat/5713132

How Big Wireless Lobbied Governments to Build 5G for Citizen Data Collection and Surveillance
Derrick Broze | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-17
While selling 5G technology to the public as a means for faster downloads, Big Wireless

Iran\'s March-May petchem output up 6%
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Iraqi side has promised to open southern borders after Eid al-Fitr: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Indian pilgrims stranded in Iran go back home
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Iran successful in fight against coronavirus: Shamkhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Iran supports continued alignment of all Afghan groups: Zarif
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

US needs to read text of JCPOA more carefully: Ulyanov
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

\"Nothing left of JCPOA\": chairman of key Parl. cmte
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Iran, Iraq defense ministers discuss ways to boost bilateral coop
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Iran, Turkey to cooperate on manufacturing wind turbine blades
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Pakistan expresses condolence over martyrdom of Iranian Navy personnel
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Iran coronavirus updates: 1,806 new coronavirus cases, 51deaths
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Citizens\' Climate Lobby: Virtual Climate Conference 2020 (Day 2)
Citizens\' Climate Lobby | indybay.org | 2020-05-17
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 | 2020-05-17
Online/virtual conference…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/15/18833048.php

#Stop the Money Pipeline: Dump Climate Denier Lee Raymond from Chase Actionar
#StopTheMoneyPipeline and others | indybay.org | 2020-05-17
Online via Zoom | Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsfu6grzkrG9BKn-nueHHbOJCCFNTn5W4B…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/14/18833027.php

Chinese envoy to Tel Aviv found dead at his residence, Israeli foreign ministry confirms
rt.com | 2020-05-17
China\'s ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead at his home on Sunday morning, Israel\'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and police have confirmed. | Du, 57, was found dead at the apartment in the city of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, Israeli Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. The report of Du\'s death was also confirmed by Israel\'s foreign ministry. | Israeli media said earlier that Du\'s body was discovered in his bed with no signs of violence, and that police are investigating the cause of his death. It was also reported that the initial indications were that the diplomat had died in his sleep of na…
rt.com/news/488890-china-envoy-israel-dead-reports/

Chinese Ambassador to Israel Found Dead Inside Home
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-17
The Chinese ambassador to Israel Du Wei passed away in Tel Aviv Sunday, official sources said. | RELATED: | China: 5 Five Vaccines to Go Into Large-Scale Testing by July | The preliminary judgment is that Du died unexpectedly of health reasons, but the details need to be further confirmed, sources told China\'s Xinhua News Agency. | The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the authenticity of press reports that revealed Sunday the body of the Chinese ambassador to Israel…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chinese-Ambassador-to-Israel-Found-Dead-Inside-Home-20200517-0004.html

\'Contradicting the idea of solidarity\': France slams Italy for unilateral plan to reopen borders to tourists
rt.com | 2020-05-17
Italy shouldn\'t have moved to reopen its borders without coordinating with other EU member states first, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said, as a non-uniform Covid-19 pandemic response tests the bloc\'s unity. | Following more than two months of statewide lockdowns, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Saturday that the country will allow entry to European tourists, while the mandatory 14-day quarantine will be scrapped from June 3. France immediately slammed its neighbor for undermining the idea of European solidarity. | \"It\'s very important for us to coordinate our decisions on th…
rt.com/news/488879-italy-france-border-coronavirus/

Palestinian causes not to be fallen into oblivion by COVID-19: MP
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

COVID-19 vaccine secures new government investment
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-17
Imperial researchers have received a further £18.5 million in government support as they develop a coronavirus vaccine.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197573/covid-19-vaccine-secures-government-investment

Covid-19 Outbreak Reported in Bolivia\'s Largest Prison
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-17
Authorities from the Santa Cruz department in eastern Bolivia confirmed an outbreak of coronavirus in the Palmasola prison on Saturday, reporting that 25 inmates tested positive for the disease. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Añez Backs Down, Annuls Decree Against Speech Freedom | \"A total of 25 people deprived of liberty have tested positive for Covid-19. Having an epidemiological outbreak inside the Palmasola prison, we are going to establish two isolation centers: one for suspects and…
telesurenglish.net/news/Covid-19-Outbreak-Reported-in-Bolivias-Largest-Prison-20200517-0003.html

Grading the States\' Coronavirus Control
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-05-17
I recently wrote a Twitter thread ( 5/12/20) about another New York Times graphic feature that was a good idea, strangely executed. | The good idea, which appears on the Times\' \"Coronavirus in the US\" page, is to sort states in terms of how well they\'re controlling the coronavirus outbreak, using graphs of the daily count of new cases in each state. This seems like a good cho…
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\'Guard of dishonor\': VIDEO shows nurses & doctors giving ICY welcome to Belgian PM over govt\'s Covid-19 response
rt.com | 2020-05-17
Belgium\'s PM Sophie Wilmes has visited one of the nation\'s hospitals battling the pandemic

Coronavirus to burn out \'naturally\' BEFORE vaccine? Former WHO oncologist says there\'s \'REAL chance\' of that
rt.com | 2020-05-17
Covid-19 could be \"petering out by itself\" before the world comes up with any vaccine, a leading academic, formerly the World Health Organization\'s (WHO) top oncologist has said. | \"There\'s a real chance that the virus will burn out naturally before any vaccine is developed,\" Karol Sikora, the dean of the University of Buckingham\'s medical school, wrote on Twitter. | We\'re seeing a roughly similar pattern everywhere

Music-Mix Parade In The Era Of Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-17
The Era Of The Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/17/18833094.php

Coronavirus brings diamond sales to an almost complete halt
rt.com | 2020-05-17
A leading global diamond producer, Russia\'s ALROSA, is reporting that its sales were down tenfold in one month alone, as the impact of Covid-19 ripples through the global economy and supply chains. | In April, ALROSA sold a total of just $15.6 million-worth of rough and polished diamonds. This is down from over $152 million a month earlier and from $400 million in sales in the beginning of the year. | \"Restrictions imposed to fight the coronavirus and a decline in demand for diamond jewelry have minimized the trade in rough and polished diamonds across the world,\" Evgeny Agureev, Deputy CEO of ALROSA, said in…
rt.com/business/488662-diamond-sales-halted-coronavirus/

Coronavirus to burn out \'naturally\' BEFORE vaccine? Former top WHO oncologist Karol Sikora says there\'s \'REAL CHANCE\' of that
rt.com | 2020-05-17
Covid-19 could be \"petering out by itself\" before the world comes up with any vaccine, a leading academic, formerly the World Health Organization\'s (WHO) top oncologist has said. | \"There\'s a real chance that the virus will burn out naturally before any vaccine is developed,\" Karol Sikora, the dean of the University of Buckingham\'s medical school, wrote on Twitter. | We\'re seeing a roughly similar pattern everywhere

Boozing by letter: Alcohol sales rationing based on SURNAMES could soon be a thing in South Africa as it eases its \'dry\' law
rt.com | 2020-05-17
South Africa, which has some of the toughest Covid-19 restrictions, is set to relax them, including a ban on alcohol sales. To avert a feared onslaught of booze buyers, retailers are proposing what seems an outlandish scheme. | Alcohol is expected to rain on the arid market of South Africa from June 1, when the government is set to partially lift its coronavirus-related restrictions. The blanket ban on alcohol and tobacco sales was implemented late in March. | The government draft plan would allow liquor stores to operate from Monday to Wednesday between 8am and 12pm. Retailers, however, fear that the stores m…
rt.com/news/488910-alcohol-lines-surnames-south-africa/

World Health Assembly Wrestles with Coronavirus
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2020-05-17
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

\'EYE\' in the sky: Russia\'s National Guard launches BLIMP to spot Covid-19 lockdown violators… to mixed reviews (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-05-17
Russia\'s National Guard has added a steampunk vibe to the coronavirus dystopia as it launched a blimp to monitor how the lockdown is being observed in Moscow Region. Not everyone was impressed, though. | Equipped with the OKO (\"eye\") surveillance system, the air balloon was deployed to hover several hundred meters above the ground, allowing servicemen to observe an area of around five square kilometers. | The blimp\'s prime task is to monitor the park and forest areas during the quarantine. Data gathered by the OKO system is transferred to patrols on the ground in real time, who are then dispatched to disperse…
rt.com/russia/488876-russia-blimp-coronavirus-lockdown/

BMJ damns UK government for mishandling coronavirus outbreak and ignoring science
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-05-17
An editorial in the prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) condemns the Johnson-led government for the way it has handled the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and for ignoring the science. It amounts to possibly the most damning criticism of the government\'s management of the pandemic so far. | Moreover, a set of slides seen by The Canary reveals that the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) referenced a document, issued in 2019, that provided detailed projections for a major UK epidemic. Yet, this doesn\'t seem to have informed the government\'s response to the crisis. | Early failings: | The…
thecanary.co/discovery/2020/05/17/bmj-damns-uk-government-for-mishandling-coronavirus-outbreak-and-ignoring-science/

A hospital pharmacist says lockdown has been eased too soon
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-17
As a pharmacist working in a busy London hospital, Arvinder Sarai is concerned that the public needs to be \"vigilant\" about the spread of the coronavirus.As well as maintaining her usual post as a pharmacist at St Mary\'s Hospital in Paddington, Sarai has been campaigning for free transport for NHS staff continuing to work throughout the pandemic.In a series of profiles looking at workers on the front line of the battle against coronavirus (Covid-19), Sarai told the PA news agency about her experiences.How has it been, personally and emotionally, working on the front line?: You can read a patient\'s notes, t…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/17/a-hospital-pharmacist-says-lockdown-has-been-eased-too-soon/

Santa Cruz Needs Community Control of Surveillance
Tracy Rosenberg | indybay.org | 2020-05-17
Santa Cruz has a community control of surveillance law in front of the City Council. We need transparency, advanced notice and joint decisionmaking about pervasive surveillance everywhere. Sign the petition (from ACLU) action.aclu.org/petition/cn-santa-cruz-surveillance-petition…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/16/18833086.php

Salvadoran Officials Reject Quarantine Extension
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-17
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, extended the state of emergency in the country on the grounds of stopping the spread of Covid-19. | RELATED: | El Salvador: Pot-Banging Against Bukele\'s Pandemic Management | The state of emergency, approved on April 30 by the Legislative Assembly, expired on Saturday night, so, under the protection of an article of the Civil Protection Law, the government extended it for another month. | The decree empowers the government to use funds f…
telesurenglish.net/news/Salvadoran-Officials-Reject-Quarantine-Extension-20200517-0002.html

United We Dream: Immigrants, COVID-19, Jobs & Healthcare Virtual Town Hall
United We Dream | indybay.org | 2020-05-17
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/16/18833087.php

A New Pandemic? Two Trailblazing COVID-19 Researchers Dead in a Month
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-17
Academia does not really have a reputation for being riddled with violence and sudden unexplained deaths. Yet at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, two young pioneering researchers from the same obscure field of study met with mysterious ends. | Outside of academic circles, Dr. James Taylor and Dr. Bing Liu were relative unknowns. Inside of the scientific community, however, the two had achieved something like rock-star status. And now, within a period of 30 days, both young men are dead at a time when their talents are needed most. | James Taylor, 1979-2020 | Let\'s first consider the life and work of James Taylo…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/17/new-pandemic-two-trailblazing-covid-19-researchers-dead-in-month/

COVID-19 Exposes Systemic Devaluation of Elderly and Dementia Patients
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-17
I hold my breath when I see my friends from the nursing home have texted. How many cases today? Are there any new fatalities? | I left the nursing home nearly six years ago, but I worry about my friends who still w…
truthout.org/articles/covid-19-exposes-systemic-devaluation-of-elderly-and-dementia-patients/

People of Shiraz observe Night of Decree in personal cars amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
SHIRAZ, May 17 (MNA)

Worldwide Webinar: Civil Society Response to COVID-19 in Prisons & Jails Globally
INCLO | indybay.org | 2020-05-17
Online via zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/16/18833085.php

Export of goods from Bazargan customs up 56% despite COVID-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

How a Lobbying Campaign Pushed the CDC to Relax Protective Gear Guidelines
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-17
This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast. | Rick Lucas\' cellphone chimed, alerting him to an emergency in the acute care unit. He wondered whether it would be another case of COVID…
truthout.org/articles/how-a-lobbying-campaign-pushed-the-cdc-to-relax-protective-gear-guidelines/

Formerly Incarcerated People Should Be Compensated for Telling Their Stories
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-17
During the 19th-century emancipation movement, some of the most important voices were those of Black abolitionists. \"This was especially true of those who had experienced slavery,\" Roy E. Finkenbine told NPR. | When they told their stories it \"disabused listeners and readers of the notion that slaves were contented or well-treated,\" Finkenbine said, and even \"unlettered fu…
truthout.org/articles/formerly-incarcerated-people-should-be-compensated-for-telling-their-stories/

Missouri GOP Votes to Gut Anti-Gerrymandering Reform Approved by Voters
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-17
This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge. | While most people are focused on their health and livelihoods amid the pandemic, Republican legislators in Missouri are working to overturn a voter-approved measure meant to make legislativ…
truthout.org/articles/missouri-gop-votes-to-gut-anti-gerrymandering-reform-approved-by-voters/

Indian migrant workers killed in road accident while returning home
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-17
24 laborers who were on their way home from India\'s capital city of New Delhi were killed when a truck carrying migrant workers rammed the vehicle they were on…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/17/indian-migrant-workers-killed-in-road-accident-while-returning-home/

Putin calls Russia a \'distinct civilization\' that needs to be SAVED with homegrown high-tech
rt.com | 2020-05-17
President Vladimir Putin has compared his multi-ethnic and multi-faith nation to an entire civilization, saying that if Russia is to maintain its independent status, it has to develop its own cutting-edge technologies. | In an interview that aired on Sunday, Putin told the Rossiya-1 channel that Russia was \"more than merely a country, but truly a distinct civilization.\" Being \"a multi-ethnic country with many traditions, cultures and faiths,\" the nation has to maintain its status and power by nurturing modern tech, he said. | I…
rt.com/russia/488904-putin-russia-distinct-civilization/

Afghanistan\'s Ghani, Abdullah accord to share power
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Trump Goes on Offense Against Obama
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-17
If Donald Trump wants to get re-elected as President of the U.S. he\'s going to have to take out former President Barack Obama. At this point Obama is the person who most stands in his path for a second term. | Former Vice President Joe Biden may well wind up being the nominee but that\'s only because he is Obama\'s stand in since Obama can\'t run for a third term thanks to the only part of the U.S. Constitution anyone seems to give a damn about anymore. | But, make no mistake, the current flap about the unmasking of Trump\'s first (and short-lived) National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn is all about Trump final…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/17/trump-goes-on-offense-against-obama/

Jail Tesla Billionaire Elon Musk & Defend Health & Safety: Workers Speak Out At Tesla
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-05-17
Workers spoke out against the bullying and intimidation of billionaire Elon Musk who has started his Tesla factory violating a shelter in place law. He challenged the Fremont police and Governor Newsom to arrest him but they are allowing him to open without any CA-OSHA inspections. Newsom has continued the destruction of CA-OSHA and there are less than 200 inspectors for the 18 million workers in California and only 1 doctor and 1 nurse at CA. OSHA.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/16/18833088.php

Prophetic? EU once paid for a comic book that showed how it BOTCHED response to PANDEMIC (yet took all the credit anyway)
rt.com | 2020-05-17
A pandemic has claimed a million lives despite a vaccine sent from the future, yet EU officials are patting themselves on the back for a good job and mull even more bureaucracy. That is how a comic book published by the EU ends. | …
rt.com/news/488902-eu-pandemic-comic-book/

Laura Veirs: I Was a Fool
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-17
counterpunch.org/2020/05/17/laura-veirs-i-was-a-fool/

Head of Tehran\'s Jewish community dismisses rumors around Esther and Mordchai tomb
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Leader to deliver speech on Intl. Quds Day
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-17
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

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

2009 H1N1 Vaccine Caused Brain Damage in Children. Dr. Anthony Fauci on \"Vaccine Safety\" Issues
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
In 2009, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci was firmly in support of a multibillion dollar H1N1 vaccine project | Today he is an avid supporter of a COVID-19 vaccine. | What he fails to acknowledge is that the 2009 H1N1 Vaccine caused brain …
globalresearch.ca/video-dr-anthony-fauci-on-the-2009-h1n1pandemic-the-2009-h1n1-vaccine-caused-brain-damage-in-children/5711540

Global Capitalism, \"World Government\" and the Corona Crisis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
The COVID-19 crisis is marked by a public health \"emergency\" under WHO auspices which is being used as a pretext and a justification to triggering a Worldwide process of economic, social and political restructuring.
globalresearch.ca/global-capitalism-world-government-and-the-corona-crisis/5712312

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…
fair.org/home/missing-the-context-of-de-blasios-jewish-community-tweet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=missing-the-context-of-de-blasios-jewish-community-tweet

The \"Secret Agenda\" of the So-called Elite
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
\"The International\" is the world-renowned battle song of the socialist labor movement. The English version of the original French text reads: | \"Wake up, damned of this earth, who are still forced to starve! (…) Army of slaves, wake up! (…) …
globalresearch.ca/reflections-secret-agenda-elite-role-us-citizens/5709112

Daesh terrorists Confess Terrorism Done In Coordination With US Occupation Forces
Eva Bartlett | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-16
SANA, May 14: | \"Through a security operation, that was launched in cooperation with Syrian citizens in al-Badyah (Syrian semi-desert), an ambush has targeted a group from Daesh terrorist organization, including 6 persons. | The security operation ended up with killing three of the groups and arresting the three others. | …The three terrorists, in a program broadcast on the Syrian TV on Thursday, confessed to perpetrating different terrorist operations, inducing acts of killing, execution, abduction, acts of sabotage and destruction of public and private properties…

Daesh terrorists Confess Terrorism Done In Coordination With US Occupation Forces

US threatens ICC with \'consequences\' if it acts on war crimes complaint against Israel filed by \'fake\' Palestinian state
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Arguing that Palestine doesn\'t \"qualify as a sovereign state\" and that the International Criminal Court lacks jurisdiction over Israel, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened \"consequences\" for any \"illegitimate\" probes. | Following his trip to Israel this week, Pompeo issued a brief statement, denouncing the ongoing efforts by the ICC to investigate allegations of war crimes against Palestinians, including the use of live ammunition against protesters, the demolition and shellin…
rt.com/news/488880-pompeo-israel-icc-war-crimes/

Jordan Warns Israel of \'Massive Conflict\' Over Annexation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
Jordan\'s King Abdullah II warned Friday that if Israel annexes the West Bank, it would lead to a \"massive conflict\" with Jordan, while European Union (UE) foreign ministers agreed to step up diplomatic efforts to try to head off such a move. | RELATED: | On the 72nd Nakba Palestine Faces Its Biggest Threat | \"If Israel really annexes the West Bank in July, it would lead to a massive conflict with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,\" King Abdullah II said in an interview published by De…
telesurenglish.net/news/Jordan-Warns-Israel-of-Massive-Conflict-Over-Annexation-20200516-0008.html

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/

Taliban does not recognize High Peace Council: spox
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

Techno-Tyranny: How the U.S. National Security State is Using Coronavirus to Fulfill an Orwellian Vision
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-16
Whitney WEBB | LAST YEAR, A GOVERNMENT COMMISSION CALLED FOR THE US TO ADOPT AN AI-DRIVEN MASS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FAR BEYOND THAT USED IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN ORDER TO ENSURE AMERICAN HEGEMONY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. NOW, MANY OF THE \"OBSTACLES\" THEY HAD CITED AS PREVENTING ITS IMPLEMENTATION ARE RAPIDLY BEING REMOVED UNDER THE GUISE OF COMBATING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS. | Last year, a U.S. government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence can \"address the national security and defense needs of the United States\" discussed in detail the \"structural\" changes that the American economy and socie…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/16/techno-tyranny-how-the-us-national-security-state-is-using-coronavirus-to-fulfill-an-orwellian-vision/

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

The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of A \"Universal Lockdown\"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
First comes the farce, an (almost) universal government lie around the globe about a deadly virus, WHO named COVID-19. The decision for a global lockdown

\'Colombia\'s Policy Towards Venezuela Is Aggressive\' Samper Says
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
Colombia\'s former President Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) Friday said that his country has deployed an erroneous and aggressive foreign policy towards Venezuela. | RELATED: | President Maduro: New Mercenary Groups are Formed in Colombia | \"Colombia has had ill-advised handling of its relationship with Venezuela. Colombian policy has been very aggressive to…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombias-Policy-Towards-Venezuela-Is-Aggressive-Samper-Says-20200516-0003.html

Venezuelan Army Captures Another Member of Operation Gedeon
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
The Venezuelan armed forces captured another member Saturday involved in the failed coup plot, dubbed \'Operation Gedeon\', against President Nicolas Maduro. | RELATED: | Venezuela Arrests Another Man Involved in Failed Incursion Plan | The Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (CEOFANB) reported that the arrest was made by the Operational Defense Comprehensive Zone (ZODI) of northern Aragua state. | The Venezuelan national police reported that se…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuelan-Army-Captures-Another-Member-of-Operation-Gedeon-20200516-0006.html

Why U.S. Must Be Prosecuted for Its War Crimes Against Iraq
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-16
The reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them, and international law crumbles until they become prosecuted and severely punished for what they did. We therefore now have internationally a lawless world (or \"World Order\") in which \"Might makes right,\" and in which there is really no effective international law, at all. This is merely gangster \"law,\" ruling on an international level. It is what Hitler and his Axis of fascist imperialists had imposed upon the world until the Allies

Exploiting Pandemic, Trump Admin Weighs Banning Immigration Indefinitely
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-16
Earlier this week, the Trump administration started hinting that the president\'s \"temporary\" ban on immigration, rushed into effect in late April as a part of the pandemic response, was about to be extended indefinitely. | With the country entirely preoccupied by the public health and economic catastrophes, and with protest all but impossible given the dangers of congregating in large crowds, Tr…
truthout.org/articles/exploiting-pandemic-trump-admin-weighs-banning-immigration-indefinitely/

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

Ecuador\'s pandemic: Rightist regime fails to confront crisis
Michael Otto | workers.org | 2020-05-16
Ibarra, Ecuador May 9

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

Imam Khomeini viewed the right path toward Quds: Islamic Jihad representative
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

Iran Warns US Against Actions on Tankers Heading to Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
Iran warned that any \"pirate-like\" actions take by the United States against an Iranian fuel shipment to Venezuela would trigger Tehran\'s \"harsh response,\" as reported Saturday by Iran\'s Nour News Agency. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces US at UN Security Council | \"If the United States, just like pirates, intends to create insecurity on international waterways, it would be taking a dangerous risk, and that will certainly not go without repercussion,\" Iran\'s Nour news agency said. | Iran\'s Fars…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Warns-US-Against-Actions-on-Oil-Tankers-Heading-to-Venezuela-20200516-0010.html

Trump Creates New Base in Syria and Ships ISIS to Iraq
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-16
The US military has created a new base at Deir Ez Zor, in eastern Syria, after bringing in military supplies, the \'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights\' (SOHR) reported on Friday. Massive reinforcements were observed in the al-Jazat area, just west of the oil-rich area of Deir Ez Zor. Reports indicated some 300 trucks entered eastern Syria from western Iraq. | 300 US military shipments reached al-Jazrat over the past few days, according to \'SOHR\', based in the UK. They further reported the US troops are expanding their base at the al-Omar…
ahtribune.com/us/trump-at-war/4157-base-in-syria-and-ships-isis-to-iraq.html

It\'s time for a basic, guaranteed income for all
Stewart Lansley | thecanary.co | 2020-05-16
The pandemic crisis has laid bare the multiple flaws in the British system of social support. With the economy shrinking and unemployment soaring, the government has been forced to support falling incomes through wage subsidies and the easing of Universal Credit rules. While these are welcome, millions are missing out, opening up a new divide between those protected by government measures and those who are not. But there is another way to support everyone.
thecanary.co/feature/2020/05/16/its-time-for-a-basic-guaranteed-income-for-all/

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/

Whistleblower Says Systemic Mortgage Fraud Has Returned to Wall Street
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-16
Among the toxic contributors to the financial crisis of 2008, few caused as much havoc as mortgages with dodgy numbers and inflated values. Huge quantities of them were assembled into securities that crashed and burned, damaging homeowners and investors alike. Afterward, reforms were promised. Never again, regulators vowed, would real estate financiers be able to fudge numbers and threaten the entire economy. | Twelve yea…
truthout.org/articles/whistleblower-says-systemic-mortgage-fraud-has-returned-to-wall-street/

\'A bad joke\': Trio admits to photo-bombing Russian WWII site with Nazi pics after police raid
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Three suspects have admitted to uploading photos of Third Reich leaders onto a website honoring Soviet veterans of World War II. They admitted it was a lame joke

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

\"Greater Israel\": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

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

\'A bad joke\': Trio held after police raid admit to photo-bombing Russian WWII honor-roll site with Nazi pics
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Three suspects have admitted to uploading photos of Third Reich leaders to a website honoring Soviet veterans of World War II. They admitted it was a lame joke

Architects Of American Carnage
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-16
Who cares what the Neocons think? They have no moral authority to police the bounds of allowable opinion | John A. BURTKA IV | The banner of principled conservatism is now being carried by the architects of American carnage. By \"principled conservatives\" all they mean is that they are conservatives who oppose the Republican president. If they have principles–foreign policy interventionism and neoliberal economics–they are bad ones. After The Weekly Standard closed its doors, Bill Kristol and his gang moved on to start new web publications like The Bulwark and The Dispatch. From their new perches, they…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/16/architects-of-american-carnage/

The Worldwide Lockdown Is the Biggest Man-Made Culling Since the Great Leap Forward
Denis Prager | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-16

\"The truth is, like most of the elites, it is Barber who is \"merely inconvenienced.\" Indeed, the American battle today is between the merely inconvenienced and the rest of America.\"

| The idea that the worldwide lockdown of virtually every country other than Sweden may have been an enormous mistake strikes many

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

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

\'A bad joke\': Trio admits to photo-bombing Russian WWII site with Nazi pics after police raid
rt.com | 2020-05-16
Three suspects have admitted to uploading photos of Third Reich leaders to a website honoring Soviet veterans of World War II. They admitted it was a lame joke

Hungary\'s Orban says Budapest lockdown will now be gradually lifted amid Covid-19 powers row with EU
rt.com | 2020-05-16
The gradual removal of coronavirus restrictions will begin in Budapest from Monday, bringing Hungarian PM Victor Orban closer to fulfilling his promise to give up the emergency powers that had angered the EU. | \"It has become clear that we have managed to curb the epidemic in Budapest as well…and thus we can lift the lockdown,\" Orban announced in a video address on his Facebook page. | However, the prime minister pointed out that the government will be moving \"cautiously\" towards what he called the second phase of defense against the virus in Hungary\'s capital and largest city, which has a population of mor…
rt.com/news/488872-hungary-orban-budapest-lockdown/

Lack of Empathy Equates to a Lack of Leadership Skills
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-16
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 Trump\'s commencement address. In fact, Trump\'s overly-acquiescent Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, had to issue a waiver for the cadets to travel because…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/16/lack-empathy-equates-lack-of-leadership-skills/

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/

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

\'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/

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

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/

People Who Have \"T Cells\' From Other Coronavirus Infections Are Resistant to COVID-19
Mitch Leslie | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-16
Immune warriors known as T cells help us fight some viruses, but their importance for battling SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been unclear. Now, two studies reveal infected people harbor T cells that target the virus–and may help them recover. Both studies also found some people never infected with SARS-CoV-2 have these cellular defenses, most likely because they were previously infected with other coronaviruses. | \"This is encouraging data,\" says virologist Angela Rasmussen of Columbia University. Although the studies don\'t clarify whether people who clear a SARS-CoV-2 infection can war…
anti-empire.com/people-who-have-t-cells-from-other-coronaviruses-infections-are-resistant-to-covid-19/

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

Brazilian Workers\' Party Ask for Impeachment Against Bolsonaro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
The Workers\' Party (PT) of Brazil will present a formal petition to initiate an impeachment against the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro for his mismanagement in the face of the health crisis that the country is going through due to COVID-19. | RELATED: | Brazil Second Health Minister Quits, Deepening COVID-19 Crisis | In a statement, the left-wing party reported that its executive commission \"decided to submit to the Chamber of Deputies a collective impeachment petition agai…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazilian-Workers-Party-Ask-to-Impeachment-Against-Bolsonaro-20200516-0009.html

Iran, Syria discuss cooperation in fight against terrorism
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Russian amb. rejects reports on Iran, Turkey, Russia agreement on removal of Assad
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Russian amb. talks of Iran, Russia bilateral relation, regional developments
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Video: How COVID-19 Death Certificates Are Being Manipulated. Montana Physician Dr. Annie Bukacek
Dr. Annie Bukacek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
First published by GR on April 8, 2020 | Dr. Annie Bukacek is a longtime Montana physician with over 30 years experience practicing medicine. Signing death certificates is a routine part of her job. | In this brief video, Dr. Bukacek blows …
globalresearch.ca/video-montana-physician-dr-annie-bukacek-discusses-how-covid-19-death-certificates-manipulated/5709062

The Liabilities of History: The Dangers of Pandemic Compensation. The Blame China Lobby
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
Smug assertions of liability in history are often incautious things. They constitute a fruit salad mix: assertions of the wishful thinkers; hopes of the crazed; the quest of genuinely aggrieved generations who feel that wrongs need to be rectified (the …
globalresearch.ca/dangers-pandemic-compensation/5712867

Gates\' Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
First posted on GR on April 13, 2020 | Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft\'s ambition to control a global vaccination ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control of global …
globalresearch.ca/gates-globalist-vaccine-agenda-win-win-pharma-mandatory-vaccination/5709493

Catholic Clergy on COVID-19: Three Cardinals Join Global Appeal Decrying Crackdown on Basic Freedoms Over Coronavirus
Paul Smeaton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
UPDATE (May 8, 9: 00AM EST): Archbishop Viganà≤, who gathered the signatures and communicated with Cardinal Sarah about the initiative, has now issued a timeline of his communications with Sarah. Read full report here. | UPDATE (May 7, 8: 00PM EST): This …
globalresearch.ca/three-cardinals-join-global-appeal-decrying-crackdown-basic-freedoms-coronavirus/5712477

Cuba\'s Biotechnology and \"Medical Internationalism\". Monsanto \"Bioimperialism\" versus Cuba\'s \"Biosolidarity\"
Don Fitz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
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 …
globalresearch.ca/difference-between-bioimperialism-biosolidarity/5713001

US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as \'Coronavirus\'
Wayne Dupree | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-16
First published on April 15, 2020 | Senator Scott Jensen represents Minnesota. He\'s also a doctor. He appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingram where he revealed a very disturbing piece of information. | Dr. Scott Jensen says the American Medical Association …
globalresearch.ca/hospitals-getting-paid-more-label-cause-death-coronavirus/5709720

Saudis react to economic squeeze
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

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

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

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

Iran\'s COVID-19 cases surpass 118,000
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)

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

Iran\'s COVID-19 cases surpass 118,000 with recovery rate at 78%
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Eid al-Fitr prayers to be held all across Iran: Rouhani
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)

Iran, Iraq discuss military, defense cooperation
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

Schools reopened in Hamedan
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)

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

Trade exchange between Iran, Venezuela has nothing to do with anyone else
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/

Military secrets must not be revealed to enemies: Sayyari
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)

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

US continues to disrupt world despite need for unity against pandemic
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)

Fariba Adelkhah sentenced to 6 years in prison
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)

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

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

Iran treating foreign nationals infected by Covid-19 free of charge: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA)

The CORONAREVAYAT Festival invites public to submit \'corona narrative\' in a variety of forms
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)

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

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

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/

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

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/

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

#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

Sweden\'s Coronavirus Strategy Will Soon Be the World\'s
Nils Karlson | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-16
China placed 50 million people under quarantine in Hubei Province in January. Since then, many liberal democracies have taken aggressive authoritarian measures of their own to fight the novel coronavirus. By mid-March, almost all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries had implemented some combination of school, university, workplace, and public transportation closures; restrictions on public events; and limits on domestic and international travel. One country, however, stand…
anti-empire.com/swedens-coronavirus-strategy-will-soon-be-the-worlds/

The Mouse Roars: Australia, China and a Coronavirus Independent Inquiry
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-16
Australia matters little when it comes to international muscle. It is the retainer and pretender of power, a middle-distance runner who runs out of puff on the final stride. The big boys and girls look, agog. Why did you even bother? In the recent international relations shouting match (for Australia, shouting; for China, sotto voce with a touch of menace), you are left with a remarkable impression that Australia has the sort of heft to terrify opponents. It never has and never will, except when it comes to victimising refugees and bullying neighbouring states in the Pacific, whom they supposedly claim to have…
ahtribune.com/world/asia-pacific/australia/4156-coronavirus-independent-inquiry.html

Trump Wants to Cut Off China in Guilt-Projection Meltdown
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-16
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: dissembling, distracting and dealing in guilt-projection. | Trump is a simpleton, a narcissistic buffoon and a demagogue whose unhinged me…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/16/trump-wants-to-cut-off-china-in-guilt-projection-meltdown/

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

14 Dead in Sixth Day of Fighting in South Yemen
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
Fourteen combatants died in Yemen Saturday, as fighting between pro-government troops and separatist forces of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) entered a sixth day in the southern province of Abyan, according to sources on both sides. | RELATED: | COVID-19 Spreads in Yemen With Health System in Shambles | \"Fourteen fighters, including ten pro-government soldiers, were killed on Saturday,\" a government military official told AFP on condition of anonymity. | The toll was confirm…
telesurenglish.net/news/14-Dead-in-Sixth-Day-of-Fighting-in-South-Yemen-20200516-0014.html

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

Spain Wants to Extend the COVID-19 Measures for Another Month
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
Spain\'s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that he will request authorization from Congress to extend the state of alarm decreed on March 14 for a further month to stop the advance of the pandemic. | RELATED: | Spain to Close Sea and Air Borders within the Schengen Area | The Prime Minister explained that, if there is no new outbreak, the country could…
telesurenglish.net/news/Spain-Wants-to-Extend-the-COVID-19-Measures-for-Another-Month-20200516-0002.html

\'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

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

Worldwide Webinar: Civil Society Response to COVID-19 in Prisons & Jails Globally
INCLO | indybay.org | 2020-05-16
Online via zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/16/18833085.php

The murderous pseudoscience of \"herd immunity\"
wsws.org | 2020-05-16
Proponents of \"herd immunity\" argue that measures to contain COVID-19 should be abandoned, allowing the disease to infect billions of people and kill countless millions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/16/pers-m16.html

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

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/

Once Again Hysterical Media Is Complicit in the Needless Deaths of Tens of Thousands (So Far)
Brendan O\'Neill | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-16
The media in this country have no shame. For two months they\'ve been ramping up fear and hysteria over Covid-19. They predicted apocalypse. They reported the daily death tolls like gleeful grim reapers. They said hospitals would be overwhelmed. They interviewed doctor after doctor and nurse after nurse who told us in tearful tones that the health service was at breaking point. They painted a picture of a nation falling apart, of a plague visiting death upon every community, of institutions collapsing under the sheer weight of this mini Black Death. | And now, after all that, after pumping out 24-hour rolling d…
anti-empire.com/once-again-hysterical-media-is-complicit-in-the-needless-deaths-of-tens-of-thousands-so-far/

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

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

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/

telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
Brazil\'s President Jair Bolsonaro Saturday appointed General Eduardo Pazuello as Acting Health Minister amidst the crisis prompted by the resignation of the last two health ministers, both of whom disagreed with the President\'s vision on how to fight the pandemic. | RELATED: | Brazil Second Health Minister Quits, Deepening COVID-19 Crisis | \"Gene…
telesurenglish.net/news/A-Paratrooper-General-Is-Brazils-New-Health-Minister-20200516-0004.html

Once Again the Screeching, Do-Gooder Media Is Complicit in the Needless Deaths of Tens of Thousands (So Far)
Brendan O\'Neill | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-16
The media in this country have no shame. For two months they\'ve been ramping up fear and hysteria over Covid-19. They predicted apocalypse. They reported the daily death tolls like gleeful grim reapers. They said hospitals would be overwhelmed. They interviewed doctor after doctor and nurse after nurse who told us in tearful tones that the health service was at breaking point. They painted a picture of a nation falling apart, of a plague visiting death upon every community, of institutions collapsing under the sheer weight of this mini Black Death. | And now, after all that, after pumping out 24-hour rolling d…
anti-empire.com/once-again-hysterical-media-is-complicit-in-the-needless-deaths-of-tens-of-thousands-so-far/

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

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

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/

\'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/

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)

Puerto Rico to Hold Statehood Referendum Amid Disillusion
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
Puerto Rico\'s Governor Wanda Vazquez announced Saturday that she will hold a nonbinding referendum in November to decide whether Puerto Rico should become a U.S. state, a move that comes amid growing disillusion with the island\'s U.S. territorial status. | RELATED: | Puerto Rico Asks Washington for More Post-Earthquake Aid | For the first time in the island\'s history, the referendum will ask a single, simple question: Should Puerto Rico be immediately admitted as a U.S. state? | It i…
telesurenglish.net/news/Puerto-Rico-to-Hold-Statehood-Referendum-Amid-Disillusion-20200516-0011.html

Businessman Accused of Rwandan Genocide Arrested After 26 Years
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-16
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) reported that Felicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted fugitives from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was arrested in Paris on Saturday and is expected to be transferred to the Netherlands, where he will appear before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. | RELATED: | Rwanda Honors Those Killed in Genocide 25 Years Ago | Kabuga played a key role in financing the massacres of hundreds of thousands of people committed…
telesurenglish.net/news/Businessman-Accused-of-Rwandan-Genocide-Arrested-After-26-Years-20200516-0001.html

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

Mounting opposition among autoworkers 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

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

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

Obamagate Shows Biden Is Inadequate in Challenging Trump
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-16
Former U.S. President Barack Obama is coming under increasing pressure, led by what President Donald Trump is calling \"Obamagate.\" This comes as Mexico has requested to finally clarify the affair with the secret sale of American weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Mexico is asking for the case to be clarified after almost ten years. | In this secret operation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, weapons from the U.S. were sold to Mexican drug cartels. The U.S. claimed that about 2,000 automatic weapons were sold to Mexicans so that the Barack Obama administration could follow thei…
ahtribune.com/us/4159-obamagate-biden-is-inadequate.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

Al-Nujaba calls for condemnation of Saudis\' insult to Shahid al-Muhandis
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-16
TEHRAN, May 16 (MNA)

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

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

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…
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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…
workers.org/2020/05/48701/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sekou-odinga-the-right-to-struggle-by-any-and-all-means

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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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

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

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

\'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/

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/

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

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.\"

\"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\"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

\"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

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/

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/

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/

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/

\'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/

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/

Study: Coronavirus Has a Been a Massive Boon for America\'s Billionaires
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.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. | MPN– America\'s billionaires have seen their wealth increase by 12.5 percent during the COVID-19 lockdown period. The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, released a study Thursday showing that, in the eight weeks between March 18 and May 14, the country\'s super wealthy have added a further $368.8 billion to their already eno…

Study: Coronavirus Has a Been a Massive Boon for America’s Billionaires

\'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

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 …
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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

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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 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/

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…
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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/

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/

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/

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/

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\" |

COVID-19 Spreads in Yemen With Health System in Shambles
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
Hundreds of people in Aden, southern Yemen\'s main city, have died in the past week from symptoms of what appears to be the COVID-19, local health officials said in interviews with The Associated Press. | RELATED: | COVID-19 Will Spread Easily Across Yemen, WHO Warns | The officials fear the situation is only going to get worse: Yemen has little capacity to test those suspected of having the virus, and a 5-year-long civil war has left the health system in shambles. | One gravedigger in Aden told A…
telesurenglish.net/news/COVID-19-Spreads-in-Yemen-With-Health-System-in-Shambles-20200515-0014.html

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/

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/

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

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

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

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…
fair.org/home/foreign-policy-sees-repression-in-vietnams-fight-against-coronavirus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=foreign-policy-sees-repression-in-vietnams-fight-against-coronavirus

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

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/

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/

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/

Sanders, Gillibrand, Booker, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Harris Introduce Emergency Health Care Guarantee Act
commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
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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/

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/

\'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/

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

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 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

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 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/

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

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

\"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

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

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

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

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

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

The Real Coronavirus Victims: Relations between People
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Phenomenal profits in the offing. A real gush of dollars and euros to come for the majority shareholders and CEOs of Big Pharma, who are already immensely wealthy. In the meantime, the constitutional rights dearly acquired by our ancestors are under attack.
globalresearch.ca/the-real-coronavirus-victims-relations-between-people/5712970

The Real Coronavirus Victims: Relations between People
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-15
Phenomenal profits in the offing. A veritable gush of dollars and euros to come for the majority shareholders and CEOs of Big Pharma, who are already immensely wealthy.
globalresearch.ca/the-real-coronavirus-victims-relations-between-people/5712970

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

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

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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

Mideast: Turkey\'s COVID-19 Cases 146,000, Iran Hits 116,000
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
Turkey, the hardest-hit country by the coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, has reported more than 146,000 confirmed cases, while the tally in Iran surpassed 116,000. | Turkey on Friday confirmed 1,708 new COVID-19 cases and 55 more deaths, raising the tally of infections to 146,457 and the death toll to 4,055. | RELATED: | Turkish young people aged between 15 and 20 were allowed outside on Friday for the first time in 42 days as part of the government\'s COVID-19 normalization plan. | Their four-hour permit provided them limited freedom as they were allowed to be within a short walking distance from their…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mideast-Turkeys-COVID-19-Cases-146000-Iran-Hits-116000-20200515-0015.html

\'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/

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)

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/

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/

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/

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/

\'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

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/

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

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

#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

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/

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

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

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/

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/

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

\"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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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/

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\'

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/

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…
workers.org/2020/05/48658/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=andrea-circle-bear-and-six-centuries-of-genocide

\'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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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\"

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/

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

Brazil Second Health Minister Quits, Deepening COVID-19 Crisis
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
Brazil\'s health minister Nelson Teich abruptly resigned Friday after less than a month on the job, and a day after the country announced it had recorded nearly 14,000 deaths. | RELATED: | Brazil\'s COVID-19 Denialist President Fired His Health Minister | The sudden resignation of the minister is likely to deepen the turmoil around Brazil\'s flailing response to the pandemic, in what is one of the world\'s worst hotspots. | Teich, whom the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, had c…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Second-Health-Minister-Quits-Deepening-COVID-19-Crisis–20200515-0012.html

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/

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/

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

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/

#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

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

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

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

West Africa Facing Food Crisis as COVID-19 Spreads
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-15
More than 43 million people in West Africa are likely to be in urgent need of food assistance in the coming months

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

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\'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/

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 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/

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 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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill

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/

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

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/

\'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/

\'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/

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

Pandemic Exposes US as Only Bioweapons Superpower
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-15
The pandemic of 2020 has exposed a gangrenous limb, the stench of which has only been hidden through and equally exposes gangrenous strangling of truth. | The US military currently runs biological laboratories, some funded through USAID, some tied to universities and other groups, across the US and around the world. | These laboratories are funded in the billions of dollars and are overtly tasked with developing vaccines to protect Americans, military and civilian as well, from potential bioweapon attacks. | Much of this research involves creating \"chimera\" viruses, mostly corona-based bat viruses, that manifest…

Pandemic Exposes US as Only Bioweapons Superpower

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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 …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/15/best-way-ensure-unemployed-workers-get-health-care-pay-it-through-medicare?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

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 …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/15/billionaires-are-biggest-threat-public-schools?cd-origin=rss

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/

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 …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/15/prisons-are-using-pandemic-impose-lockdowns?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

Congress Must Guarantee Health Coverage During Pandemic
commondreams.org | 2020-05-15
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/15/congress-must-guarantee-health-coverage-during-pandemic?cd-origin=rss

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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…
workers.org/2020/05/48641/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-struggle-and-personal-growth

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…
workers.org/2020/05/48650/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=political-prisoners-teach-in-we-got-out-because-of-the-people

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

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…
workers.org/2020/05/48650/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=political-prisoners-teach-in-we-got-out-because-of-the-people

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

\'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

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

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

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

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

\'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/

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

\'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/

\'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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\'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

\'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/

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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/

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

\'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/

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

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

\'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\"

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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

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

[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

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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

\'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

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

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/

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

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

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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/

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

\"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

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/

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/

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

Saturday, May 16, Second Webinar: 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 The recording of the webinar can be viewed on Facebook now. Eventually we hope to have an edited version up on the KBP Youtube channel and will post link. In it current form we recommend that you skip the first…
kingsbayplowshares7.org/2020/05/sat-5-16-last-kbp7-webinar/

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/

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/

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

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/

[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

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

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

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

\"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…
fair.org/home/we-can-pool-the-worlds-science-to-develop-better-medical-tools/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-can-pool-the-worlds-science-to-develop-better-medical-tools

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/

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

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

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

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

\"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

\"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

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/

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

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

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/

Ricardo Salvador on the Food System & Covid-19
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-05-08
Media…
fair.org/home/ricardo-salvador-on-the-food-system-covid-19/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ricardo-salvador-on-the-food-system-covid-19

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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