Frontex agency sends more guards to Greece to help protect EU\'s border
rt.com | 2020-03-13
The European border protection agency, Frontex, says it has deployed another 100 guards to Greece to help protect the EU\'s frontier there from the pressure of migrants. | Warsaw-based Frontex said on Friday the deployment of guards from 22 member states is part of a rapid border intervention requested by Athens. The assistance will also include vessels, maritime surveillance aircraft and thermal-vision Vehicles, for the Frontex maritime Rapid Border Intervention task, Aegean 2020, AP reports. | Greece has been trying to stop a massive wave of migrants pushing in from Turkey, in a crisis that erupted last month…
rt.com/newsline/483073-frontex-greece-eu-border/

Chelsea Manning released from jail after grand jury is dismissed by US federal court
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
Manning, who had been in prison for a year for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury empaneled as part of the conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was released following her attempted suicide on Wednesday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/mann-m13.html

Chelsea Manning Is Free From Jail, Faces Exorbitant Fines
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-13
Manning speaking outside of the grand jury in Alexandria VA before being incarcerated Alexandria

Chelsea Manning released from jail after grand jury is dismissed by US federal court
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
Manning, who had been in prison for a year for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury empaneled as part of the conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was released following her attempted suicide on Wednesday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/mann-m13.html

EEUU y la OEA hacen lobby para liberar a \'presos políticos\' en Nicaragua que apuñalan a muerte a sus parejas embarazadas
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-13
Benjamín Norton reporta desde Nicaragua, donde la embajada de los Estados Unidos y la OEA han cabildeado con éxito por…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/13/eeuu-oea-liberar-presos-politicos-nicaragua/

The Grayzone and CODEPINK ask why OAS doesn\'t monitor badly flawed US Democratic primary
The Grayzone | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-13
Watch The Grayzone and CODEPINK ask the Organization of American States Secretary General Luis Almagro why he won\'t send election…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/13/watch-grayzone-codepink-oas-monitor-democratic-primary/

Saudi\'s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
This week, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia\'s 34-year-old de facto ruler, was on a tear. He arrested members of his own royal family and initiated an oil price war with Russia that has sent the price of oil–and the world\'s stock markets–plummeting. Behind the headlines, however, another critical event will take place…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/saudis-brave-women-pull-back-the-curtain-on-crown-prince-mbs/

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Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
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Fourth OPCW whistleblower says staff \'frightened into silence\' as watchdog brought into \'shameful disrepute\' over Douma probe
rt.com | 2020-03-13
A fourth whistleblower has come forward to defend two senior OPCW inspectors who revealed the watchdog tried to cover up evidence in the Douma chemical weapons probe, saying that other employees were \"frightened into silence.\" | In a statement to the Grayzone, the latest whistleblower said they were \"horrified\" but \"unsurprised\" by recent events within the organization, describing the \"mistreatment\" of \"two highly regarded and accomplished professionals\" as \"abhorrent.\" | The employee wrote that he is \"one of many who were stunned and frightened into silence by the reality how the organization operates,\" and t…
rt.com/news/483037-opcw-fourth-whistleblower-douma/

Latest U.S. Military Strikes Are as Reckless as they are Cruel
Lilly Dragnev | peaceaction.org | 2020-03-13
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Community Care in Light of COVID-19
San José Peace and Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
The San José Peace and Justice Center would like to emphasize the importance of community care during this distressing time.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/12/18831464.php

Will the Afghanistan Peace Deal Work?
Sonali Kolhatkar | truthdig.com | 2020-03-13
There are two likely outcomes of the recently signed U.S. peace deal with Afghanistan\'s Taliban. One is that a withdrawal of U.S. forces will bring a short-term reduction in violence. The second is that the U.S. will leave behind a political mess so severe that violence prevails for the foreseeable future. | Although several details of the peace deal signed on February 28 by U.S. and Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, remain secret, a time table was released for U.S. troops to begin withdrawing ten days after the signing of the…
truthdig.com/articles/will-the-afghanistan-peace-deal-work/

Uruguay: Educators Protest Against President Lacalle\'s Bill
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Uruguay\'s Secondary School Teachers Federation (Fenapes) Thursday began a 24-hour strike in Montevideo to protest against President Luis Lacalle Pou\'s bill, which seeks to centralize and privatize education in the country. | RELATED: | Uruguay: Lacalle Pou Announces Increase in Taxes | Education Minister Pablo da Silveira explained that the bill would reformulate the educative system\'s structure and its different bodies. | In an interview with local news media, he tried to minimize the protests\' im…
telesurenglish.net/news/uruguay-educators-protest-against-lacalle-s-bill-20200313-0008.html

Chile: Piñera Celebrates \'Democracy\' As Police Mistreat People
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Chile\'s President Sebastian Piñera Thursday commemorated 30 years of \"democracy\" and two years in office, as the people took to the streets to demand his resignation. | RELATED: | Chile: Church Criticizes Piñera\'s Indifference to Social Demand | Meanwhile, the people crowded into the Alameda, Santiago\'s main avenue, and the Military Police brutally repressed the demonstrators. \"Step out Piñera,\" the crowd repeated. | In an empty speech, he acknowledged that \"although these were…
telesurenglish.net/news/chile-pinera-celebrates-democracy-amid-protests-and-repression-20200313-0003.html

Dominican Republic Prepares for Polls Amid Political Crisis
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Next Sunday, extraordinary municipal elections will be held in the Dominican Republic amid an unprecedented political crisis and almost no propaganda activity by the candidates. | RELATED: | The Dominican Republic Prepares to Hold New Municipal Elections | This Thursday closed the candidates\' electoral campaign in the country with an absolute silence of the candidates. | The proselytizing work of the political parties was silenced by the widespread protests that have shaken the Cari…
telesurenglish.net/news/dominican-republic-prepares-for-polls-amid-political-crisis-20200313-0011.html

Spain: An emergency social and political plan against COVID 19
Anticapitalistas | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
The goal of these measures is to win the war against the coronavirus, empower the people and the working classes, strengthen their rights, weight the financial effort on those who have the most, lead and provide a political solution to popular anger and protest and cut off right-wing populist demagoguery.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/spain-an-emergency-social-and-political-plan-against-covid-19/

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The Efling union has sold out a three week strike by municipal workers in Iceland while hospital workers in Lebanon protest the government\'s inept response to the coronavirus pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/work-m13.html

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The Efling union has sold out a three week strike by municipal workers in Iceland while hospital workers in Lebanon protest the government\'s inept response to the coronavirus pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/work-m13.html

Nurses protest weakening of coronavirus (Covid-19) guidance by CDC
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
The impeached President Donald J. Trump just held a national press conference and declared that he is suspending all travel from Europe to the United States starting tomorrow for the next 30 days, but the restrictions will not apply to the United Kingdom for some reason. The Trump administration sees the coronavirus as a PR disaster for his administration, instead of a health crisis and has been trying to downplay the seriousness of the spreading pandemic. The impeached President Trump has also just falsely claimed that the US is better prepared to fight against the coronavirus than any other nation on the planet…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/11/18831446.php

Gracias Chelsea&Julian for publishing Bush\'s War Crimes
Orion the Elder | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
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indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/13/18831486.php

Gracias Chelsea & Julian for publishing Bush\'s War Crimes
Orion the Elder | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
Fruitvale & Mac Arthur Oakland 94602…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/13/18831486.php

As Trump stumbles on Coronavirus, He Bombs Shiites in Shiite-Ruled Iraq
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
The Trump administration is now more or less forcibly occupying Iraq against the will of its elected representatives, and is waging a low intensity war on a section of the Iraqi military with which the US is supposed to be allied…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/as-trump-stumbles-on-coronavirus-he-bombs-shiites-in-shiite-ruled-iraq/

\"We Are Way, Way Behind\": U.S. Lags on Coronavirus Testing & Medical Experts Warn \"No One Is Immune\"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-13
It has been seven weeks since the first case of the new coronavirus was reported in the United States. President Trump is claiming, \"Anybody that needs a test gets a test,\" but this is simply untrue. There have been just 11,000 tests so far throughout the United States since the coronavirus outbreak began, compared to nearly 20,000 tests for coronavirus every day in South Korea alone. We spend the hour looking at how the Trump administration has failed to account for what may be thousands of infections because of ongoing problems with access to testing, and how other countries have responded. We also discuss meas…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/13/us_coronavirus_response

A biologist points out an alarming omission in Boris Johnson\'s coronavirus strategy
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-03-13
Boris Johnson informed citizens that the UK is moving to the \"delay\" phase in tackling coronavirus on 12 March. Flanked by his chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser, Johnson laid out the details of his plan during a press conference. | Following the move, the Guardian published experts\' \"verdicts\" on the details of the d…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2020/03/13/a-biologist-points-out-an-alarming-omission-in-boris-johnsons-coronavirus-strategy/

Abuse, Oppression and Murder: The PA Does Israel\'s Dirty Work in the West Bank
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Merely two weeks after Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, declared that the PA will suspend all \'security coordination\' with Israel, Palestinian security forces in the West Bank killed unarmed teenager, Salah Zakareneh. Zakareneh is not the first and, sadly, will not be the last Palestinian to be killed by the PA security forces, which in…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/abuse-oppression-and-murder-the-pa-does-israels-dirty-work-in-the-west-bank/

Coronavirus, Epidemics and Capitalism: The Bugs Are in the System
Radical Women | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
Radical Women supports and recommends this thoughtful analysis of the novel coronavirus by our sister organization, the Freedom Socialist Party. The statement raises excellent demands to protect workers, women, the poor, and people of color being scapegoated for the crisis.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/12/18831477.php

Coronavirus epidemic responses reveal differences in capitalist and socialist values
Ian Goodrum | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-13
BEIJING–The world has a Public Enemy No. 1, and it\'s the novel coronavirus. Capable of causing severe pneumonia among those it infects, the virus first wreaked havoc on the city of Wuhan in China\'s Hubei province and has since spread at an alarming rate. At present, thousands have died and over 100,000 have been infected …
peoplesworld.org/article/coronavirus-epidemic-responses-reveal-differences-in-capitalist-and-socialist-values/

The Rise and Fall of the Work Society
Andrew M. Johnson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-13
The victories of Bernie Sanders in the early primaries had people talking about socialist revolutions, while Biden\'s wins on Super Tuesday (in largely conservatives states) have tempered that enthusiasm. This is an important reminder of something we all need to remember: The Capitalists already won. There may still be a few scattered enclaves of subsistence …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-work-society/

US Intel Agencies Played Unsettling Role in Classified and \"9/11-like\" Coronavirus Response Plan
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-13
As coronavirus panic grips the world, concern over government overreach is growing given the involvement of US intelligence agencies in classified meetings for planning the U.S.\' coronavirus response.
mintpressnews.com/us-intelligence-unsettling-role-classified-9-11-like-coronavirus-response/265687/

Amid the Worse Public Crisis in Decades, Trump Admin Finds the Time and Money to Bomb Iraq
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-13
While the government has found plenty of money to carry out wars around the globe (the Trump administration increased the military budget to $934 billion), when it comes to policies protecting public health, money is always apparently lacking.
mintpressnews.com/amid-coronavirus-crisis-trump-admin-busy-bombing-iraq-iran/265704/

Government Spends Equivalent of Entire US Student Debt to Rally Stock Market for 15 Minutes
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-13
The money spent was equal to the total amount of US student debt, more than twice as much as the Wall Street bailout of 2008 and nearly 30 times the net worth of former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, the richest man to ever run for president.
mintpressnews.com/amid-covid-19-crisis-govt-spends-equivalent-entire-us-student-debt-rally-stock-market/265726/

Dear Berners: Dementia Joe is How Much \"Your\" Party HATES You
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
\"You Have Owners\" \"Mr. [Bernie] Sanders,\" the New York Times reported last Tuesday, \"has built a following of voters who want and expect more from their [Democratic] party, from their government, and from their country.\" That\'s true enough, with some key qualifications: it\'s not \"their party\" any more than it\'s \"their government\" or \"their country.\"
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/dear-berners-dementia-joe-is-how-much-your-party-hates-you/

Markets Screaming Global Recession
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
The longest bull market in US history began on March 9, 2009. | It ended on March 11, 2020 when the Dow average closed down 20% from its 29,551.42 February 12, 2020 all-time closing high. | The same goes for the S …
globalresearch.ca/markets-screaming-global-recession/5706276

Markets Screaming Global Recession
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
The longest bull market in US history began on March 9, 2009. | It ended on March 11, 2020 when the Dow average closed down 20% from its 29,551.42 February 12, 2020 all-time closing high. | The same goes for the S …
globalresearch.ca/markets-screaming-global-recession/5706276

No, Venezuela does not have a six child per family policy
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
I respect UK journalist Andrew Buncombe. As I noted for FAIR last year, he was one of the few corporate journalists who reported on a study linking Trump\'s financial sanctions on Venezuela to thousands of deaths by the end of 2018. Since 2018, Trump has repeatedly intensified the sanctions and threatened Venezuela military action, including Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/no-venezuela-does-not-have-a-six-child-per-family-policy/

A Machine to Beat President Trump
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
As different as night from day yet there\'s one way that Bernie Sanders and President Trump are alike, and Joe Biden is different from both. President Trump runs a one man show with a supporting cast. As we know from very recent history of this presidency, this liege cast either pays homage to President Trump…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/a-machine-to-beat-president-trump/

Krugman Disses Sanders and Embraces Biden While Distorting the Obama Record
Rick Baum | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Paul Krugman, a past winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, wrote a recent New York Times column with the title \"Bernie Sanders is Going for Broke.\" He criticizes Sanders for his politics which are characterized as a \"go-for-broke maximalism\" \"without compromise\" described as:…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/krugman-disses-sanders-and-embraces-biden-while-distorting-the-obama-record/

Sanders perfectly exposes twisted establishment priorities surrounding coronavirus pandemic
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2020-03-13
Bernie Sanders has exposed where elite priorities lie right now in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. And his assessment rips apart establishment arguments that bold plans for our future are somehow \'unaffordable\'. | Establishment priority: \'protect the powerful, not the people\': | On 12 March, US stocks had their \"worst day since the 1987 crash\". This was largely due to fears about the rapi…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/03/13/sanders-perfectly-exposes-twisted-establishment-priorities-surrounding-coronavirus-pandemic/

Bolivia: Evo Morales Expresses Concern About Covid-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Bolivia\'s former President Evo expressed concern about the mismanagement that the self-proclaimed President Jeanine Añez is carrying out of the Covid-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | MAS Presents New Legal Resort To Enable Evo Morales\' Candidacy | Through his twitter account, Morales addresses the Bolivian people asking them to remain calm, be supportive and not stigmatize any citizen. | He said that the Añez administration spent more than US$50 million ‚Äã‚&Au…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-evo-morales-expresses-concern-about-covid-19-20200313-0004.html

Class Conflict is Stronger than Clan Conflict
Michèle Brand | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
The Democratic party elites have shown that they prefer Trump to Sanders. That is, they prefer the real risk of a second Trump mandate to the real risk of a Sanders presidency. How else can we explain the sudden coordinated rally around Biden, whose weakness and liabilities are obvious to all? No need to recount…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/class-conflict-is-stronger-than-clan-conflict/

Ankara switches migration summit to teleconference, Erdogan to hold talks with French & German leaders
rt.com | 2020-03-13
Turkey\'s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks about solving a brewing migration crisis, with French and German leaders next week, by teleconference rather than at a summit as originally planned, according to a Turkish official. | The decision comes as countries grapple with the spread of Covid-19. Erdogan has postponed his own foreign visits for an unspecified period of time, Reuters reported, citing his spokesman. | Earlier this week, Erdogan said he would convene a summit on the migrant issue, to be held in Istanbul on March 17 with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron…
rt.com/newsline/483060-turkey-migration-erdogan-eu/

US CDC Director Robert Redfield Admitted that Coronavirus Deaths Have Been Miscategorized as Flu
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
The US has been lying all along. | Robert Redfield, CDC director, testifying to Congress, today admitted that virus deaths have been miscategorised as the flu. | He also stated that the standard practice has been to first test people for …
globalresearch.ca/us-cdc-director-admitted-virus-deaths-miscategorized-flu/5706233

White House Removes Public Health Experts from Coronavirus Discussions
Michael Halpern | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
The White House held dozens of meetings about coronavirus response that excluded government experts because the discussions were unnecessarily classified over the objections of HHS Secretary Alex Azar, reports Reuters. Experts were not just barred from speaking openly about …
globalresearch.ca/white-house-removes-public-health-experts-coronavirus-discussions/5706281

Coronavirus Scaremongering, US-China Economic Rivalry. The Geopolitics of an Unfolding Global Crisis
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
An underlying theme behind the Western political and media focus on the coronavirus, is to damage and undermine China\'s international standing, the country where this disease is commonly purported to have spread forth from. Prominent American politicians like Mike Pompeo…
globalresearch.ca/us-tightening-noose-china-result-coronavirus-campaign/5706254

White House Removes Public Health Experts from Coronavirus Discussions
Michael Halpern | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
The White House held dozens of meetings about coronavirus response that excluded government experts because the discussions were unnecessarily classified over the objections of HHS Secretary Alex Azar, reports Reuters. Experts were not just barred from speaking openly about …
globalresearch.ca/white-house-removes-public-health-experts-coronavirus-discussions/5706281

North Korea\'s Kim shows no panic appearing WITHOUT protective gear, surrounded by ALL-MASKED officers during military drills
rt.com | 2020-03-13
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un apparently found it unnecessary to take anti-coronavirus precautions while supervising recent military drills, setting himself apart from his face-mask-clad senior officers. | In a photograph released by the country\'s Korean Central News Agency, Kim is seen in a camouflaged trench as he observes artillery exercises. Wearing a black leather coat and a hat, the North Korean leader is conspicuously without any protective gear

US Lags on Coronavirus Testing and Medical Experts Warn \"No One Is Immune\"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-13
It has been seven weeks since the first case of the new coronavirus was reported in the United States. President Trump is claiming, \"Anybody that needs a test gets a test,\" but this is simply untrue. There have been just 11,000 tests so far throughout the United States since the coronavirus outbreak began, compared to nearly 20,000 tests for coronavirus every day in South Korea alone. We spend the hour looking at how the Trump administration has failed to account for what may be thousands of infecti…
truthout.org/video/us-lags-on-coronavirus-testing-and-medical-experts-warn-no-one-is-immune/

Iraqi airport under construction in Karbala province damaged in US \'precision\' strikes on militias (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-03-13
An airport under construction in Iraq\'s central Karbala province was hit in a US bombing raid on militias, with photos showing debris scattered across the site. The US said earlier the strikes were \"precise\" and defensive. | Photos have emerged online showing the Karbala International Airport, expected to be Iraq\'s largest airport once completed, having been crippled by the US airstrike on Thursday night. | The strike shattered windows in what appears to be one of the airport\'s main buildings, and debris could be seen scattered on the ground. | An airport official confirmed to Reuters that the facility sustain…
rt.com/news/482991-iraq-airport-damage-us-airstrike/

Baghdad summons US & British envoys after condemning their strikes on Iraqi targets as \'violation of sovereignty\'
rt.com | 2020-03-13
Iraq\'s military has denounced American airstrikes on several targets inside the country that allegedly killed 3 Iraqi soldiers. Baghdad has also summoned US and British envoys to answer for the attacks. | The Iraqi foreign ministry said Friday that it had demanded an audience with the US and British ambassadors over the incident, which Iraq says killed six people and wounded twelve. | Iraq\'s Joint Operations Command said in a statement issued on the same day that the strikes had been carried out using a \"false pretext\" and would lead to \"escalation\" rather than helping to bring stability to the war-torn countr…
rt.com/news/483046-iraq-summons-us-sovereignty-strikes/

Iran tells US to stop pointing fingers & accept \'consequences of its illegal presence in Iraq\'
rt.com | 2020-03-13
Tehran has called on Washington to rethink its response to an attack on an Iraqi base that killed two American troops, arguing that the US should take responsibility for its military occupation, instead of blaming Iran. | \"The US cannot place the consequences of its illegal presence in Iraq and the reaction of Iraqi people to the assassination and killing of their commanders on others,\" Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said on Friday, as quoted by state media. | The Foreign Ministry official suggested that instead of engaging in \"risky actions and baseless accusations,\" US President Donald Trump…
rt.com/news/483027-iran-taji-attack-responsibility-iraq/

Duterte puts Philippines capital on lockdown \'to stop spread of coronavirus\'
rt.com | 2020-03-12
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday announced strict immigration curbs and a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Metro Manila, in a \"lockdown\" of the capital to stop the spread of coronavirus. | The president approved a resolution allowing a raft of measures including bans on mass gatherings, a month of school closures and community quarantining, and threatened to jail local officials who defied government orders, Reuters reports. | Duterte, who underwent a test himself on Thursday due to possible exposure, said the measures would include banning foreigners traveling from countri…
rt.com/newsline/482951-duterte-philippines-manila-lockdown/

Greece: Covid-19 Case in Lesbos Spreads Fear Among Migrants
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-12
Greece\'s health authorities reported a first Covid-19 case on the Lesbos island where thousands of refugees are overcrowded in unsanitary conditions. | RELATED: | Turkey to Keep Its Border Open for Refugees to Go to the EU | The infected patient is a 40-year-old woman who had recently traveled to Israel and Egypt as a member of a pilgrimage group to the Holy Land. | Over the last week, more than 1,700 new ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚&Auml…
telesurenglish.net/news/Greece-Covid-19-Case-in-Lesbos-Spreads-Fear-Among-Migrants-20200312-0012.html

Turkish FM hits back at Greek counterpart as Ankara & Athens clash over Erdogan\'s \'Nazi\' comments
rt.com | 2020-03-12
Turkey\'s foreign minister has doubled down on Ankara\'s claim that Greece is using Nazi-like tactics against migrants, tweeting a widely-cited NY Times article at his Greek counterpart. Athens insists the article is untrue. | Mevlut Cavusoglu appeared to be unmoved by Athens\' condemnation of remarks made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who compared Greece\'s treatment of migrants to atrocities carried out by Nazi Germany. | The senior Turkish diplomat tweeted at Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in which he included a New York Times article alleging that Greece abuses migrants. \"Have you seen this?
rt.com/news/482896-turkey-greece-nazi-migrant-fight/

Can the US learn from China\'s determined response to Coronavirus?
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-12
Red Lines host Anya Parampil provides a global Coronavirus update, explaining how China suppressed the pandemic with a determined and…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/12/us-learn-chinas-response-coronavirus/

Can the US learn from China\'s determined response to Coronavirus?
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-12
Red Lines host Anya Parampil provides a global Coronavirus update, explaining how China suppressed the pandemic with a determined and…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/12/us-learn-chinas-response-coronavirus/

Chelsea Manning Hospitalized After Reported Suicide Attempt
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Manning was unlawfully imprisoned last March (again in May after briefly released) for invoking her constitutional right of silence

Chelsea Manning Hospitalized After Reported Suicide Attempt
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Manning was unlawfully imprisoned last March (again in May after briefly released) for invoking her constitutional right of silence

Chelsea Manning hospitalized after attempting suicide in federal detention
wsws.org | 2020-03-12
Manning, who has not been charged with a crime, has been subjected to imprisonment and punitive fines for the last year for refusing to testify against Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/12/chel-m12.html

International Bar Association condemns British attacks on Assange\'s legal rights
wsws.org | 2020-03-12
Michael Kirby, the co-chair of the IBA\'s Human Rights Institute, branded Assange\'s treatment as \"shocking and excessive\" and likened it to the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/12/ibah-m12.html

Julian Assange must be supported
Ben Hillier | mronline.org | 2020-03-12
If the U.S. government succeeds in extraditing Julian Assange, it will be a major victory for U.S. imperialism–a promise that anyone getting in its way will ultimately pay the price. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/12/julian-assange-must-be-supported/

Chelsea Manning hospitalized after attempting suicide in federal detention
wsws.org | 2020-03-12
Manning, who has not been charged with a crime, has been subjected to imprisonment and punitive fines for the last year for refusing to testify against Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/12/chel-m12.html

Saudi\'s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-12
This week, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia\'s 34-year-old de facto ruler, was on a tear. He arrested members of his own royal family and initiated an oil price war with Russia that has sent the price of oil–and the world\'s stock markets–plummeting. Behind the headlines, however, another critical event will take place …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/saudis-brave-women-pull-back-the-curtain-on-crown-prince-mbs/

The Trump Administration Is a Culmination of the Right\'s Efforts to End \"Roe\"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-12
The religious right has long awaited a president like Donald Trump who could potentially give them control within his administration. In this excerpt The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right\'s Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion, Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo describe how Trump\'s dedication to anti-abortion views has made an opening for overturning Roe. | The Supreme Court decision in Whole Woman\'s Health v. Hellerstedt may have encouraged abortion rights activists eager to see restrictions f…
truthout.org/articles/the-trump-administration-is-a-culmination-of-the-rights-efforts-to-end-roe/

The Trump Administration Is a Culmination of the Right\'s Efforts to End \"Roe\"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-12
The religious right has long awaited a president like Donald Trump who could potentially give them control within his administration. In this excerpt The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right\'s Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion, Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo describe how Trump\'s dedication to anti-abortion views has made an opening for overturning Roe. | The Supreme Court decision in Whole Woman\'s Health v. Hellerstedt may have encouraged abortion rights activists eager to see restrictions f…
truthout.org/articles/the-trump-administration-is-a-culmination-of-the-rights-efforts-to-end-roe/

Community Care in Light of COVID-19
San José Peace and Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-03-12
The San José Peace and Justice Center would like to emphasize the importance of community care during this distressing time.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/12/18831464.php

PSL Public Forum: A Women\'s Place is in the Struggle: Honoring IWD
Jon Britton | indybay.org | 2020-03-12
San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S Seventh Street, San Jose, CA 95112…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/09/18831402.php

Nurses protest weakening of coronavirus (Covid-19) guidance by CDC
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-03-12
The impeached President Donald J. Trump just held a national press conference and declared that he is suspending all travel from Europe to the United States starting tomorrow for the next 30 days, but the restrictions will not apply to the United Kingdom for some reason. The Trump administration sees the coronavirus as a PR disaster for his administration, instead of a health crisis and has been trying to downplay the seriousness of the spreading pandemic. The impeached President Trump has also just falsely claimed that the US is better prepared to fight against the coronavirus than any other nation on the planet…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/11/18831446.php

Amid protests and crises, Lebanon defaults on Eurobond
wsws.org | 2020-03-12
The default comes amid a spiralling economic crisis, protests, increasing poverty and other signs of social disintegration, along with the first coronavirus deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/12/leba-m12.html

Chile: Church Criticizes Piñera\'s Indifference to Social Demand
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-12
Chile\'s Episcopal Conference (CECh) Thursday criticized the indifference of President Sebastian Piñera\'s administration to respond to the demands generated by citizens against inequality and the economic model. | RELATED: | Chile: Police Attack Protesters Demanding Piñera\'s Resignation | \"We perceive that the main social cries expressed since Oct. 18 ha…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Church-Criticizes-Pineras-Indifference-to-Social-Demand-20200312-0009.html

As Biden Racks up Delegates the Crisis Among Black Folks and Democrat Party Deepens
Ajamu Baraka | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-12
Biden wins key state of Michigan and the Democrat Party establishment can barely contain its joy. I am happy also but for a different reason. No matter what happens with this twisted Democrat Party nomination drama, I welcome this period as a period of absolute political clarity. Why? Because for the internal debate and struggles …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/as-biden-racks-up-delegates-the-crisis-among-black-folks-and-democrat-party-deepens/

Brazil: Military Club Summons Members for Acts Against Congress
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-12
Rio de Janeiro\'s Military Club summoned its members to attend rallies against the National Congress and the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to be held on March 15, as Brazil\'s President Jair Bolsonaro proposed on Feb. 26. | RELATED: | Brazil TV Series About Marielle Franco Sparks Racism Row | The military club summons to support Bolsonaro because it considers that the form…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Military-Club-Summons-Members-for-Acts-Against-Congress-20200312-0005.html

Brazil: Military Club Summons Members for Acts Against Congress
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-12
Rio de Janeiro\'s Military Club summoned its members to attend rallies against the National Congress and the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to be held on March 15, as Brazil\'s President Jair Bolsonaro proposed on Feb. 26. | RELATED: | Brazil TV Series About Marielle Franco Sparks Racism Row | The military club summons to support Bolsonaro because it considers that the form…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Military-Club-Summons-Members-for-Acts-Against-Congress-20200312-0005.html

Video: Great Idlib \"Rebranding\" and Al Qaeda \"Turkish Victories\" over Russian Air Defense
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Terrorist groups operating in Idlib are preparing for a new rebranding under Turkish patronage. According to Syrian sources, Hayat Tarir al-Sham (formerly the official Syrian branch of al-Qaeda), the Turkistan Islamic Party (an al-Qaeda-linked group), the National Front for Liberation …
globalresearch.ca/video-great-idlib-rebranding-turkish-victories-russian-air-defense/5706145

Team Trump Tried to Bully the ICC IntoDropping War Crimes Probe But Failed
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-03-12
Team Trump threatened to ban ICC judges and prosecutors from the U.S. and warned it would impose economic sanctions on the Court if it launched an investigation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/team-trump-tried-to-bully-the-icc-intodropping-war-crimes-probe-but-failed/

The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is \"Agenda ID2020\"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
WHO has most likely received orders from \"above\", from those people who also manage Trump and the \"leaders\" (sic) of the EU, European Union. The final decision to go ahead NOW with COVID-19 pandemic, was taken in January 2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos – behind very much closed doors.
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-effects-real-danger-agenda-id2020/5706153

Don\'t Trust Anyone Over 30 (40?), Says This 70 Year Old
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
The Sanders movement, the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), the BLM (Black Lives Matter) and BAR (Black Agenda Report) types,…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/dont-trust-anyone-over-30-40-says-this-70-year-old/

Russia-Saudi revenge against shale oil threatens to crush entire US financial system, Professor Wolff tells Boom Bust
rt.com | 2020-03-12
Global stock markets hit bear territory this week, with oil prices experiencing their biggest plunge since the 1991 Gulf War. | Boom Bust is joined by Professor Richard Wolff of the Economic Update to discuss the ongoing oil crisis. He explains that the US, which wanted \"energy independence,\" decided 10-20 years ago to go into the fracking business simply because it was profitable. | \"Fracking is very expensive… but everything was premised on the notion that the price of oil would stay very high,\" Wolff says. \"The Saudis and the Russians were hurt by the emergence of the American fracking industry; they\'ve h…
rt.com/business/482947-russia-saudi-revenge-shale/

Bernie Sanders: We Are Winning \"Ideological\" & \"Generational\" Debate, Now Need to Win \"Electability\"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-12
After a disappointing showing in Tuesday night\'s Democratic presidential primaries, Senator Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he will stay in the race. In his address from Burlington, Vermont, Sanders challenged his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, to address key issues like economic inequality, healthcare access and the climate crisis. Sanders is set to debate Biden this Sunday in Arizona. \"It is not just the ideological debate that our progressive movement is winning. We are winning the generational debate,\" Sanders said. \"While Joe Biden continues to do very well with older Americans, especially those peopl…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/12/bernie_sanders

Italy\'s \"Darkest Hour\": Life Grinds to a Halt Amid COVID-19 Lockdown, as Death Toll Spikes
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-12
We get an update from Italy, where 60 million people are under an unprecedented nationwide lockdown and the death toll has increased to at least 827, rising by 31% in just 24 hours. Authorities ordered all shops closed except food markets and pharmacies. Italy\'s economy has all but ground to a halt, with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte describing the outbreak as the country\'s \"darkest hour.\" Italian journalist Antonella Serrecchia joins us from Milan, where she is a reporter for the online magazine The Vision.
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/12/italy_coronavirus_lockdown

Trump Calls COVID-19 \"Foreign Virus\" as Lack of Universal Healthcare Makes the Pandemic Worse
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-12
After downplaying the threat of coronavirus for days, President Donald Trump addressed the nation Wednesday from the Oval Office, calling COVID-19 a \"foreign virus\" and announcing an unprecedented travel ban from most of Europe to the U.S. He also said he will expand sick leave. This comes as Senate Republicans blocked paid sick leave legislation. Robert Pollin, distinguished university professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says the lack of universal healthcare in the U.S. is exacerbating the coronavirus crisis due to \"the ab…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/12/coronavirus_medicare_for_all

Lack of Paid Sick Leave Makes It Difficult for Many Workers to Comply with CDC Advice to Stay Home
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-12
As the number of coronavirus cases in the United States passes 1,300 cases with 38 deaths, more than 30 million workers lack access to paid sick leave. President Trump addressed the nation Wednesday night, saying he will expand sick leave as part of emergency response to the virus. But the same day, Republican senators blocked an attempt by Senate Democrats to quickly pass legislation requiring employers to grant paid sick leave. Meanwhile, Democrats in the House of Representatives will debate a package of bills Thursday to give workers 14 days of paid sick leave and up to three months of paid family and medical…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/12/coronavirus_paid_sick_leave

Feeling the Burn
José Tirado | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
There really wasn\'t that much doubt about this. Bernie Sanders\' 2020 run sure looked good at the beginning and was catching some serious fire early on. Many people actually dared to believe that this time, he could actually win. But just before \"Super Tuesday\" it became crystal clear that the establishment Dems were having none…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/feeling-the-burn/

Resisting US Blockade, Cuba Embraces Change, Builds Socialism
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
Any U.S. politician who says nice things about Cuba can expect abuse. That\'s been so since the victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Recently presidential candidate Bernie Sanders tried to ward off attacks as he praised Cuba\'s 1961 literacy campaign. He labeled Cuba\'s leadership as \"authoritarian,\" but it didn\'t work. Senators Rubio and Menendez and other politicians, Democratic and Republican alike, lashed out. Democratic leaders in Florida joined in. Cuba matters there at voting time.
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/resisting-us-blockade-cuba-embraces-change-builds-socialism/

US Marines Arrive on Yemen\'s Socotra Island to Back UAE Troops: Reports
Tasnim News Agency | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Sanaa Post reported that the American soldiers were received by the occupying UAE forces at their headquarters on the island. | There is speculation that the US intends to establish its own military base amid reports that America had sent military …
globalresearch.ca/us-marines-arrive-yemen-socotra-back-uae-troops-reports/5706170

US Marines Arrive on Yemen\'s Socotra Island to Back UAE Troops: Reports
Tasnim News Agency | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Sanaa Post reported that the American soldiers were received by the occupying UAE forces at their headquarters on the island. | There is speculation that the US intends to establish its own military base amid reports that America had sent military …
globalresearch.ca/us-marines-arrive-yemen-socotra-back-uae-troops-reports/5706170

Ecuador: EU, UN Launch Anti-Gender Violence Initiative
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-12
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) launched on Tuesday in Quito, Ecuador, their Spotlight Initiative, a program aimed at combating violence against women and girls in this Andean country. | RELATED: | Chile Denounces Government Repression During Feminist Strike | During the launch ceremony, held two days after the worldwide observation of International Women\'s Day, the EU and UN unveiled their ac…
telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuador-EU-UN-Launch-Anti-Gender-Violence-Initiative-20200312-0001.html

Gaza: Murdering Children for Sport
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Ayman Mohyeldin was an Egyptian reporter for al-Jazeera English who had covered dozens of major events in the Middle East for many American and other networks. His reputation was enormous, and his reporting on the Israeli assault on Gaza was …
globalresearch.ca/murdering-children-sport/5706188

Super Tuesday and Standing up to Racists
Conrad Schuhler and Judith Duesberg | indybay.org | 2020-03-12
Sanders said you can\'t beat Trump with yesterday\'s recipes and figures. That would be Biden\'s strategy to evoke the nostalgia of the Obama years. It would work for a lot of black people and some of the \"urban\" upper class. In fact, however, these forces, then personified in Hillary Clinton, have already lost at the first showdown with Trump.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/09/18831390.php

Anti-Union Attorneys Love Joe Biden
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-12
In the week since his strong showing on Super Tuesday, Joe Biden has collected a raft of new labor union endorsements. As voters in more states head to the polls, it is worth remembering that Biden launched his campaign with a fundraiser co-hosted by the head of an anti-union law firm. | On April 24, 2019, Biden kicked off his presidential campaign at a union hall in Pittsburgh, full of members of the Teamsters, United Steelworkers and firefighters…
truthout.org/articles/anti-union-attorneys-love-joe-biden/

Watsonville Youth Rally
Regeneration-Pájaro Valley Climate Action | indybay.org | 2020-03-12
Watsonville Plaza | 350 Main St, Watsonville…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/08/18831370.php

Extraordinary Democratic Delusions and the Madness of the Crowd
M. G. Piety | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
Just when I am starting to think that the New York Review of Books is not irredeemably idiotic on political issues, they publish an article that is so conspicuously incoherent and outrageously out of touch with the political climate in the U.S. that it is destined to be anthologized in perpetuity in collections with \"Clueless\"
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/extraordinary-democratic-delusions-and-the-madness-of-the-crowd/

Joe Biden Pays Lip Service to Climate But Has Fallen Short on Action
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-12
As Joe Biden\'s chances of clinching the Democratic nomination continue to rise, environmentalists are absorbing the possibility that they may eventually be faced with the challenge of trying to exert pressure on a nominee with deep ties to the fossil fuel industry. | Though awareness of the climate crisis among the public has reached a high, voters have failed to notice the meaningful differ…
truthout.org/articles/joe-biden-pays-lip-service-to-climate-but-has-fallen-short-on-action/

Earth Day 2020: 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Activism 1970-2020 (Global)
Earth Day Network | indybay.org | 2020-03-12
Worldwide climate strikes, actions, and environmental events…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/11/18831441.php

Happy National Tired and Grouchy Week
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
On Sunday, March 8, millions of Americans woke up an hour early, having set their clocks ahead by an hour the night before, and dug in for a week or so of bleary-eyed, irritable attempts to tweak their bodies\' natural sleeping and waking rhythms. This fatuous semi-annual \"spring forward, fall back\" ritual, called…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/happy-national-tired-and-grouchy-week/

Turkey\'s Failed Gamble in Syria
Conn Hallinan | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\'s latest gamble in Syria\'s civil war appears to have come up snake eyes. Instead of halting the Damascus government\'s siege of the last rebel held province, Idlib, Turkey has backed off, and Ankara\'s Syrian adventure is fueling growing domestic resistance to the powerful autocrat.
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/turkeys-failed-gamble-in-syria/

Battle Royale in Montana Senate Race
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
If reporting from CNN and the New York Times is right, Montana\'s Democrat Gov. Steve Bullock has decided to reverse his earlier decision and jump in the race to challenge Montana\'s Republican Sen. Steve Daines. Given the fact that it pretty much looked like Daines was going to have a cakewalk back to the Senate fueled by the $5…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/battle-royale-in-montana-senate-race/

The Final Chapter Has Still Not Been Written: Remembering The 2004 Coup in Haiti
Robert Roth | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was overthrown by a violent coup. This was the second U.S.-sponsored coup against a popularly elected Aristide government, the first one taking place in 1991 after he had served only eight months in office. Orchestrated by the United States, France and…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/the-final-chapter-has-still-not-been-written-remembering-the-2004-coup-in-haiti/

Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/coronavirus-vs-the-mass-surveillance-state-which-poses-the-greater-threat/

Transitioning \'Ontologically:\' Liberating Liberals from Unconscious Class-shame
Kim C. Domenico | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
The subject of [people facing the prospect of sudden death] invites much speculation; for in every being\'s idea of death, and his behavior when it menaces him, lies the best index to his life and faith.

Six Quick Points About Coronavirus and Poverty in the US
Bill Quigley | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-12
In the United States, tens of millions of people are at a much greater risk of getting sick from the coronavirus than others. The most vulnerable among us do not have the option to comply with suggestions to stay home from work or work remotely. Most low wage workers do not have any paid sick days and cannot do their work from home. The over two million people in jails and prisons each night do not have these options nor do the half a million homeless people.
counterpunch.org/2020/03/12/six-quick-points-about-coronavirus-and-poverty-in-the-us/