2020-05-08: Social Media Postees

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[World Report] Chile plans controversial COVID-19 certificates
Barbara Fraser | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
Chile’s contentious scheme to provide certification of past COVID-19 infection is aimed at reassuring patients about the risk of reinfection or infecting others. Barbara Fraser reports.
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[World Report] New Zealand eliminates COVID-19
Sophie Cousins | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
An aggressive approach has enabled New Zealand to end community transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Sophie Cousins reports.
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[Perspectives] Celebrating Florence Nightingale’s bicentenary
Natasha McEnroe | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
For the many admirers of Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the bicentenary of her birth on May 12, 2020, has been long anticipated. Few of us could have foreseen that this birthday would come at a time when a swathe of new temporary hospitals bearing her name had been set up in the UK–the NHS Nightingale Hospitals, intended to support the response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). No other name could have been as suitable. 200 years after her birth, the work and concerns of Nightingale are as relevant today as they ever were.
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[Editorial] COVID-19 in Brazil: “So what?”
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reached Latin America later than other continents. The first case recorded in Brazil was on Feb 25, 2020. But now, Brazil has the most cases and deaths in Latin America (105‚Äà222 cases and 7288 deaths as of May 4), and these are probably substantial underestimates. Even more worryingly, the doubling of the rate of deaths is estimated at only 5 days and a recent study by Imperial College (London, UK), which analysed the active transmission rate of COVID-19 in 48 countries, showed that Brazil is the country with the highest rate of transmission (R0…
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[Comment] Aspirin for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
Robert A Byrne, Róisín Colleran | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
The antithrombotic efficacy of low-dose aspirin is well established. Its primary clinical effect is mediated by inhibition of platelet cyclooxygenase-1, which reduces thromboxane A2 formation and inhibits platelet aggregation. Over the course of recent decades, aspirin administration has shown a favourable risk–benefit ratio for reducing the risk of adverse events in patients with known atherosclerotic disease.1,2 By contrast, in patients without known atherosclerotic disease who are at risk of cardiovascular disease, the overall benefits of aspirin in terms of primary prevention of atherothrombotic events…
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[Comment] Psoriatic arthritis: still room for improvement
Merete Lund Hetland | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
Psoriatic arthritis is a complex and heterogeneous inflammatory disease, characterised by diverse clinical manifestations. Patients might have musculoskeletal manifestations–ie, peripheral or axial arthritis, enthesitis, dactylitis, and tendinitis–but non-musculoskeletal involvement is also prevalent–eg, nails, gut, and eyes, in addition to latent or manifest psoriasis.1 Additionally, patients with psoriatic arthritis have increased risk of cardiovascular, psychological, and metabolic comorbidities.
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[Correspondence] Unfortunate distinction or corporate protectionism by design?
Claudia Chaufan, Faisal Mohamed | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
We commend the Editors for bringing to readers’ attention the “unfortunate distinction” of Canada’s otherwise laudable publicly funded Medicare.1 The effects of this distinction on health, such as poor adherence, poor health outcomes, and avoidable hospital admissions, are well documented.2,3…
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[Articles] Monotherapy with a P2Y12 inhibitor or aspirin for secondary prevention in patients with established atherosclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Mauro Chiarito, Jorge Sanz-Sánchez, Francesco Cannata, Davide Cao, Matteo Sturla, Cristina Panico, Cosmo Godino, Damiano Regazzoli, Bernhard Reimers, Raffaele De Caterina, Gianluigi Condorelli, Giuseppe Ferrante, Giulio G Stefanini | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
Compared with aspirin monotherapy, P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy is associated with a risk reduction for myocardial infarction and a comparable risk of stroke in the setting of secondary prevention. The benefit of P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy is of debatable clinical relevance, in view of the high number needed to treat to prevent a myocardial infarction and the absence of any effect on all-cause and vascular mortality.
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[Comment] Reconnecting for our future: The Lancet One Health Commission
John H Amuasi, Tamara Lucas, Richard Horton, Andrea S Winkler | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
The evolution and sustenance of our planet hinges on a symbiotic relationship between humans, animals, and the environment that we share–we are interconnected. However, this past century has seen human dominance over the biosphere, manifest in technological innovations, accelerated mobility, and converted ecosystems that characterise industrialisation, globalisation, and urbanisation.1 These developmental trajectories have advanced human health in unprecedented ways. However, they also make humans increasingly vulnerable to contemporary global health challenges, such as emerging and re-emerging infectious d…
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[Correspondence] The Global Kidney Exchange programme
Gabriel M Danovitch | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
In their favourable review of the ethics of the Global Kidney Exchange (GKE), Francesca Minerva and colleagues1 gloss over a key point: the absence of transparency in the selection of the compatible donor–recipient pairs in the low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). It is precisely this transparency and the promotion of ethical and effective organ donor and allocation that the Council of Europe’s Committee on Organ Transplantation2 and the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group3 strive to attain.
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[Correspondence] The Global Kidney Exchange programme
Luca Valera, María Alejandra Carrasco | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
Francesca Minerva and colleagues1 recently presented an ethical solution to kidney failure, in response to the low numbers of transplantations in high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). It is the Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) programme, which matches donor–recipient pairs across HICs and LMICs.
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[Correspondence] The Global Kidney Exchange programme
Marta López-Fraga, Beatriz Domínguez-Gil | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
We read the Health Policy about the Global Kidney Exchange programme by Francesca Minerva and colleagues1 with interest.
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COVID-19 Might Cause Mass Starvation In The Global South Unless The World Acts Now
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-08
Provided that developing nations are assured of debt relief (however it be agreed upon) and the world’s leading agricultural exporters can ensure the continuance of their operations (preferably subsidized by the state as emergency aid to the Global South), then it’s possible that this looming catastrophe can be averted. If that doesn’t happen for some reason, then not only could countless people perish, but the geopolitical stability of this broad swath of the planet could be shattered if domestic and/or international unrest follows as a result. | The developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, colle…
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COVID-19 Might Cause Mass Starvation in the Global South Unless the World Acts Now
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
Provided that developing nations are assured of debt relief (however it be agreed upon) and the world’s leading agricultural exporters can ensure the continuance of their operations (preferably subsidized by the state as emergency aid to the Global South), then …
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100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was…
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Democrats: Dump Biden Now
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Listen up Democrats: dump Joe Biden; dump him now. I implore you not as one of you, but as someone who considers voting for Republicans unthinkable, and who nearly always does vote for Democrats for want of better alternatives. Ever since Ralph Nader’s campaign twenty years ago, I have always voted for the Green candidate…
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100 Years of Shame: Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
One hundred years ago, representatives from a few powerful countries convened at San Remo, a sleepy town on the Italian Riviera. Together, they sealed the fate of the massive territories confiscated from the Ottoman Empire following its defeat in World War I. It was on April 25, 1920, that the San Remo Conference Resolution was…
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Justice is Indivisible: Placing Palestine Back at the Center of American Muslim Activism
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-08
In many mosques across the US, Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and other places of great and perpetual injustice are hardly mentioned. Perhaps, argues Ramzy Baroud, over fear that doing so would place them at the radar of the FBI or local enforcement agencies.
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Palestine President Abbas Threatens to Tear-up Agreements with Israel, US if West Bank Is Annexed
The New Arab | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
The Palestinian Authority has threatened to cut all agreements signed with Israel and the US, if the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank goes ahead. | During a meeting in Ramallah with the Fatah Central Committee, Mahmoud…
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Silvercorp co-founder speaks with The Grayzone: What did State Department know about failed Venezuela invasion?
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-08
The Grayzone speaks to Drew White

Live and Let Die
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Real Time Reflections from Sheltered Radicals in the Time of the Most Dangerous Criminal in Human History May 3 + Street: Comrades, this article never ends but it’s worth a read: “34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America.” It is a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s total reckless insanity in response to…
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Right of Palestine should be taken from usurper regime of Israel in force: official
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

[Comment] Offline: Independent science advice for COVID-19–at last
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-05-09
“Is the government’s objective to suppress infection or to manage the infection?”, asked Sir David King at the first press conference of a newly formed independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), held last week. The UK now has two SAGEs. The officially constituted SAGE has seen its reputation collapse during the past 3 months. Partly, this loss of credibility arose out of the group’s unwillingness to be transparent about its membership and its proceedings. At a moment of national emergency, SAGE’s secrecy simply became unacceptable.
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Palestinians And Israelis Remember Casualties Together
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-08
The alternative memorial service organized by peace organizations in Israel/Palestine challenges the racist official memorial services of the State of Israel in which only Israeli casualties are remembered.
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War of words over actual war? US BLOCKS UN resolution on global Covid-19 ceasefire over its support for WHO
rt.com | 2020-05-09
A dispute between the US and China scuttled the proposed UN resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic, after Beijing insisted on support for the World Health Organization and Washington vetoed it. | All 15 members of the UN Security Council agreed in principle with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s call for a global ceasefire, made on March 23, but have wrangled over the wording of the resolution ever since. China has insisted on including support for the WHO and the agency’s role in dealing with the pandemic, while the US demanded removal of all references to the WHO and insert…
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Censors crack down on ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy documentary. What’s so dangerous about it?
rt.com | 2020-05-09
Pulled from YouTube, censored in internet searches, and denounced by every single mainstream media outlet, what kind of information could make everyone so mad about ‘Plandemic’? We watched it to find out. | A 23-minute teaser clip of the documentary went viral on Wednesday evening, notching up tens of millions of views across multiple platforms. However, a media outcry soon followed, with mainstream media outlets deploying their ‘fact-checkers’ to debunk its claims, and Facebook and YouTube removing the video, citing their new rules on Covid-19 “misinformation.” | Yet censorship is also a sure-fire way to gene…
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Forgetting someone? WH attributes victory over Nazis to ‘America & UK’ in bizarre VE-Day message, gets schooled on Twitter
rt.com | 2020-05-09
The White House has marked the victory over Nazi Germany in a tweet hailing the role of the US and the UK, while leaving out the nation that sacrificed the most

‘Craven and repugnant’: Dem Feinstein roasted for attack on Biden accuser Reade after backing Blasey Ford during Kavanaugh fiasco
rt.com | 2020-05-08
Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein is being lambasted for apparent double standards after attacking Tara Reade, the former Joe Biden staffer who alleges the Democrat presidential candidate sexually assaulted her. | The Californian politician unequivocally supported Christine Blasey Ford when she accused then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 2018. However, now that it’s a Democrat facing the charges, Feinstein’s singing an entirely different tune. | Discussing Reade’s claims, which date back to 1993, Feinstein questioned why she waited 27 years to make them public. | Also on rt.com
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“Gene-Edited” Future Justified By COVID-19 & France Admits Athletes Infected At Wuhan Military Games
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-09
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/8/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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Republicans Say They’d Break Rule They Invented to Derail Obama’s SCOTUS Pick
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-08
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins hospital on Wednesday evening after having been treated for an infection in her gallbladder. | Ginsburg is “doing well and glad to be home,” according to a spokeswoman for the Court, but that hasn’t stopped some Republicans in the Senate from considering what they might do if her seat (or even somebody else’s) were suddenly to become vacant…
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Live and Let Die
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Real Time Reflections from Sheltered Radicals in the Time of the Most Dangerous Criminal in Human History May 3 + Street: Comrades, this article never ends but it’s worth a read: “34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America.” It is a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s total reckless insanity in response to…
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As COVID-19 Grips Yemen, Saudi Warplanes Target Trucks Laden with Medical Supplies
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-08
The UN has warned that a shocking 16 million Yemenis are at risk of contracting the coronavirus, dealing a whopping blow to what it has already described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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Beijing May Dump US Treasuries in Response to US Hostility, Start Its Own QE: Chinese Media
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
In response to recent media speculation that as the blame game over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic escalates the US may cancel some of its $1.1 trillion debt owed to China, the South China Morning Post reported today that …
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Trump Death Clock: Times Square Billboard Tallies Lives Lost to COVID-19 Inaction
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-08
A 56-foot billboard called the Trump Death Clock was unveiled in Times Square in New York City. The tally of lives lost to government inaction was created by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who says, “On behalf of all of those who needlessly lost their lives to this failed leadership in a pandemic, we need a symbol, a symbol that cries out not only for accountability, but also for more responsible and responsive stewardship, going forward.” As of the Friday morning broadcast, the death toll count was nearly 47,000 and growing.
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As States Loosen Pandemic Restrictions, Dr. Leana Wen Warns “We Are Not Ready for a Safe Reopening”
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-08
As more than 40 states begin to reopen, President Trump is downplaying the need for mass COVID-19 testing, even as he himself is now being tested every day for the virus. We speak with emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen, who says, “Widespread testing is so critical. … Why shouldn’t this testing be available to all Americans?”
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“A Terrible Price”: Mardi Gras Story Lays Bare How COVID-19 Is Devastating Black America
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-08
We look at the deadly disparate impact of the pandemic on African Americans as told through an in-depth story for The New York Times Magazine by writer Linda Villarosa in her new piece, “‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America,” that tells what happened to the Zulu club, a Black social organization in New Orleans, during and after Mardi Gras. She reports that the experience is usually a joy, but the coronavirus made it a tragedy.
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“A Lynch Mob”: After Months of Inaction, 2 White Men Are Charged with Murder of Ahmaud Arbery in GA
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-08
The two white men caught on camera shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African American man, were arrested and charged Thursday with murder. The arrests came two days after video of the attack in February was shared with the public, sparking widespread outrage. Today would have been Arbery’s 26th birthday. We speak with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents the Arbery family and formerly represented Trayvon Martin.
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Guaido Accused of Hiring Mercenaries Behind Foiled Coup Attempt in Venezuela
Steve Sweeney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
Washington-backed Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaido has been accused of hiring mercenaries responsible for two foiled terror attacks, as more details of the plot begin to emerge. | Venezuelan communications minister Jorge Rodriguez confirmed that the former president of the National …
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Venezuela Confronts Intimidation, Myth-making, and Dirty War
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Venezuela’s story currently is of vulnerability and precariousness amidst signs of rising U.S. aggression. The imperialist U.S. government wants the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro removed and insists that Venezuela’s massive oil reserves and the entire continent remain within the fold of international capitalism. Crucial to these U.S. designs is junior partner Colombia with…
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This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity
Brad Evans | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Every catastrophe and crisis are followed by a litany of conspiracy theories. The Covid-19 pandemic has proved no exception. From tales concerning transmission of some lethal agent through 5G infrastructure, to grand theories concerning a mastermind plot to destabilise the world, the fantastical and the absurd have spread almost as quickly as the virus. While the early culprits ranged from the Bill Gates to the Iranians, George Soros to the Eco-fascists, it’s becoming more and more common to suggest some orchestrated Chinese plot. The alleged death of Kim Jong-un which had socialists the world over speculating ab…
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For the United Socialist States of the Middle East and Central Asia
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
The pandemic exposes not only the bankruptcy of the Middle Eastern bourgeoisies, but the true face of imperialism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/uasp…

How Much Did the Trump Administration Know About the Failed Venezuela Coup Attempt?
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-08
US regime change operations have been outsourced to semi-private companies and NGOs for decades, giving the government a paper-thin veneer of plausible deniability.
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How Much Did the Trump Administration Know About the Failed Venezuela Coup Attempt?
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-08
US regime change operations have been outsourced to semi-private companies and NGOs for decades, giving the government a paper-thin veneer of plausible deniability. | MPN– The government of Venezuela is claiming victory after a coup attempt led by a group of mercenaries led by ex-Green Berets failed spectacularly Sunday, as the highly trained group’s incursion failed to even make it to the beach, overpowered by local fishermen’s collectives. Eight of the party were killed, and 23 more are in custody, incl…
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Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-08
May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies’ victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or exterminated in death camps. While many novel socially-distanced celebrations across the world are going on, some large corporations are laying low in the knowledge that they actively collaborated with and helped Hitler’s war machine. | Standard Oil, a huge monolith now split up into a myriad of smaller ones, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, and Marathon, was crucial to both prolon…
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Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-08
From Coca-Cola to Nestle, some of the most iconic American brands eagerly took part in the Nazi experiment. | MPN– May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies’ victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or exterminated in death camps. While many novel socially-distanced celebrations across the world are going on, some large corporations are laying low in the knowledge that they actively collaborated with and helped Hitler’s war machine. | Standard Oil, a huge monolith…
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US Wants Release of Two Special Forces Veterans Who Led Failed Coup Invasion of Venezuela
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Imperial overreach was on full display this week as the US government demanded that a pair of US citizens

Roaming Charges: Ain’t Living Long Like This
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
+ The detestable rationalizations liberals make for sticking with Biden despite Tara Reade’s convincing story can’t come as any surprise. It’s the same ritual contortions they’ve made about the Iraq war, fracking, abortion, the drug war, Anita Hill, social security, segregation, climate change, health care, deportations, a living wage, student debt, the Patriot Act, pipelines, the Libyan coup, climate change. To be a Democrat is to live in a constant state of denial, self-contradiction and moral hypocrisy.
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Foreign Correspondent: Biden vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2020-05-08
The differences are not as great as you might suspect, but there is a clear winner.
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Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, America’s Billionaires Thrive and Prosper
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-05-08
Although most Americans currently face hard times, with unemployment surging to the levels of the Great Depression and enormous numbers of people sick or dying from the coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s super-rich remain a notable exception. Financially, they are doing remarkably well. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, between March 18 and April 28, Read…
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On The Latest Failed Attempt To Topple Nicolas Maduro
Steve Ellner | zcomm.org | 2020-05-08
To understand the workings of this latest botched Venezuelan regime-change scheme by a 60-man sea-borne assault group from Colombia, it’s necessary to take into account the fragmentation among Venezuelan opposition extremists…
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Never Cease to Fail? Private Military Company Behind Botched Venezuela Raid Suspected of Plagiarism
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
Company head Jordan Goudreau has acknowledged his involvement in an attempt to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after two of his men were captured, with one of them making a confession aired on Venezuelan TV.
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Maduro Accuses US Chargé d’Affaires Story of Being Behind Boat Incursion From Colombia
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday that the US Chargé d’ Affaires, for the Venezuela Affairs Unit, James Story, played a part in Sunday’s boat incursion from Colombia.
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Venezuela charges two Americans with terrorism and conspiracy over failed mercenary plot
rt.com | 2020-05-08
Venezuela has charged two former US soldiers with terrorism and conspiracy offences for taking part in a botched bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro, the country’s top prosecutor said on Friday. | Luke Alexander Denman and Airan Berry were among at least 17 people captured by the Venezuelan military following a foiled attempt by mercenaries to kidnap President Maduro in the early hours of Sunday morning. | Attorney General Tarek William Saab said the ex-soldiers had been charged with “terrorism, conspiracy, illicit trafficking of weapons of war and [criminal] association,” and could face up to 30 years in pri…
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When silence speaks volumes: US cut off ALL communication channels with Caracas after botched mercenary raid, says Maduro
rt.com | 2020-05-08
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that evidence will soon reveal the US leader himself was behind the failed incursion attempt, noting that Washington severed all remaining ties with Caracas thereafter. | In an interview with Uruguayan reporter Jorge Gestoso on Thursday evening, Maduro said the freshly-appointed Ambassador James Story

‘It’d be called an invasion’: Trump says he’d use ARMY to raid Venezuela as he doubles down on denial of ordering botched plot
rt.com | 2020-05-08
US President Donald Trump has dismissed claims the foiled plot to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had government backing, insisting he’d have done it differently

US-China “War of Words”, COVID-19, Economic Collapse, Is the US-China Trade Deal in Jeopardy?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
In December, China agreed to buy an additional $200 billion worth of US goods and services over 2017 levels in the next two years (in 2020 and 2021). | In return, the Trump regime partially rolled back tariffs on Chinese imports …
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What Future for American High School and University-College Graduates? Grim US “Class of 2020” Job Prospects
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
US class of 2020 high school and higher education graduates face the most dismal job market since the 1930s Great Depression with no near-term end of it in prospect. | According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, “(g)raduating in a …
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Greece’s Renewed Relations with Syria Further Isolates Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
On Tuesday, the Greek Foreign Ministry finally announced a restoration of relations between Greece and Syria and assigned former ambassador to Syria and Russia, Tasia Athanassiou, as a Special Envoy of Greece’s Foreign Ministry for Syria. Greek Foreign Minister …
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The Coronavirus Crisis Has Exposed Germany’s Ambition to Take Control of the EU
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
It has been repeatedly stated that the management of the coronavirus pandemic will be a barometer of how capable leaders are handling unprecedented crisis. Think how U.S. President Donald Trump has been lambasted all over the globe for letting coronavirus …
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Freedom for Assange is inseparable from the fight against war and for socialism
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
All those political tendencies and individuals who refused to defend Assange–and who joined in the slander campaign against him–have blood on their hands.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/thom…

British coastguards rescue more than 120 migrants on 7 boats in Channel
rt.com | 2020-05-08
British coastguards rescued more than 120 migrants trying to cross the English Channel on seven small boats, French maritime authorities said on Friday. | The rescue took place in the night from Thursday to Friday, according to a spokesman for the Maritime Prefecture for the Channel and North Sea. | Border officials and coastguards in Britain and France have intercepted numerous attempted crossings in recent months as migrants have repeatedly tried to travel from destinations in Asia and Africa to Britain. | “It’s little wonder people living in France’s refugee camps are desperate to make this dangerous crossi…
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Crowded Prisons Are About to Create a Coronavirus Crisis in Rural America
Tana Ganeva | zcomm.org | 2020-05-08
For the past several decades, rural America’s economic lifeline has been the construction and operation of prisons and immigrant detention centers, both public and for-profit…
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The Pandemic’s Impact on Immigration Detention Centers
Andrea Arroyo | thenation.com | 2020-05-08
The Pandemic’s Impact on Immigration Detention Centers…
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Resistance rejoices as wife of Trump immigration aide tests positive for Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-08
The White House asked reporters to wear face masks after a second staff member in two days tested positive for the coronavirus. Critics of President Donald Trump reacted with joy after finding out who it was. | Trump personally confirmed on Friday that a member of Vice President Mike Pence’s staff tested positive for the virus, causing a delay in Pence’s scheduled trip to Iowa. This follows the news that Trump’s valet’s test returned a positive result on Thursday. | “She’s a wonderful young woman, Katie. She tested very good for a long period of time,” Trump said, during a press spray, following a meeting with…
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Karnataka State government concedes unions’ demands, allows migrants to return home
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-08
The State government had earlier decided to seek a halt to special train services for migrant workers from other States to return home amid the COVID-19 crisis. This was after a meeting with real estate developers who reportedly said they want to retain the laborers for construction work…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/08/karnataka…

Jimmy Kimmel’s non-apology for pushing FAKE NEWS about VP Pence shows partisanship rules MSM
rt.com | 2020-05-08
After even mainstream outlets objected to a deceptively edited video of VP Mike Pence, comedian Jimmy Kimmel issued a sarcastic apology suggesting that lying about the Trump administration is fine because they don’t “value truth.” | A 40-second segment seen by millions showed Kimmel mocking Pence for delivering empty boxes of personal protective equipment into a Virginia nursing home. Democrat activists online

China should TRIPLE nuclear arsenal to deter ‘warmongering’ US, editor of state-run Global Times argues
rt.com | 2020-05-08
China should drastically increase its stockpile of nuclear warheads to dissuade the United States from pursuing its strategic ambitions abroad, the editor of the Global Times has urged. | In a piece published by his own paper, Hu Xijin said China is a “peace-loving nation” that has pledged to never be the first to use nuclear weapons. He argued, however, that Beijing must aim to expand the number of its nuclear warheads to 1,000 to create a powerful deterrent to “shape the attitudes of US elites toward China.” The Asian power currently has around 300 nuclear weapons. | He said that bolstering China’s nuclear c…
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#WorkerRightsNow: Day of Action for Essential Worker Bill of Rights
MoveOn, Greenpeace, others | indybay.org | 2020-05-08
Online and/or phone call actions…
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Why Trump and Anti-Lockdown Protesters’ Calls to Return to Normal Are Acts of White Supremacy
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
When the coronavirus pandemic was first declared, Americans dutifully stayed at home to prevent outbreaks like the ones playing out in China and Italy. Although a majority of Americans continue to support quarantine orders intended to quell the spread of the virus, a growing number of anti-lockdown protests across the nation are sending a clear…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/why-trump-an…

Long Live the Spirit of Kent and Jackson State!
Otis Grotewohl | workers.org | 2020-05-08
May 4 and May 15, 2020, mark the 50th anniversaries of the murders of students at Kent State and Jackson State in the United States. Many people are familiar with the National Guard shooting of students and protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University in 1970, which left four dead and . . . | Continue reading Long Live the Spirit of Kent and Jackson State! at Workers.org
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Vietnam protests Beijing’s ‘unilateral fishing ban’ in S. China Sea
rt.com | 2020-05-08
Hanoi protested on Friday against what it described as Beijing’s unilateral fishing ban in the disputed South China Sea from May 1 to August 16. The statement comes weeks after Vietnamese boat had reportedly been rammed by a Chinese maritime surveillance vessel, Reuters said. | China and Vietnam have for years been embroiled in a dispute over the potentially energy-rich stretch of water, called the East Sea by Hanoi. | “Vietnam demands that China not further complicate the situation in the South China Sea,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said in a statement. | China’s Foreign Ministry said on Apr…
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Prodded by Right Wingers, Santa Cruz Businesses Operate Outside of Health Restrictions
Santa Cruz News | indybay.org | 2020-05-08
The “Committee to Reopen Santa Cruz,” a group founded recently by right wing extremists who believe the COVID-19 Pandemic is a hoax, is prodding local businesses to open early. The group has announced that the Om Gallery on Pacific Avenue is opening to two shoppers at a time from 1-5pm on Friday, May 8, by appointment. The Committee to Reopen Santa Cruz also plans to do “guerrilla yoga” at a studio that will secretly open its doors for the group. “Some studios are opening the back door for the cool kids club. No Snitches,” a flyer for a May 8 “Freedom Friday” protest states. On May 6, the Santa Cruz County Health…
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HIGH-FREQUENCY failure of combination antiretroviral therapy in paediatric HIV infection is associated with unmet maternal needs causing maternal NON-ADHERENCE
Jane R. Millar, Nomonde Bengu, Rowena Fillis, Ken Sprenger, Vuyokazi Ntlantsana, Vinicius A. Vieira, Nisreen Khambati, Moherndran Archary, Maximilian Muenchhoff, Andreas Groll, Nicholas Grayson, John Adamson, Katya Govender, Krista Dong, Photini Kiepiela, Bruce D. Walker, David Bonsall, Thomas Connor, Matthew J. Bull, Nelisiwe Nxele, Julia Roider, Nasreen Ismail, Emily Adland, Maria C. Puertas, Javier Martinez-Picado, Philippa C. Matthews, Thumbi Ndung’u, Philip Goulder, the Ucwaningo Lwabantwana Consortium | thelancet.com | 2020-05-08
The success of early infant testing and cART initiation strategies is severely limited by subsequent cART non-adherence in HIV-infected children. Although there are practical challenges to administering paediatric cART formulations, these are overcome by mothers who themselves are cART-adherent. These findings point to the ongoing obligation to address the unmet needs of the mothers. Eliminating the particular barriers preventing adequate treatment for these vulnerable women and infants need to be prioritised in order to achieve durable suppression of viraemia on cART, let alone HIV cure/remission, in HIV-infecte…
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Modi eases lockdown restrictions even as COVID-19 cases surge across India
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
India’s far-right BJP government is pressing to “reopen” the economy so that sweatshop exploitation of the working class can resume at full throttle, even as the number of COVID-19 cases surges.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/indi…

Water and Cadillac Deserts
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
My lengthy experience at the US Environmental Protection Agency brought me face to face with the terrors of our “modern” times. One of those awful realizations was that the leaders of America

Venezuela: A Failed US Invasion in the Midst of a Pandemic
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
In the midst of a massive global pandemic that has killed tens of thousands of people and wrecked economies all over the world leaving millions jobless, some terrorists and mercenaries allegedly backed by certain governments had on 3rd May …
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Attacking the Messenger
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
When it comes to global warming, there continues to be plenty of magical thinking going on. And such magical thinking is not exclusive to the conservative side of the political spectrum. It is easy to take apart conservative denial of global warming, based as it is on ideology and a total lack of scientific grounding.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/attacking-th…

Seventy-five years since the end of World War II
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
Three quarters of a century after the end of the war, fascism and war are imminent global dangers once again.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/pers…

COVID-19: The rest of the world is looking at Britain’s shame
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-08
By Rob Woodward

Mercenaries launch attack on Venezuelan coast, driven back
| workers.org | 2020-05-08
Workers World received this statement May 4 that originated from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry about the May 3 attack on that country’s shores, made even more ominous by the presence of U.S. Navy warships in the waters off Venezuela. Since that day the Venezuelans report that they stopped another similar . . . | Continue reading Mercenaries launch attack on Venezuelan coast, driven back at Workers.org
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Trump vetoes war powers resolution on Iran
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
As anticipated, the US Senate failed to muster the two-thirds vote necessary to override the veto of a bill purporting to limit the president’s power to launch aggressive war against Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/iran…

Visions of a Post-Covid-19 World
John Davis | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
While we, perforce, sit at home, inured to many decades of sleep-walking towards the climate apocalypse, the skies cleared, the price of oil dropped to negative $40 a barrel (rebounding to just short of positive $20 at the time of writing) and a global reduction in carbon emissions of nearly 8% is forecast for the year. We are living the dream of effectively confronting our egregious consumption of fossil fuels. From a global warming perspective, our social isolation has been highly efficacious – the pernicious, growth-driven habits of exploitation, extraction and habitat destruction have been put on hold. A wind…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/visions-of-a…

Israel: A Lab for “The New Vaccine Order”? Towards a Second Lockdown?
Joshua Tartakovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
In the fight against corona virus, when trying to discern in what direction the Western world is going, it is almost always useful to watch the steps taken by Israel, the Zionist State.[1]. | Israel is not only a threat to …
globalresearch.ca/israel-lab-new-vaccine…

New Iraq government faces economy in freefall amid COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
Prime Minister Al-Khadimi will uphold the political sectarian system known as muhasasa and work with Washington in the “strategic dialogue” over relations between the two countries.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/iraq…

Colombia’s healthcare show: ‘If you get sick, you die and that’s the truth’
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-08
While Colombia’s health minister was in the southwestern town of Leticia faking aid, locals were building the first repository for the town’s growing number of COVID-19 deaths. The capital of…
colombiareports.com/colombias-healthcare…

NYT’s ‘Real Coronavirus Death Toll’ Is Anything But
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-05-08
The New York Times graphics department has done some great work translating the data of the Covid-19 pandemic into visual form, allowing readers to get an intuitive sense of the scope and course of the outbreak. Their “Real Coronavirus Death Toll in Each State” (5/5/20) is not a good example of that great work. …
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V-E Day Plus 75: From a Moment of Victory to a Time of Pandemic
Andrew Bacevich | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
The 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender in May 1945 ought to prompt thoughtful reflection. For Americans, V-E Day, as it was then commonly called, marked the beginning of “our times.” The Covid-19 pandemic may signal that our times are now coming to an end. Tom Engelhardt, editor and proprietor of TomDispatch, was born less…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/v-e-day-plus…

Slaughter of the Innocents: COVID-19 & the Future of Agriculture
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
It’s early days yet, but the COVID-19 pandemic has already proven to be revelatory, exposing much that is ugly about the “normal” functioning of the US: the sorry state of health care, the unresponsiveness of corporate-owned government, the hyper individuality of the populace, the high levels of ignorance among the same, and the racism of…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/slaughter-of…

Canada: Trudeau gives cash handout to meatpacking giants as COVID-19 cases rise among workers
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
Even as the federal Liberals announced a $77 million handout to major producers, new coronavirus outbreaks were exposed at meatpacking plants in Alberta and Quebec.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/came…

Russian COVID-19 cases rise, as 750,000 join unemployment rolls
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
Layoffs are spreading in Russia, as the country surpasses France and Germany in total coronavirus infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/ruco…

Video: COVID-19 “Fake” Data in Italy: Politician Slams False Numbers: Vittorio Sgarbi
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
Vittorio Sgarbi, MP (Forza Italia) slammed the closure of 60% of Italian businesses. A decision which was taken on the basis an alleged 25,000 Coronavirus deaths. “It’s not true,” he said. | . | According to the National Institute of Health, 96.3% …
globalresearch.ca/video-covid-19-fake-da…

Is Big Pharma more Interested in Profiteering than Protecting us from Coronavirus?
F. Douglas Stephenson | zcomm.org | 2020-05-08
Forty years of private corporatist Big Pharma and oligarch control of our economy has left the public totally exposed and ill-prepared to face the public health crisis of COVID-19…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-big-pharma-more…

COVID-19 in Detroit: A Case Study in Resilience and Resistance
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
Detroit has been disproportionately impacted by the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in early-to-mid- March. | Almost no preparation by the municipal administration was made in advance of such a tremendous healthcare and subsequent social crises. | The majority of the …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-detroit-case-…

The COVID-19 Crisis Has Already Left Too Many Children Hungry in America
Lauren Bauer | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity has increased in the United States. This is particularly true for households with young children. | I document new evidence from two nationally representative surveys that were initiated to provide up-to-date estimates …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-crisis-many-c…

US state and municipal governments plan massive austerity to meet COVID-19 budget shortfalls
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
State and municipal governments are announcing cuts to medical programs and education and are furloughing workers to make up for the budget shortfall.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/cuts…

Rich Corporations Get $500 Billion, No Strings Attached
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
It is beyond obscene that the U.S. government used the Covid-19 panic to ram through a $500 billion loan giveaway to rich corporations. Loans with no strings attached. How did the geniuses in Washington conclude that stuffing cash into the pockets of oligarchs would help the 30 million dumped out of work? Those plutocrats have…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/rich-corpora…

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

Ricardo Salvador on the Food System & Covid-19
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-05-08
Media…
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Euro at risk from uneven virus shock across EU
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-08
By TruePublica: There is much speculation across the EU at the moment that the euro currency is in very serious trouble. It isn’t the first time, but the COVID-19 crisis has put an entirely new threat into the system that makes its future look less certain. We have always speculated at TruePublica that because of …
truepublica.org.uk/eu/euro-at-risk-from-uneven-virus-shock-across-eu/

Deemed essential, US farmworkers face wage reductions, zero protections from COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
Farmworkers lack access to basic medical care and suffer from significantly higher rates of diabetes, hypertension and health conditions such as heart disease and environmental cancers due to long exposure to pesticides.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/farm…

The psychology of the COVID-19 coup: The elite, their victims and those who resist
Robert J. Burrowes | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-08
The longer it takes to muster a full response to defeat this coup, the more damage

Widespread criticism forces right-wing Polish government to postpone presidential polls
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-08
After drawing widespread criticism from the opposition, wide sections of the Polish society and even coalition partners, the government in Poland led by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party decided on May 6, Wednesday to postpone the presidential polls scheduled for May 10. PiS’ bid to hold the polls through postal voting amid the COVID-19 crisis was viewed as a desperate attempt to get incumbent president Andrzej Duda re-elected and also significantly affected the government’s anti-COVID-19 policies. | On May 5, the opposition-dominated Polish Senate had vetoed the decision to conduct presidential polls by…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/08/widesprea…

The Plot to Blame China for COVID-19
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
The Trump lot–Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Mike Pompeo–and their media cheerleaders are as fanatically anti-China as the Biden crew is anti-Russia. Just like George W. Bush’s WMD lies in the early-2000s, there is a developing timeline of Trumpian efforts to bend intelligence on COVID to the administration’s anti-China policy. TARGET: CHINA In the 1980s, the…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/the-plot-to-…

Why COVID-19 is the Great Unequalizer
Marshall Auerback | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
In his now must-see-TV daily press conferences, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has referred to COVID-19 as “the great equalizer.” In the sense that anybody can be infected by the virus, the governor is right. Yet after several months, the data shows clearly the impact is unequally landing on the shoulders of people of color…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/why-covid-19…

Why is Canada’s ruling elite deploying the military amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
While Canadian military personnel are now being deployed to assist overwhelmed staff at long-term care facilities, the CBC has reported that troops are also readying to quell “public disturbances” in a “worst case scenario.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/caco…

New outbreaks of COVID-19 reported at workplaces across the US
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
As states continue to push to reopen their economies and force workers back on the job, new hot-spots are emerging in factories and stores from Iowa to Massachusetts.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/covd…

Covid-19 hits an economically weak and deeply unequal Latin America
Anna Grugel Smith | zcomm.org | 2020-05-08
Will Latin American economies returning to “normal” or build for a more equitable future after the pandemic?
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-19-hits-an-e…

What is the General Strike?
Richard Moser | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
The General Strike in the US is a multi-faceted, poly-centered resistance movement responding to the general crisis of capitalism and corporate power triggered by the Covid-19 crisis. The pandemic is revealing to millions what was always well hidden: America is a house of cards. The bosses and their government have no interest in defending the…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/what-is-the-…

Strange and Excessive Abuses by Corporations, Officials, and Narcos are Slipping Under the Radar in Mexico
Tamara Pearson | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
It was basically a coup attempt and nobody noticed. Here in Puebla, Mexico, the state government tried to take over city buildings in order to secure power for drug cartels that they allegedly have a pact with. But with empty streets and the media covering Covid-19 to the almost exclusivity of anything else, few people…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/strange-and-…

Cuomo Adds Another Billionaire to “Reimagine” Public Education
Diane Ravitch | zcomm.org | 2020-05-08
The pandemic is turning into a grand opportunity for the foxes to raid the henhouse under cover of darknessdiane ra…
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Congress Sets Up Taxpayers to Eat $454 Billion of Wall Street’s Losses, Where is the Outrage?
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Beginning on March 24 of this year, Larry Kudlow, the White House Economic Advisor, began to roll out the most deviously designed bailout of Wall Street in the history of America. After the Federal Reserve’s secret $29 trillion bailout of Wall Street from 2007 to 2010, and the exposure of that by a government audit…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/congress-set…

Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion Dollar Profits at Our Expense
Etienne de Harven | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
The 2007 book Virus Mania by Torsten Engelbrecht and Claus Kà∂hnlein presents a tragic message that will, hopefully, contribute to the re-insertion of ethical values in the conduct of virus research, public health policies, media communications, and activities of the …
globalresearch.ca/virus-mania-how-the-me…

Jackson State Shootings, 1970
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
It’s hard to explain the situation in May 1970. I was in ninth grade at a junior high school administered by the US Department of Defense for what are known as dependents in military jargon. In plain English, they are family members of those in the military. Even from that seemingly remote environment, the events…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/jackson-stat…

Presidential Irresponsibility in Spades
Richard C. Gross | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
The president of the United States says he’s not responsible for dealing with the pandemic that has savaged America and already has killed tens of thousands of his countrymen. If he’s not ultimately responsible, who is? Who runs the country? Are they the state governors, who have their hands full competing with each other for…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/presidential…

Faint Praise for the Pandemic
Osha Neumann | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
Alas, we Who wanted to prepare the ground for kindness Could not ourselves be kind

Without an Economic Recovery, Argentina Cannot Repay Its Debt
Lara Merling | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
For those following Argentina’s debt saga, the current situation might seem eerily familiar: after the implosion of an IMF program, Argentina finds itself at the brink of default, with a debt burden, denominated in foreign currencies, that it simply cannot pay. In contrast with Argentina’s default in 2001, when it reached agreements with most of…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/without-an-e…

“They Are Expendable”: Who’s Paying to Reopen Business?
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-08
In late March, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) made a bold, revealing, statement on Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in support of Pres. Trump’s call for businesses to reopen and relaunch the national economic recovery. “Let’s get back to living,” Patrick said.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/they-are-exp…

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
South African nurses’ stayaway defies premature lockdown end; health workers in South Africa, Kenya, refuse workers in UK, demand personal protection equipment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/wrks…

German government ends lockdown, putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
Three weeks after the decision of the federal and state governments to gradually withdraw the restrictions imposed in March, the end of the lockdown in Germany has largely been completed.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/germ…

Indian migrant workers in Chennai speak to WSWS about coronavirus pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
“We’ve received no help whatsoever from any political parties or the government. None of us living here have been given a coronavirus medical test or provided with face masks for safety.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/chen…

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

What Do We Need to Talk About?: Richard Nelson’s “Zoom theater” in the midst of the pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
The Apple family in Rhinebeck, New York, tries to carry on, as the world faces disaster and social upheaval.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/what…

With minimal federal relief, US states plan huge cuts to public education
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
The impact of the pandemic has thoroughly undermined state budgets, which is being used by Democratic and Republican politicians to dismantle and privatize public education and other vital social services.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/educ…

Economics and the Pandemic: ‘Where’s the Money Coming From? Where’s the Money Going To?
Bryant Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
When governments announced the huge amounts of money they were to provide to help with the economic shutdown, a friend asked, ‘where’s the money going to come from?’ The question is a good one, better than he realized because of …
globalresearch.ca/economics-pandemic/571…

Time to Change: Coronavirus and Refugees on Greece’s Samos Island
Chris Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
The global coronavirus pandemic is affecting every aspect of human life on earth. The challenge is awesome in its scale and scope. | To date we have no cases of the virus on Samos. But still its impact on life here …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-refugees-s…

Illinois nursing home workers’ strike blocked by SEIU
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
The union pushed through a concessions contract that gives the corporate management of the nursing home facilities everything they wanted and leaves nursing home workers in poverty and working under life-threatening conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/nurs…

Mass Joblessness Deepens in US as Corporations Move to Implement Permanent Layoffs. 40.6 Million Unemployed
Shannon Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
US government figures to be released today are expected to show mass unemployment in April unlike anything seen since the Great Depression. In numbers released Wednesday, ADP Research said that US payrolls in April fell by an astounding 20,236,000, a …
globalresearch.ca/mass-joblessness-us-co…

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

Court intervenes as coronavirus spreads to six of Colombia’s prisons
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-08
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ordered the country’s prison authority to speed up prison releases after the coronavirus infected 709 prisoners and guards in at least six prisons. The court ordered prison…
colombiareports.com/court-intervenes-as-…

Colombia’s coronavirus response: refusing treatment to children with cancer
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-05-08
Parents said Thursday that Colombia’s hospitals have been refusing treatment to children with cancer following a “hospital expansion” order that seeks to create capacity to deal with coronavirus infections. The…
colombiareports.com/colombias-coronaviru…

Are We on the Verge of a Global Financial Collapse
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-08
As jobs disappear and our everyday lives are disrupted in the name of flattening the coronavirus curve, a picture of what tomorrow will look like is still too uncertain to make out, but all indications show that we are close to a breaking point.
mintpressnews.com/coronavirus-verge-glob…

UK government covers up PPE shortages leading to health care worker deaths
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
Inquests into medical worker deaths from coronavirus will not address government failure to provide personal protective equipment, even as many health care workers still lack adequate equipment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/inqu…

Once Again, Congress Will Let Wall Street Pillage Main Street
Leonard C. Goodman | zcomm.org | 2020-05-08
Coronavirus bailouts are helping big donors while leaving small businesses and families behind…
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Trump administration suppresses Centers for Disease Control coronavirus guidance document
wsws.org | 2020-05-08
The CDC report would have laid out step-by-step instructions for a variety of “critical” businesses and institutions to safely reopen.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/08/cdcg…

COVID May 8, 2020 An Intel Drop, White House Hiding a 500,000 Death Figure
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-08
We begin with the deal breaker of all time. COVID is supposed to be a bat virus, a natural bat virus, unmodified, supposedly from China, right? | Name one animal that can’t get COVID? | smiling COVID bat, Lugar Center 2018 | The folks in the White House mostly went to business school. They had statistics classes and they all know numbers. You can’t steal without being able to count or at least without being able to hire someone who counts, as in Trump’s case. | The numbers we are given are fake, not a little fake but great big fa…
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Trump Administration Suppresses Centers for Disease Control Coronavirus Guidance Document
Bryan Dyne | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
The Trump administration reportedly shelved a document from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which would have provided detailed instructions for local authorities on appropriate measures to reopen a variety of businesses and institutions. The document is …
globalresearch.ca/trump-administration-s…

The ‘staggering’ fall of global fossil fuel demand
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-08
By Kieran Cooke: One of the pillars of industrial society is tottering: global fossil fuel demand is buckling, with only renewable energy expected to show any growth this year. Oil prices are going through the floor. The market for coal and gas is shrinking fast. And global emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases are set to …
truepublica.org.uk/global/the-staggering-fall-of-global-fossil-fuel-demand/

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

Britain: “The Stench of Corruption Could Hardly be Stronger”
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
It’s exhausting following this government. They appear to have less boundaries or rules that they won’t break. And there are some rules for those in office because it is they that are supposed to be the ones with the moral …
globalresearch.ca/stench-corruption-stro…

Spanish police detain Daesh/ISIS suspect in Barcelona
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
Spanish police have arrested a Moroccan man in Barcelona with suspected links to the Daesh terror group, also known as ISIS.The Guardia Civil force said it had arrested the man after a joint investigation with security forces in Morocco and the United States.”The suspect intended to carry out a terrorist act, the details of which are unknown,” police said in a statement on Friday.
yenisafak.com/en/world/spanish-police-de…

Putin holds phone talk with Merkel over Victory Day
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday talked on the phone over the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.The two leaders stressed that for Russia and Germany this date is of particular importance, and vowed to preserve the historical memory of the tragic events of those years to avoid repetition in the future, the Kremlin said in a statement published on its website.Putin and Merkel called Russia and Germany “partners in resolving many international problems” and confirmed the intention to further build constructive relations.Turning to the coronavirus pandemic, both…
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South Korea detects new COVID-19 cluster
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
South Korea on Friday detected a cluster of new coronavirus cases, prompting authorities to issue warning against an increase in new virus cases, local media reported.The new cluster was detected two days after the government allowed normalization of public facilities and other business establishments under the condition that they follow basic sanitation measures.At least 13 people tested positive for the virus after a COVID-19 patient had visited clubs and bars in Itaewon neighborhood of capital Seoul over the last weekend, according to Yonhap news agency.Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official…
yenisafak.com/en/world/south-korea-detec…

Red Army Choir performs Ottoman war song amid pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
Russia’s Red Army Choir shot a video at home playing notes from the Ottoman military band Mehter in support of Turkey’s fight with the novel coronavirus.The video was directed by the choir’s art director, Gen. Gennadiy Sachenyuk.The video was shared by the Red Army Choir’s social media accounts with a note: “With love and respect to the heroic Turkish nation.”The Russian and Turkish flags are hurled at the start of the video with choir members singing and playing their instruments.A montage of the choir’s concerts in Turkey plays in the background along with images of Turkey’s disinfecting drive at historical and…
yenisafak.com/en/news/red-army-choir-per…

Libyan gov’t airstrikes neutralize 15 of Haftar militia
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
The Libyan government’s airstrikes on Friday neutralized 15 members of warlord Khalifa Haftar militias in the vicinity of al-Watiya airbase. “The air force carried out airstrikes this morning in the vicinity of al-Watiya airbase

Turkey sends medical supplies to Ukraine to fight virus
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
Turkey sent Friday medical aid supplies to Ukraine to help fight against novel coronavirus outbreak that claimed thousands of lives worldwide.”Medical aid supplies, prepared at the direction of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for use against the COVID-19 outbreak, have been sent to Ukraine,” Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Twitter.Turkey also sent supplies to Tunisia earlier in the day.In a Wednesday statement, the Turkish foreign minister said some two-thirds of the nations of the world have requested medical supplies from Turkey to fight coronavirus, and nearly half of these requests were met. | The co…
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South Africa to grant 19,000 inmates parole to curb coronavirus spread
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
Around 19,000 people would be freed by the move, taken in response to a U.N. call on all countries to reduce prison populations so that social distancing and self-isolation conditions could be observed, Ramaphosa said.South Africa, which long battled high crime rates and violence against women and children, has 155,000 prisoners. The country of 58 million has recorded 8,232 cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday and 161 deaths.”In South Africa, as in many other countries, correctional facilities have witnessed outbreaks of coronavirus infections among inmates and personnel,” Ramaphosa’s statement said.Ramaphosa said th…
yenisafak.com/en/world/south-africa-to-g…

Turkey: 44 inmates infected with COVID-19 in Istanbul
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
Turkish prosecutors on Friday said that 44 inmates in an Istanbul prison have tested positive for COVID-19.In a statement, Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said two inmates and 42 others who came in contact with them tested positive at Silivri Prison.The treatment of four prisoners continues at the prison hospital, while others who are asymptomatic are being kept in isolation under the supervision of a doctor.The virus officially known as COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, China last December, and has spread to at least 187 countries and territories. Europe and the US are currently the worst-hit regions.The glob…
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After virus closure, malls set to reopen in Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
As Turkey eases measures against coronavirus, amid improving numbers, shopping malls are set to reopen their doors on Monday from a nearly two-month closure, and with stepped-up hygiene.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced this week that the country will normalize gradually during this May to July.Numerous factories in the country will also restart production in the next week.Shopping malls, ordered closed on March 21 to stem the spread of COVID-19, will reopen on Monday, two weeks before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which normally spurs a spike in shopping.Ahead of the reopening, the Council of Shopping Centers…
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Spain sees slight rise in COVID-19 deaths, infections
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
Spain reported another 229 COVID-19 deaths on Friday and 1,095 more infections, as regions across the country prepare to further relax lockdown measures next week.In total, Spanish Health Ministry has counted nearly 223,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 26,299 deaths. More than 121,700 people have been hospitalized and 131,148 have recovered from the disease.Data published on Thursday confirms nearly 46,000 health care workers in Spain contracted the virus

Iran: Death toll from coronavirus rises to 6,541
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
The death toll in Iran from the coronavirus rose to 6,541, as 55 new deaths were reported over the last 24 hours, state media reported on Friday.A further of 1,556 more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past day, bringing the total number of cases to 104,691, Iran’s state broadcaster reported, citing a statement from the Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour.Jahanpour said 83,837 people have recovered so far and been discharged from hospitals, while 2,711 others are in critical condition.Nearly 558,900 tests have been conducted so far in the country, he added.In Iran, one of the Middle Eastern c…
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India: 3,000 Muslims forced to quarantine after 40 days
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
A total of 3,013 members of a Muslim religious group still remain detained at various quarantine facilities in Delhi after over 40 days.The Tablighi Jamaat members, who have tested negative and their 14-day quarantine period is long over, have not been released despite requests.Dr. Mohammad Shoaib, Delhi Health Department’s COVID-19 coordinator, confirmed to Anadolu Agency all members are ready to be released.”All members have now tested negative and await their release. We have approached the officials a few times but got the same answer that paperwork is underway. The Delhi localities have not been released eit…
yenisafak.com/en/world/india-3000-muslim…

Facebook to allow employees to work remotely until year end
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
Facebook Inc said on Friday it would allow its workers who are able to work remotely to do so until the end of the year as the coronavirus pandemic forces governments to extend stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of the disease.The social media giant also expects most offices to stay closed until July 6, according to a company spokesperson.The virus, which has infected more than 3.8 million people globally so far, has forced strict lockdowns in most countries and changed the way businesses function, with work from home emerging as the new norm.
yenisafak.com/en/technology/facebook-to-…

Wuhan market had role in virus outbreak, but more research needed
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus last year, as the source or possibly as an “amplifying setting”, the World Health Organization said on Friday, calling for more research.Chinese authorities shut down the market in January as part of efforts to halt the spread of the virus and ordered a temporary ban on trade and consumption of wildlife.”The market played a role in the event, that’s clear. But what role we don’t know, whether it was the source or amplifying setting or just a coincidence that some cases were detected in and around that ma…
yenisafak.com/en/world/wuhan-market-had-…

Turkey schedules new evacuation flights for citizens in US
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-08
Turkey has scheduled four new evacuation flights from the coronavirus-hit US for its citizens who have short-term visas, the Turkish Embassy in Washington announced.To ensure the return of these Turkish nationals, “Turkish Airlines is planning to organize one commercial flight from New York and Chicago on May 15, 2020, from Houston on May 16, 2020 and from Miami on May 17, 2020,” the embassy said late Thursday in a Twitter statement.Citizens who take these flights must make a written commitment to remain in quarantine for 14 days following their arrival in Turkey.Such quarantines are standard for citizens returni…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-schedules-…

US Intel, Obama Aides Never Saw Any Direct Proof of Trump-Russia Collusion, Transcripts Reveal
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
In late July, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed in testimony to Congress that his team of investigators had failed to find sufficient evidence of President Trump’s collusion with Russia to rig the US 2016 election, basically repeating the conclusions of his report that was released earlier in 2019.
sputniknews.com/us/202005081079240271-us…

Researchers Unveil Why Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Is Being Irreversibly Pulled Toward Siberia
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
The World Magnetic Model is normally updated every five years, but it has of late needed to be edited more frequently due to a stunning phenomenon registered just beneath the Earth’s core.
sputniknews.com/science/2020050810792398…

Merkel, Steinmeier Attend Wreath-Laying Ceremony to Mark 75th Anniversary of WWII End – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
Europe is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, though because of the raging coronavirus pandemic countries have downsized parades and commemorative events.
sputniknews.com/europe/20200508107924020…

We’ll Meet Again: Royal Albert Hall to Host 1st Closed Door Victory Day Concert Amid COVID-19 – CEO
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
The Royal Albert Hall will hold a major performance unlike any of its kind in the venue’s 150-year history to commemorate the 75th Victory Day at 18: 00 GMT. The event promises to be a powerful rendition of classic songs celebrating the sacrifices of veterans across the United Kingdom and the Allied victory over Nazism on the Western Front.
sputniknews.com/interviews/2020050810792…

Cop Beats Man for Allegedly Hugging Others on Road Without Consent in Delhi – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
New Delhi (Sputnik): India is under the third phase of its nationwide lockdown imposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to combat COVID-19. The government has asked people to stay indoors and only step out for essential things. Social distancing is being strictly enforced at every place or shop.
sputniknews.com/india/202005081079238260…

Coronavirus Crunch Triggers New Call for US Pullout From WTO
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
Senator Josh Hawley has claimed that leaving the WTO will be an appropriate start for the US to turn a new leaf in trade ties with its historic allies and usher in a rebound in the COVID-19 lockdown-hit economy.
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India Builds Strategic Route Connecting China Border for Better Accessibility to Security Forces
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
New Delhi (Sputnik): Devout believers take an annual holy pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar through Uttarakhand’s Lipulekh Pass, connecting India to China. While the pilgrimage is now shrouded in uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the new route will give easy access to troops in the region.
sputniknews.com/world/202005081079238775…

Indian Museum Buys Pakistani Cricketer’s Bat for Raising COVID-19 Relief Fund
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
New Delhi (Sputnik): With all sports activities banned in several countries across the globe, many players are contributing in their own ways to help the needy who have been severely hit by the pandemic.
sputniknews.com/india/202005081079239939…

EU Project is at Stake if Strong Common COVID-19 Response Not Agreed, Economics Commissioner Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
Paolo Gentiloni called for creating a recovery fund in the coming months, in what he said could help tackle economic divergences among EU member states amid the COVID-19 crisis.
sputniknews.com/europe/20200508107924350…

Chinese Researchers Find COVID-19 Material in Sperm of Infected Men
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
While the pandemic is raging across the world, some facts about the virus remain unclear and new studies may reveal truly bizarre details about the disease.
sputniknews.com/asia/202005081079242751-…

COVID-19 Pandemic Added to Daesh ‘Uptick in Activity’ in Iraq, US Coalition Official Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
Although in late 2017 Baghdad declared that the military presence of Daesh* in Iraq had been all but destroyed, jihadist attacks on the country’s security forces show no signs of abating.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/2020050810792…

Trump Likely Desperate to Secure US-UK Trade Deal in Wake of COVID-19, G7 Research Group States
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
LONDON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson are likely to place renewed importance on reaching a new trade deal between the UK and the US in…
sputniknews.com/analysis/202005081079242…

Revival Road Map for India’s Once Booming Tourism Industry, Which is Now in Abyss
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
New Delhi (Sputnik): With a diverse culture and a myriad of landscapes, India’s tourism industry was thriving, with 11 million foreign tourists visiting the country every year. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has crippled all major industries, travel and tourism have come to a complete halt, spelling a bleak economic outlook for the sector.
sputniknews.com/world/202005081079229984…

Putin, Merkel Exchange Congratulations on Anniversary of Liberation From Fascism
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have exchanged congratulations, in a phone conversation, on the 75th anniversary of the world’s liberation from fascism, the Kremlin said on Friday.
sputniknews.com/europe/20200508107924249…

Online Marriages: Will They Linger on in Saudi Arabia After Pandemic is Over?
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Justice has said that the government wants to hold a series of training seminars for those wishing to get married remotely.
sputniknews.com/society/2020050810792323…

Syria Reopens Umayyad Mosque in Damascus – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
The Syrian authorities earlier decided to ease coronavirus-related restrictions in the country, lifting the ban on public transportation within provinces on May 10 and reopening certain categories of schools on 31 May.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/2020050810792…

#VizagGasLeak: India’s Green Tribunal Asks S Korean LG Polymers to Deposit $6.6 Million For Damages
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
New Delhi (Sputnik): As many as 12 people lost their lives and 300 were hospitalised due to the leakage of hazardous styrene gas from a polymers factory in India’s Andhra Pradesh. A rescue operation and evacuation were carried out in areas in close proximity to the factory.
sputniknews.com/asia/202005081079240043-…

Shape-Changing UFO Spotted in Broad Daylight in Colombia
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-08
The South American country, known for its biodiversity and rich cultural history, risks becoming the mecca of ufologists, as reports about mysterious sightings discovered in the skies over Colombia have been pouring in recently.
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Coronavirus Threatens Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-08
The effects of the global pandemic of the new coronavirus on large cities are well known and occupy the news all over the world. However, little is said about infection in rural areas and among isolated peoples. In South America, …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-threatens-…

Iran coronavirus updates: 1,556 new COVID-19 cases, 55 deaths
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

Global coronavirus death toll exceeds 270k
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

Tehran, Moscow emphasize strengthening bilateral, intl. coop
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

US extends Iraq’s sanctions waiver to import electricity from Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

S Arabia, UAE promulgate relations with Israel thru. content of TV series: al-Houthi
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

Iran’s trade exchanges with Azerbaijan, Turkey ‘underway’ amid pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

Dubai Expo 2020 postponement to affect UAE economy
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

Iran, ‘leading steel producer, exporter’ in ME region
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

US should end its humiliating ‘unilateralism’: FM spox
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-08
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA)

Victory Day karaoke: Russian flashmob invites ANYONE to iconic WWII sing-along in 100+ languages
rt.com | 2020-05-08
A one-of-the-kind Russian website has enabled anyone to pay vocal tribute to the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat

Gun Violence Increases in the US Amid COVID-19 Shutdown
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-08
At a time when millions of Americans are following the advice of public health experts and sheltering in place to protect themselves and their neighbors, some officials continue to ignore existing public health data related to another grave threat to public safety: gun violence. | Since shelter-in-place orders went into effect in March, the overall crime rate and the rate of injury from automobile and…
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New York State Tries to Suspend Democracy; NYT and WaPo Shrug
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2020-05-08
Blaming health risks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the New York State Board of Elections announced last week that the state would simply cancel its Democratic presidential primary, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden to be proclaimed the victor without a vote. The response from the country’s two most prominent newspapers? Meh. The Washington Post ( 4/27/20) frames the cancellation of dem…
fair.org/home/new-york-state-tries-to-su…

Citizen-science project measures impact of coronavirus pandemic on mental health
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-08
What impact has the lockdown had on our mental health, and what determines how people cope with isolation?>…
imperial.ac.uk/news/197453/citizen-science-project-measures-impact-coronavirus-pandemic

Mayo Clinic receives $26 million from BARDA for COVID-19 convalescent plasma expanded access program
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
Mayo Clinic was awarded a $26 million contract today from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The financial support is for the Expanded Access Program (EAP) for convalescent plasma to fight COVID-19. …
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Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
Because cancer treatments can weaken the immune system, cancer patients are at increased risk of complications from COVID-19. Despite these concerns, cancer patients often still need treatment, including going to the clinic or to the hospital, and many have questions about whether cancer should be treated differently during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the Mayo Clinic …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ma…

Mayo Clinic reopens orthopedics and sports medicine facility in downtown Minneapolis
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
MINNEAPOLIS

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Maintaining routine vaccine schedules during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the World Health Organization(WHO) says more than 117 million children in 37 countries may be missing out on the lifesaving measles vaccine. The WHO had issued some guidelines to help countries sustain immunization activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ma…

Masking your kids during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
Do you or don’t you wear a mask? If you do, what material is best? And what about children? Questions around masks during the COVID-19 pandemic abound, especially in light of the recent recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that all Americans wear masks in public settings. “The direction around face masks has …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ma…

What COVID-19 does to your lungs
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
m __________________________________________________ For the latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic, check the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. For more information and COVID-19 coverage, go to the Mayo Clinic News Network and mayoclinic.org.
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National Nurses Day: Not all heroes wear capes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
Photo and article are courtesy of Mayo Clinic News Center andMayo Clinic Employee Facebook. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear scrubs, protective equipment and step out in difficult times to be there for others. As COVID-19 continues to spread and people heed notices to socially distance themselves and hunker down in their homes, there …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/na…

Why patients with lung cancer in a COVID-19 era need to keep their treatment
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
Patients with cancer are at a higher risk of having a more severe COVID-19 illness. “Unfortunately, COVID-19 has severely affected those who are diagnosed with lung cancer,” says Dr. Shanda Blackmon, a thoracic surgeon at Mayo Clinic. “We know that these patients who get infected with COVID-19 while they’re immune compromised are increasingly susceptible to having a worse …
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Mayo Clinic’s comprehensive COVID-19 research
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
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Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Respiratory therapists play critical role in treating COVID-19 patients
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
COVID-19 was first identified late last year with a cluster of pneumonia cases caused by a new coronavirus. The COVID-19 disease process heavily affects the respiratory system, and patients often need oxygen support. The respiratory therapist plays a critical role in managing oxygen levels, placing breathing tubes, and managing the mechanical ventilator, when necessary. On …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ma…

Why you need to keep your child’s vaccine schedule during COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
Millions of children may be at risk of missing or delaying their routine childhood vaccines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine specialist, says she understands being thoughtful about taking your children outside the home for doctor’s visits during this time. “The current situation with the novel coronavirus shows us how scary …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/wh…

‘Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach’ e-tool to help children with mental health concerns
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
ROCHESTER, Minn.

Science Saturday: Regenerative approaches could foster healing from COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
Regenerative Medicine aims not only to repair or restore the function of cells, tissues or organs, but also the whole person. The latter is particularly important amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Regenerative approaches draw on the body’s natural abilities to heal, focus on establishing the healing environments and building new, healthy ways of functioning. These aspects of regenerative …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/sc…

Are pets at risk of getting, spreading COVID-19?
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-08
Recent reports of cats and dogs becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to update its guidelines for pets. According to the CDC, two pet cats in New York City became the first domestic animals in the U.S. to test positive for the …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ar…