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2020-03-14: Social Media Postees

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China Ready to Assist the World to Fight COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China will strongly support the worst affected countries like Italy against the COVID-19 outbreak. | RELATED: | Covid-19 Updates: Trump tests negative for coronavirus | In a message of sympathy sent recently to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Xi said that at this difficult time, China is willing to cooperate with Italy and offer assistance. | On behalf of the Chinese government and people, Xi expressed sincere sympathies to the Italian government a…
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COVID-19 Updates: Oregon reports first death from new coronavirus‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
Update 22: 30 | Oregon reports first death from new coronavirus | A man in his 70s has become the first person in Oregon to die from the new coronavirus. | The Oregon Health Authority said the Multonomah County man was hospitalized at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and died Saturday. | The man, who had underlying heath conditions, tested positive for COVID-19 on March 10, the authority said. He had no known contact to a confirmed case and had not traveled to another country where the virus is circulating. | “This is a sobering reminder that this virus is in our community and can be serious for ol…
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Georgia 2nd State to Postpone Pres. Primaries Over COVID-19
AP | telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
Georgia’s March 24 presidential primaries will be postponed until May because of fears over the new coronavirus, state election officials announced Saturday, a day after Louisiana also pushed back its primaries. | RELATED: | US Democratic Voters More Than Ever Not Afraid of ‘Socialism’ | In-person early voting, which began statewide March 2, will be halted and the election will be moved to May 19, when Georgia’s other 2020 primary elections are being held, Georgia Secretary of…
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World Closes Borders, Restricts Travel to Contain COVID-19 Spread
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
Countries around the world on Saturday continued to close borders, impose strict entry and quarantine requirements and restrict large gatherings in efforts to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã | RELATED: | Covid-19 Updates: Pentagon restricts access to building over virus | Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said it will close all its retail stores worldwide…
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Colombia: Duque Closes Border With Venezuela, Thousands at Risk
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
Without having sent any previous signal, Colombia’s President Ivan Duque Friday ordered the closure of his country’s border with Venezuela, a decision that affected thousands who are stuck in cross-border crossings between these South American countries. | RELATED: | US, Colombia, Brazil Hold Alliance to Attack Venezuela | “Starting at five in the morning tomorro…
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Russia: President Putin Signs Law Amending the Constitution
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Saturday signed the law on constitutional amendments that could allow him to run for reelection in 2024. | RELATED: | Russia: Lower House Approves 169 Constitutional Amendments | This legal instrument specifies the requirements to be met by the President, members of the Government and Parliament, and other positions related t…
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President Trump Took the Test for the COVID-19 on Friday Night
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
The United States President Donald Trump Saturday revealed that he was tested on Friday night to determine if he has the Covid-19 and explained that he is waiting for the results. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro’s Aide Is COVID-19 Positive After Meeting Trump | “I took the test last night,” Trump said at a press conference, explaining that the test was sent to “a…
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Canada Ratifies New Trade Agreement with United States, Mexico
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
The Canadian House of Commons and Senate Friday approved the ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), shortly before Parliament adjourned until April 20, a decision that was made as a result of the COVID-19 spread. | RELATED: | US, Canada, and Mexico Sign Trade Deal Again to Replace NAFTA | The last step will be likely completed on Saturday when Canada’s Governor-General Julie Payette, who exercises the functions of Head of State, signs the text ratified…
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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.
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Right-wing attack on performance of African-American spirituals at Western Michigan University
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The concert, “Spirituals: From Ship to Shore,” was organized and led by Dr. John Wesley Wright, an award-winning tenor and professor at Salisbury University in Maryland, as part of a week of study into the history of the musical genre.
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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.
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New Coronavirus and Measures That Latin America Govts Have Taken
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
The advance of the new coronavirus in Latin America alerted the governments of the region since already 17 countries have reported confirmed cases. Brazil is the country with the most infected so far but does not yet register deaths like Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, and Guyana. | RELATED: | WHO Characterizes COVID-19 as a Global Pandemic | After the World Health Organization (WHO) told the world about the decision to classify the proliferation of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) as a ‘pandemic,’…
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Editorial: Fed takes action to save Wall Street, not the people
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-13
The U.S. Federal Reserve has pledged $1.5 trillion to calm Wall Street’s worries as the COVID-19 pandemic rattles stock markets and wealthy investors. | But what the people need is more testing done for free, and health care for all. What workers need are unemployment benefits and income support for the self-employed. Working people need protection from eviction and relief from debts. What nurses and other medical workers need is more masks and other protective equipment. | With more than 1500 confirmed infections in the United States, the novel coronavirus is not a foreign threat from Europe, as Trump seems to b…
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Venezuela: Two Covid-19 Cases Are Confirmed
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
In the early hours of Friday, two cases of coronavirus in Venezuela were confirmed, according to Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. | RELATED: | Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is Covid-19 Positive | The affected people are a 42-year-old woman who was traveling through the European Union and a 52-year-old man who was in Spain. | The two infected patients, who reside in the Miranda state, are duly isolated and in mandatory quarantine. | The epidemiological fence around their direct contac…
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‘Europe Is Now Epicenter of Coronavirus Pandemic’, WHO Warns
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
The World Health Organization (WHO) director Tedros Adhanom Friday declared Europe the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, as it is no longer increasing exponentially in China. | RELATED: | Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Covid-19 Positive in His First Test | The WHO official commented that more cases are reported on the European continent every day than were confirmed in China…
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Maduro Activates “State of Alarm” to Face Covid-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, decreed this Friday the state of alarm as a mechanism to implement the necessary actions that prevent and combat the spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country. | RELATED: | Coronavirus Updates: First Newborn Diagnosed, Cruises Shut Down | During a broadcast on national media, the Executive reiterated that the decision was made based on Article 338 of the Constitution, which…
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Prisoners Made to Produce Coronavirus Masks and Hand Gels
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Prisoners are being used to produce face masks and hand gels in the United States, and Hong Kong after the rapidly spreading coronavirus provoked shortages. | RELATED: | Sanders Addresses Health Crisis in US as Coronavirus Cases Soar | The women have complained about their health and low pay as they earn around HK$800 (US$102) a month for non-…
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Australian government hands billions to business as coronavirus worsens economic slump
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
Within hours, Morrison’s “stimulus” package was swamped by the deteriorating economic news from around the world and share prices plunged.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/econ…

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 …
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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…
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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 …
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Patients denied care as Macron announces coronavirus lockdown in France
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
French health authorities have already announced that they will try to deny testing and care to many of those they suspect to be infected with the coronavirus.
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Trump Declares State of Emergency Over Coronavirus
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
U.S. President Donald Trump declared Friday a national emergency over the fast-spreading coronavirus, opening the door to providing more federal aid to fight the disease under the Stafford Act at a news conference scheduled for 3 p.m. local time. | A PBS journalist confronted him with the fact that he fired the entire Pandemic Response Team in 2018 without replacing any staff because of budget cuts. | “You said you don’t take responsibility for the slow response to coronavirus, but your administration disbanded the White House office on pandemics?” she asked. | “That’s a nasty question…,” replied Trump. “Whe…
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People’s World can’t exist without you
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-13
Dear People’s World readers, We live in uncertain and frightening times. In addition to the global peril posed by the climate crisis, humanity faces an immediate coronavirus pandemic and what looks like a global economic crisis. As a People’s World reader, you value the truth and a radical, working-class perspective to get you through the …
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Capitalism is at war with society
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The spread of the coronavirus has exposed the disastrous consequences of decades of the massive concentration of wealth and inequality spawned by capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/pers…

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.
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Canada: Trudeau Isolated After Wife Tested Covid-19 Positive
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in isolation and awaiting the results of the Covid-19 test, after his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau was diagnosed with the disease. | RELATED: | Prisoners Made to Produce Coronavirus Masks and Hand Gels | “The Prime Minister’s wife began showing flu-like symptoms and a mild fever upon her return from London, UK,” according to a Canadian government press release. | “Unfortunately, the results of Sophie’s Covid-19 test are positive. Ther…
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The FDA Is Forcing the CDC to Waste Time Double Testing Some Coronavirus Cases
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-13
A federal directive that’s supposed to speed up the response to a pandemic is actually slowing down the government’s rollout of coronavirus tests. | The directive, issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, requires that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a sister agency, retest every positive coronavirus test run by a public health lab to confirm its accuracy. The result, experts say, is wasting limited resources at a time when thousands of Americans are waiting in line…
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Fiat Chrysler keeps Indiana plant running after worker tests positive for coronavirus
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The decision by Fiat Chrysler, which has been backed by the United Auto Workers union, is imperiling the lives of workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/fcaa…

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…
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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…
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Coronavirus Updates: Cuba Sends Doctors to Italy
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Cuban and Chinese doctors arriving in Italy to help the health authorities: The first country has Interferon Alpha 2B, a powerful method used in the treatment of coronavirus; the second carries the experience of having overcome the peak of infections in its territory. ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã | | Iván Duque orders closure of bord…
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Trump Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Attack Social Security
Nancy J. Altman | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
The proposal to cut the payroll contribution rate would either undermine Social Security’s financing or employ general revenue, both of which would set the stage for future demands to cut Social Security. And it likely would not be temporary…
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Washing our Hands of Trump and Powerlessness
Zoltan Grossman | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
Community resilience that emerges in response to the coronavirus crisis may become models to overcome the innate crisis of social isolation under capitalism…
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WHO Details Tips on How To Wear Surgical Mask
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
The World Health Organization (WHO) has offered the following advice on when and how to use a surgical mask properly amid the novel coronavirus epidemic. | RELATED: | Prisoners Made to Produce Coronavirus Masks and Hand Gels | If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected novel coronavirus infection. | Mas…
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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 …
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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.
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Coronavirus threatens to overwhelm UK National Health Service
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
As of Thursday morning, just 29,764 people had been tested nationally in the UK for coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/ukco…

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…
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Watch Labour legend Tony Benn nail the US medical system’s inadequacy to deal with the coronavirus
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-03-13
The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus outbreak is a global pandemic. While the US seems to be less affected than Europe, the Trump administration’s response has so far been almost comically inept. But having a semi-literate buffoon in the White House is not the only problem; the US has a structural problem that long predates Trump’s election to the presidency. And from b…
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Coronavirus overwhelms mitigation measures across Latin America
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The late and deficient response by the Latin American ruling elite is being overwhelmed because it is guided by efforts to cover up, not address, the inequalities in access to testing and health care.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/lati…

Coronavirus Reveals the Cracks in Globalization
Marshall Auerback | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
The coronavirus will eventually pass, but the same cannot be said for the Panglossian phenomenon known as “globalization.” Stripped of the romantic notion of a global village, the ugly process we’ve experienced over the past 40 years has been a case of governmental institutions being eclipsed by multinational corporations, acting to maximize profit in support…
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On the Coronavirus and the social crisis
Labour Transformed | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
An open letter to the Trade Union movement from Labour Transformed…
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Air Pollution Clears in Northern Italy After Coronavirus Lockdown
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Air pollution over northern Italy fell after the government introduced a nationwide lockdown to combat coronavirus, satellite imagery showed on Friday, in a new example of the pandemic’s potential impact on emissions. | RELATED: | Italy, Israel, Others Take Extensive Measures as Virus Spreads | China, where the outbreak started, showed a marked reduction in pollution after the government imposed travel bans and quarantines, and the data from Italy, which was struck several wee…
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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.
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New York City declares state of emergency amid coronavirus pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
New York City and New York state have announced new measures to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, of which there are now 328 cases statewide.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/nyce…

The FDA Is Forcing the CDC to Waste Time Double Testing Some Coronavirus Cases
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-13
The FDA’s strict guidance on test confirmations is one of several obstacles that has slowed the federal government’s response to COVID-19. The FDA could change its rules to speed things up, but hasn’t.
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Mexico Considers Limiting Entries From US To Slow Coronavirus
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Mexico would consider mechanisms to control the flow of people entering Mexico from the United States in an effort to limit coronavirus, if necessary, deputy health secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Friday. | RELATED: | Indigenous Tribe on US-Mexico Border Aims to Block Trump’s wall | Mexico has so far confirmed 15 cases of coronavirus with no deat…
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Washington governor bans gatherings of more than 250 as coronavirus spreads
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The virus continues to infect residents and employees of a nursing home at the center of the outbreak in Washington state and in the US.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/wash…

Massachusetts health care professionals warn of Covid-19 testing shortage and lack of worker protections
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
Doctors and nurses are frustrated over the lack of testing kits for the coronavirus as well the lack of protective equipment for health care workers in hospitals.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/mass…

Biden, Sanders appeal for joint action with Republicans over coronavirus pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
In separate speeches, the two Democratic presidential candidates auditioned for the role of commander-in-chief for American capitalism in the midst of a deepening global crisis.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/dems…

Coronavirus and the Digital Divide
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2020-03-13
Farhad Manjoo (New York Times, 3/11/20): “The true embarrassment is that it took a pandemic for leaders to realize that the health of the American work force is important to the strength of the nation.” | It is not lost on some that, all of a sudden, paid sick leave is obviously socially important; understaffed hospitals are an outrage; and, really, shouldn’t the government be paying for this…? I mean, it’s community health we’re talking about! And all it took was a little pandemic–an outbreak that, as it just happens, doe…
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Who’s Ready to Die for Trump’s Ego?
Mitchell Zimmerman | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
My granddaughter’s school has planned a trip to Thailand. Two things worry me. First, that she or her classmates might be exposed to or catch the coronavirus. Second, that if they did, President Trump would try his best to keep them from returning to the United States. In my view, if any of them became…
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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…

Federal Judge Orders Chelsea Manning’s Release From Jail
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-13
Federal judge Anthony Trenga ordered a jail in Alexandria, Virginia, to release United States Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. The order came after the grand jury investigating WikiLeaks was dismissed. | Manning was confined for 365 days or one year after being held in civil contempt because she refused to testify before a grand jury empaneled to investigate WikiLeaks. She attempted to commit suicide on March 11. | During her time in jail, Manning accumulated $256,000 in fines. She faced a fine of $500 per day…
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Judge Orders Release of Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Following Suicide Attempt
Kevin Gosztola | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-13
Manning was confined for 365 days or one year after being held in civil contempt because she refused to testify before a grand jury empaneled to investigate WikiLeaks.
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COVID-19 Side Effects: Reality and Clarity
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
The fragility of our American system is about to be laid bare. A foundation built on corporate welfare without any notion of a common welfare for the citizens can’t withstand an onslaught of reality. The corona virus has no interest in false economies or nonsensical patriotism. It can’t tell if it’s chomping into a billionaire…
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Brazil: The Left Presents Plan to Tackle Economic Crisis
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
A coalition of Brazilian left-wing parties Wednesday presented to Congress a plan to tackle the productive implications of the Covid-10 pandemic and resolve the economic problems created by President Jair Bolsonaro.‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã since January 2019. | RELATED: | Leaked Chats Show Collab Between Brazilian Prosecutors, DOJ | According to the Workers’ Party (PT) lawmaker Jo…
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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 …
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Latest U.S. Military Strikes Are as Reckless as they are Cruel
Lilly Dragnev | peaceaction.org | 2020-03-13
Washington, D.C.

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.”
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Colombia: Supreme Court Accuses Uribe of Vote Buying
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Colombian Supreme Justice Court started a preliminary investigation march 12 against the South American nation ex-president due vote-buying accusations. | RELATED: | Colombia: Another Ex-FARC Member Killed | Uribe will be investigated because of evidence linking him to the late José Guillermo Hernández, better known as àëeñe, who is suspect of buying votes on current leader Ivan Duque’s behalf. These audios mention illicit payments to obtain votes in the northern Colombian state of La Guajir…
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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…
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The Fed, the Virus, and Inequality
Nomi Prins | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Whether you’re invested in the stock market or not, you’ve likely noticed that it’s been on a roller coaster lately. The White House and most of the D.C. Beltway crowd tend to equate the performance of the stock market with that of the broader economy. To President Trump’s extreme chagrin, $3.18 trillion in stock market…
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Genre-bending Brazilian film ‘Bacurau’ highlights struggle between North and South
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-13
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Covid-19 Positive in His First Test
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
According to both local media and international news agencies, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for Covid-19. | The 64-year far-right politician appeared on Thursday on a Facebook live wearing a mask on his face. | His initial test was carried out after the arrival of the Brazilian delegation from the United States. | Bolsonaro was in contact with his communication secretary, Fabio Wajngarten, who also tested positive for the disease.‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã This top official was also in cont…
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Bolsonaro Claims His Second COVID-19 Test Was Negative
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
According to both local media and international news agencies, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for Covid-19. | The 64-year far-right politician appeared on Thursday on a Facebook live wearing a mask on his face. | His initial test was carried out after the arrival of the Brazilian delegation from the United States. | Bolsonaro was in contact with his communication secretary, Fabio Wajngarten, who also tested positive for the disease.‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã This top official was also in cont…
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Leaked Chats Show Collab Between Brazilian Prosecutors, DOJ
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
The Car Wash prosecutors in Brazil seem to have been collaborating with the U.S. Department of Justice, going against Brazilian law and international treaties, according to leaked documents analyzed by The Intercept and the Brazilian investigative outlet Agência Pública released on Thursday. | RELATED: | Brazil: Military Club Summons Members for Acts Against Congress | The conversations between Brazilian prosecutors – not direct discussions with U.S. officials = show that “the…
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Bill de Blasio, Climate Troll
Charles Komanoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Bike ticket sting at 59th and 1st Avenue. Two cops ticketing, I think, when folks turn right on red coming south/off the Queensboro Bridge. Good lord, how do you schedule the spring ticket traps at the same time as you tell people to bike to work? Those tweets, from a bicycle commuter and local journalist,…
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Climate Victims Violent? Klare’s Paean to the American Military
Judith Deutsch | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Michael Klare’s new book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, is an uncritical paean to the American military. He credits the Pentagon with taking climate science seriously. But he does not question, bring contradictory evidence, or analyze the military’s self-appointed role as global manager of climate-related human disorder. Klare’s work is…
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Can Biden Beat Trump?
Matthew Stevenson | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
This is the seventh of a periodic series on the primaries and caucuses. The other pieces can be found here. For the Democrats to lose in 2020 to President Donald Trump, they would have to be brain dead, and much evidence suggests that they are. For this brief shining moment, Joe Biden is on his…
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Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
Craig Collins | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a lucrative market has emerged for post-apocalyptic novels, movies, TV shows, and video games for those who enjoy the vicarious thrill…
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Who Could Have Gotten Deserters from Trump’s Three Armies . . . and from Mine?
Bruce E. Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Taking US national politics too seriously can make you hopelessly stupid, hopelessly cynical, or hopelessly suicidal. Let’s see. We had a former Black Panther, Congressman Bobby Rush, endorsing search-and-frisk Bloomberg; while Mike Will Get It Done was making AP headlines: “Bloomberg Once Blamed End of ‘Redlining’ for 2008 Collapse.” We have evangelicals adulterating my I-71…
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Five Types of Zionissts
Myles Hoenig | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Being a Zionist can either be a strong identity for some, or it can be just another aspect of one’s set of beliefs. Many people take it for granted, not fully understanding what it means to be one or how it came to them. Were they born into it or did it develop over time…
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Trump’s DOA TV Address and an Alternative Fiscal Stimulus Program
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Tonight, March 11, Trump gave a TV address to the Nation that was to be his program for mobilizing the country to address the growing spread of the Covid-19 virus and its increasing negative impact on the US economy. The proposals landed with a thud. Even the financial markets gasped and went into a tailspin.
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Pharma Discovers “Geriatric ADHD”
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Pharma has already discovered the huge profits in labeling school children, toddlers and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Now, according to some reports, it has discovered “geriatric ADHD.”
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What Is Covid-19 Trying to Teach Us?
H. Bruce Franklin | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Some people see the world as an infinite number of prize fights, each with one winner and one loser. For them life is an unending series of these zero-sum games. Unfortunately, one of these people is the President of the United States. One example of something that is not a zero-sum game is a global…
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“Now, Voyager” in Reverse
Clark T. Scott | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
The untold want, by life and land ne’er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.

Biden’s Victory: A Blessing in Disguise?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
It has been years since I last saw the great Alain Resnais film “La Guerre Est Finie” (The War Is Over, 1966), starring Yves Montand and Ingrid Thulin, in which, decades after the anti-fascists lost, a Communist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, still fighting the good fight, confronts the moral and political ambiguities of…
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Marching with the Maoists
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
When I was a teenager living in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland my friends and I used to smoke little handmade cigarettes from India. They were called bidis and were made of leaves from the kendu tree that grows in India. The leaves were rolled tightly into a small cigarette that was then tied with a piece…
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Iraq Condemns US Air Strikes, Warns of Consequences
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Iraq condemned overnight U.S. airstrikes on Friday, saying they killed six people and warning of dangerous consequences for a “violation of sovereignty” and targeted aggression against the nation’s regular armed forces. | RELATED: | Iraq: Three Killed in Rocket Attack Against U.S. Forces | President Barham Salih said repeated such violations could cause Iraq to unravel into a failed state and revive the Islamic State militant group. Iraq’s foreign ministry announced plans to brin…
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US launches airstrikes in retaliation for Iraq missile attack
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The Pentagon warned that “all options are on the table” after the deaths of two US troops and one British medic in a missile strike Wednesday.
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Stock market crushed after Trump’s speech
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-13
San José, CA – U.S. stocks fell almost 10% Thursday, March 12, the day after President Trump called for a travel ban on Europe. This was the largest drop since the stock market crash of October 1987 and put the broader S&P 500 as well as the tech heavy NASDAQ stock market indices in bear market territory as all three major indices are down more than 20%. | Trump did nothing to address the growing economic worries as more and more industries are being affected by COVID-19, now officially a pandemic. In fact, his travel ban only added to economic and social disruption as Americans tried to return and plane tickets…
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Germany Launches Plan Against the Economic Impacts of Covid-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Germany’s Finance Minister Olaf Scholz Friday indicated that his government will implement an “unlimited” loan program to avoid liquidity problems in companies, a tax reduction to avoid bankruptcies, and a “safety net” to help maintain employment levels. | RELATED: | Canada: Trudeau Isolated After Wife Tested Covid-19 Positive | “We are going to put all the weapons on the table from the beginning,” Scholz said when presenting the plan against the economic consequences of Covid-19…
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“Capitalism is a disease hotspot”
Rob Wallace | mronline.org | 2020-03-13
The real danger of each new outbreak is the failure or–better put–the expedient refusal to grasp that each new Covid-19 is no isolated incident. The increased occurrence of viruses is closely linked to the proliferation of capitalist food production and distribution. | Source…
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US authorities in disarray and paralysis in face of Covid-19 emergency
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
Health officials have been denied the ability to even accurately assess the extent of COVID-19 infections and, on the basis of such information, recommend the appropriate response.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/viru…