After ignoring migrant workers' plight, the Indian Supreme Court now acknowledges unfolding social tragedy
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
The court's intervention reflects concerns fear by India's legal authorities that mounting mass anger will erupt against the entire capitalist elite and its state.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/indi-m30.html

The Glory and Duty of Beating Swords to Plowshares
Kathy Kelly | commondreams.org | 2020-05-30
On April 4, 2018, Mark Colville, Clare Grady, Martha Hennessy, Elizabeth McAlister, Patrick O'Neill, Carmen Trotta and Fr. Steve Kelly, S.J. prayed, poured blood, spray painted messages against nuclear weapons, hammered on a replica of a nuclear weapon, hung banners and waited to be arrested. (Photo: Kings Bay 7) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/kings_bay_plowshares_0_0.jpeg …
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S. David Freeman: Seven Decades of Participating in Power for All of Us
Ralph Nader | zcomm.org | 2020-05-30
Freeman had that unparalleled combination of managerial experience, scholarly knowledge, and programmatic urgency in confronting the climate crisis…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/s-david-freeman-seven-decades-of-participating-in-power-for-all-of-us/

In the West: Propaganda, Hysteria and Truly Foul Breath!
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-30
If it wasn't so tragic, it would be laughable: the political brigands in North America and Europe are fuming, spitting and rolling their eyes upwards towards the ceiling. They are pointing fingers in all directions, shouting incoherently "China!", "Russia!", "Venezuela and Cuba!", "Iran!"; "You, You, YOU!". China and Russia are quietly building a new world, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/in-the-west-propaganda-hysteria-and-truly-foul-breath/

China "Optimistic" with regard to Post Coronavirus World and Relations with US
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-30
Listening to Mr. Wang was therefore a refreshing reminder that everything really isn't as bad as Trump says that it is. | Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held an impressive press conference on Sunday where he answered questions about a wide | …
globalresearch.ca/china-optimistic-with-regard-to-relations-with-us/5714425

Minneapolis police leader defending George Floyd's killers tied to 'white power'-linked biker gang
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-05-30
From The Grayzone vault: The record of a pro-Trump Minneapolis police leader defending the killers of George Floyd reveals a past marred in accusations of racist violence, including charges from fellow police officers that he once wore a "white power" badge on his motorcycle jacket.
mronline.org/2020/05/30/minneapolis-police-leader-defending-george-floyds-killers-tied-to-white-power-linked-biker-gang/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minneapolis-police-leader-defending-george-floyds-killers-tied-to-white-power-linked-biker-gang

From fighting with guns to fighting the pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-05-30
In countries suffering from conflict, readjusting to life in a peaceful society is a challenge, both for former fighters and the wider community. Since the spread of the COVID-19 crisis, the UN is having to refocus many of its programmes, aimed at reducing violence in communities, and rehabilitating combatants.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1065052

Corrections Officers And Formerly Incarcerated People Protest Unsafe COVID-19 Conditions
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-30
Corrections officers joined prison abolitionists in a caravan rally protesting the lack of promised testing, PPE, and release of prisoners at four Maryland prisons.
therealnews.com/stories/corrections-officers-prison-abolition-afscme-caravan-rally-protest-conditions-maryland

Progressives in Germany denounce racist 'hygiene demos' and anti-lockdown protests
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-30
Progressive groups in Germany have denounced the 'hygiene demos' and anti-lockdown protests organized mainly by the German right-wing across the country. On May 23, Saturday, anti-fascist groups organized counter-mobilizations at the Rosa Luxemburg Platz/Alexanderplatz in Berlin under the slogan "Keep your distance against the right". A large number of people gathered to protest the far-right demonstrations being held in the city on the same date. | Around forty demonstrations

Twin Cities Labor Mobilizes Against George Floyd Murder
Saurav Sarkar | zcomm.org | 2020-05-30
The organized labor movement has begun swinging into action to support protests against the racist police murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/twin-cities-labor-mobilizes-against-george-floyd-murder/

Protests sweep across US demanding justice and end to systemic racism
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-30
Protesters in many major cities across the country took over the streets, demanding justice for George Floyd who was murdered by police officers on May 25.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/30/protests-sweep-across-us-demanding-justice-and-end-to-systemic-racism/

Over 1000 march in Los Angeles demanding justice for George Floyd
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-30
Los Angeles, CA – More than 1000 people marched here, May 27, to demand justice for George Floyd, an African American man who was murdered by Minneapolis police. Protesters were also demanding justice for two others who were murdered by LAPD within the last 48 hours. The action was organized by Black Lives Matter-LA and assembled at the Hall of Justice in downtown. Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey has refused to prosecute police killings, and her office is located at the Hall of Justice. | The protest then marched onto the 101 Freeway, blocking traffic temporarily. The protesters chanted, "Black lives,…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/29/over-1000-march-los-angeles-demanding-justice-george-floyd

The Murder of George Floyd: The Longest Running Play in America
Robert Shetterly | commondreams.org | 2020-05-30
A protester faces off with Minnesota State Police officers on May 29, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. – Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was seen in an explosive video pressing his knee to the neck of handcuffed George Floyd for at least five minutes on May 25, was arrested earlier on May 29, said John Harrington, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. (Photo: Kerem Yucel / AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/george_floyd_protest.jpg …
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Mass protests voice outrage over police murder of George Floyd
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
Thousands defied a curfew in the Twin Cities while large protests took place in New York City, Atlanta, Washington, Los Angeles and dozens of other US cities.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/floy-m30.html

Another Uprising Was Inevitable
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | commondreams.org | 2020-05-30
A person wears a mask that reads "I CAN'T BREATHE" as demonstrators continue to protest the death of George Floyd following a night of rioting on May 29, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Earlier today, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was taken into custody for Floyd's death. Chauvin has been accused of kneeling on Floyd's neck as Floyd pleaded with him about not being able to breathe. Floyd was pronounced dead a short while later. Chauvin and 3 other officers, who were involved in the arrest, were fired from the police depart after a video of the arrest was circulated. (Photo: Sco…
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Protest, Uprisings, and Race War
Tim Wise | zcomm.org | 2020-05-30
Those who have rarely been the target of organized police gangsterism are once again lecturing those who have about how best to respond to it…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/protest-uprisings-and-race-war/

Fight budget cuts in cities
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2020-05-30
Philadelphia Dozens of Philadelphia city workers wearing masks, standing on chalked X marks 6 feet apart, chanted, "Kenney's cuts hurt" and "Trash this budget," during a "Day of Action for a Just Philly Budget" on May 26. Protesters held signs for an hour in front of City Hall as spokespeople . . . | Continue reading Fight budget cuts in cities at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/49019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fight-budget-cuts-in-cities

What ACLU Says Was Trump Call to "Literally Murder Protesters," Facebook Says Doesn't Violate Standards
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-30
"Facebook has once again failed to act against an explicit violation of its own rules and has allowed the violent and racist post to remain up." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/zuckerberg_0_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/30/what-aclu-says-was-trump-call-literally-murder-protesters-facebook-says-doesnt?cd-origin=rss

Manslaughter & 3rd degree murder charge for Kneeling Cop Chauvin
Read Black's Law Dictionary | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
After 48 hours of protest in Minnesota of the vicious murder by suffocation of a black man, George Floyd, on May 25, 2020, by 4 Minneapolis police, one of whom, Derek Chauvin, was caught on a video kneeling on the neck of handcuffed Floyd for 9 minutes, killing him, while his fellow thug cops allowed this murder to occur, only Chauvin was arrested on 5/29/30, and charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter! This low level of charge should have every attorney in this country screaming since it is a ringing indictment of the whole rotten legal system in this backward, racist, police state in which we live.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/29/18833369.php

An Updated Letter to SCPD Police Chief Mills in the Wake of the George Floyd Murder
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
In anticipation of possible protests in Santa Cruz regarding police violence and racial injustice, I've written Chief Andy Mills a follow-up letter regarding concerns I expressed 2 1/2 years ago. I begin with an earlier letter I sent him, and his responses to that letter. Attempts to get more detailed information were unsuccessful.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/29/18833367.php

Online fury as Ilhan Omar's daughter retweets leftists' call for supplies over violent Minneapolis riots
rt.com | 2020-05-30
Isra Hirsi, the combative daughter of Ilhan Omar, had to go on the defensive after she threw a spark into the powder keg of Twitter rage by sharing a call to resupply those rioting over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. | …
rt.com/news/490216-ilhan-omar-daughter-supplies-minneapolis/

MASSIVE rallies block roads in Los Angeles as anti-police brutality protesters demand justice for George Floyd (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-05-30
Huge crowds have hit the streets for the fourth consecutive day in Los Angeles after the death of George Floyd has triggered massive anti-police brutality rallies escalating into riots across the US. | Aerial footage shows massive crowds on the 3rd Street and Fairfax Avenue. The march has been peaceful so far, but police have deployed 'additional resources' to maintain order. | t.co/k07mTvJDx6– Molly Knight (@molly_knight)

WATCH traditionalist AMISH people protest in Minneapolis… peacefully, of course
rt.com | 2020-05-30
Outrage over the death of George Floyd while in police custody has apparently even spread to the Amish community. A group belonging to the pacifist, traditionalist church was spotted singing and holding signs in Minneapolis. | Protesters who marched across the city's Stone Arch Bridge on Friday afternoon were greeted by a small group of modestly dressed Amish, some of them holding placards reading "Justice for George Floyd," "Thou shall not kill any man," and "I can't breathe." | Standing near the bridge's railing, the group serenaded demonstrators

WATCH: Looters ransack Louis Vuitton, police HQ and smash BANKS as Portland erupts in protest
rt.com | 2020-05-30
What began as a peaceful vigil soon spiraled into rioting and looting in Portland on Friday night as protesters set fire to the police headquarters, trashed several banks and ransacked high-end stores. | Portland was once again the scene of major public unrest after demonstrators protesting against the death of George Floyd clashed with police amid riots across the city. | Video footage captured destruction in the downtown area as protesters set fires, smashed windows, and spray-painted anarchist symbols a…
rt.com/usa/490223-portland-riot-loot-louis-vuitton-george-floyd/

CNN blames 'RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA' for George Floyd riots because they 'Can't blame China' – Trump
rt.com | 2020-05-30
With riots sweeping America, a CNN guest suggested that Russia may be responsible for stoking anti-police anger in the US. President Trump ridiculed the "sick losers" at the network for their 'Russiagate' obsession. | "Here we go again," Trump tweeted on Saturday. "Fake News @CNN is blaming RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA. They are sick losers with VERY bad ratings! P.S. Can't blame China because they need the cash?" | Here we go again. Fake News @CNN is blaming RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA. They are sick losers with VERY bad ratings! P.S. Can't blame China because th…
rt.com/usa/490263-trump-russia-cnn-protests/

National Guard to be 'FULLY MOBILIZED' in Minnesota as governor brands George Floyd protests 'attack' on civil society
rt.com | 2020-05-30
The governor of Minnesota has pledged to "fully mobilize" the National Guard saying that the protests that have gripped the state are no longer about the death of George Floyd but rather an "attack" on civil society. | "The situation in Minnesota is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd. It is about attacking civil society, instilling fear and disrupting our great cities," Governor Tim Walz said during a press conference on Saturday. | Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis on Monday has unleashed a wave of protests in cities across the United States. In many places the demonstrati…
rt.com/usa/490245-national-guard-mobilized-minnesota-george-floyd-protests/

National Guard to be 'FULLY MOBILIZED' in Minnesota as governor brands George Floyd protests 'attack' on civil society
rt.com | 2020-05-30
The governor of Minnesota has pledged to "fully mobilize" the National Guard saying that the protests that have gripped the state are no longer about the death of George Floyd but rather an "attack" on civil society. | "The situation in Minnesota is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd. It is about attacking civil society, instilling fear and disrupting our great cities," Governor Tim Walz said during a press conference on Saturday. | Walz said he arrived at the decision to fully mobilize the National Guard for the first time in Minnesota's history after speaking with the Secretary of Defense…
rt.com/usa/490245-national-guard-mobilized-minnesota-george-floyd-protests/

White House placed under LOCKDOWN as protests over George Floyd's death reach US capital
rt.com | 2020-05-30
A massive group of demonstrators has converged on the White House to protest police brutality, prompting the Secret Service to briefly place the building on lockdown as tensions run high between marchers and police. | Gathering in northwest Washington, DC on Friday evening, protesters briefly shut down traffic on a major thoroughfare before reaching the White House, where a heavy police presence, barricades and a huge crowd of demonstrators could be seen in videos shared online. | BREAKING: White House is under lockdown as protesters gather outside. t.co/kxKfEpyRBa…
rt.com/usa/490199-white-house-lockdown-floyd-protests/

Bosnians protest as officials accused of COVID-19 graft
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-30
Thousands of Bosnians took to the streets on Saturday to protest against bad governance, nationalism and corruption as senior government officials face graft accusations related to the procurement of defective ventilators for COVID-19 patients.The protest was organised by a small moderate party, the Platform for Progress, and joined by leaders of other opposition groups."What we are hoping to do is to wake the people up so that they know it is up to them, that they can actually bring about change," party leader Mirsad Hadzikadic told Reuters as he led the march.People wearing masks, some pushing baby buggies, mar…
yenisafak.com/en/world/bosnians-protest-as-officials-accused-of-covid-19-graft-3530778

Fortress On A Hill: Interview With Gareth Porter
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-30
Gareth Porter has long been one of my favorite foreign policy writers and investigative journalists. | Do check out his recent columns at the GrayZone! | He stopped by the podcast to discuss his long standing work on the Vietnam war, his thoughts on COVID-19 via the USS Theodore Roosevelt along with his previous work on the 1919 flu epidemic, the terrifying connections between Mike Pompeo and Bibi Netanyahu, and Israel's secret long standing nuclear stockpile. | Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist who has covered national security policy for decades, really, and was the recipient of the 2012…
popularresistance.org/fortress-on-a-hill-interview-with-gareth-porter/

No More Cop Unions
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-30
When Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department killed 46-year-old George Floyd in cold blood last week, he showed the world exactly what kind of man he is. Chauvin has been cited multiple times for using excessive force on the job; he has been involved in at least two other police shootings, including that of Ira Latrell Toles, who is Black, in 2008. Chauvin has repeatedly abused his power, privilege, and authority to menace and terrorize–and he's now been shown killing a human being on camera. Even so, he remains free to cower in his house and order delivery while demonstrators protest outside. An…
popularresistance.org/no-more-cop-unions/

NYC Bus Drivers Union Refuses To Transport Protesters For NYPD
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-30
Workers for New York City's MTA are refusing to transport people arrested during protests against police brutality in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. A video of a bus driver refusing to transport people arrested during protests in front of Brooklyn's Barclays Center went viral Friday night. | In the video, a crowd cheers a bus driver who appears to be refusing to sit behind the wheel: "the NYPD is using a bus to transfer arrested protesters at the Barclays Center," @berniebromanny, who shared the video, tweeted. "However, the bus driver refused to drive it." The video was viewe…
popularresistance.org/nyc-bus-drivers-union-refuses-to-transport-protesters-for-nypd/

[Correspondence] Towards more balanced representation in Lancet Commissions
Manuel W Hetzel, Bassirou Bonfoh | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
Enthusiastically, Richard Horton1 reports on the foundation of the Italian Institute of Planetary Health at a time when youth strikes, an emerging pandemic of a new coronavirus, and burning forests remind us of our planet being in jeopardy. We agree that something must change so that the undoubtable advances in science and medicine that were made since the time of Lucretius translate into a better life for all humans, no matter who they are, where they were born, and where they live and work.1 Yet, the lamented crisis of trust in science and medicine cannot be overcome by concepts of global health or planetary he…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30617-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] Fears of "highly catastrophic" COVID-19 spread in Yemen
Sharmila Devi | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
Yemen's health system has been devastated by years of conflict and COVID-19 deaths are reported to be surging in Aden. Sharmila Devi reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31235-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[World Report] COVID-19 strains remote regions of Peru
Barbara Fraser | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
The health system in Iquitos is stretched and the true number of COVID-19 cases and deaths is unclear. Barbara Fraser reports from Lima.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31236-8/fulltext?rss=yes

[Editorial] COVID-19 in Africa: no room for complacency
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
Despite over 100‚Äà000 confirmed cases and infections in every country, the passage of COVID-19 through the African continent remains somewhat enigmatic. High numbers of deaths were expected in the region due to fragile health systems, lack of access to preventive measures, barriers to testing, and potentially vulnerable populations. But, according to WHO, Africa is the least affected region globally, with 1 ∑5% of the world's reported COVID-19 cases and 0 ∑1% of the world's deaths. Although comparisons are inaccurate, mortality rates have been lower compared with outbreaks of similar si…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31237-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Offline: After COVID-19–is an "alternate society" possible?
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
How do we make sense of this pandemic? The first interpretations are now appearing. Slavoj ≈Ωi≈æek is a prolific philosopher and cultural theorist. He is the first to produce a volume of reflections–Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World (Polity, 2020). ≈Ωi≈æek doubts the epidemic will make us wiser: he insists that "we should resist the temptation to treat the ongoing epidemic as something that has a deeper meaning". Despite these cautions, we still have an important question to answer: "What is wrong with our system that we were caught unprepared by the catastr…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31241-1/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] A call for food system change
Marion Nestle | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
In shutting down entire societies, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fundamental inequities and inadequacies of market-driven economies that prioritise profits over human welfare. Inequities show up in businesses that furlough employees while paying high salaries and bonuses to executives. They are also revealed by the dependence of food systems on poorly paid workers and cheap global supply chains. The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates how current food systems fail to protect populations from hunger and diet-influenced non-communicable diseases and why the poor, disenfranchised, discriminated against, and chronic…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31146-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] Justice and health: The Lancet–Health Equity and Policy Lab Commission
Jennifer Prah Ruger, Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
Justice forms the foundation for what we owe each other and what fairness among human beings and institutions involves. Globally, there are large inequalities in health outcomes and opportunities for health. Not only is the global burden of disease distributed unevenly but capabilities to prevent and treat disease are also asymmetrical; those in greatest need often have the least access to human, physical, and financial resources for health. Global health justice provides an account of what justice across our planet embodies, offers solutions to global health problems, and identifies who has responsibilities and…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30928-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Time for global health diplomacy
Anja M S Ariansen, Siri Gloppen, Lise Rakner, Kjell Arne Johansson, àòystein A Haaland | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
2019 was The Lancet's Year for Nutrition. Highlights included reports from the EAT-Lancet Commission1 and The Global Syndemic Commission,2 both emphasising that global trade systems must be transformed to ensure healthy and sustainable diets. But what developments can be expected following these reports? We might get an indication by considering what has happened since The Lancet's 2009 Trade and Health Series. This Series criticised the trade agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO) for being detrimental to global health, among other things, by facilitating unhealthy diets.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30490-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] The health-related determinants of politics
Parth Patel | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
I was pleased to read Richard Horton's Comment about populist politics.1 However, the problem of political populism and solution that he charts out seem somewhat non-sequitur.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30555-9/fulltext?rss=yes

[Clinical Picture] Drusen in dense deposit disease: not just age-related macular degeneration
Daniella Lent-Schochet, Glenn Yiu | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
A 40-year-old woman was referred to our clinic by her optometrist because she had lesions on her retina suggestive of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). She was otherwise well: with no systemic or visual symptoms.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30976-4/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Cost-effectiveness of transitional US plans for universal health care
Alison P Galvani, Meagan C Fitzpatrick | thelancet.com | 2020-05-30
The USA stands alone as the only high-income country not to provide health care as a human right, leaving almost 80 million of its citizens without adequate insurance.1–3 In a 2020 study, we found that securing quality health care for the entire country would save 68‚Äà000 lives and 1 ∑73 million life-years annually.4…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30857-6/fulltext?rss=yes

US Justice Department drops insider trading investigation of three senators
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
The three senators, along with a fourth who remains under investigation, dumped large stock holdings based on classified briefings in January about the impending coronavirus disaster.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/trad-m30.html

Caught in a Madhouse without My Mask
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-30
Caught with their proverbial pants down? The blustery conversations tied to corona virus, lockdown, Trump LLC, Pelosi and Comp., and the failed state that is the USA are to be expected. It is a country of nanosecond attention spans. A country with amnesia in vitro. A country that has sacrificed future and future-future generations for …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/caught-in-a-madhouse-without-my-mask/

Kuwait Airways to lay off 1,500 of its foreign employees
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-30
State-owned airline company Kuwait Airways announced on Thursday May 28, plans to lay off 1,500 of its employees. All of them are migrant workers from foreign countries. The company has a total workforce of around 7,000. | In a tweet issued on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday evenings, the company cited the impact of the coronavirus-related lockdown on its overall business as the reason for the layoffs. | Kuwait Airways was already showing losses before the advent of the lockdowns imposed globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has so far failed to announce any relief for workers in the airlin…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/30/kuwait-airways-to-lay-off-1500-of-its-foreign-employees/

Coronavirus cases surpass six million globally
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
New epicenters in Eastern Europe, South America, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent are rapidly causing massive public health crises.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/covi-m30.html

My Experience with Hospice, Inc
Linda Ford | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-30
One nurse told Clay, "I've given him the highest dosage I can. It's enough to kill a horse. Most hospice patients die from morphine, but I can only OD him within an acceptable margin of error."

Workers in Germany report on corona virus infection risk in workplaces
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
Workers highlight the lack of safety measures in public transit and factories.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/germ-m30.html

UK: Official figures inflate COVID-19 testing rate by more than a million
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
The Johnson government is again seeking to cover up criminal inaction that has led to tens of thousands of deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/test-m30.html

Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with Covid-19
Manuel Perez Rocha | zcomm.org | 2020-05-30
Wealthy corporations may use trade courts to keep public health measures from cutting into their profits…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/corporate-lawsuits-could-devastate-poor-countries-grappling-with-covid-19/

Catastrophe capitalism and the COVID-19 crisis
John Bellamy Foster | mronline.org | 2020-05-30
àñ≈ûK: In an interview with Michael D. Yates ("Trump, neo-fascism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic,"April 11, 2020, MR Online) you mentioned that "Capitalism is in its biggest crisis this century." What makes this crisis the "biggest"? What will the outcome of this crisis look like? Will this crisis and failure lead to a major change in …
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Bangladesh COVID-19 deaths soar past 500
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
The death and infection curves are still rising, but the Awami League government is reopening the economy in the interests of big business.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/bang-m30.html

Mourning and Organizing
Sarah Jaffe | zcomm.org | 2020-05-30
Collective grief, from Minneapolis to vigils for victims of COVID-19, is inseparable from rebellion…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/mourning-and-organizing/

America Bravely Marches Towards 'Failed State' Status
Sam Pizzigati | commondreams.org | 2020-05-30
US Representative Frank Pallone, Democrat of New Jersey, puts on a mask during a press conference about COVID-19 testing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, May 27, 2020. (Photo: Saul Loeb/ AFP/ via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/failed_state_america.jpg …
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Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Health and Human Services plays key role in supporting Americans amid COVID-19 crisis
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-30
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a unique situation that has required work across federal and state agencies to support communities and frontline workers during this challenging time. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has played a key role by providing effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-health-and-human-services-plays-key-role-in-supporting-americans-amid-covid-19-crisis/

Capitalism = Death: U.S. government response to COVID-19 mirrors ineptitude and malfeasance of response to HIV epidemic
Gerry Scoppettuolo | liberationnews.org | 2020-05-30
To compare the early years of the HIV epidemic to the COVID-19 pandemic is to relive a nightmare…
liberationnews.org/capitalism-death-u-s-government-response-to-covid-19-mirrors-ineptitude-and-malfeasance-of-response-to-hiv-epidemic/

The Other Pandemic
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-05-30
We haven't Even begun to Flatten the Curve on the Climate Crisis…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-other-pandemic/

Video: Suspicious Man Breaks Window and Starts Minneapolis Riots?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-30
"This was the first man to break a window at autozone. | A move that started the string of looting and damage to businesses. He is seen wearing all black and carrying an umbrella to conceal the hammer he is holding …
globalresearch.ca/video-suspicious-man-breaks-window-and-starts-minneapolis-riots/5714488

Drawing Battlelines: US Openly Targets China's OBOR
Anthony Cartalucci | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-30
Judging by US foreign policy

Trump escalates anti-China campaign
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
US President Trump dramatically escalated his reckless anti-China campaign yesterday, making clear that a dangerous confrontation between the two countries is all but inevitable.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/trum-m30.html

The Accident unambiguously indicts the corporate elite
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
The British television miniseries, The Accident, tells the story of a decayed former mining and steel town in Wales, in which a factory under construction collapses, resulting in a horrendous tragedy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/acci-m30.html

Continue the fight to get justice for George Floyd!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-30
The brutal police killing of George Floyd has sparked a powerful uprising that will settle for nothing less than justice. It is a case of murder. George Floyd, an African American man, was killed in broad daylight in front of witnesses who videotaped the crime. The crime was carried out by Officer Derek Chauvin and three accomplices from the Minneapolis Police Department. And everyone knows that the Minneapolis Police Department has a history of killing Black people for being Black. | The response from the community in the Twin Cities has been nothing short of an inspiration to all who yearn for equality, freedo…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/29/continue-fight-get-justice-george-floyd

Justice for George Floyd! Indict and convict the killer cops! Community control of the police now!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-30
The people of Minneapolis have taken to the streets the past 72 hours, demanding the arrest of the killer cops who murdered 46-year-old African American George Floyd on Monday night, May 25. Eyewitness video was released Tuesday morning showing now former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin pinning Floyd to the ground, with Chauvin's knee directly on the back of his neck – the video shows Floyd's last gasps for air. You can hear him telling the killer cop that he can't breathe and calling for his mother before you see his body going limp. Three other cops on the scene stand by, with two other cops actively helping to r…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/29/justice-george-floyd-indict-and-convict-killer-cops-community-control-police-now

Hundreds of thousands stage multiracial demonstrations against police violence in a powerful show of working-class unity
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
Mass demonstrations of workers and youth of all races, triggered by the brutal murder of George Floyd, are an expression of tremendous social solidarity. It is not a question of black against white, but the working class against the rich.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/pers-m30.html

Lenses on Riots, Murder, and Racism in the US and Hong Kong
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-30
The despicable police murder of a person, another Black person, who allegedly used a counterfeit $20 bill has caused widespread revulsion among Americans. This time, however, authorities acted relatively quickly calling in the FBI and firing all four police officers at the scene

Arundhati Roy on India's Fateful COVID Crisis
J.P. Linstroth | zcomm.org | 2020-05-30
Thousands of migrants are still making the long trek home to their rural villages, while hundreds of them are dying along the way from exhaustion, heat fatigue, thirst, starvation, and road accidents…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/arundhati-roy-on-indias-fateful-covid-crisis/

Trump's Warped Definition of Free Speech
Adam Serwer | zcomm.org | 2020-05-30
Trump is seeking to build social-media companies such as Twitter and Facebook into part of an authoritarian infrastructure that amplifies his power and silences the opposition…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-warped-definition-of-free-speech/

Anti-War Veterans Call On National Guard to Stand Down
Sarah Lazare | zcomm.org | 2020-05-30
"We urge you to have the courage to do the right thing. Refuse activation orders."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/anti-war-veterans-call-on-national-guard-to-stand-down/

Trinity Health to terminate psychiatric beds in Massachusetts in midst of pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
If approved by the state, the closure will eliminate 74 beds for adults, the elderly, and children, along with 202 jobs.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/prov-m30.html

Families, in times of pandemic and always
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-05-30
Families vary, in terms of their composition, structure, and functioning, but all play a key role in society and require special attention from government.
mronline.org/2020/05/30/families-in-times-of-pandemic-and-always/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=families-in-times-of-pandemic-and-always

Pandemic intensifies social crisis in New Zealand
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
More than a third of the population is in financial difficulty, as the Ardern Labour Party-led coalition government presides over tens of thousands of job cuts.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/nzpo-m30.html

Fear and Loathing in Tucson
John R. Hall | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-30
Since Hunter Thompson isn't here to continue along the Gonzo journalistic path of fear and loathing, I'll just have to do the job. I'm quite certain he would do so if he hadn't left us so abruptly. And unless I'm crazy, there's never before been a situation quite this frightening and loathsome. My lady left me a couple …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/fear-and-loathing-in-tucson/

Detroit autoworkers report unexplained illness at Jefferson North Assembly as COVID cases mount
wsws.org | 2020-05-30
Several B Crew workers at Fiat Chrysler Jefferson North Assembly in Detroit fell ill from unknown causes during work on Thursday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/30/auto-m30.html

How JobKeeper is being abused
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-30
Workers & unions Julian StewartIssue 1278 Australia COVID-19 JobKeeperMay 30, 2020While JobKeeper is a valuable lifeline for ensuring job security for some workers, it is also being exploited by some employ…
greenleft.org.au/content/how-jobkeeper-being-abused

Us or them: Who pays for the pandemic?
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-30
Economy Graham MatthewsIssue 1278 Australia COVID-19 wages inflation public sector…
greenleft.org.au/content/us-or-them-who-pays-pandemic

What's NATO Up to These Days? Provoking Russia, Draining Healthcare Budgets and Protecting Its Own From COVID
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-30
T.J. COLES | In November 2019, as experts warned that a novel coronavirus was likely to develop in the near-future, NATO boasted that its European Allies, including the UK, as well as Canada, were boosting their military budgets by an average of 4.6 percent, or an additional $130bn since 2016. The implication is that this increase in military spending is at the expense of healthcare, which is being privatized worldwide. | At least 2 percent of n…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/30/whats-nato-up-these-days-provoking-russia/

Why the Lesser-Evil Argument for Biden Sounds Hollow
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-30
It is evident that neither candidate is actually going to do anything substantive to save us from ecological catastrophe, writes Jonathan Cook. | Jonathan COOK | We are entering the final stages of the election to decide who will head the most powerful nation on Earth. That inevitably means the progressive and dissident left in the U.S. are again being deluged with arguments to vote for the lesser-evil candidate. | It has become such a standard left argument at election time that lesser evil voting even has its own acronym: LEV. Anyone who opposes Donald Trump's re-election come November must set aside their con…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/30/why-lesser-evil-argument-for-biden-sounds-hollow/

This Book Shouldn't Exist
Infinite Onion | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
With these words as my only weapon—though that is unlikely to keep me from being labeled a 'terrorist' and getting an unannounced late-night visit—I say the authority of the United States government is illegitimate and struggle by its people to overthrow the regime by whatever means seems best to them is justified.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/30/18833392.php

Friday 6/5: Capitalism is the Virus, Housing is the Cure: Candlelight Vigil & Noise Demo
Reclaim SF | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
Harvey Milk Center for the Arts, Duboce Park…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/30/18833394.php

A dozen workers test positive for Covid-19 at Cardenas Market in East Oakland
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic in Oakland:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/28/18833358.php

Extremely Growing Inequality Destroys Democracy
Albrecht Mueller | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
When one percent have half of the wealth, mistrust and cynicism drown out public spirit and trust between the generations. A fair tax system includes closing tax havens, micro-second trading, stock buybacks and insider trading…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/28/18833351.php

Saturday 5/30: Justice Beats Virtual Festival and Fundraiser for COVID-19 Crisis Relief
Center for Constitutional Rights & others | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
Online via livestream: www.justicebeats.com/…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/29/18833365.php

Oakland From Covid-19 To Cops: We Can't Breath Caravan
People's Strike Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
There will be a day of action focusing worker protection from Covid-19, the murder of Blacks repression and against gentrification and privatization by billionaires like A's owner John Fisher who also runs the KIPP and Rocketship charter school chains.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/28/18833347.php

Justice Beats Virtual Festival and Fundraiser for COVID-19 Crisis Relief
Center for Constitutional Rights & others | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
Online via livestream: www.justicebeats.com/…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/29/18833365.php

May 30 4pm Online Townhall: Justice for George Floyd – Speak Out Now
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
The people of Minneapolis and other cities are right to take to the streets. George Floyd's murder can not be forgotten. We can not remain silent or continue with business as usual. Their whole system of capitalism is guilty! We have to stand up against racist violence and organize and fight to protect the health and lives of of us all! Join us for an online town hall.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/30/18833412.php

George Floyd's Murder: Hitting the Streets of Oakland and Wanting a World Worth Fighting For
APTP | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
An anonymous group has called for a display of "vengeance" Friday night beginning at Oscar Grant Plaza at 8pm in response to the murder of George Floyd.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/28/18833359.php

Warren holds fundraiser for Biden, drops "MedicareFor All"
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
Elizabeth Warren's populist pretensions were nothing more than a marketing tool, to be discarded as soon as they become inconvenient.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/28/18833346.php

Dolores Huerta's 90th Birthday Celebration for DHF COVID19 Relief Fund
Dolores Huerta Foundation | indybay.org | 2020-05-30
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/28/18833356.php

As schools open with 300+ deaths per day, public doesn't trust government to put children first
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-30
On 29 May, 324 deaths from coronavirus and 2,095 more infections were recorded in the UK. Meanwhile, with the decision to open schools to Reception, Y1 and Y6 pupils on 1 June, a survey has found that half of the general public doesn't trust the government to put children's best interests first. | Some 49% of people felt this way. This was the same figure as those who believe the government's too distracted by the Dominic Cummings affair to be making the right decisions about opening up schools, nurseries and colleges. There's been public outrage after allegations that Cummings, the prime minister's senior advise…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/30/as-schools-open-with-300-deaths-per-day-public-doesnt-trust-government-to-put-children-first/

Government advisers warn lockdown lifting too early as crowds flock to beaches
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-30
A growing number of expert advisers to the government on the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis have expressed concern about plans to ease lockdown restrictions in England from 1 June.As people flocked to beaches and beauty spots in the sweltering heat over the weekend, Professor Peter Horby, of the University of Oxford, joined scientists Jeremy Farrar and Professor John Edmunds, all members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), to warn that ministers are taking risks.Boris Johnson has announced that from 1 June in England, friends and families can meet in parks and gardens in socially distanced gro…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/30/government-advisers-warn-lockdown-lifting-too-early-as-crowds-flock-to-beaches/

Government's 'mixed messages' cause chaos as people flock to beaches ahead of lockdown easing
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-30
People have flocked to beaches and train stations to enjoy the sunny weather ahead of lockdown restrictions being eased on 1 June.Hundreds swarmed to popular beaches, and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) warned that "mixed messages" from the government has caused travel chaos. | Temperatures have soared well above the average for the time of year, with clear skies and highs of 28C on Saturday, according to the Met Office.Many people enjoyed the sunny weather on the coast by Durdle Door, near Lulworth in Dorset, despite police forces urging the public to "think twice" before travell…
thecanary.co/uk/2020/05/30/governments-mixed-messages-cause-chaos-as-people-flock-to-beaches-ahead-of-lockdown-easing/

'I can't believe I fought to defend you': Navy SEAL who shot Bin Laden unloads on 'politically-funded terrorists' & 'coward cops'
rt.com | 2020-05-30
Former Navy SEAL Robert J. O'Neill has called the rioters looting the US' major cities "politically-funded terrorists," and called for a harsh military response. O'Neill isn't the only pundit who sees a dark hand behind the riots. | George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was pinned to the ground and apparently choked to death by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday. Since then, riots have consumed the Minnesota city and spread like wildfire throughout the US. According to O'Neill

Russian bill proposes FINES for some who refuse compulsory vaccination as Covid-19 battle continues
rt.com | 2020-05-30
Russians exposed to infectious diseases or working in high-risk environments could face penalties for refusing mandatory vaccination, under new regulations. It comes as the country approaches nearly 400,000 Covid-19 cases. | Violations of the existing rules on epidemiological safety, such as refusing "prophylactic vaccination" or failing "to undergo medical checks," will result in fines if the amendments to the –°ode of Administrative Offenses

'US statements are fake, not Libyan money': Moscow rebuffs accusations of printing counterfeit dinars
rt.com | 2020-05-30
Moscow printed dinars for Libya in accordance with a government contract, so Washington's claims of it being fake money have nothing to do with reality, according to Russia's Foreign Ministry. | The US State Department announced on Friday that $1.1 billion worth of "counterfeit, Russian-printed Libyan currency" was seized in Malta earlier this week. | Moscow confirmed the dinars were indeed printed by Russian state-owned company Goznak, but it was done in accordance with a contract it signed with the Central Bank of Libya in 2015. The order was fully paid for by the Libyan side, it was announced. | Also on rt.
rt.com/news/490257-libya-us-russia-fake-money/

US 'not relying on Russia anymore' & keeping China on the outside: Trump campaign manager turns SpaceX launch into politics
rt.com | 2020-05-30
Two NASA astronauts had barely taken off from the Kennedy Space Center when the achievement was already being politicized back on Earth. To the Trump campaign, it was an opportunity to blast Joe Biden and the Chinese government. | NASA Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, en route to the International Space Station in a capsule developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX corporation. | Also on rt.com | | SpaceX Falcon rocket launches two NASA astronauts into space | The launch marks…
rt.com/usa/490267-china-space-race-biden-partner/

Pageant queen wife seeks DIVORCE from Minneapolis cop charged with murder of George Floyd
rt.com | 2020-05-30
A week that saw Derek Chauvin play a disturbing role in the death of unarmed black man George Floyd has ended with the cop behind bars and now facing divorce proceedings as his wife seeks to have their marriage dissolved. | Lawyers for Kellie Chauvin have announced that the former Mrs. Minnesota has filed for divorce from the ex-police officer who was her husband for around a decade. | In a statement, Sekula Law Offices said that the pageant queen is "devastated" by Floyd's death and her "utmost sympathy" lies with his family, lo…
rt.com/usa/490231-kellie-chauvin-cop-wife-divorce-george-floyd/

Tehran, Caracas prove US sanctions' demise
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA)

US act to end sanctions waiver against Iran violates NPT: Ulyanov
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA)

Iran records 2,282 new COVID-19 on Saturday
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA)

Iran's battle against COVID-19 successful global model: Namaki
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 31 (MNA)

Yemen criticizes UN's lack of action against COVID-19 crisis
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA)

Jahangiri calls for facilitation of granting residency to foreign investors
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 31 (MNA)

Crossing "Khoda Afarin" bridge
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 31 (MNA)

'Galena' to go on screen at Sheffield Doc/Fest
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA)

Rouhani congratulates Croatia on national day
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA)

US decline accelerated in intl. arena: Iran's top security official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-30
TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA)

Russian Health Ministry Approves First Domestic Drug for COVID-19
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-30
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian Health Ministry has approved the first domestic drug, called Avifavir, for treating coronavirus patients, according to a new entry to the national drug registry.
sputniknews.com/russia/202005301079469698-russian-health-ministry-approves-first-domestic-drug-for-covid-19/

Chinese Scientist '99%' Sure That COVID-19 Vaccine Will Prove Successful – Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-30
Global powers are jockeying to develop a desperately needed vaccine to COVID-19. The UK's Oxford University previously expressed confidence that it would be the first to create one, but now, a Chinese biotech company may be taking the lead.
sputniknews.com/world/202005301079465209-chinese-vaccine-99-percent-covid19/

Kashmir: two militants killed in gunfight
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-30
In a joint operation today, the Indian army and regional police launched a cordon and search operation in the Wanpora area of south Kashmir's Kulgam district.As per police, the hiding militants fired upon the search party which was retaliated, and a gunfight erupted in the region where two unidentified militants were killed."02 terrorists killed. Identity being ascertained. Search going on. Further details shall follow," Kashmir Zone Police tweeted.On May 19, Junaid Sehrai, the divisional commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, and another militant were killed in a gunfight in Srinagar. Around 15 residential houses were…
yenisafak.com/en/world/kashmir-two-militants-killed-in-gunfight-3530781

Turkey condemns attack on aid workers in Somalia
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-30
Turkey on Saturday denounced an attack on aid workers in Somalia, said the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday.The ministry in a statement on its website expressed the country's condolences over the attack, in which eight aid workers of a health facility in Gololey Village were abducted and executed."We are deeply saddened by the news of the abduction and the brutally execution of eight aid workers working in a health facility in Gololey Village located in the Hirshabelle region by a group of unidentified gunmen."We strongly condemn this heinous terrorist attack. We extend our condolences to the brotherly people…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-condemns-attack-on-aid-workers-in-somalia-3530770

Don't treat Italy like a leper colony says foreign minister
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-30
Italy will not be treated like a leper colony, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Saturday, promising a warm welcome to foreign tourists this summer and warning other European Union states not to shut out Italians.European countries are cautiously reopening their borders as the coronavirus contagion subsides around the continent, with Italy set to let tourists back in from June 15.However, some EU states are looking to keep the door shut on visitors from places that have suffered a particularly high number of COVID-19 cases. Greece, for example, said on Friday it would open its frontiers to citizens from just…
yenisafak.com/en/world/dont-treat-italy-like-a-leper-colony-says-foreign-minister-3530771

Don't treat Italy like a leper colony says foreign minister
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-30
European countries are cautiously reopening their borders as the coronavirus contagion subsides around the continent, with Italy set to let tourists back in from June 15.However, some EU states are looking to keep the door shut on visitors from places that have suffered a particularly high number of COVID-19 cases. Greece, for example, said on Friday it would open its frontiers to citizens from just 29 countries, excluding Italians, Spaniards and the British."We do not accept blacklists," Di Maio wrote on Facebook, announcing a forthcoming round of bilateral meetings both in Rome and abroad to press Italy's case.
yenisafak.com/en/world/dont-treat-italy-like-a-leper-colony-says-foreign-minister-3530771

Rwandan medical workers deploy robots to minimise coronavirus risk
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-30
At the Kanyinya COVID-19 treatment facility a short distance from Rwanda's capital Kigali, Akazuba, Ikizere and Ngabo report for duty, but these are no ordinary health care workers.In a bid to minimise contact between patients infected with the coronavirus and doctors and nurses, the country has deployed the three robots to carry out simple tasks like taking temperatures and monitoring patients.The sleek white robots, with big bright blue eyes and a rather human appearance, were donated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and are helping frontline workers tackle the coronavirus crisis in the East A…
yenisafak.com/en/world/rwandan-medical-workers-deploy-robots-to-minimise-coronavirus-risk-3530762

Turkey rebuts Greece on Quran session in Hagia Sophia
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-30
Turkey on Saturday shot back at an objection from Greece on the reading of passages from the Muslim holy book, the Quran, in the Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia), a landmark mosque-converted-museum in Istanbul.Accusing Athens of making "futile and ineffective statements" on the event, which marked the 567th anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of the former Byzantine capital, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said Greece's displeasure illustrated its "intolerant psychology.""The fact that Greece, the only remaining European country without a mosque in its capital, is disturbed by the recital of the Holy Quran i…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-rebuts-greece-on-quran-session-in-hagia-sophia-3530780

Twitter Censorship, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-30
~ | It is very telling that Twitter only started censoring Trump for violating terms of service when he promoted violence against Americans. He's been tweeting insanely hawkish threats against people in other nations for years, but they don't count as real people. | ~ | FYI if you're more upset by Twitter censoring one of the most powerful people in the world for inciting violence than by Twitter routinely censoring anti-imperialist accounts, it's because you're a mindless partisan hack. | ~ | Twitter going to war with Trump benefits ordinary people. If we're lucky Twitter winds up being forced to scale back its…

Twitter Censorship, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Is the THAAD Missile Crisis in South Korea Escalating?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-30
On May 28th, 2020, "The Ministry of National Defense and the USFK (United States Forces in Korea) engaged in a transportation operation in the middle of the night to bring equipment to the Seongju THAAD [missile defense] system in Gyeong sang buk do [Province]. The Ministry of National Defense said that it supported the land transportation operation by the USFK from the night of the 28th to the morning of the 29th. The work was said to have ended at 6 am" | This stealth operation in the middle of the night was nevertheless challenged by the residents of the area. 3700 South Korean riot police had to be deployed a…
popularresistance.org/is-the-thaad-missile-crisis-in-south-korea-escalating/

Justice For George Floyd Requires Power To The People
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-30
Black America is heartbroken and angered by the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Floyd's murder occurred in the third month of a pandemic that has taken over 100,000 lives overall and a disproportionate number of Black Americans. The Black masses in Minnesota have taken to the streets to not only call for justice for Floyd and his family but also to stand up to centuries of state sanctioned white supremacist violence. If George Floyd teaches us anything, it is that COVID-19 is not the only contagion in the U.S. that needs to be eradicated. Floyd's close friend and former NBA p…
popularresistance.org/justice-for-george-floyd-requires-power-to-the-people/

Media Smeared Ahmaud Arbery After His Lynching
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-30
While it took two and a half months for the authorities to finally make arrests in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, corporate media were much quicker to follow the time-honored practice of besmirching victims of racist violence (FAIR.org, 3/22/17). | First they kill your body. Then they kill your reputation. When white supremacy is the foundation of the US's media, political, legal and corporate system, victims of racist violence are often killed twice in this way. | The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on May 7 arrested former cop Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, for the murder of Arbery, an…
popularresistance.org/media-smeared-ahmaud-arbery-after-his-lynching/

Health Care Workers Call On Labor Movement To Take Action
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-30
As health care workers, we condemn the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers as an act of racist violence. We condemn the murder of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police officers as an act of racist violence. We condemn the murder of Tony McDade by Tallahassee police officers as an act of racist violence. Their killings are just a handful of countless examples of police brutality responsible for the early deaths of many Black people in the United States. Black people are three times more likely than white people to die by police violence. As health care workers, we witness first-hand how widespread…
popularresistance.org/health-care-workers-call-on-labor-movement-to-take-action/

BAP Calls On United Nations To Address U.S. Human Rights Crisis
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-30
The extrajudicial murders of African/Black people, such as Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, by agents of the U.S. government and armed civilians have sparked urban rebellions in cities across the United States. Yet these murders cannot be understood outside of the context of the U.S. state's ongoing assault on the human rights of African/Black people. | U.S. President Donald Trump's tweet demanding lethal violence–"…when the looting starts, the shooting starts…"–requires the United Nations to intervene. | Trump's threat comes as the U.S. state has tragically failed during the COVID-…
popularresistance.org/bap-calls-on-united-nations-to-address-u-s-human-rights-crisis/

NOLA Garbage Workers Form Union To Fightback
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-30
"We are digging in for a long fight," says New Orleans striking sanitation worker Jonathan Edwards late on Thursday night about being fired in early May by People Ready, a contractor of New Orleans' Metro Services. | Nearly a month ago, People Ready fired Edwards and 13 other coworkers who went on strike. | Forced to work in one of the world's worst hotbeds of COVID, garbage pickers like Edwards, employed through the temp firm People Ready and contracted by Metro Services, were only paid $10.25 an hour without benefits. | On May 6th, workers went on strike demanding $15 an hour, hazard pay, protective equipment,…
popularresistance.org/nola-garbage-workers-form-union-to-fightback/

The US Violent Failed Coup against Nicaragua. The Falsity of Western Media
Stephen Sefton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
On May 28th 2018, the organizers of that year's violent failed coup attempt executed a carefully planned, well coordinated attack to destroy the pro-government Sandinista radio station Nueva Radio Ya. During the attack, opposition gunmen fired on firefighters and police…
globalresearch.ca/the-us-violent-failed-coup-against-nicaragua-the-falsity-of-western-media/5714448

Trump Is No Longer Interested in Trade Deal with China?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
U.S. President Donald Trump is losing interest in the trade deal he made with China, according to his economic adviser, and the reason could be that as we progress further into the election season, fixing relations with China is less …
globalresearch.ca/trump-no-longer-interested-trade-deal-china/5714428

Political Ambiguity or a Doomsday Weapon: Why Abbas Abandoned Oslo
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
This time, we are told, it is different and that President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is absolutely serious about his decision to absolve his leadership from all previous agreements signed with Israel and the United States. But this time is not different, and Abbas is not serious.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/political-ambiguity-or-a-doomsday-weapon-why-abbas-abandoned-oslo/

Trump the "Peace Candidate": Contemplating War During Pandemic against Two Global Competitors. Nuclear Weapons "Tests" against China and Russia
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
Let us consider why the Donald Trump White House is currently considering detonating a nuclear weapon. It would be the first "test" of a nuke since 1992 and is clearly intended to send a message that those weapons sitting …
globalresearch.ca/trump-peace-candidate-abhors-international-treaties/5714366

Exclusive images from inside British court expose Assange's un-democratic treatment, physical deterioration
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-29
Photographs surreptitiously taken inside a British courtroom and provided to The Grayzone show a visibly disoriented Julian Assange confined to…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/british-court-assanges-physical-deterioration/

Media Elite Denounce Looting Even as Billionaires Reap Record Profits from Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-29
A mountain of studies on wealth inequality have shown its corrosive effect on social cohesion, with the more unequal a society gets, the less likely people are to see themselves as participants in a community and view others as a threat.
mintpressnews.com/media-denounce-looting-billionaires-grow-half-a-trillion-dollars-richer-bailouts/268054/

As Establishment Condemns China for Hong Kong Repression, Trump Tweets About "Shooting Looters"
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-29
Democrats and Republicans are united in condemning Beijing for its overreach, but perhaps its time to look closer to home to find examples of state repression.
mintpressnews.com/us-condemns-china-hong-kong-repression-trump-tweets-shooting-looters/268024/

As Establishment Condemns China for Hong Kong Repression, Trump Tweets About "Shooting Looters"
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-29
Democrats and Republicans are united in condemning Beijing for its overreach, but perhaps its time to look closer to home to find examples of state repression. | MPN– Republicans and Democrats alike have come together to condemn a new law proposed by the Chinese government that would likely stifle the year-long protests in Hong Kong. The State Department, headed by former CIA Director Mike Pompeo, published a press release yesterday presenting the city as a "bastion of freedom" amidst a repressive state, claiming Beij…

As Establishment Condemns China for Hong Kong Repression, Trump Tweets About “Shooting Looters”

Media Elite Denounce Looting Even as Billionaires Reap Record Profits from Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-29
A mountain of studies on wealth inequality have shown its corrosive effect on social cohesion, with the more unequal a society gets, the less likely people are to see themselves as participants in a community and view others as a threat. | MPN– The extrajudicial killing of African-American man George Floyd by Police Officer Derek Chauvin sparked a storm of protests both in Minneapolis and across the country. These have included large peaceful demonstrations, but also arson, destruction of property and looting. Police have abandoned multiple precincts in the face of overwhelming popular rage. | The Reverend M…

Media Elite Denounce Looting Even as Billionaires Reap Record Profits from Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts

U.S. Declares a Vaccine War on the World
Prabir Purkayastha | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
Donald Trump launched a new vaccine war in May, but not against the virus. It was against the world. The United States and the UK were the only two holdouts in the World Health Assembly from the declaration that vaccines and medicines for COVID-19 should be available as public goods, and not under exclusive patent…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/u-s-declares-a-vaccine-war-on-the-world/

Taiwan and WHO in the COVID-19 pandemic
Shih-Yu Chou | mronline.org | 2020-05-29
The ruling establishment's intrigue against the WHO might seem at odds with Taiwan's failed bid to join the World Health Assembly (WHA) this past May, but there was no contradiction between Taiwan being seen fighting a David and Goliath-like battle with both the WHO and China, thereby flaring up geopolitical tensions from without. Both served …
mronline.org/2020/05/29/taiwan-and-who-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taiwan-and-who-in-the-covid-19-pandemic

Reflections from Vermont
Bernie Sanders | mronline.org | 2020-05-29
That there are good and honorable people who believe that the Democratic Party can be turned around. I don't. Our major task is to change the entire nature of political discussion in the country. In my view that's just not going to happen within the Democratic Party.
mronline.org/2020/05/29/reflections-from-vermont/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reflections-from-vermont

As Pandemic Epicenter Shifts to Latin America, Gov'ts Use COVID-19 as Pretext for Police Repression
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-29
As the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic shifts to Latin America, so too has the use of COVID-19 as a pretext for police repression. "We're seeing that COVID-19, like other pandemics before it, magnifies structural discrimination. And sadly, it's often the most marginalized that are the first targets," says Louise Tillotson, co-author of a new Amnesty International report on the abuse. We also go to San Salvador to speak with journalist Jorge Cuéllar.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/29/latin_america_covid_19

"It Was Murder": Minneapolis Demands Charges in Police Killing of George Floyd, Calls to Defund Cops
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-29
As thousands take to the streets of Minneapolis to protest against the police killing of George Floyd for the third night in a row, we go to Minneapolis to speak with City Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison. Police pointed an automatic rifle at his head in 2015 when he was peacefully protesting the police killing of another African American man, Jamar Clark. We also speak with Kandace Montgomery with the Black Visions Collective, which is calling for the abolition of police.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/29/minneapolis

Twitter Warns Trump Tweet Glorifies Violence as He Signs Executive Order to Weaken Social Media
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-29
As President Trump calls Minneapolis protesters "THUGS" and tweets, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," Twitter flags the tweet with a warning it glorifies violence, just as Trump signs an executive order to punish social media companies for how they monitor content. "Trump has prospered through his use of social media and its attention-hoarding algorithms to basically disinform and misinform people," says Ramesh Srinivasan, professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/29/trump_tweets_social_media_regulation

A Few Good Sadists
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
Here's a flashback that may help to explain how we got to where we are: the day was April 30, 2004. Alexander Cockburn and I were sitting by the pool having a gin and tonic at the old Richelieu Hotel in New Orleans' French Quarter. The concierge, an elegant black man from Haiti named Jean-Claud, dropped…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/a-few-good-sadists/

There is No Peace: an Incitement to Justice
Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeffrey St. Clair, JoAnn Wypijewski | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
Summer 2014: a year since George Zimmerman was acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin. Another summer of violence and justification: US shells incinerating Palestinian children, devastating UN refuges in Gaza, pounding Afghan villages, again. Another trial of another white man who says he was scared, who had to defend himself with a blast of ammunition against…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/there-is-no-peace-an-incitement-to-justice/

Rep. Katie Porter Accuses UnitedHealth of 'Putting Profits Before Patients and Providers' in Midst of Pandemic
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
"It's flat out wrong for the world's largest insurance company to pass costs on to families in the middle of a pandemic—I want answers." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/unitedhealth_coronavirus.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/29/rep-katie-porter-accuses-unitedhealth-putting-profits-patients-and-providers-midst?cd-origin=rss

Coverage of School Reopening Needs to Include School Workers
Ari Paul | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
School closures have created some of the most trying ordeals for families in this pandemic. (Photo: carl_hfser/flickr) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/education_poverty_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/29/coverage-school-reopening-needs-include-school-workers?cd-origin=rss

Pandemic Crisis and Recession Can Spark a Fight for Real Change in the US
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
American workers have a huge opportunity as a result of this coronavirus pandemic

PDF of May 28 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-05-29
Download 12-page PDF here. Iran-Venezuela solidarity breaks U.S. blockade. Pandemics can foment social revolutions. Also: What is a Marxist-Leninist party? COVID cover-up in Georgia; Reproductive justice Labor fights back: Postal workers; Portland essential workers; Agricultural workers; CUNY instructors. World: Kerala, India; Ecuador; China. Tear down prisons: Major Tillery; ICE detainees; . . . | Continue reading PDF of May 28 issue at Workers.org…
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Who Are the Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump's War on Iran?
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-05-29
The message of these groups dedicated to "countering extremism" is clear and none too subtle: Saudi Arabia and the UAE are always U.S. allies and victims of extremism, never a problem or a source of danger, violence or chaos…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/who-are-the-secret-puppet-masters-behind-trumps-war-on-iran/

If you do not feel for humanity, you have forgotten to be human
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-05-29
The coronavirus continues its contagious march across the planet: almost 350,000 known deaths and over 5.4 million people infected. Meanwhile, in the Bay of Bengal, Cyclone Amphan makes its fierce landing, its immense energy tearing a corridor through Bangladesh and India (Odisha and West Bengal).
mronline.org/2020/05/29/if-you-do-not-feel-for-humanity-you-have-forgotten-to-be-human/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-you-do-not-feel-for-humanity-you-have-forgotten-to-be-human

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Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2020-05-29
The Trump Administration is handling the COVID-19 pandemic in the same way the Trump Organization has handled the real estate business–with bluster, overconfidence, and fudged numbers.
progressive.org/dispatches/human-capital-stock-fiore-200529/

Video: Turkish Army Suffers Casualties in Southern Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
One Turkish soldier died and another was injured in an IED attack in Syria's southern Idlib, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported late on May 27. The incident happened while units of the Turkish Army and the Turkish-backed militant group Sham …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-army-suffers-casualties-southern-idlib/5714372

The Great US 2020 Wealth Transfer Heist. Deep Inequalities in US Society
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
In less than three-and-a-half years in office, Trump oversaw the Great GOP 2017 tax cut heist. | It handed corporate America and high-net-worth individuals a multi-billion dollar bonanza of enhanced wealth

How Far Will the Trump Regime and Congress Push China?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
The US is waging undeclared war on China by other means. | Trump and congressional hardliners escalated things beyond where their predecessors went. | What's going on is all about aiming to undermine China's growing political, economic, financial, industrial, technological, and military …
globalresearch.ca/how-far-will-trump-regime-congress-push-china/5714443

Michel Chossudovsky: Biographical Summary
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
There are a number of deliberate "errors" and omissions in Michel Chossudovsky's wikipedia entry. Defamatory statements. | The same applies to the wikipedia entry for Global Research which has been merged with Chossudovsky's entry. | Below is a biographical summary focussing …
globalresearch.ca/michel-chossudovsky-biographical-summary/5580999

Video: How to Start a Riot? Police Provocateurs Dressed up as "Activists" at Peaceful Anti-Globalization Rally
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
The issue of Police Provocateurs is currently in the news following the police murder in Minneapolis of George Floyd. | This video was first produced in 2007 | Today are thoughts are with the family and friends of George Floyd. | Michel Chossudovsky. …
globalresearch.ca/video-how-to-start-a-riot-police-provocateurs-dressed-up-as-activists-at-anti-war-rally/5714468

Minneapolis police leader defending George Floyd's killers tied to 'white power'-linked biker gang
Sarah Lazare | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-29
From The Grayzone vault: The record of a pro-Trump Minneapolis police leader defending the killers of George Floyd reveals a…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/minneapolis-police-george-floyds-white-power-biker-gang/

Protest, Uprisings, and Race War
Tim Wise | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
The moralizing has begun. Those who have rarely been the target of organized police gangsterism are once again lecturing those who have about how best to respond to it. Be peaceful, they implore, as protesters rise up in Minneapolis and across the country in response to the killing of George Floyd. This, coming from the…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/protest-uprisings-and-race-war/

Peacekeepers exemplify 'service, sacrifice and selflessness', in face of pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-05-29
To honour the more than 3,900 women and men who have lost their lives under the UN flag since 1948, Secretary-General António Guterres laid a wreath at the Peacekeepers' memorial on Friday, International Day of UN Peacekeepers.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1065112

Minneapolis Protesters Call to Defund the Police
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-29
UPDATE: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has now been arrested in the killing of George Floyd. | As thousands take to the streets of Minneapolis to protest against the police killing of George Floyd for the third night in a row, we go to Minneapolis to speak with City Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison. Police pointed an automatic rifle at his head in 2015 when he was peacefully protesting the police killing of another African American man, Jamar Clark. We also speak with Kandace Montgomery with the Black Vision…
truthout.org/video/minneapolis-protesters-call-to-defund-the-police/

Minneapolis & St. Paul impose weekend CURFEW after riots over George Floyd's death
rt.com | 2020-05-29
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has imposed a curfew starting at 8 PM Friday and extending through the weekend, after peaceful protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody escalated into riots and looting. | Nearby St. Paul has imposed a similar measure. The curfew will be in place between 8pm and 6am Friday and Saturday night, expiring on Sunday morning. Violators would be punished by up to a $1,000 fine or up to 90 days in jail. | "During the curfew, all persons must not travel on any public street or in any public place," reads the emergency declaration posted by the mayor. | Mayor Frey…
rt.com/usa/490193-minneapolis-imposes-weekend-curfew-riot/

Against police violence and capitalism, to rebel is justified
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-05-29
Workers World salutes all the brave protesters in Minneapolis, currently ground zero against police terror. We also salute those activists in Los Angeles, Memphis and other cities who are organizing protests and braving the pandemic to be in the streets or in car caravans to show solidarity with the demand: . . . | Continue reading Against police violence and capitalism, to rebel is justified at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/49008/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=against-police-violence-and-capitalism-to-rebel-is-justified

3rd degree murder charge for George Floyd's killer; activists say #RaiseTheDegree
Tim Sullivan, Amy Forliti | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-29
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)–The Minneapolis police officer who was seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a handcuffed Black man who died in custody after pleading that he could not breathe, was arrested Friday and charged with murder. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Derek Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, after …
peoplesworld.org/article/3rd-degree-murder-charge-for-george-floyds-killer-activists-say-raisethedegree/

Rent Strike: Can't Pay, Won't Pay
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-29
The Covid-19 crisis has triggered an international rent strike. Housing activists hope to build strong networks of solidarity as a financial crisis and mass evictions loom. Across the world, significant amounts of people have stopped paying rent, and in some places mortgage payments, in the wake of Covid-19. Many simply don't have the money and now face homelessness. Rent strikes are taking place in the US, Spain, Canada, France, Britain, South Africa, and elsewhere as activists call for a stop to rent payments and evictions and for everyone to have shelter and space to get through the pandemic. Most of us would…
popularresistance.org/rent-strike-cant-pay-wont-pay/

Twin Cities Protest Death of George Floyd: Day #3
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-05-29
Minneapolis, MN

ACLU Statement On Trump Tweet Directing the National Guard to Murder Protesters in Minneapolis
commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/29/aclu-statement-trump-tweet-directing-national-guard-murder-protesters?cd-origin=rss

Mass anger erupts throughout the US in protests against police murder of George Floyd
wsws.org | 2020-05-29
The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis has set off a wave of social anger, sparking demonstrations in Kentucky, Colorado, California, Ohio and other states throughout the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/29/minn-m29.html

George Floyd's murder: The spark for a powderkeg of racism
Greg Kearney | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-29
People's World coverage of the George Floyd murder: | 'I can't breathe!': Minneapolis erupts in protest after George Floyd murder: | 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts': Trump revives segregationist war cry:…
peoplesworld.org/article/george-floyds-murder-the-spark-for-a-powderkeg-of-racism/

After Days of Protest, Police Officer Derek Chauvin Charged With 3rd Degree Murder for Killing George Floyd
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
Following three days of intense demonstrations in Minneapolis over the killing of George Floyd by a police officer while three other officers stood by, Derek Chauvin was taken into custody by state authorities Friday afternoon. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/200529-derek-chauvin-arrested.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/29/after-days-protest-police-officer-derek-chauvin-charged-3rd-degree-murder-killing?cd-origin=rss

10 radical new albums to banish your coronavirus blues
Mat Ward | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-29
Books & music Mat WardIssue 1267 Australia political music 2020 protest music 2020 protest songs 2020May 29, 2020Here&#0…
greenleft.org.au/content/10-radical-new-albums-banish-your-coronavirus-blues

Police Arrest CNN Journalist During Live TV Coverage of George Floyd Protests
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-29
A CNN journalist and his entire camera crew were arrested by Minnesota state police Friday morning during their live television coverage of the aftermath of Minneapolis protests over the killing of George Floyd. | While standing in the middle of a street in front of police officers in riot gear, CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez cooperatively asked the officers where they would like him to stand before two officers approached him from behind, placed him in handcuffs, and led him away. The offic…
truthout.org/articles/police-arrest-cnn-journalist-during-live-tv-coverage-of-george-floyd-protests/

Chicanos in Boyle Heights to participate in the National Day of Action May 30
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-29
Los Angeles, CA – On Saturday, May 30 at 3 p.m. Centro Community Service Organization (CSO) will be participating in the National Day of Protest to demand the mass release of all prisoners due to COVID-19. The action is called by the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression and CSO is an affiliated organization with the Alliance. We are protesting the murders of Ahmaud Aubery in Georgia, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and George Floyd in Minneapolis because they are outraging, and we must demand justice. This lynch-style, racist terrorism must stop and perpetrators must be punished. | The Boyle Heig…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/29/chicanos-boyle-heights-participate-national-day-action-may-30

Minneapolis Protests Police Murder Of George Floyd: Day 2
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-29
Protesters are continuing to gather outside the Minneapolis Police (MPD) 3rd Precinct building today after extended protests and clashes with police yesterday. The Twin Cities is still engulfed in mass outrage after MPD officer Derek Chauvin was filmed choking a black man named George Floyd to death in a disturbing video that went viral Monday night. On Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called on Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to file criminal charges against Officer Chauvin. Chauvin and three other officers involved in Floyd's were fired on Tuesday. Such a quick firing of officers after a police kil…
popularresistance.org/minneapolis-protests-police-murder-of-george-floyd-day-2/

Bus Drivers Refuse To Help Police, Prison Labor Replaces Meatpackers And More
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-29
With protests erupting all over Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, cops are attempting to arrest protesters in mass. | However, some bus drivers in Minneapolis are refusing to use their buses to transport protestors to jail. | "As a transit worker and union member, I refuse to transport my class and radical youth," Minneapolis bus driver Adam Burch told Payday. "An injury to one is an injury to all. The police murdered George Floyd and the protest against is completely justified and should continue until their demands are met." | While it would be illegal for Burch's union to call for a wildcat strike, h…
popularresistance.org/bus-drivers-refuse-to-help-police-prison-labor-replaces-meatpackers-and-more/

Who Are the Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump's War on Iran?
MBNJSD | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-29
On May 6th, President Trump vetoed a war powers bill specifying that he must ask Congress for authorization to use military force against Iran. Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign of deadly sanctions and threats of war against Iran has seen no let-up, even as the U.S., Iran and the whole world desperately need to set aside …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/who-are-the-secret-puppet-masters-behind-trumps-war-on-iran/

Updated: "Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Ramallah"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-29
Israeli soldiers killed, on Friday evening, a Palestinian father of five children, including an infant, allegedly after he tried to ram them with his car near Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. His family denied the military allegations and said the man lost control …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-shot-dead-by-israeli-troops-after-alleged-car-ramming-attack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-shot-dead-by-israeli-troops-after-alleged-car-ramming-attack

Palestinian PM "International Donors' Support is Vital"
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-29
Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh reiterated, on Thursday, that international donors' support to the Palestinian people, in the context of the Israeli government's plans to annex the occupied West Bank, along with current Israeli-imposed restrictions on the Palestinian people, is now vital. Shtayyeh's remarks came during a video conference conversation …
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Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians, Confiscate Their Car, Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-05-29
Israeli soldiers abducted, Friday, four young Palestinian men near Sebastia town, north of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Mohammad Azem, the head of the Local Municipal Council in Sebastia, stated that the soldiers installed a roadblock at the entrance of the town, before stopping and …
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Israeli Troops Obstruct Reconstruction of a Street in Bethlehem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-29
Israeli troops reportedly blocked, on Friday morning, reconstruction of a local street in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local municipality sources told media outlets that Israeli troops stormed the Almaqbara or Cemetery street in the Rashayda village, east of Bethlehem and ordered municipal workers, by force, to stop reconstruction …
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Police Deny Any Connection to Mysterious Minneapolis "Umbrella Man" Saboteur
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-29
Regardless of the truth behind who started the fires and the looting, the rage felt by the people of Minneapolis and elsewhere is the result of a deep and profound problem in this country that cannot go on.
mintpressnews.com/police-deny-connection-alleged-minneapolis-umbrella-man-saboteur/268039/

"Deadly Exchange": America's Racist Policing Has Roots in Israel
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-29
During training sessions in Israel, American police delegations meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies and taught what Israel calls counterterrorism, but is in fact no more than "refining methods of racial profiling."
mintpressnews.com/deadly-exchange-america-racist-policing-training-roots-israel/268007/

Goodness Gracious, David Ignatius!!
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
The Washington Post's senior diplomatic columnist, David Ignatius, has done it again. He has a well-earned reputation as an apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency and a defender of increased defense spending and the newly-created Space Force. Now, Ignatius has added a new plaque to his personal Hall of Fame–Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In an…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/goodness-gracious-david-ignatius/

Blaming the COVID-19 Pandemic on Too Many Humans: a Critique of Overpopulation Ideology
Roger Harris | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
A world gripped by a deadly virus has precipitated a deluge of punditry claiming to have found the primal cause of the pandemic. In a recent article Anthony Judge, for example, claims to have tapped into "the collective subconscious" to blame what he calls overpopulation. How well does this claim hold up? Mr. Judge is concerned…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/blaming-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-too-many-humans-a-critique-of-overpopulation-ideology/

Arundhati Roy on Indian Migrant-Worker Oppression and India's Fateful COVID Crisis
J.P. Linstroth | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
In India there is never one story but thousands, even millions, and so the detrimental impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on this country of more than 1.3 billion, especially among the poor, has been profound, causing immense suffering. Nor did it help matters much when Prime Minister Narendra Modi shut India into immediate lockdown without warning…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/arundhati-roy-on-indian-migrant-worker-oppression-and-indias-fateful-covid-crisis/

No Lessons Learned From Bhopal: the Toxic Chemical Leak at LG Polymers India
N.D. Jayaprakash | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
The port city of Vizag or Vishakhapatnam, situated on the south-east coast of India in the State of Andhra Pradesh, is home to several hazardous industries. In the early morning on 07 May 2020, five million people residing in the Vizag Metropolitan Region were rudely woken up by the alarming news of a poisonous chemical…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/no-lessons-learned-from-bhopal-the-toxic-chemical-leak-at-lg-polymers-india/

For America's Wealthiest, the Pandemic is a Time to Profit
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
The American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) Michael Strain wrote an op-ed in the New York Times recently explaining how "The American Dream Is Alive and Well," and that in his opinion this nation has, "bigger issues than inequality." Strain's piece is part of the paper's new pandemic-era series called "The America We Need" and engages in…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/for-americas-wealthiest-the-pandemic-is-a-time-to-profit/

The Odyssey of Elias Demetracopoulos
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
In twenty-first-century mainstream media, a real journalist is difficult to find. Instead, one finds multiple purveyors of corporate and government propaganda, entertainers who sensationalize the most meaningless tidbits about the lives of public figures, faux investigations of misdoings that focus on the symptoms and not the causes, and outright liars. Elected and non-elected officials use…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/the-odyssey-of-elias-demetracopoulos/

What's NATO Up to These Days? Provoking Russia, Draining Healthcare Budgets and Protecting Its Own from COVID
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
In November 2019, as experts warned that a novel coronavirus was likely to develop in the near-future, NATO boasted that its European Allies, including the UK, as well as Canada, were boosting their military budgets by an average of 4.6 percent, or an additional $130bn since 2016. The implication is that this increase in military spending is at the expense of healthcare, which is being privatized worldwide.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/whats-nato-up-to-these-days-provoking-russia-draining-healthcare-budgets-and-protecting-its-own-from-covid/

Coronavirus and the Telecom Crisis
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
The current Corvis-19 pandemic provides a unique vantage point to assess key social institutions of American life. Sadly, none has failed so gravely as the nation's health care system, especially as underwritten by the private insurance model. The crisis of the U.S. healthcare system raises the deeper, more fundamental, question as to whether health care…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/coronavirus-and-the-telecom-crisis/

Bibles at the Barricades: How the Right Seized Power in Bolivia
Benjamin Dangl | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
Returning to La Paz, Bolivia after last November's coup was like returning to the scene of a crime. Since Bolivian President Evo Morales was removed from power, right-wing interim President Jeanine àÅñez has led the country with an iron fist. State repression immediately following the coup left dozens dead and the government has been throwing…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/bibles-at-the-barricades-how-the-right-seized-power-in-bolivia/

Trump Is Unbeatable in the Race to the Bottom and So Is the GOP
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
In the race to the bottom, Donald Trump is unbeatable. Therefore, so now too is the Republican Party; being under his thumb, it is with him, every step of the way. This is why Joe Biden will have a hard time losing in November, no matter how good he and other corporate Democrats are at…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/trump-is-unbeatable-in-the-race-to-the-bottom-and-so-is-the-gop/

Trump isn't the Pope and This Ain't the Middle Ages
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
President Trump orders governors to open up the churches. Churches defy governors and seek to open. Someone needs to remind both the president and religious institutions that the Middle Ages are over and Modernity won. President Trump and many religious institutions are pushing arguments reminiscent of those found in the Medieval Christian Europe where secular…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/trump-isnt-the-pope-and-this-aint-the-middle-ages/

Why Does W.E.B. Du Bois Matter Today?
Paul Buhle | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
In their new book, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History,Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne pose the question that every scholar of African American history, a central part of all US history, must sooner or later approach. W.E.B. Du Bois is without question one of the largest, perhaps the very largest, figure in African-American history.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/why-does-w-e-b-du-bois-matter-today/

Who are the "Wrong Hands" in Yemen?
Charles Pierson | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
Politics makes strange bedfellows. Some of them want to kill us. Take Abu Abbas (as Henny Youngman used to say: "Please."). Abu Abbas (a nom de guerre for one Adil Abduh Fari al-Dabhani) is the founder and leader of the Abu Abbas brigade, a militia fighting on the government side in Yemen. Abbas and his…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/who-are-the-wrong-hands-in-yemen/

Conditions Close at Hand
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
"Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand."

The Only Way to Save Grizzlies: Connect Their Habitats
Mike Bader | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
Linkages, biological corridors, demographic connectivity or intervening areas. These are the lands outside and between the Grizzly Bear Recovery Areas in the Northern Rockies. Over the past 20 years grizzly bears have begun to recolonize this historic habitat, increasing the possibilities of linking genetically isolated populations and reestablishing a breeding population in the vast Bitterroot…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/the-only-way-to-save-grizzlies-connect-their-habitats/

A Growing Wave of Bankruptcies Threatens U.S. Recovery
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
The bankruptcy epidemic in the U.S. started last year, long before any COVID-19 pandemic had touched down. U.S. retailers ranked among the greatest casualties of 2019 with a total of 17 bankruptcies. Big names among the retail bankruptcies in 2019 included Gymboree on January 16; Charlotte Russe on February 3; Things Remembered on February 6;…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/a-growing-wave-of-bankruptcies-threatens-u-s-recovery/

In Search of a Lost Socialism
Joshua Frank | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-29
In May of 1914

Anthony Romero on Leading in a Time of Crisis
aclu.org | 2020-05-29
Anthony Romero started his job as executive director of the ACLU just seven days before September 11, 2001, and he's been with us ever since. The subsequent "war on terror" presented new and widespread threats to civil rights and civil liberties. Now, he faces a new challenge: leading the ACLU during the COVID-19 pandemic. He joined the podcast this week to discuss how the ACLU is navigating the current moment., , "In moments of crisis, in moments of fear, civil liberties are often imperiled," Romero told our host, Emerson Sykes. The organization has had to "adjust to our understanding of what liberty and free…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/anthony-romero-on-leading-in-a-time-of-crisis

Minneapolis Police Murder Handcuffed Man with Neck-Kneel
Niko Georgiades | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
"I can't breathe" were some of the last words of the latest victim to police terror. | Memorial Day in Minneapolis saw the echoing of the same words as Eric Garner before he was killed by police six years …
globalresearch.ca/minneapolis-police-murder-handcuffed-man-neck-kneel/5714376

You Sided With The Abuser Like A Fucking Cliché
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-29
You sided with the abuser like a fucking cliché. | You told your son he shouldn't displease his mother when he showed you the bite marks and bruises. | You chugged Nyquil while your husband raped your daughters and pretended to faint whenever they tried to tell you. | You invited the priest for dinner every Thursday and called your son an evil liar when he said what happens during prayer time. | You sided with the abuser like a fucking cliché. | You shrieked "rioting" and "looting" when people expressed their anger about cops murdering them with impunity. | You shrieked "terrorism" and "antisemitism" when Palesti…

You Sided With The Abuser Like A Fucking Cliché

The Fear Is Real, Not Orchestrated
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-29
For years I have been watching what little intelligence the human race ever had slowly evaporate before my eyes as governments built up arsenals of thermonuclear and biowarfare weapons that they cannot use without destroying us all. So many important social needs are forsaken, such as a national health service, in order to acquire useless weapons of mass destruction. My opinion of human intelligence is currently being reinforced by the hysteria over the attempts, however inadequate, to protect us from the consequences of a virus about which little is known. | The precautions of social distancing, masks, and close…

The Fear Is Real, Not Orchestrated

Essential Remittances To Africa Devastated By Coronavirus Pandemic
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-29
Families dependent on remittances from seasonal workers are facing a crisis, even in countries without widespread COVID-19 cases.
therealnews.com/stories/remittances-africa-coronavirus-pandemic-workers-economic-crisis

Rise in deaths attributed to pneumonia suggests official US coronavirus death toll is grossly undercounted
wsws.org | 2020-05-29
The actual number of COVID-19 dead in the United States is likely to be at least 150,000, 50 percent more than what has been officially reported.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/29/death-m29.html

I've Signed Death Certificates During COVID-19. Here's Why You Can't Trust Any of the Statistics on the Number of Victims
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
As an NHS doctor, I've seen people die and be listed as a victim of coronavirus without ever being tested for it. But unless we have accurate data, we won't know which has killed more: the disease or the lockdown?…
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-why-you-cant-trust-any-statistics-number-victims/5714415

The Class Politics of Coronavirus Responses in the Americas
Kevin Funk | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro (Alan Santos/PR via Wikimedia Commons) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/jair.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/29/class-politics-coronavirus-responses-americas?cd-origin=rss

Workers Need a 'Newer Deal' to Tackle This Crisis
Nomi Prins | thenation.com | 2020-05-29
Workers Need a 'Newer Deal' to Tackle This Crisis…
thenation.com/article/economy/coronavirus-new-deal-economy/

Video: Dr. John Lott: More Money to Hospitals for COVID-19 Deaths
Dr. John Lott | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center has said the recorded coronavirus death toll may be a dramatically overstated. | One America's John Hines sat down with him to learn more. | You have looked at the Numbers. | There is …
globalresearch.ca/video-covid-19-death-toll-may-be-half-record/5714362

Reminder to the Press: Trump's Deadly Covid-19 Failures Are Still Happening
Dan Froomkin | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
When it comes to the virus, Washington is doing basically none of the things we need it to do. (Photo: Pete Marovich/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump-tweetin_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/05/29/reminder-press-trumps-deadly-covid-19-failures-are-still-happening?cd-origin=rss

Nine in 10 smokers start before they are 18 years old, warns WHO
news.un.org | 2020-05-29
Tobacco products continue to kill eight million people a year who get hooked via a $9 billion a year marketing strategy. That's the warning from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, which has said that even during a global pandemic, the tobacco and nicotine industry has continued to promote products that limit people's ability to fight new coronavirus and recover from the disease.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1065062

The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style
Nomi Prins | zcomm.org | 2020-05-29
Crashes, Then and Now…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-great-depression-coronavirus-style/

Trump's Twitter Tirade Is the Tantrum of a Troll
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-05-29
Trump's Twitter Tirade Is the Tantrum of a Troll…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-twitter-coronavirus-media/

Fabricated Shocks and Open Windows
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
Fabricated shocks open the window to Emergency laws and emergency guidelines that would otherwise require more transparency. | The shock surrounding Covid-19

An Impending Crisis: COVID-19 in Haiti, Ongoing Instability, and the Dangers of Continued U.S. Deportations
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-05-29
Prepared remarks by Jake Johnston to Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson's forum on COVID-19 and ICE's deportation of detainees to Haiti First, I want to thank Congresswoman Wilson for convening this forum and for her leadership on this issue. The introduction of legislation mandating a halt to these deportations is a concrete and necessary step. I'd …
cepr.net/an-impending-crisis-covid-19-in-haiti-ongoing-instability-and-the-dangers-of-continued-u-s-deportations/

Trump's Dangerous Drug of Choice
Rachel Charlton-Dailey | progressive.org | 2020-05-29
Trump's advocacy of taking hydroxychloroquine to combat COVID-19 is putting vulnerable people in unnecessary danger, at the potential expense of people who need the medication to live.
progressive.org/op-eds/trump-dangerous-drug-of-choice-charlton-dailey-200529/

Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling With COVID-19
Manuel Pérez Rocha | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/cusco.jpg …

The politics and economics of COVID-19 relief packages
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-29
Most governments worldwide have announced relief packages to deal with the economic distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, though big in numbers, these packages have very little to offer to those most affected by the crisis…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/29/the-politics-and-economics-of-covid-19-relief-packages/

Car caravan: Free Our Youth!
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2020-05-29
Philadelphia As states across the U.S. took steps to stop the spread of COVID-19

CUNY and the struggle against COVID-19 cuts
Special to Workers World | workers.org | 2020-05-29
Special to Workers World The City University of New York is the largest urban public university system in the United States. It has 275,000 students, spread over 11 senior colleges funded by New York state; seven community colleges, funded by New York City; and seven postgraduate institutions. Its students are . . . | Continue reading CUNY and the struggle against COVID-19 cuts at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/48996/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cuny-and-the-struggle-against-covid-19-cuts

Packinghouse workers strike vs. bosses & COVID-19
Jim McMahan | workers.org | 2020-05-29
Seattle May 24

COVID-19: Countries support 'one-stop shop' to share science and research
news.un.org | 2020-05-29
Thirty countries and numerous international partners have underlined the need to make tests, treatments and other technologies to fight COVID-19, available to people everywhere.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1065132

We are Being Held Hostage to Unfettered Capitalism: not to Trump, Racism, the Chinese or COVID-19
David Penner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-29
As the US continues to be ravaged by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the country remains in lockdown, a morbid irony of which is that we appear to have traded COVID-19 deaths for suicides. The catastrophe has laid bare the cruelties of neoliberalism, yet this has not stopped the media from unleashing a barrage of misinformation, blaming …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/we-are-being-held-hostage-to-unfettered-capitalism-not-to-trump-racism-the-chinese-or-covid-19/

The elite's COVID-19 coup: Fighting for our humanity, our liberty and our future
Robert J. Burrowes | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-29
Using COVID-19 as 'cover', the global elite is conducting a coup to take vastly greater control of our lives and, in fact, to neutralize our humanity.
nationofchange.org/2020/05/29/the-elites-covid-19-coup-fighting-for-our-humanity-our-liberty-and-our-future/

Baltimore Mayoral Candidate Wants to Limit Mayoral Power
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-29
Baltimore's upcoming primary election will be notable and not just because residents will primarily vote by mail due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The mayoral election on June 2 comes after a massive corruption scandal led to a federal indictment against the previously-elected mayor in 2019. As a result of that corruption scandal, there is a heated debate over whether the city should reform its "Strong Mayor" system of governance that gives more power to Baltimore's City executive than any other major city, offers few checks on their power and many argue, enabled the 2019 scandal. | One leading mayoral candidate, Cit…
therealnews.com/columns/baltimore-mayoral-candidate-wants-to-limit-mayoral-power

30 migrants in Libya killed after death of human trafficker
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-29
The chaos created by the NATO-led invasion of Libya in 2011 has made the country a breeding ground for human trafficking to Europe, leading to hundreds of deaths each year…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/29/30-migrants-in-libya-after-death-of-human-trafficker/

The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police engaged in Purposeful Provocation
Terry Burrows | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
Identical Boots Exposed Undercover Police Provocateurs…
globalresearch.ca/the-toronto-g20-riot-fraud-undercover-police-engaged-in-purposeful-provocation/19928

The Gates / Fauci Vaccine Developed by Moderna. Video Featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Andrew Kaufman
Lila York | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
This is a four-minute video featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Andrew Kaufman that explains exactly what is in the Gates/Fauci covid19 vaccine currently being developed by Fauci's own vaccine company, Moderna. | Most of the vaccines currently under process | …
globalresearch.ca/vaccine-just-say-no/5714389

Future Perspectives of Russia-Africa Relations
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
While celebrating the Africa Day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirmed Russia's commitment to offer support and participate in the sustainable development processes in Africa. In a videoconference held May 28 with local and foreign media, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman …
globalresearch.ca/russia-africa-cooperation/5714401

Your "Immunity Passport" Future Begins to Materialize as Airlines Call for Digital ID Tracking Systems
Derrick Broze | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
The world's largest airline trade group has called for immunity passports, thermal screening, masks, and physical distancing to be a part of the industry's strategy for returning to "normal" operations. | The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 299 airlines…
globalresearch.ca/immunity-passport-future-begins-airlines-call-digital-id-tracking-systems/5714422

The Volleys of an Information War Against China
Leonid Savin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
A strategic information campaign against a particular state usually involves a number of elements and layers. While officials and diplomats gradually increase the aggressiveness of their rhetoric, "independent" media outlets publish a range of articles from life stories to special …
globalresearch.ca/volleys-information-war-against-china/5714412

"Mass Sterilization": Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine
Brian Shilhavy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
This article is of relevance to the ongoing debate on vaccines. | It was first published in February 2015 | According to LifeSiteNews, a Catholic publication, the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association is charging UNICEF and WHO with sterilizing millions of girls …
globalresearch.ca/mass-sterilization-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un-tetanus-vaccine/5431664

Bolivia's Parliament Summons "Interim President" Jeanine àÅñez to Clarify Corruption Scandal
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
The coup d'état carried out in Bolivia was the starting point for a major wave of social, political and economic setbacks in the country. Bolivia is the poorest country in South America, with very high poverty rates, however, during the …
globalresearch.ca/parliament-summons-jeanine-anez-corruption-scandal/5714435

Towards a "Soft Coup" in Spain?
Germán Gorraiz López | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
The Spanish State establishment would be made up of the financial-business, political, military, Catholic hierarchy, university and mass media sub-elites of the Spanish State, natural heirs to the legacy of General Franco who would have engulfed all decision-making spheres (according …
globalresearch.ca/soft-coup-spain/5714364

Political Crisis in UK: Let's "Move on" From Boris
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
Boris has a new slogan, "Move on", which he deployed repeatedly today in his appearance before the House of Commons Liaison Committee. Remembering short slogans is fairly well the extent of his political skills, and he contrived to look pleased …
globalresearch.ca/move-from-boris/5714409

Western Reaction to China Shows the Bad Old Days Haven't Passed
James O'Neill | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-29
One of the most tiresome clichés uttered by the western nations, including Australia, is their alleged commitment to the "rules based international order". By this they generally mean a set of rules of supposed international authority, to which all developed nations are expected to adhere. Those who allegedly failed to do so are labelled as …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/05/western-reaction-to-china-shows-the-bad-old-days-havent-passed/

The Volleys Of An Information War Against China
Leonid Savin | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-29
A strategic information campaign against a particular state usually involves a number of elements and layers. While officials and diplomats gradually increase the aggressiveness of their rhetoric, "independent" media outlets publish a range of articles from life stories to special investigations. They may differ in tone and subject matter, but they all have the same goal. Campaigns like these are of particular importance to the US, where there is a tradition of enlisting the support of public opinion. Therefore, to ensure the success of foreign policy actions, the public must be prepared. | Stories about bad guys…

The Volleys Of An Information War Against China

While Minneapolis burned immigrant prisoners in Sherburne County jail started hunger strike
Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-29
Editor's note: This article is reprinted from Workday Minnesota. In a press statement, Interfaith Coalition on Immigration (ICOM) announced that immigrant detainees had begun a hunger strike at the Sherburne County jail in Elk River, Minnesota. ICOM explained that the hunger strikers have asked for their release from Sherburne County Jail. In the statement, ICOM explained they …
peoplesworld.org/article/while-minneapolis-burned-immigrant-prisoners-in-sherburne-county-jail-started-hunger-strike/

From the sectoral to the local: Re-imagining labor and the left in a time of crisis
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-29
While the unintended economic disaster now unfolding throughout the world is unprecedented, the progressive left must heed the lessons of disasters like Katrina, Maria and wars of aggression in places like Iraq to be ready to confront the potentially life and death struggles ahead.
nationofchange.org/2020/05/29/from-the-sectoral-to-the-local-re-imagining-labor-and-the-left-in-a-time-of-crisis/

Corporate university–pandemic edition
David Ruccio | mronline.org | 2020-05-29
Will colleges and universities reopen in the fall? That's the question on the minds of many these day–administrators, faculty, staff, students, and their families, not to mention the communities in which they live.
mronline.org/2020/05/29/corporate-university-pandemic-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corporate-university-pandemic-edition

Democrats fueling corporate counter-revolution against progressives
David Sirota | zcomm.org | 2020-05-29
Democrats in Washington are not just passively failing to mount an opposition to Trump. They are actively helping Republicans…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/democrats-fueling-corporate-counter-revolution-against-progressives/

George Floyd's execution and the burning of a precinct
JF Allen | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-29
My police department murdered a man on Monday. Actually. No. He was executed. Murder implies some sort of emotional act or cold, non-feeling release by a psychopath. Whether emotional, premeditated, or impulsive, murder is committed by an individual (or individuals). This killing was committed by the state. Specifically, the Minneapolis Police Department. I am an …
peoplesworld.org/article/george-floyds-execution-and-the-burning-of-a-precinct/

Attorney Lee Merritt speaks on conspiracy to cover-up Ahmaud Arbery's murder
wsws.org | 2020-05-29
Merritt spoke to the WSWS Wednesday about developments in the Arbery case and what has been exposed about the efforts of the police and prosecutors to whitewash the killing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/29/arbr-m29.html

Emily Maitlis is No Media Hero: She Simply Forgot What She and the BBC Are There To Do
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-29
The wrong conclusions are being drawn about Emily Maitlis's comments on Dominic Cummings on the BBC flagship Newsnight show this week. Her remarks are not evidence of her courage, or that journalists are being gagged, or that the BBC is suddenly capitulating to the government. | The problem is caused by our desire to focus on whether Maitlis was right or wrong about Cummings, Boris Johnson's chief adviser, breaking the lockdown rules. But it is actually a distraction to fixate on the issue of whether Maitlis should or should not have been allowed to express the widely shared view

Pandemic and Trump's anti-migrant agenda
| workers.org | 2020-05-29
By B.L.S. The following is a slightly edited talk given during the Workers World Party webinar "What Road to Socialism?"on May 16. I'm humbled and thankful to have this opportunity to share some of my firsthand experiences with y'all. As a legal assistant, I work closely with asylum seekers who . . . | Continue reading Pandemic and Trump's anti-migrant agenda at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/05/49001/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pandemic-and-trumps-anti-migrant-agenda

Immigrants in Limbo Speak Out
James Goodman | progressive.org | 2020-05-29
DACA and Temporary Protected Status holders seek road to citizenship.
progressive.org/dispatches/immigrants-in-limbo-speak-out-goodman-200529/

New Details Of Deadly No-Knock Warrant Show Just How Reckless Police Can Be
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-29
PAR uncovers new information on the dangers of serving no-knock warrants and analyzes the raid that killed 26-year-old EMT Breonna Taylor. Cop watcher Kenneth Dunham alleges continued intimidation from local Oregon police.
therealnews.com/stories/police-accountability-report-new-details-no-knock-warrant-shows-reckless-police

Bethune's socialized medicine and the public health crisis today
Pratyush Chandra | mronline.org | 2020-05-29
We are at war! The heads of states throughout the globe are posing as chieftains in this quixotic war against an enemy who no one understands.
mronline.org/2020/05/29/bethunes-socialized-medicine-and-the-public-health-crisis-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bethunes-socialized-medicine-and-the-public-health-crisis-today

Cop who killed George Floyd in Minneapolis had record of brutality
wsws.org | 2020-05-29
Local station KARE 11 reports 13 complaints since 2003 were closed without discipline. Chauvin was awarded a departmental medal of valor in 2009.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/29/mpl2-m29.html

'When the looting starts, the shooting starts': Trump revives segregationist war cry
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-29
On the day following George Floyd's lynching by officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, President Donald Trump announced an FBI investigation into what happened. Facing a mass public outcry against the backdrop of incontrovertible video evidence of Officer Derek Chauvin's killing of Floyd, even Trump was compelled to say he'd do something. The charade of …
peoplesworld.org/article/when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts-trump-revives-segregationist-war-cry/

Is It Time to Boycott the United States?
John Feffer | zcomm.org | 2020-05-29
The G7 kicked Russia out over its invasion of Crimea. Does the U.S. assault on international laws, treaties, and democracy itself warrant the same treatment?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-it-time-to-boycott-the-united-states/

In Colombia, the pandemic is widening inequality in access to education
Zoe PC | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-29
Popular educator, professor and militant Harold García discusses how the pandemic has put stress on the public education system of Colombia and made access to education even less equal…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/29/in-colombia-the-pandemic-is-widening-inequality-in-access-to-education/

2.1 million new claims for unemployment insurance bring total to 40 million
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-29
San José, CA – On Thursday, May 28, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that there were 2.1 million new claims for state unemployment insurance in the previous week ending May 23. This was down from 2.4 million new claims the week before, showing that the wave of layoffs from the pandemic and efforts to control it is going down. At the same time this is still more than ten times the pre-recession level and brings the total number of new applications to 40 million in the last ten weeks. | The total number of people receiving benefits through both the regular state unemployment and the Federal Pandemic Unemployme…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/29/21-million-new-claims-unemployment-insurance-bring-total-40-million

Smart Ass Cripple: Going to the Doctor While Deaf
Mike Ervin | progressive.org | 2020-05-29
If you're deaf and need to communicate with hospital staff during the pandemic, that's when the nightmare really begins.
progressive.org/dispatches/going-to-doctor-while-deaf-ervin-200529/

Bibles at the Barricades: How the Right Seized Power in Bolivia
Ben Dangl | zcomm.org | 2020-05-29
The àÅñez government threatens to roll back major progressive policies of the MAS, as well as victories won in the streets by Bolivia's broad social, labor, and indigenous movements…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/bibles-at-the-barricades-how-the-right-seized-power-in-bolivia/

President Trump has No Idea How Online Speech Works
Kate Ruane | aclu.org | 2020-05-29
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at bullying social media companies and online platforms into changing how they moderate content online. The order came the day after President Trump tweeted that Republicans feel that social media platforms silence conservative voices. And, notably, just days after Twitter's decision to place a fact-checking label on one of Trump's tweets for the first time, calling out his blatantly false tweets about mail-in ballots and directing users to trusted journalistic so…
aclu.org/news/free-speech/president-trump-has-no-idea-how-online-speech-works

Maine's ISP Privacy Law Does Not Violate the First Amendment, Much as ISPs Would Like for It To
Arianna Demas | aclu.org | 2020-05-29
Without many of us even realizing it, our use of the Internet reveals deeply private information about us, ranging from the contents of our communications to details about our finances, health, and exact location. This information

Recidivism Will Only Decrease if Successful Reentry is Embraced as an Antidote for Mass Incarceration
Lewis Conway | aclu.org | 2020-05-29
While there are many policies drafted and bills legislated, really the only components that comprise successful reentry to the community are skills, support, and shelter. Thinking about what I needed when I came home from prison looks much different now than it did 20 odd years ago. Back then, I thought serving my time in prison was my punishment; I didn't know I was facing a life sentence after leaving prison. And for many people reentering society after leaving incarceration, that's what reentry is

Amid Global Pandemic—With Nearly 363,000 Dead—Trump Terminates US Ties With the World Health Organization
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
"When every single country in the world is able to work with the WHO, except for one whose president advocates treating coronavirus with bleach and UV light, who do you think is at fault?" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_who_terminates.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/29/amid-global-pandemic-nearly-363000-dead-trump-terminates-us-ties-world-health?cd-origin=rss

With COP 26 Pushed to Late 2021 Due to Pandemic, World Leaders Urged Not to Delay Climate Action
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
Organizers of the United Nations COP 26 climate change conference that has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic announced Thursday that the summit will now be held during the first two weeks of November 2021 in Glasgow—prompting a new wave of calls for world leaders to pursue a green and just recovery to the ongoing public health crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12108587471.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/29/cop-26-pushed-late-2021-due-pandemic-world-leaders-urged-not-delay-climate-action?cd-origin=rss

Mnuchin and DeVos Sued for Unlawful Seizure of Student Loan Borrowers' Tax Refunds During Pandemic
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and the federal departments they run were hit with a class-action lawsuit Friday for illegal seizures of thousands of student borrowers' tax refunds during the coronavirus pandemic, which has left over 40 million Americans jobless and familes across the country struggling to stay in their homes and keep food on the table. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/picmonkey_collage.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/29/mnuchin-and-devos-sued-unlawful-seizure-student-loan-borrowers-tax-refunds-during?cd-origin=rss

At Least 9 Million US Households With Children Are 'Not At All Confident' They'll Be Able to Afford Food Next Month, Census Survey Finds
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-29
A poll released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week revealed that at least nine million American households that include children are unsure whether they'll be able to access enough food in the next four weeks, while millions more are experiencing housing insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1209343151_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/05/29/least-9-million-us-households-children-are-not-all-confident-theyll-be-able-afford?cd-origin=rss

Selected Articles: The Horrific Minneapolis Police Killing of George Floyd
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis provided by Global Research on a daily basis? | Click to | * * * | | The Horrific Minneapolis Police Killing of George …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-horrific-minneapolis-police-killing-george-floyd/5714450

The Coronavirus Thrives on Hate
Patrick G. Lee | thenation.com | 2020-05-29
The Coronavirus Thrives on Hate…
thenation.com/article/society/lgbtq-seoul-south-korea-coronavirus/

Trump's Anti-China Hysteria Goes Nuclear
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-29
The Trump administration's scapegoating of China over its own disastrous mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic has relied on baseless conspiracy theory, unscientific claims and hyperbole. This week the president's National Security Advisor went further by comparing the virus outbreak to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. | In a U.S. media interview, Robert O'Brien repeated baseless claims that China was guilty of a "cover up" in responding to…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/29/trump-anti-china-hysteria-goes-nuclear/

German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as 'A Global False Alarm'
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-29
Germany's federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry. | Some of the report key passages are: | The dangerousness of Covid-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did the danger posed by the new virus go beyond the normal level. | The people who die from Corona are essentially those who would statistically die this year, because they have reached the end of their lives and their weakened bodies can no longe…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/29/german-official-leaks-report-denouncing-corona-as-global-false-alarm/

California Sheriff Refuses to Release People From Jail as COVID Outbreak Rages
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-29
California Sheriff Chad Bianco recently made a splash in the conservative media after he told Riverside County officials that his department would not enforce local public health orders meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19. A viral video of his statement earned Bianco an interview on Fox News on May 8, where he said it was time for businesses to reopen despite a statewide stay-at-home order. | Bianco did not mention that the five…
truthout.org/articles/california-sheriff-refuses-to-release-people-from-jail-as-covid-outbreak-rages/

Billions for Defense Contractor Hidden in New House COVID Relief Bill
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-29
When they passed another bill this month to help the tens of millions of Americans left unemployed and hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic, Democrats in the House of Representatives touted the $3 trillion legislation's benefits to working people, renters, first responders and others struggling to get by. | They made no mention of the defense contractors. | Tucked away deep in the nearly 2,000-page H…
truthout.org/articles/billions-for-defense-contractor-hidden-in-new-house-covid-relief-bill/

Forget "Looting." Capitalism Is the Real Robbery
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-29
This morning the president of the United States threatened state-sanctioned murder in response to "looting," laying bare the way in which white supremacy, capitalism and the state work together to violently repress people who defend Black life. | But Trump's angry outburst is not the only blatantly racist response we should be interrogating. We also must confront the way in which both conservatives and li…
truthout.org/articles/forget-looting-capitalism-is-the-real-robbery/

Trump Opposes Masks Because Culture War Nihilism Is His Last Line of Defense
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-29
I don't think there's ever been a U.S. president with more influence with his political base that Donald Trump. All presidents are defended by those who support them, of course. Even the most unpopular failures have diehard fans who stick with them to the bitter end. | But Trump is unusual in that he has only ever attempted to govern on behalf of the pe…
truthout.org/articles/trump-opposes-masks-because-culture-war-nihilism-is-his-last-line-of-defense/

Sheffield City Council advises against schools reopening on Monday
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-29
Sheffield City Council is advising schools not to open to more pupils from Monday, citing fears that the NHS Test and Trace system will not be "robust enough" to be in place by next week. | The decision comes after prime minister Boris Johnson announced that the government's five key tests required for the easing of the lockdown have been met

Imperial develops coronavirus outbreak simulation tools for 137 countries
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-29
Imperial have developed coronavirus outbreak simulation tools for 137 countries to help healthcare services plan their response to the pandemic.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197799/imperial-develops-coronavirus-outbreak-simulation-tools

Identifying clusters central to South Korea's COVID-19 response
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-29
South Korean interventions controlled the transmission of COVID-19 quickly, resulting in a smaller epidemic made up of "clusters" of cases.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197837/identifying-clusters-central-south-koreas-covid-19

Mobile data shows high compliance with lockdown rules across the UK
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-29
People across the UK drastically reduced their movement outside of home following lockdown, although slight rises have occurred since April.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197835/mobile-data-shows-high-compliance-with

Misfolded proteins and simulating the Universe: News from the College
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-29
Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197793/misfolded-proteins-simulating-universe-news-from

EXPLOSIVE transcripts show Flynn wanted to work with Russia against ISIS, Kislyak warned Trump 'Russiagate' was targeting HIM
rt.com | 2020-05-29
Transcripts of conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak show that incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was looking out for US interests and sought Russian help against terrorists, while the FBI framed him. | Flynn and Kislyak spoke several times in December 2016 and January 2017, during the presidential transition. Within days of President Donald Trump's inauguration, the FBI interviewed Flynn with an intent

Minneapolis riots are PUTIN'S PLAN, 'Russiagate' thought-peddlers warn
rt.com | 2020-05-29
George Floyd's apparent murder by a Minneapolis police officer wasn't just a shocking display of police brutality. It was part of Russia's plan to topple the US, according to the twilight-zone takes of the liberal intelligentsia. | Floyd, an unarmed black man, died in police custody after he was crushed under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday. Since his death, the city has been consumed by riots, looting and arson. The incident was just one in the US' history of police beatings and killings of unarmed black males, from Rodney King in 1991 to Eric Garner in 2014. | Also on rt.com…
rt.com/usa/490191-minneapolis-putin-russian-meddling/

'White liberal Hillary supporters bigger threat than the KKK': CNN's Van Jones channels Malcolm X with warning
rt.com | 2020-05-29
CNN commentator Van Jones has invoked the wrath of a thousand Karens, warning black people that they have more to fear from "white liberal Hillary Clinton supporters" who pretend to be allies than they do from the KKK. | Declaring that the black community is "fragile" and "tired" after years of lies about "progress" always being around the next corner even as innocent black men are killed in broad daylight, Jones took aim at who he believed was responsible. "It's not the racist white person who's in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about," he said on CNN on Friday. "It's the white liberal Hillary Clinton…
rt.com/usa/490167-van-jones-liberal-racist-karens/

Trump says 'can't allow anarchy & chaos' in Minneapolis after speaking with family of George Floyd
rt.com | 2020-05-29
US President Donald Trump said he had been in touch with the family of George Floyd

With Nation Focused on Pandemic, Trump Interior Dept. to Greenlight Killing of Bear Cubs and Wolf Pups in Their Dens
Julia Conley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-29
President Donald Trump's National Park Service plans to finalize rules this week that will allow hunters in Alaska to kill bear cubs and wolf pups while they are in their dens, reversing Obama-era regulations meant to prevent destabilization of …
globalresearch.ca/trump-interior-dept-greenlight-killing-bear-cubs-wolf-pups/5714400

Minnesota National Guard: Stand Down For Black Lives
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-29
We write you as fellow veterans and service members with full knowledge of what's at stake as many of you are being asked to mobilize against civilians in your own country. As your neighbors fill the streets demanding the justice this country promised them, your command is undoubtedly telling you that you're being activated in service to your community. And yet, it is your community members who fill the streets, while your Commander in Chief tweets about using you to murder people over something as insignificant as property damage. A moral choice lies before you. As veterans who have faced similar tests of consci…
popularresistance.org/minnesota-national-guard-stand-down-for-black-lives/

Scheer Intelligence: The 'Mass Murder Program' Behind America's Rise To Power
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-29
The Cold War–how it was fought and brutally won by the U.S. on global scale–has defined international politics for more than half a century. That is the central argument of journalist Vincent Bevins' new book, "The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World." Through meticulous research and extensive interviews with over a hundred people in more than a dozen countries and several languages, Bevins connects the dots between a U.S.-sponsored terror scheme that killed more than a million civilians in Indonesia in the 1960s, and the slaughter of le…
popularresistance.org/scheer-intelligence-the-mass-murder-program-behind-americas-rise-to-power/

Black And Minority-Owned Businesses Are Denied Virus Relief Funds
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-29
Many Black and Latino business owners say they are on the verge of losing their businesses because they are currently out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, that may not be the only reason because according to a new survey, these two minority groups have also been side-lined and are barely benefiting from the Paycheck Protection Program and other government aid efforts. | The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act that is intended to provide some form of financial aid to small business owners who are finding it hard to function a…
popularresistance.org/black-and-minority-owned-businesses-are-denied-virus-relief-funds/

40 Million Health Workers Endorse Green Recovery
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-29
More than 40 million doctors and nurses are in, and they are prescribing a green recovery from the economic devastation caused by the new coronavirus. | More than 350 health organizations representing some 40 million medical professionals, as well as more than 4,500 individual health workers from 90 countries, signed a letter to the G20 leaders Tuesday urging them to craft what they are promoting as a #HealthyRecovery by taking measures such as reforming fossil fuel subsidies and fighting pollution and deforestation. | "A truly healthy recovery will not allow pollution to continue to cloud the air we breathe and…
popularresistance.org/40-million-health-workers-endorse-green-recovery/

Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-29
A progressive organization of 23,000 physicians from across the U.S. demanded Thursday that the American Hospital Association (AHA) divest completely from a dark-money lobbying group that has spent millions combating Medicare for All and instead devote those financial resources to the fight against Covid-19 and to better support for patients and healthcare workers. | Dr. Adam Gaffney, president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), said in a statement that "the Covid-19 pandemic has stretched hospitals' resources to the limit, and the AHA should not waste precious member hospitals' funds lobbying ag…
popularresistance.org/doctors-demand-hospital-industry-stop-funding-dark-money-lobby-group/

US Military To Fight Drug Trafficking In Colombia Along Venezuela Border
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-05-29
A US brigade of special anti-drug units will arrive in Colombia in support of an operation announced by Washington in April that actually seeks to deploy military forces in the country's border states with Venezuela. | The US Embassy in Colombia announced in a statement that a Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) will travel to Colombia under the guise of helping it in its fight against drug trafficking. | The mission will begin in early June, extend over several months, and focus its efforts on the Zonas Futuro, as delimited by the Colombian government. | The Zonas Futuro cover 2.4 percent of Colombian terri…
popularresistance.org/us-military-to-fight-drug-trafficking-in-colombia-along-venezuela-border/

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Kathy Kelly | progressive.org | 2020-05-28
Why the United States bears responsibility for Yemen's humanitarian crisis.
progressive.org/magazine/our-disaster-kelly/

Re-elect Sue Bolton to Moreland Council
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-28
Socialist Alliance Chloe DSIssue 1267 Australia Moreland City Council election MelbourneMay 28, 2020Socialist councillor Sue Bolton, first elected to Moreland City Council in 2012 an…
greenleft.org.au/content/re-elect-sue-bolton-moreland-council

"Fight Back!": ACT UP Members & Tony Kushner Remember Trailblazing AIDS Activist Larry Kramer
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-28
We discuss the life and legacy of Larry Kramer, the legendary writer and trailblazing activist in the fight against AIDS, who has died at the age of 84. Kramer helped start Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP to demand life-saving drugs, and faced off with Dr. Anthony Fauci before the two became friends. Many credit Kramer for saving thousands of lives. We hear from Kramer in his own words at the 2019 anti-corporate Queer Liberation March and host a roundtable with two former ACT UP members: "Gay USA" host Ann Northrop and Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves. We also speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright To…
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/28/rip_larry_kramer

"No Justification": Minneapolis Demands Murder Charges for Police Officer Who Killed George Floyd
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-28
Parts of Minneapolis erupted into flames Wednesday night as residents again took to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by white police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday. A viral video shows Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for a number of minutes as Floyd repeatedly says "I cannot breathe." Three other officers stood by as George Floyd suffocated. They have been identified as Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng. All four officers were fired on Tuesday. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has called on prosecutors to file criminal charges against Derek Chauvin. We speak wit…
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/28/george_floyd_death_minneapolis_protests

While everyone's focused on the Cummings circus, shocking news emerges about the UK death rate
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-05-28
The British public is understandably angry about Dominic Cummings' behaviour during lockdown. It's scandalous that he travelled to a different house and drove to Barnard Castle

Trump the Peace Candidate? This President Abhors International Treaties
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-28
Let us consider why the Donald Trump White House is currently considering detonating a nuclear weapon. It would be the first "test" of a nuke since 1992 and is clearly intended to send a message that those weapons sitting around in storage will be available for use. The testing is in response to alleged development of low-yield tactical nuclear devices by Beijing and Moscow, a claim that is unsupported by any evidence a…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/28/trump-the-peace-candidate-this-president-abhors-international-treaties/

Israeli Forces Dismantle Four Palestinian-owned Produce Stalls, Stop Construction of Structures
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-28
Aref Daraghmeh, a local activist, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli forces dismantled four stalls set up by residents to be used to sell vegetables and fruits, in Bardala and Ein al-Bayda villages, Northern Jordan Valley. It was noted that troops also confiscated large amounts of the produce, reducing …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-dismantle-four-palestinian-owned-produce-stalls-stop-construction-of-structures/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-dismantle-four-palestinian-owned-produce-stalls-stop-construction-of-structures

Hirak protests continue across Algeria in solidarity with political prisoners
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-28
Algeria witnessed a fresh round of anti-government protests on May 25, Monday in solidarity with political prisoners associated with the Hirak movement, who are being held in jails on frivolous and motivated charges. Rallies and demonstrations were conducted in cities across Algeria, coinciding with the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations. A ban on public demonstrations and other restrictions are in force in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | One of the main sites of Monday's protest was Kherrata city in Bejaia province, east of Algerian capital Algiers. The city holds particular significance as it is where the Hir…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/28/hirak-protests-continue-across-algeria-in-solidarity-with-political-prisoners/

Minneapolis Protests Police Murder of George Floyd: Day 2
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-05-28
Minneapolis, MN

Salt Lake to protest police killings on national day of action May 30
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-28
Salt Lake City, UT

Vale Rod Webb
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-28
Film & theatre Greg AdamsonIssue 1267 Australia ObituaryMay 28, 2020By the late 1960s the Vietnam War was drawing mass protest, the feminist movement had burst onto the scene and the gay liberation movement, as it was then known, was emerging. The heart of Sydney activism…
greenleft.org.au/content/vale-rod-webb

Venezuela Cuts Back Oil Production, Mulls Gasoline Price Hike
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-28
Four Iranian tankers carrying fuel and additives have arrived in recent days.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14891

Israeli Troops Abduct Eight Palestinians Across the West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-28
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, late on Wednesday night and early on Thursday at dawn, eight Palestinians, across the occupied West Bank. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Prisoners' Society said in a statement that Israeli troops invaded both Ya'bad and Qabatia villages of Jenin district and abducted Nour Bashar Abu Bakr, a former …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-eight-palestinians-across-the-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-eight-palestinians-across-the-west-bank

Israeli Court Rules Against Demolition of Dozens of Palestinian Family Homes
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-28
More than 35 Palestinian households in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, have reportedly been successful to extract an Israeli court's ruling that allows them to stay in their their homes, following Israeli military attempts to demolish them. Head of the local Palestinian committee for resisting the Israeli Apartheid Wall …
imemc.org/article/israeli-court-rules-against-demolition-of-dozens-of-palestinian-family-homes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-court-rules-against-demolition-of-dozens-of-palestinian-family-homes

Israel Escalates Demolition of Palestinian Homes in the West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-28
A Palestinian Siam family, on Wednesday, began to tear down parts their own home in occupied East Jerusalem. The family told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem delivered a demolition order to their Silwan home. The pretext used by the so-called Israeli authorities, for the …
imemc.org/article/israel-escalates-demolition-of-palestinian-homes-in-the-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israel-escalates-demolition-of-palestinian-homes-in-the-west-bank

Israeli Troops Block Maintenance of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-28
Israeli troops blocked, earlier on Thursday morning, maintenance works at the Al-Ibrahimi Mosque, an ancient United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-recognized part of Palestinian heritage. Palestinian chief for the Holy Shrine and Muslim scholar, Hefdi Abusnaina, told media outlets that Israeli troops blocked, by force, some construction and …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-block-maintenance-of-al-ibrahimi-mosque-in-hebron/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-block-maintenance-of-al-ibrahimi-mosque-in-hebron

US announces end of sanction waivers under nuclear deal to Iran
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-28
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced the end of exemptions provided under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to some foreign companies to work on certain Iranian nuclear sites. The waiver was renewed every 60 days despite the unilateral US withdrawal from the deal in 2018…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/28/us-announces-end-of-sanction-waivers-under-nuclear-deal-to-iran/

Security Council: Paralysis and 'political infighting' must end, to boost COVID-19 fight: EU foreign affairs chief
news.un.org | 2020-05-28
The global coronavirus pandemic is testing the multilateral system like never before and the Security Council must stop the "infighting", and step up to the challenge, the European Union's foreign policy chief told the 15-member body on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1065022

National Women's Soccer League resuming June tournament in Utah
Eddie Pells | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-28
(AP) Pro soccer returns to the U.S. next month when the National Women's Soccer League starts a 25-game tournament in a pair of stadiums in Utah that will be kept clear of fans to protect players from the coronavirus. Players from the league's nine teams will train and live at two Salt Lake City-area hotels, …
peoplesworld.org/article/national-womens-soccer-league-resuming-june-tournament-in-utah/

Edge of Sports: A Dangerous Game
Dave Zirin | progressive.org | 2020-05-28
It should be the status of the virus, and not the wishes of humans, that sets the dates for reopening the sports world. But the people in charge do not seem to be listening.
progressive.org/magazine/a-dangerous-game-zirin/

When Losing Your Job Means Losing Your Psychiatric Medication
Ella Fassler | thenation.com | 2020-05-28
When Losing Your Job Means Losing Your Psychiatric Medication…
thenation.com/article/society/mental-health-insurance-coronavirus/

Depicting Those Lost to Covid-19
Steve Brodner | thenation.com | 2020-05-28
Depicting Those Lost to Covid-19…
thenation.com/article/society/illustrations-obituaries-coronavirus/

Solidarity Is Our Silver Linings Pandemic Playbook
Gregg Gonsalves | thenation.com | 2020-05-28
Solidarity Is Our Silver Linings Pandemic Playbook…
thenation.com/article/society/solidarity-silver-linings-coronavirus/

2 Days in May That Shattered Korean Democracy
Tim Shorrock, Injeong Kim | thenation.com | 2020-05-28
2 Days in May That Shattered Korean Democracy…
thenation.com/article/world/two-days-in-may-that-shattered-korean-democracy/

Americas are the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-28
With nearly 2.45 million confirmed cases, the Americas reached the current largest number of COVID-19 cases worldwide, with almost 500,000 cases more than Europe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). | Two of the region's countries occupy the first and second places in the number of infected people. The United States lead the ranking of COVID-19 cases, with over 1 million 700 thousand cases while Brazil comes in second place, with 391.222 thousand cases. | The world has surpassed, last Wednesday May 21, the mark of 5 million COVID-19 cases, according to the US Johns Hopkins University's real time das…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/28/americas-are-the-new-epicenter-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Latin America and Caribbean: Millions more could miss meals due to COVID-19 pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-05-28
Some 14 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean could experience severe food insecurity this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to projections released on Thursday by the World Food Programme (WFP).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1065032

Trump declares COVID-19 vaccine war, but can he hold the world hostage?
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-28
peoplesworld.org/article/trump-declares-covid-19-vaccine-war-but-can-he-hold-the-world-hostage/

We're Working to Safeguard Our Democracy and Our Health
Dale Ho | aclu.org | 2020-05-28
No one should have to choose between their health and their vote, but during the Wisconsin primary, an estimated 19,000 Milwaukeeans were forced to risk their health to cast their primary ballots. More than 50 Milwaukee County voters have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and were identified as having been infectious or infected at the time of voting; more than half of them had no other known po…
aclu.org/news/voting-rights/were-working-to-safeguard-our-democracy-and-our-health

Ecuadorians resist government's attempt to push through neoliberal reforms
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-28
Trade unions and movements allege that Moreno is taking advantage of the crisis generated by COVID-19 pandemic to advance with the regressive economic reforms ordered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/28/ecuadorians-resist-governments-attempt-to-push-through-neoliberal-reforms/

We Can't Trust the IMF and World Bank to Lead the COVID-19 Recovery
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-05-28
Jacobin See article on original site The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank played a central role in shaping our current model of globalization, imposing policies that held countries back from climbing up the income ladder, weakened health systems, and subordinated development outcomes to the whims of private capital. As the vulnerabilities of this …
cepr.net/we-cant-trust-the-imf-and-world-bank-to-lead-the-covid-19-recovery/

Federal Prison 'Should Not Be a Death Sentence'
Frances Madeson | progressive.org | 2020-05-28
Advocates press for the release of Native inmates due to COVID-19.
progressive.org/dispatches/federal-prison-not-death-sentence-madeson-200528/

COVID-19: Act now or risk 'unimaginable devastation' globally, warns UN chief
news.un.org | 2020-05-28
Unless countries across the world act together now, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause "unimaginable devastation and suffering around the world", UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday at a virtual high-level meeting on financing for development.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1065002

Yemen: Humanitarians seeking $2.41 billion to keep aid flowing amid COVID-19 pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-05-28
UN agencies and their global partners are seeking $2.41 billion to fight COVID-19 spread in Yemen while continuing to support millions affected by the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1064992

Jingo Unchained: Big Trouble with China Rising?
Todd Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-28
In the haze of the morning, China sits on Eternity And the opium farmers sell dreams to obscure fraternities On the horizon the curtains are closing.

Washington Post Tells Readers About Trump's "Existential" Threat to China
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-05-28
Thankfully, it is not a nuclear war. Apparently the Washington Post thinks plans considered by Trump to delist Chinese companies from U.S. stock exchanges and to make it more difficult for the country to trade in dollars will pose an "existential" threat to the country. While these plans, which put into practice, will almost certainly …
cepr.net/washington-post-tells-readers-about-trumps-existential-threat-to-china/

Did Conservative HQ demand Emily Maitlis be publicly reprimanded?
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-28
TruePublica Editor: Most of the mainstream media are reporting that Emily Maitlis was replaced as host of Wednesday night's episode of Newsnight by another member of the programme's team after BBC bosses reprimanded her over a monologue in which she attacked the government's handling of Dominic Cummings' lockdown trip to Durham. News bosses at the corporation …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/did-conservative-hq-demand-emily-maitlis-be-publicly-reprimanded/

Uprising underway in Minneapolis
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-28
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South African Union calls for resignation of CEO of Comair
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-28
The airline withheld workers' salaries for May and the union has argued that the company is using the pandemic as "a cover for the restructuring which is taking place"
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/28/south-african-union-calls-for-resignation-of-ceo-of-comair/

The Impact of the Pandemic on Young People's Employment and Economic Security
Karen Conner | cepr.net | 2020-05-28
Young people's employment rate has been trending down over the past several decades. Factors include increasing school attendance, declining federal support for summer jobs, and the Great Recession. In Spring 2001, about 42 percent of 16 to 19-year-olds and 71 percent of 20 to 24-year-olds were employed. By Spring 2011, in the wake of the …
cepr.net/the-impact-of-the-pandemic-on-young-peoples-employment-and-economic-security/

We're Taking Clearview AI to Court to End its Privacy-Destroying Face Surveillance Activities
Nathan Freed Wessler | aclu.org | 2020-05-28
For several years, a little-known start-up based in New York has been amassing a database of billions of our faceprints

Vale Ken Muir: a well respected and lifelong education unionist
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-28
Workers & unions Dave BellIssue 1267 Australia undefinedMay 28, 2020Drought, bushfires and the pandemic have made this a memorable year. It has also recently been marked by the death of Ken Muir, a fine comrade, in Perth where he was living in retirement with his daughter Mi…
greenleft.org.au/content/vale-ken-muir-well-respected-and-lifelong-education-unionist

The collapse of anti-immigrant sentiment in Britain
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-28
In June 2016, Lord Ashcroft's poll discovered that one third (33%) of leave voters said the main reason was that leaving the EU "offered the best chance for the UK to regain control over immigration and its own borders. For all of the many other reasons that voters decided to vote Brexit, immigration, you could …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/the-collapse-of-anti-immigrant-sentiment-in-britain/

U.S. Empire: Biden and Kerry Gave Orders to Ukraine's President
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-28
On May 19th, an implicit international political warning was issued, but it wasn't issued between countries; it was issued between allied versus opposed factions within each of two countries: U.S. and Ukraine. In the United States, it's a Republican Party warning to the Democratic Party: a warning by Trump, against Biden and against Obama. It's saying: "We've got the goods on you, and we're not releasing it yet. But here's a sample. So, let's deal." | It's a warning that comes from the current President of Ukraine, Volodmyr Zelenskiy, and that places into an exceptionally bad light his immediate predecessor, Petr…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/28/us-empire-biden-kerry-gave-orders-ukraine-president/

American Shadow Creatures Exposed: But Will the Empire Still Win the Day?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-28
It is rare in life to experience a sustained ray of light shine upon the shadow creatures that have so long perverted recent history. At times, a bit of light has shone upon these creatures, but never for very long. | From 1869-1872, the world got to see these creatures exposed when the first international criminal case occurred between Britain and the USA known as the Alabama Claims affair. The outcome of this case found Britain guilty of militarily supplying the Confederate South during the Civil War which nearly saw t…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/28/american-shadow-creatures-exposed-but-will-empire-still-win-day/

India forced to deal with heatwave and plague of locusts as it battles Covid-19
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-28
As if Covid-19 was not enough, India has been grappling with scorching temperatures and the worst locust invasion in decades as authorities prepared for the end of lockdown despite recording thousands of new infections every day.This triple disaster drew biblical comparisons and forced officials to try to balance the competing demands of simultaneous public health crises: protection from eviscerating heat but also social distancing in newly reopened parks and markets.The heat wave threatens to compound challenges of containing the virus, which has started spreading more quickly and broadly since the government be…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/05/28/india-forced-to-deal-with-heatwave-and-plague-of-locusts-as-it-battles-covid-19/

'Test and Trace will fail if workers are pushed into financial hardship'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-28
The Test and Trace system will fail to work effectively if statutory sick pay is not increased, the government has been warned. | Those self-isolating will be eligible for statutory sick pay but there are fears that many workers will not be able to afford to isolate and will be forced to keep working. | NHS Test and Trace

UK-bound air passenger numbers plummet by 99% during coronavirus
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-28
The number of passengers arriving in the UK by air fell "sharply" since the start of the coronavirus pandemic from around 7.1 million in January to 112,300 in April.The figure for last month is 99% lower than the number of air passengers who came into the country in April 2019, according to the Advance Passenger Information (API) data published by the Home Office.A report published on Thursday said the majority (58%) of arrivals since the lockdown was announced on 23 March were British nationals coming back to the UK.The remaining 42% "will include foreign nationals who are UK residents returning to the UK, depen…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/05/28/uk-bound-air-passenger-numbers-plummet-by-99-during-coronavirus/

Lab-free COVID-19 test trialled in London hospitals
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-28
DnaNudge's MHRA-approved rapid COVID-19 test is now rolling out in urgent patient care settings across London hospitals.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197798/lab-free-covid-19-test-trialled-london-hospitals

50 billion years of evolutionary history threatened by human activity
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-28
Unique animals with long evolutionary histories are under increased threat of extinction around the world, according to a new study.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197797/50-billion-years-evolutionary-history-threatened

Unions: $500 billion went to corporations, Postal Service got nothing
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-28
WASHINGTON–As the GOP Trump government and its congressional allies have ladled out tons of cash towards private businesses hit in the worst depression in years, they've given the financial back of their hand to the one institution all those firms depend on: The U.S. Postal Service. And postal union leaders don't like it one bit. …
peoplesworld.org/article/unions-500-billion-went-to-corporations-postal-service-got-nothing/

No Benefit for Lopinavir–Ritonavir in Severe COVID-19
Slomski A. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-26
Treatment with the HIV combination drug lopinavir-ritonavir did not accelerate recovery or improve mortality rates among hospitalized patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a trial in the New England Journal of Medicine reported.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766416

Emerging Lessons From COVID-19 Response in New York City
Chokshi DA, Katz MH. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-26
In a little more than 1 month, US society and its hospitals were transformed by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The once-boisterous streets of New York City became quiet, while the hospital wards reverberated with the swooshes and beeps usually heard in intensive care units (ICUs). COVID-19 echoed that duality. There are so many outside the hospital who were silently infected, while so many fought for their lives in the hospital, struggling just to breathe.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766403

Hybrid Influenza Strain Found in Idaho Teenager
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-26
A 13-year-old Idaho boy was treated in February 2019 for a hybrid influenza strain that contained genetic components of both seasonal influenza and 2009 influenza A(H1N1), according to a CDC report.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766440

Psoriasis Drug Guselkumab Improved Psoriatic Arthritis Symptoms
Slomski A. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-05-26
Guselkumab, a biologic drug approved to treat patients with moderate or severe psoriasis, significantly and safely improved psoriatic arthritis, a phase 3 trial in The Lancet concluded. Guselkumab is a human monoclonal antibody that inhibits interleukin-23.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766420

Action Alert: Call Your Rep to Cut Pentagon Spending
Paul Kawika Martin | peaceaction.org | 2020-05-12
☎️🗣Call your Reps. to ✂ Pentagon spending Over the last few weeks, we've alerted you that the Pentagon is trying to direct funds for COVID-19 relief into its own bloated coffers. In the last three years alone

Once Again Trump Scoffs Congressional War Powers with Republican Help
Jeff Jurgens | peaceaction.org | 2020-05-07
Once Again Trump Scoffs Congressional War Powers with Republican Help Washington, D.C.

U.S. Reverses Policy On Use of Landmines
Jeff Jurgens | peaceaction.org | 2020-05-06
On May 6, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) headed a congressional oversight letter with 107 other members of Congress to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper expressing disappointment to the Trump Administration's reversal of the policy limiting the use of antipersonnel landmines to the defense of South Korea, and seeking answers to …
peaceaction.org/2020/05/06/u-s-reverses-policy-on-use-of-landmines/

Take Action: Keep COVID Stimulus $$ Away From the Pentagon
Jeff Jurgens | peaceaction.org | 2020-04-30
Congress is putting together additional and much needed stimulus packages in response to COVID-19. That's the good news. The bad news is that the Pentagon is trying to weasel billions of dollars out of these stimulus bills! All just to keep the mega-profits rolling for weapons dealers and the military-industrial complex. As people here at …
peaceaction.org/2020/04/30/take-action-keep-covid-stimulus-away-from-the-pentagon/

U.S. Organizations React to Global Military Spending Report
Jeff Jurgens | peaceaction.org | 2020-04-30
Joint Statement: U.S. organizations react to global military spending report April 27, 2020 Our diverse group of 39 think-tanks, non-profits, faith-based organizations, and advocacy groups based in the United States find the exorbitant amount of money spent on militaries worldwide to be an irresponsible and harmful use of global wealth. The Global Military Expenditures Report …
peaceaction.org/2020/04/30/u-s-organizations-react-to-global-military-spending-report/