Trump\'s Immigration Suspension Doesn\'t Prevent Unemployment or COVID-19 Spread
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-30
Late on the evening of April 20, President Trump tweeted that he was temporarily suspending immigration to the United States. For justification he cited what he called \"the attack from the Invisible Enemy\"

Trump\'s Immigration Suspension Doesn\'t Prevent Unemployment or COVID-19 Spread
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-30
Late on the evening of April 20, President Trump tweeted that he was temporarily suspending immigration to the United States. For justification he cited what he called \"the attack from the Invisible Enemy\"

Ryan Grim: Dems\' Coronavirus Response Repeats Past Blunders
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-30
Sanders is out of the race, but the fight over the future of the Democratic part continues, says Ryan Grim, author of We\'ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement.
therealnews.com/stories/ryan-grim-dems-coronavirus-response-repeats-past-blunders

The jobless crisis and im/migrants
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-04-30
Farmworker wearing bandana during pandemic. It\'s not just COVID-19 that\'s racing like wildfire across the U.S. It\'s unemployment. The number of newly jobless workers has climbed to an astounding 26 million. That is due to coronavirus-related layoffs or furloughs caused by business closures or contractions. Added to the number of . . . | Continue reading The jobless crisis and im/migrants at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/48029/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-jobless-crisis-and-im-migrants

How to turn Colombia\'s prisons into coronavirus death camps and stay positive
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-30
It took months of inaction, but Colombia\'s government finally turned Villavicencio\'s prison into the perfect coronavirus petri dish from where its prison chief infected at least three more prisons. The…
colombiareports.com/how-to-turn-colombias-prisons-into-coronavirus-death-camps-and-stay-positive/

Bolsonaro & COVID-19 push Brazil towards military dictatorship
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Brazilian journalist and researcher, Aline Piva, after Brazil\'s Justice Minister, Sergio Moro, caught…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/30/bolsonaro-covid-19-push-brazil-towards-military-dictatorship/

Video: How the US Makes Countries Pay for Its Wars: Economics of American Imperialism with Michael Hudson
Prof Michael Hudson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own military occupation. | Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the economics of Washington\'s empire, …
globalresearch.ca/video-how-us-makes-countries-pay-its-wars-economics-american-imperialism-michael-hudson/5711354

45 Years Ago, End of Vietnam War: Neoliberalism and \"The Vietnam Model\". Who Won the Vietnam War?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
April 1975 marks the official end of the Vietnam War. Yet today, Vietnam is an impoverished countries. The Hanoi government is a US proxy regime. Vietnam has become a new cheap labor frontier of the global economy. Neoliberalism prevails.
globalresearch.ca/who-won-the-vietnam-war-2/172

Joe Biden Needs an Intervention
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-04-30
An Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/joe-biden-needs-an-intervention/

Joe Biden Needs an Intervention: An Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-04-30
\"It takes two wings to fly.\"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/30/18832705.php

With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

Onto the next \'child-rights crisis\'? Greta Thunberg launches fundraiser to battle Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-04-30
Apparently not content to rescue mankind from only one doomsday scenario, teenage eco-warrior Greta Thunberg has sprung into action again, launching a fundraising campaign to help the children of the world survive Covid-19. | The project will see the young activist partner with Denmark\'s Human Act Foundation to pledge $100,000 each to the United Nations International Children\'s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), which brings humanitarian aid to children around the globe. | Though the Covid-19 outbreak has largely spared the young, Thunberg nonetheless branded the pandemic a \"child-rights crisis\" in a statement announcin…
rt.com/news/487304-greta-next-apocalypse-coronavirus/

On Mumia\'s birthday, global event honors political prisoners
| workers.org | 2020-04-30
By Mirinda Crissman and Judy Greenspan From behind prison walls nearly 39 years, Mumia Abu Jamal continues to educate, energize and unite prison abolitionists, former and current political prisoners, and the global activist community. On April 24, his 66th birthday, Abu-Jamal\'s story and legacy brought together a virtual gathering \"U.S. . . . | Continue reading On Mumia\'s birthday, global event honors political prisoners at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/48035/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=virtual-teach-in-pays-tribute-to-mumia-abu-jamal-on-66th-birthday

Seeking justice during COVID-19: Black man killed while jogging in Georgia
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-30
A 25-year-old Black man was shot and killed while jogging after being pursued by two white men in Brunswick, Georgia. Over two months have passed since the incident, and still no one has been charged for his murder. Friends, family, and activists are looking for answers in Ahmaud Arbery\'s death, but they are afraid the …
peoplesworld.org/article/seeking-justice-during-covid-19-black-man-killed-while-jogging-in-georgia/

Et tu? Progressive Boomers Are Now Preaching Pro-Biden Lesser-Evilism
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-30
At a time when an independent progressive movement is needed more than ever, the sheepdogs of a bygone era are trying to herd a new generation of activists into the Democratic Party.
mintpressnews.com/et-tu-progressive-boomers-now-preaching-pro-joe-biden-lesser-evilism/267141/

ELN ends coronavirus ceasefire weeks ahead of expected peak in infections
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-30
Despite calls for an extension, Colombia\'s ELN rebels end their unilateral ceasefire on Thursday, claiming that military offensives demonstrated President Ivan Duque is not interested in peace or in combating…
colombiareports.com/eln-ends-coronavirus-ceasefire-weeks-ahead-of-expected-peak-in-infections/

A Letter From Viet Nam on the Occasion of the 45th Anniversary of the End of the War
Mark Ashwill | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-30
Dear Fellow Citizens, I am reaching out to you as current official friends and former enemies of Vietnam because I want you to know the truth about what could have been, an alternative and viable path of history that both countries could have trod together for mutual benefit and a more peaceful world. One milestone…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/a-letter-from-viet-nam-on-the-occasion-of-the-45th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-war/

How to maintain peace in Persian Gulf region
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-30
TEHRAN, May. 01 (MNA)

Democrats fume as armed protesters descend on Michigan Capitol to protest lockdown
rt.com | 2020-04-30
Crowds of protesters, some carrying weapons, descended on the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan, as legislators considered extending Covid-19 lockdown measures. Democrats blamed President Donald Trump. | Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued a stay-at-home order late last month, as the coronavirus epidemic took hold in her state. When the governor

Democrats fume as armed protesters descend on Michigan Capitol to protest lockdown
rt.com | 2020-04-30
Crowds of protesters, some carrying weapons, descended on the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan, as legislators considered extending Covid-19 lockdown measures. Democrats blamed President Donald Trump. | Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued a stay-at-home order late last month, as the coronavirus epidemic took hold in her state. When the governor

Colombia: Hunger Protests Continue Amid Pandemic
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-30
Colombian protests continued due to the food crisis and lack of governmental help during COVID-19 outbreak across the South American country. | RELATED: | Colombia: Gunmen Kill Social Leader and Family Members in Cauca | In Ibague, several families demonstrated demanding humanitarian aid from Tolima\'s Mayor Office, despite social isolation measures to prevent the virus from spreading. Furthermore, the Las Ferias neighborhood residents blocked a street entrance and burned tires…
telesurenglish.net/news/colombia-hunger-protests-continue-amid-pandemic-20200430-0013.html

Carnivals of the damned: the U.S. far-right fights the lockdown
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-30
The wave of far-right anti-lockdown protests show how capitalist politics can create monsters. Worse might be on the way.
mronline.org/2020/04/30/carnivals-of-the-damned-the-u-s-far-right-fights-the-lockdown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=carnivals-of-the-damned-the-u-s-far-right-fights-the-lockdown

COVID-19 Has Exposed the US Under Trump as a \"Failed State\"
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-04-30
Interview on what\'s behind Trump\'s encouragement of the \"anti-lockdown\" protests, discusses the right-wing determination to destroy the U.S. Postal Service, and lays out his views on the electoral \"lesser of two evils\" principle…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-19-has-exposed-the-us-under-trump-as-a-failed-state/

Family members protest amid six more deaths at Australian aged care home
wsws.org | 2020-04-30
The outbreak underscores the danger of a new wave of COVID-19 infections as governments and business chiefs step up their drive for a premature return to work.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/30/aged-a30.html

MoveOn Protest: Twitter Rally to Demand #RealReliefNow during COVID-19
MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-04-30
Protest online via Twitter…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/30/18832707.php

Bolivia\'s socialist presidential candidate Luis Arce speaks about elections, COVID-19 and fascist oppression
Oliver Vargas | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-30
The presidential candidate of the Movement for Socialism in Bolivia, Luis Arce Catacora, talks about COVID-19 being used as a pretext to postpone elections, the economic policies of the coup government, and the approach his party plans to take…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/30/bolivias-socialist-presidential-candidate-luis-arce-speaks-about-elections-covid-19-and-fascist-oppression/

Millions of Pakistani laborers struggle amid COVID-19 lockdown
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-30
Hundreds of charged laborers, including women, gathered outside a garment factory in the eastern district of Pakistan\'s commercial capital Karachi to protest against their forced layoff only a week before the International Labor Day.They, in fact, came to receive their salaries but they were verbally informed that the factory no longer required their services due to the financial losses caused by a lingering lockdown imposed by the government to curb the raging coronavirus outbreak in the country.A few kilometers away, another demonstration was held outside a famous textile company, which also laid off hundreds o…
yenisafak.com/en/world/millions-of-pakistani-laborers-struggle-amid-covid-19-lockdown-3518316

Greta Thunberg Donates $100,000 Prize to UNICEF to Protect Children From COVID-19 Outbreak
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-30
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize awarded by the Danish non-governmental organisation Human Act to the United Nations Children\'s Fund (UNICEF) to help the organisation protect children from COVID-19, according to a UNICEF statement on Thursday.
sputniknews.com/society/202004301079145524-greta-thunberg-donates-100000-prize-to-unicef/

New COVID-19 Antiviral Drug Remdesivir Offers \'No Significant\' Benefit, More Research Needed-Study
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-30
The first randomised trial for a promising new antiviral drug, lauded by many as a positive treatment for SARS-CoV-2 patients, suggested that there were no significant clinical benefits, with researchers urging further trials, a study released on late Wednesday revealed.
sputniknews.com/science/202004301079142995-new-covid-19-antiviral-drug-remdesivir-offers-no-significant-benefit-more-research-needed-study/

Malaysian socialist: COVID-19 means \'we cannot go back to business as normal\'
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-30
Jeyakumar DeverajIssue 1263 Malaysia Kuala LumpurApril 30, 2020Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, also known as the \"Red Doctor\", is a medical doctor by profession and is the chairperson of Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM). | He served in the Parliament of Malaysia as Member of Parliament for the Sungai Siput constituency in Perak for two term…
greenleft.org.au/content/malaysian-socialist-covid-19-means-we-cannot-go-back-business-normal

How Biden Clipped Sanders on Race
Seth Adler | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-30
After the South Carolina loss to Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders\' opponents effectively used the African American vote against him. The political moves that clipped his chances of winning, revolved around the following opportunistic argument: because Sanders ran a campaign with a racial justice and anti-racist approach that lost to huge African American majorities, how could…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/how-biden-clipped-sanders-on-race/

New York state cancels Democratic presidential primary
wsws.org | 2020-04-30
The action is an effort to block the election of a sizeable delegation pledged to Bernie Sanders.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/30/nyca-a30.html

Controversies About Covid-19, Biotech Safety & US China Rivalry with Sam Husseini
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-30
ournalist Sam Husseini with The Institute of Public Accuracy discusses the growing controversies about where Covid-19 came from, what it is and the issue of bio-tech safety and biological warfare.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/28/18832675.php

Controversies About Covid-19, Biotech Safety & US China Rivalry with Sam Husseini
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-30
ournalist Sam Husseini with The Institute of Public Accuracy discusses the growing controversies about where Covid-19 came from, what it is and the issue of bio-tech safety and biological warfare.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/28/18832675.php

45 Years Ago Today. End of the Vietnam War
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
US history since WW II is pockmarked with endless wars of aggression against invented enemies

Millions More US Jobless than Reported. Real U.S. Unemployment Rate at 38%
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Based on how it was calculated pre-1990s, Shadowstats economist John Williams has the real US unemployment rate at around 38%, heading higher. | According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), \"millions\" of jobless US workers aren\'t getting benefits because applications they …
globalresearch.ca/millions-more-us-jobless-than-reported-real-u-s-unemployment-rate-at-38/5711311

US-China Relations on the Rocks?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Both right wings of the US war party are hostile toward sovereign independent states that are free from its imperial control. | It\'s notably true for nations with enormous hydrocarbon resources like Iran and Venezuela

Diabolical Chinagate, the New Russiagate
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
While Russiagate still simmers, Chinagate is coming to a boil

Collapse of Air Travel: Boeing Burns Through a Record $4.7 Billion in Cash as Revenue Crashes 26%, Will Fire 10% of Workers
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
The hits just keep on coming for Boeing which last quarter was slammed with the continued grounding of the 737 MAX and now had to contend with the collapse in airline travel due to the coronavirus. As a result, moments …
globalresearch.ca/boeing-burns-through-record-cash-revenue-crashes-will-fire-workers/5711388

Economist Thomas Piketty: Coronavirus Pandemic Has Exposed the \"Violence of Social Inequality\"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-30
As nearly 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment in just six weeks and millions worldwide face hunger and poverty, we look at the global economic catastrophe triggered by the pandemic and its impact on the most vulnerable. As the World Food Programme warns of a massive spike in global hunger and more than 100 million people in cities worldwide could fall into poverty, can this crisis be a catalyst for change? We ask French economist Thomas Piketty. His 2014 internationally best-selling book, \"Capital in the Twenty-First Century,\" looked at economic inequality and the necessity of wealth taxes. His new b…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/30/thomas_piketty

WHO Adviser on Meat Plants: If We\'re at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-30
As President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to bar local governments from closing meatpacking plants around the United States, we get response from a longtime adviser to the World Health Organization. \"When Congress passed that act, it certainly did not have in mind that the president has the power or the right to put workers\' lives and health at risk,\" says Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University and director of the World Health Organization Center on National and Global Health Law. Gostin also discusses why he joined 40 leading center directors in a declaration this we…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/30/lawrence_gostin_covid_19

Turkey\'s \"Mask Diplomacy\" Mends Bad Relations with U.S
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
A letter from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to U.S. President Donald Trump accompanied medical supplies sent to the U.S. from Turkey. There is little hiding that the U.S. is the most affected country from the coronavirus pandemic with over …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-mask-diplomacy-mends-bad-relations-u-s/5711384

America\'s super-rich see their wealth rise by $282 Billion in three weeks of pandemic
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-04-30
America\'s billionaires have accrued more wealth in the past three weeks alone than they made in total prior to 1980.
mronline.org/2020/04/30/americas-super-rich-see-their-wealth-rise-by-282-billion-in-three-weeks-of-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=americas-super-rich-see-their-wealth-rise-by-282-billion-in-three-weeks-of-pandemic

The Czech Republic\'s Russian Assassin Scandal Reeks of the Skripal Conspiracy
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
A Czech magazine\'s scandalous claim that two of the capital\'s politicians are being guarded by police in order to protect them from a reportedly imminent assassination attempt by a Russian spy reeks of the Skripal conspiracy when Moscow were accused …
globalresearch.ca/czech-republic-russian-assassin-scandal-reeks-skripal-conspiracy/5711376

Cold War of Trump/Navarro vs China
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
It is getting ugly, extremely ugly. | It is increasingly looking like a war

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

Indian Muslims to sue for debris of Babri mosque
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-30
\"The petition in the supreme court will be filed after the lockdown ends in India,\" said Zafaryab Jilani, senior lawyer and convener of the All India Babri Masjid Action Committee, which had fought the legal battle for 27 years for ownership of Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya. The Babri Mosque had been torn down by a Hindu mob at the site in 1992.\"Our motive is quite clear that mosque debris also has sanctity like a mosque. So it should be handed over to us. It is of no use for them [Hindus] and if they throw it here and there it will hurt the sentiments of the Muslim community,\" Jilani told Anadolu Agency,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/indian-muslims-to-sue-for-debris-of-babri-mosque-3518326

COVID-19 y hechos básicos de la economía marxista
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2020-04-30
El mercado de valores se desplomó en marzo, pero se recuperó en parte después de que el Banco de la Reserva Federal bajó la tasa de interés para los préstamos. Luego se estrelló de nuevo. Las empresas se están yendo a la quiebra. El precio del petróleo ha caído a . . . | Continue reading COVID-19 y hechos básicos de la economía marxista at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/48023/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covid-19-y-hechos-basicos-de-la-economia-marxista

Is Kim Dead? Your Guess Is as Good as Western Media\'s
Julianne Tveten | fair.org | 2020-04-30
\"Monitoring intelligence\" is journalese for \"aware of rumors\" (CNN, 4/20/20). | If CNN is to be believed, Kim Jong-un is in critical condition–or he isn\'t. | Recently, the network published an article ( 4/20/20) whose headline stated that the leader of the Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known in the West as North Korea, was in \"grave danger\" following cardiovascular surgery and an absence at an April 15 even…
fair.org/home/is-kim-dead-your-guess-is-as-good-as-western-medias/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-kim-dead-your-guess-is-as-good-as-western-medias

Colombia\'s great coronavirus exodus
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
After years of receiving foreigners, from tourists and immigrants to refugees, the coronavirus pandemic abruptly reversed this trend and triggered a mass exodus from Colombia. The most dramatic migration is…
colombiareports.com/colombias-great-coronavirus-exodus/

Why did the World Health Organization wait until March to declare a global pandemic?
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-29
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO\'s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/29/why-did-the-world-health-organization-wait-until-march-to-declare-a-global-pandemic/

Why Did the World Health Organization Wait Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic?
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO\'s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-did-the-world-health-organization-wait-until-march-to-declare-a-global-pandemic/

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

Guatemalans Stage a Funeral Procession to Protest
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
After staging a funeral procession through the streets of Guatemala City on Tuesday, social activists and workers came together in the Constitution Square to denounce the poor management of the health emergency by President Alejandro Giammattei administration. | RELATED: | Guatemala: President Giammattei Reaches 100 Days in Office | \"Basic services were c…
telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemalans-Stage-a-Funeral-Procession-to-Protest-20200429-0001.html

\'Coronavirus used as excuse to roll back Colombia\'s peace process and democracy\'
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
President Ivan Duque and his far-right party are using the coronavirus to cover up \"assaults\" on Colombia\'s peace process while promoting authoritarianism, the country\'s peace movement told the United Nations…
colombiareports.com/coronavirus-used-as-excuse-to-roll-back-colombias-peace-process-and-democracy/

Cuba: Interferon\'s Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Confirmed
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
Cuban scientific authorities confirmed this week that the use of Interferon to treat COVID-19 patients was indeed effective. | RELATED: | French NGO Nominates Cuban Medical Brigades For Nobel Peace Prize | Eulogio Pimentel Vazquez, President of the Cuban Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), affirmed that the Interferon application complies with Cuban Health Ministry (Minsap) protocols. Pimentel stated that it is part of a patients\' treatment but not for those in…
telesurenglish.net/news/cuba-interferons-effectiveness-against-covid19-confirmed-20200429-0002.html

Chilean police repress a peaceful protest in Santiago, detain 30
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-29
On April 27, the Chilean national police force, the Carabineros, violently repressed a peaceful protest at the Dignity Plaza in the capital Santiago. The protest was called for by several social organizations against the Carabineros on their 93rd anniversary and against the right-wing government led by President Sebastián Piñera. | Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of Chileans, wearing face masks and maintaining social distance, gathered at the iconic Dignity Plaza, to express their rejection of the Carabineros, on their 93rd anniversary. The protesters expressed their repudiation of the police force by banging…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/29/chilean-police-repress-a-peaceful-protest-in-santiago-detain-30/

Let Prisoners Go During COVID-19 pandemic
Jesse Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
Across the United States and across the world, prisoners are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. Overcrowded facilities, shortages of food and medicine, and totally inadequate testing expose prisoners who are disproportionately poor and afflicted with prior conditions that render them vulnerable to the disease. Prisoners increasingly are protesting their conditions, objecting to being…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/let-prisoners-go-during-covid-19-pandemic/

A Different Kind of COVID-19 Protest
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
Amidst a deadly pandemic set to kill millions of people it is hard not to become reactionary and short-sighted. The coronavirus for all intents and purposes is the new Trump for the libs. On the one hand a force that remains criminally underrated in its capacity for destruction despite its overwhelming popularity and attention from…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/a-different-kind-of-covid-19-protest/

April 25, 2020: Nationwide Cancel Rents Protests
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
We face a second rent day, May 1, when at least one third of renters nationwide will not be able to pay the rent due to the pandemic lockdown. Yet no governor, Democrat or Republican, has demanded that the rent be cancelled since the renters who live from paycheck to paycheck face immediate eviction when the lockdown ends as they cannot pay any back rent.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/27/18832659.php

Wild in the Streets? Mayday 1971
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
During the last week of April and the first few days of May in 1971, tens of thousands of US residents protested in the streets of Washington, DC. Their goal was to force an immediate and complete withdrawal of all US forces from Southeast Asia. Although they did not accomplish their goal, they did force…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/wild-in-the-streets-mayday-1971/

Your Freedoms Don\'t Have to be Muzzled Just Because You\'re Wearing a Mask
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
\"If 2019 was the year of the street protest, of tear gas and rubber bullets, 2020 might be the year the street protest died, or perhaps fell into a deep sleep, and went online.\"–Journalist Christopher Miller | Despite all appearances …
globalresearch.ca/your-freedoms-dont-have-muzzled-because-youre-wearing-mask/5711198

Controversies About Covid-19, Biotech Safety & US China Rivalry with Sam Husseini
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
ournalist Sam Husseini with The Institute of Public Accuracy discusses the growing controversies about where Covid-19 came from, what it is and the issue of bio-tech safety and biological warfare.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/28/18832675.php

Coronavirus Capitalism and \"Exceptional\" America
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
United States capitalism system was already on the verge of a major recession before COVID-19 hit. All the classic signs were there: absurdly inflated P/E ratios s (an absurdly inflated stock market), massively deb-leveraged corporations, giant consumer and student debt, savage economic inequality (so extreme that the top tenth of the U.S. upper 1 percent had more wealth than the nation\'s bottom percent), tens of millions living just one inadequate paycheck away from being unable to meet basic living expenses , and more. If the virus hadn\'t broken that camel\'s back, something else would have done the job, albeit…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/coronavirus-capitalism-and-exceptional-america/

Bernie Sanders and the Future of the Movement
James L Cowan | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/25/18832641.php

Will the Coronavirus Change the World? On Gramsci\'s \'Interregnum\' and Zizek\'s Ethnocentric Philosophy
Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion:…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/will-the-coronavirus-change-the-world-on-gramscis-interregnum-and-zizeks-ethnocentric-philosophy/

Trump orders meatpacking plants to remain open, as coronavirus sickens thousands of workers
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
Trump\'s executive order is aimed squarely at shielding the profits of Tyson Foods and other corporate firms, not at defending the food supply chain or the safety of workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/meat-a29.html

Capitalism must go! Celebrate May Day 2020!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-29
May 1 is International Workers Day. It is a day to celebrate the accomplishments of our class and to look to the future. We have real challenges in front of us. The corporate elite – the monopoly capitalists, who rule this country – can\'t do anything right. They are mesmerized by profit and short-term gain. The same goes for their political representatives in the White House and Congress. Tens of thousands of people who could have lived have perished in the pandemic. Capitalism has once again shown itself to be a failed system, and on May Day 2020, we stand committed to ending the reign of this criminal system.
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/4/29/capitalism-must-go-celebrate-may-day-2020

KPFA LSB Secretary Wofley\'s Effort To Cancel Local Station Board Meeting
Follow The Bylaws Committee | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
KPFA Local Station Board Secretary Carol Wolfley in alliance with the losers on the Local Station Board in the Pacifica corporate bylaw changes is now cancelling KPFA Local Station Board meetings. The supporters of the coup at WBAI and the corporate bylaws that were voted down by two to one are now flagrantly violating the bylaws by refusing to have meetings for many months. This allows the management of KPFA to operate without any oversight or transparency with the elected station board.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/25/18832642.php

UN genocide prevention chief looking into Colombia\'s mass killing of rights defenders
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
The United Nations\' genocide prevention chief wants to visit Colombia while looking into the ongoing mass killing of human rights defenders, community leaders and demobilized guerrillas. The UN\'s Special Adviser…
colombiareports.com/un-genocide-prevention-chief-looking-into-colombias-mass-killing-of-rights-defenders/

Colombia\'s southeast in crisis as coronavirus breaks out and promised medical aid is missing
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
The government of Colombia\'s southeastern Amazonas province urged for help on Tuesday after a coronavirus outbreak almost instantly collapsed its healthcare system. The National Health Institute (INS) reported that the…
colombiareports.com/colombias-southeast-in-crisis-as-coronavirus-breaks-out-and-promised-medical-aid-is-missing/

Turkey\'s lack of coop. with Iran in road transport sector criticized
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Turkey\'s TIKA donates personal care items for Rohingya
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), a state-run aid body, donated 5,000 personal care packages for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh\'s camps.The distribution run through Wednesday starting on Saturday in various camps set up in the southern Cox\'s Bazar district, TIKA\'s Dhaka office said in a statement on Wednesday.\"COVID-19 affects Rohingya refugees just as it affects the whole world. TIKA has also not forgotten the Rohingya refugees and has distributed cleaning supplies to help them fight the coronavirus,\" said Ismail Gundogdu, the agency\'s Bangladesh coordinator.The package included produ…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkeys-tika-donates-personal-care-items-for-rohingya-3518234

Riot erupts at coronavirus-hit prison in Sierra Leone
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
Smoke billowed from the central prison in Sierra Leone\'s capital and gunfire could be heard from nearby streets on Wednesday after a riot broke out following the confirmation of a coronavirus case there, a Reuters reporter said.Inmates at Pademba Road Prison had earlier set some buildings on fire in a protest that police and security forces were subsequently able to quell, Information Minister Mohamed Rahman Swaray told reporters.\"There are casualties, but these are early days. When the dust settles we will be able to give you a more comprehensive account,\" Swaray said in a video streamed online.The prison was r…
yenisafak.com/en/world/riot-erupts-at-coronavirus-hit-prison-in-sierra-leone-3518237

Arab League warns against escalation in Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
The Arab League on Wednesday warned of Lebanon\'s \"slide into the unknown\" following bloody clashes between the army and protesters. | At least one protestor died and a dozen others injured in clashes in Tripoli, the country\'s second largest city, late Monday.Anger over the crash of Lebanon\'s national currency that sent food prices soaring led to street violence. Protests were witnessed in the capital Beirut, and the city of Sidon as well. The Arab League, in a statement, expressed its deep concern regarding \"the accelerating developments on the Lebanese scene.\"\"There is a hope that the wisdom of the army\'s leader…
yenisafak.com/en/world/arab-league-warns-against-escalation-in-lebanon-3518236

US teachers\' unions vow action against early reopening
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
Major teachers\' unions in the US are gearing up to call for strikes or major protests if states reopen schools without taking proper precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic.The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and The National Education Association (NEA), the nation\'s two biggest teachers\' unions, told Politico news outlet Tuesday that they will not remain silent when it comes to student safety.AFT President Randi Weingarten said schools need funding to implement public health measures, including personal protective equipment, to prevent possible exposure to the virus.If schools reopen without proper safet…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-teachers-unions-vow-action-against-early-reopening-3518235

Two Policemen Injured in Stone Pelting by Migrant Workers at Top Indian IT Institute in Hyderabad
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-29
New Delhi (Sputnik): In March, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of poor migrants left bigger cities on foot to return to their homes. States were instructed to take care of daily wagers wherever they were stuck.
sputniknews.com/india/202004291079133071-two-policemen-injured-in-stone-pelting-by-migrant-workers-at-top-indian-it-institute-in-hyderabad/

Malaysian activists say \'let Rohingya boats land\'
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-29
Healthcare Refugees & migrants Alex SalmonIssue 1263 Malaysia COVID-19 Rohingya refugeesApril 29, 2020A boat carrying 200 Rohingy…
greenleft.org.au/content/malaysian-activists-let-rohingya-boats-land

New book gives eyewitness acount of Hong Kong protests
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-29
Democracy Alex SalmonIssue 1263 China Hong KongApril 29, 2020City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong | By Anthony Daripan | Scribe Publications, 2020 | 320pp, $35 | \"Heung gong jan, gaa jau!\" (Hong Kongers, add oil) is a rallying cry that could be translated to mean \"Go…
greenleft.org.au/content/new-book-gives-eyewitness-acount-hong-kong-protests

Russia slams US maximum pressure policy against Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Iran to give slap in face to any violator of its interests, territorial waters
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

PG islands to be converted into residential properties
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Global arms spending tops $1.9 trillion as fight against COVID-19 is starved of resources
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
The continued spending of trillions on arms and war amid the present pandemic represents a crime against humanity.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/mili-a29.html

Iranian short film wins Jury award at Italian filmfest
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Death: A Simple Idea With A Powerful Punch
Edward Curtin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-29
Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality any of us have experienced, it is the most frightening idea there is and also quite simple. It is the ultimate unknown. It has always haunted human beings, whether consciously or unconsciously. It lies at the root of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/death-a-simple-idea-with-a-powerful-punch/

Demanding Women: Quarintine Conversations About Gun Violence w/ Sen. Elizabeth Warren
MDAEFG | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
Facebook livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/28/18832670.php

The spoils of playing war
Marzena Zukowska | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
Video games play a key role in sustaining the global military-industrial complex…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-spoils-of-playing-war/

The U.S. aims at Greenland, targets the Arctic
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-04-29
By G. Dunkel and Paddy Colligan The United States, even in the midst of a pandemic, doesn\'t want to relax its imperialist exploits in the Arctic. Global warming is proceeding more rapidly in the Arctic than in any other region of the world. As it proceeds, resources, until recently buried . . . | Continue reading The U.S. aims at Greenland, targets the Arctic at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/48000/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-u-s-aims-at-greenland-targets-the-arctic

The British Military Information War Waged on Their Own Population
Mike Robinson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Last Wednesday, during the daily UK Government Coronavirus livestream, the head of the British Army, General Sir Nick Carter, bragged: | We\'ve been involved with the Cabinet Office Rapid Response Unit, with our 77th Brigade helping to quash rumours | …
globalresearch.ca/the-british-military-information-war-waged-on-their-own-population/5711223

NYC mayor blasted for \'anti-Semitism\' after threatening to arrest Jews for flouting Covid-19 distancing rules at rabbi\'s funeral
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A tightly-packed funeral procession of Orthodox Jews attracted the ire of Bill de Blasio, but netizens had something to say about the mayor\'s own distancing policy and said his outburst had \"invited anti-Semitism.\" | The New York City mayor tweeted his anger at members of Brooklyn\'s Jewish community who gathered on Tuesday night for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz. \"My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,\" he wrote. | Photos of the procession were circulated in the media, with many of the participants visibly defying social distancing rules, w…
rt.com/usa/487184-de-blasio-coronavirus-jews/

Trump and McConnell Aren\'t Waging War on COVID. They\'re Waging War on Us
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
Trump has been treating the delivery of federal aid to the states like his own personal spoils system: rewarding loyalty, punishing critics, and demanding to be praised for doing his job whenever he actually does it, but especially when he doesn\'t…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-and-mcconnell-arent-waging-war-on-covid-theyre-waging-war-on-us/

New Humanitarian Crisis Brewing in Yemen as Outbreak Looms: UN
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
The United Nations (U.N.) warned Tuesday against a worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã. They said there was \"a very real probability\" that the new coronavirus is already circulating undetected in the war-torn country. | RELATED: Yemen\'s Houthis Seize Strategic Northern City: Officials | \"There is now a very real probability that the virus has been circulating…
telesurenglish.net/news/New-Humanitarian-Crisis-Brewing-in-Yemen-as-Outbreak-Looms-UN-20200428-0024.html

2 Iranian filmmakers receive awards at European Independent Film Fest
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

WATCH Russian Tu-160 bombers shadowed by NATO jets in cat-and-mouse game over Baltic Sea
rt.com | 2020-04-29
Flying a routine mission over neutral Baltic waters, a pair of Tu-160s were approached by NATO fighter jets which swarmed so close to the Russian planes that their crew could easily see the small roundels on their chasers\' wings. | A one-minute video clip, released by Russia\'s Defense Ministry, shows the two Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic bombers

Massive global crime syndicate in UK operates with impunity
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-29
By Rob Woodward

COVID-19 Means a Systemic Human Development Crisis, UNDP Warns
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Wednesday warned of the \"enormous differences\" in the countries\' capabilities to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, which is not only a global health emergency but also a systemic human development crisis. | RELATED: | Sub-Saharan Africa Won\'t Be Spared in Health, Economic Crisis: IMF | \"It is a systemi…
telesurenglish.net/news/COVID-19-Means-a-Systemic-Human-Development-Crisis-UNDP-Warns-20200429-0004.html

Go battle Covid-19 at home! Chinese Navy \'expels US warship from territorial waters\'
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A US warship was \"expelled\" from disputed South China Sea waters after Beijing\'s navy scrambled fighter jets and naval assets to escort it away, accusing Washington of \"provocative\" actions at sea. | The USS \'Barry,\' a guided missile destroyer, \"trespassed\" into Beijing\'s territorial waters near the disputed Xisha Islands

Are \"Temporary Roads\" Ecologically Invisible?
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
I recently had a representative of one of the \"conservation groups\" in the Greater Yellowstone area tell me that they supported logging/thinning on the Custer Gallatin National Forest because the agency was mostly accessing the timber by way of \"temporary\" roads. What this fellow conservationist appears to ignore or is unaware of is that…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/are-temporary-roads-ecologically-invisible/

The British Military Information War Waged on Their Own Population
Mike Robinson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Last Wednesday, during the daily UK Government Coronavirus livestream, the head of the British Army, General Sir Nick Carter, bragged: | We\'ve been involved with the Cabinet Office Rapid Response Unit, with our 77th Brigade helping to quash rumours | …
globalresearch.ca/the-british-military-information-war-waged-on-their-own-population/5711223