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2020-04-29: Social Media Postees

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Your Freedoms Don’t Have to be Muzzled Just Because You’re Wearing a Mask
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
“If 2019 was the year of the street protest, of tear gas and rubber bullets, 2020 might be the year the street protest died, or perhaps fell into a deep sleep, and went online.”–Journalist Christopher Miller | Despite all appearances …
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Why Did the World Health Organization Wait Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic?
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic…
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Why did the World Health Organization wait until March to declare a global pandemic?
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-29
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic…
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Let Prisoners Go During COVID-19 pandemic
Jesse Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
Across the United States and across the world, prisoners are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. Overcrowded facilities, shortages of food and medicine, and totally inadequate testing expose prisoners who are disproportionately poor and afflicted with prior conditions that render them vulnerable to the disease. Prisoners increasingly are protesting their conditions, objecting to being…
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Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic
Prabir Purkayastha | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
There is a major problem with vaccines and the for-profit pharmaceutical industry…
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Colombia’s great coronavirus exodus
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
After years of receiving foreigners, from tourists and immigrants to refugees, the coronavirus pandemic abruptly reversed this trend and triggered a mass exodus from Colombia. The most dramatic migration is…
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What are the underlying transmission patterns of COVID-19 outbreak? An age-specific social contact characterization
Yang Liu, Zhonglei Gu, Shang Xia, Benyun Shi, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Yong Shi, Jiming Liu | thelancet.com | 2020-04-29
With an in-depth characterization of age-specific social contact-based transmission, the retrospective and prospective situations of the disease outbreak, including the past and future transmission risks, the effectiveness of different interventions, and the disease transmission risks of restoring normal social activities, are computationally analyzed and reasonably explained. The conclusions drawn from the study not only provide a comprehensive explanation of the underlying COVID-19 transmission patterns in China, but more importantly, offer the social contact-based risk analysis methods that can readily be appl…
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Guatemalans Stage a Funeral Procession to Protest
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
After staging a funeral procession through the streets of Guatemala City on Tuesday, social activists and workers came together in the Constitution Square to denounce the poor management of the health emergency by President Alejandro Giammattei administration. | RELATED: | Guatemala: President Giammattei Reaches 100 Days in Office | “Basic services were c…
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Chilean police repress a peaceful protest in Santiago, detain 30
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-29
On April 27, the Chilean national police force, the Carabineros, violently repressed a peaceful protest at the Dignity Plaza in the capital Santiago. The protest was called for by several social organizations against the Carabineros on their 93rd anniversary and against the right-wing government led by President Sebastián Piñera. | Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of Chileans, wearing face masks and maintaining social distance, gathered at the iconic Dignity Plaza, to express their rejection of the Carabineros, on their 93rd anniversary. The protesters expressed their repudiation of the police force by banging…
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COVID-19: ‘It’s the System, Stupid!’ Black Alliance for Peace
Black Alliance for Peace | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
The current disaster exists in large part because the U.S. healthcare system is the opposite of what is needed. It is fragmented, discriminatory and designed for corporate profits, not the well-being of the public. Even before the pandemic, the United …
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‘Coronavirus used as excuse to roll back Colombia’s peace process and democracy’
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
President Ivan Duque and his far-right party are using the coronavirus to cover up “assaults” on Colombia’s peace process while promoting authoritarianism, the country’s peace movement told the United Nations…
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George Soros Wants You to Believe Russia Is a Danger to World Peace, Turkey’s Erdogan an Angel
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-29
George Soros is a billionaire Hungarian-born investor who is extremely controversial due to his promotion of what he chooses to define as democracy and free-trade movements, primarily conducted through the Open Society Foundations, which he founded and has funded with $32 billion, according to one estimate. He contributed to the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which has in part led to conservative politicians in the United States and elsewhere frequently citing Soros when complaining about politically motivated interference in support of a progressive agenda for the United States and also globally.
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Cuba: Interferon’s Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Confirmed
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
Cuban scientific authorities confirmed this week that the use of Interferon to treat COVID-19 patients was indeed effective. | RELATED: | French NGO Nominates Cuban Medical Brigades For Nobel Peace Prize | Eulogio Pimentel Vazquez, President of the Cuban Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), affirmed that the Interferon application complies with Cuban Health Ministry (Minsap) protocols. Pimentel stated that it is part of a patients’ treatment but not for those in…
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Your Freedoms Don’t Have to Be Muzzled Just Because You’re Wearing a Mask
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
The decisions we make right now about how far we allow the government to go in “protecting” us against this virus will haunt us for a long time to come.
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Wild in the Streets? Mayday 1971
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
During the last week of April and the first few days of May in 1971, tens of thousands of US residents protested in the streets of Washington, DC. Their goal was to force an immediate and complete withdrawal of all US forces from Southeast Asia. Although they did not accomplish their goal, they did force…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/wild-in-the-…

Lebanon: Banks Targeted During Second Day of Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
In Lebanon, a dozen banks across the country were set on fire and vandalized during the second consecutive night of protests. | RELATED: | Lebanon Forms New Government | The acts of vandalism occurred amidst the country’s frustration with the financial crisis in the country, and the uncontrolled depreciation of the national currency. | Hundreds of protesters took to the streets from the capital Beirut to southern Sidon, along with Nabatieh, the Bekaa Valley and Tripoli and Akkar in the north. | About 81 securi…
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Kelli Ward’s Call for “Reopen” Protesters to Dress as Nurses Reveals GOP Cruelty
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
Kelli Ward, former state senator and chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, is messing with medical professionals in the middle of a global pandemic to get some ink for herself and maybe a fawning tweet from the president. I have personal reasons to have a serious problem with that. | Three years ago nearly to the day, I was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the local hospital here with pneumonia in both lungs and a larger infection running like wildfire through my body. I sto…
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Kelli Ward’s Call For “Reopen” Protesters to Pose as Nurses Reveals GOP Cruelty
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
Kelli Ward, former state senator and chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, is messing with medical professionals in the middle of a global pandemic to get some ink for herself and maybe a fawning tweet from the president. I have personal reasons to have a serious problem with that. | Three years ago nearly to the day, I was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the local hospital here with pneumonia in both lungs and a larger infection running like wildfire through my body. I sto…
truthout.org/articles/kelli-wards-call-f…

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

Kenya to isolate two of the world’s largest refugee camps amid fears of Covid-19 spread
rt.com | 2020-04-29
Kenya has ordered a full lockdown of two refugee camps, which are currently home to over 400,000 refugees, amid fears that unsanitary and overcrowded conditions there are ideal for coronavirus transmission. | Interior cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i ordered the closure of the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps and announced his decision to “order the cessation of movement into and out of” both camps in a post on his Twitter account. | Following the meeting, and in furtherance of directives to curb the communal spread of COVID-19 across the country, the Government has ordered for the cessation of movement into an…
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Arab League warns against escalation in Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
The Arab League on Wednesday warned of Lebanon’s “slide into the unknown” following bloody clashes between the army and protesters. | At least one protestor died and a dozen others injured in clashes in Tripoli, the country’s second largest city, late Monday.Anger over the crash of Lebanon’s national currency that sent food prices soaring led to street violence. Protests were witnessed in the capital Beirut, and the city of Sidon as well. The Arab League, in a statement, expressed its deep concern regarding “the accelerating developments on the Lebanese scene.””There is a hope that the wisdom of the army’s leader…
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Welcome to the Era of the Great Disillusionment
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
This is a column I have been mulling over for a while but, for reasons that should be immediately obvious, I have been hesitant to write. It is about 5G, vaccines, 9/11, aliens and lizard overlords. Or rather, it isn’t. | …
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April 25, 2020: Nationwide Cancel Rents Protests
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
We face a second rent day, May 1, when at least one third of renters nationwide will not be able to pay the rent due to the pandemic lockdown. Yet no governor, Democrat or Republican, has demanded that the rent be cancelled since the renters who live from paycheck to paycheck face immediate eviction when the lockdown ends as they cannot pay any back rent.
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Two Policemen Injured in Stone Pelting by Migrant Workers at Top Indian IT Institute in Hyderabad
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-29
New Delhi (Sputnik): In March, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of poor migrants left bigger cities on foot to return to their homes. States were instructed to take care of daily wagers wherever they were stuck.
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Pompeo says no sign of North Korea’s Kim, real risk of famine in country
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
The United States has caught no sight of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and is watching reports about his health closely, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, adding there is a real risk of famine in the country amid the coronavirus outbreak.North Korean media has not reported on Kim’s whereabouts since he presided over a meeting on April 11, provoking intense speculation about his health and raising concerns about instability in the nuclear-armed country that could affect other North Asian countries and the United States.”We haven’t seen him. We don’t have any information to report today, we’r…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pompeo-says-no-si…

Turkey’s TIKA donates personal care items for Rohingya
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), a state-run aid body, donated 5,000 personal care packages for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s camps.The distribution run through Wednesday starting on Saturday in various camps set up in the southern Cox’s Bazar district, TIKA’s Dhaka office said in a statement on Wednesday.”COVID-19 affects Rohingya refugees just as it affects the whole world. TIKA has also not forgotten the Rohingya refugees and has distributed cleaning supplies to help them fight the coronavirus,” said Ismail Gundogdu, the agency’s Bangladesh coordinator.The package included produ…
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Malaysian activists say ‘let Rohingya boats land’
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-29
Healthcare Refugees & migrants Alex SalmonIssue 1263 Malaysia COVID-19 Rohingya refugeesApril 29, 2020A boat carrying 200 Rohingy…
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Symptom list for COVID-19 expanded
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-29
COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, affects people in many ways. Early symptoms have included fever, cough and chills. The list of symptoms in people with confirmed COVID-19 disease has expanded since early reports of the disease.
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Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 news briefing with Dr. Greg Poland
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-29
On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group, covers the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Poland discusses current outbreak numbers, why there may be a second wave of infections, and research on a vaccine. Click the player below: Mayo Clinic Q&A is …
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Selected Articles: COVID-19 and Trump’s War on China
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Your Freedoms Don’t Have to be Muzzled Just Because You’re Wearing a Mask | By John W. Whitehead, April 29, 2020 | It was 4: 30 a.m. on March 12, 2020, in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic that has most of …
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US teachers’ unions vow action against early reopening
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
Major teachers’ unions in the US are gearing up to call for strikes or major protests if states reopen schools without taking proper precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic.The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s two biggest teachers’ unions, told Politico news outlet Tuesday that they will not remain silent when it comes to student safety.AFT President Randi Weingarten said schools need funding to implement public health measures, including personal protective equipment, to prevent possible exposure to the virus.If schools reopen without proper safet…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-teachers-union…

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

New book gives eyewitness acount of Hong Kong protests
Stuart Munckton | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-29
Democracy Alex SalmonIssue 1263 China Hong KongApril 29, 2020City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong | By Anthony Daripan | Scribe Publications, 2020 | 320pp, $35 | “Heung gong jan, gaa jau!” (Hong Kongers, add oil) is a rallying cry that could be translated to mean “Go…
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A Different Kind of COVID-19 Protest
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
Amidst a deadly pandemic set to kill millions of people it is hard not to become reactionary and short-sighted. The coronavirus for all intents and purposes is the new Trump for the libs. On the one hand a force that remains criminally underrated in its capacity for destruction despite its overwhelming popularity and attention from…
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“We are so F****d”: Joe Biden Town Hall Sparks Fears of a Clinton Rerun
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden held a public online discussion with 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton yesterday, where she officially endorsed him for president. The 55-minute long event was branded a “women’s town hall,” as the two veteran Washington insiders discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic has hit women in particular. | “I want to add my voice to the many who have endorsed you to be our president,” Clinton announced from her home. “Just think what a difference it would make right now if we had a president who not only listened to the science

As US Economy Tanks, Study Finds Unemployment Numbers Likely Double Official Figure
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
“These findings on the millions of frustrated filers and the UI system’s low payment rate highlight the need for policies to improve rather than hinder the UI application process,” noted the studies authors.
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Chomsky: COVID-19 Has Exposed the US Under Trump as a “Failed State”
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
The label “failed state” has started to fit the U.S. like a glove as the COVID-19 national health crisis continues to reveal the structural flaws and weaknesses of the United States, argues world–renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky in this exclusive interview for Truthout. Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to exact a high price in human lives due to its caricaturish but highly dangerous response to the crisis. In the interview that follows, Chomsky also analyzes what’s behind Trum…
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“Belt and Road” Regionalization: Pakistan’s Gwadar Port Opens Afghan Trade to the World
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
The successful opening of Gwadar Port to Afghanistan lays the basis for expanding this trade network to Central Asia and Russia via N-CPEC+, which sets a positive example for how BRI-led regionalization can rejuvenate globalization after the coronavirus is finally …
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Coronavirus Capitalism and “Exceptional” America
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
United States capitalism system was already on the verge of a major recession before COVID-19 hit. All the classic signs were there: absurdly inflated P/E ratios s (an absurdly inflated stock market), massively deb-leveraged corporations, giant consumer and student debt, savage economic inequality (so extreme that the top tenth of the U.S. upper 1 percent had more wealth than the nation’s bottom percent), tens of millions living just one inadequate paycheck away from being unable to meet basic living expenses , and more. If the virus hadn’t broken that camel’s back, something else would have done the job, albeit…
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Coronavirus Capitalism and “Exceptional” America
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
United States capitalism was already on the verge of a major recession before COVID-19 hit. All the classic signs were there: absurdly inflated P/E ratios s (an absurdly inflated stock market), massively deb-leveraged corporations, giant consumer and student debt, savage economic inequality (so extreme that the top tenth of the U.S. upper 1 percent had more wealth than the nation’s bottom percent), tens of millions living just one inadequate paycheck away from being unable to meet basic living expenses , and more. If the virus hadn’t broken that camel’s back, something else would have done the job, albeit with a…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/coronavirus-…

The Dubious COVID Models, The Tests and Now the Consequences
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Since late in January the world has undergone staggering changes which in many cases may be irreparable. We have given decisions over every aspect of our lives to the judgment of tests and to the projections of computer models for …
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Controversies About Covid-19, Biotech Safety & US China Rivalry with Sam Husseini
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
ournalist Sam Husseini with The Institute of Public Accuracy discusses the growing controversies about where Covid-19 came from, what it is and the issue of bio-tech safety and biological warfare.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/28/1883267…

Western Accusations of Russian Interference in Libya in Favor of Haftar’s LNA
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Marshal Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army (LNA) has declared that his forces will take control of Libya, arguing that the UN-negotiated unity agreement is dead. The statement was made during a televised speech, in which Haftar reported …
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Video: Free Ourselves from the Virus of War. David Swanson
David Swanson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
David Swanson was to speak at a conference in Florence, Italy, on April 25, 2020.commemorating the 75 anniversary of Italy’s Liberation. | The conference became a Live Stream. | This was David Swanson’s speech at this important venue in Italy organized by …
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Trump Attacks Post Office While Carriers & Clerks Die from COVID-19
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-29
President Trump has lashed out at the U.S. Postal Service as the pandemic brings it to the brink of collapse and more people than ever are relying on the mail. Trump claims the agency is only losing money because it is undercharging Amazon and other companies for shipping. “It just isn’t true,” says American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein.
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Vote by Mail: Head of Postal Union Says Mailed Ballots Are Best Way to Secure 2020 Election
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-29
President Trump calls the U.S. Postal Service “a joke,” and as millions face orders to stay home, his attacks on the agency could also threaten efforts to vote by mail, a method Trump has called “a terrible thing.” “We’re talking now about basic access to the ballot box,” says American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein, who notes ”
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Education Crisis: From Pre-K to Higher Ed, Students Face Unequal Access During Coronavirus Shutdown
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-29
We look at the impact of the pandemic on schools, universities, students, parents, teachers and professors

Hate as a Common Ground: Why Israel’s Coalition Government Is Likely to Survive
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
Israeli leaders insist that democracy, transparency, and inclusion are achievable, even when millions of the country’s Arab citizens are marginalized and continue to be victims of institutional racism that dates back to the very foundation of Israel.
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Will the Coronavirus Change the World? On Gramsci’s ‘Interregnum’ and Zizek’s Ethnocentric Philosophy
Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion:…
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Video: Israeli Military Buildup Near Golan Heights Follows Strikes on Syrian Capital
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Israel has deployed additional units of the Iron Dome and Patriot air defense systems near the borders of Lebanon and Syria. Pro-Israeli sources claim that the country’s military is preparing to repel possible retaliatory strikes from Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed …
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Bernie Sanders and the Future of the Movement
James L Cowan | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
Online…
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Western Media Continues to Spread Fake News About North Korea
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
In modern warfare, one of the greatest weapons is the power to manipulate information. In a globalized international society, extremely integrated and connected by an infinite information circulation network, a media which controls the dissemination and content of such information …
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Capitalism must go! Celebrate May Day 2020!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-29
May 1 is International Workers Day. It is a day to celebrate the accomplishments of our class and to look to the future. We have real challenges in front of us. The corporate elite – the monopoly capitalists, who rule this country – can’t do anything right. They are mesmerized by profit and short-term gain. The same goes for their political representatives in the White House and Congress. Tens of thousands of people who could have lived have perished in the pandemic. Capitalism has once again shown itself to be a failed system, and on May Day 2020, we stand committed to ending the reign of this criminal system.
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Pandemic Diplomacy: “The Gum on China’s Shoe”
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
“Australia is always there, making trouble. It is a bit like chewing gum stuck on the sole of China’s shoes. Sometimes you have to find a stone to rub it off.”

COVID-19 Means a Systemic Human Development Crisis, UNDP Warns
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Wednesday warned of the “enormous differences” in the countries’ capabilities to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, which is not only a global health emergency but also a systemic human development crisis. | RELATED: | Sub-Saharan Africa Won’t Be Spared in Health, Economic Crisis: IMF | “It is a systemi…
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International Workers’ Day: Find an action!
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-04-29
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Peru: Authorities Report Increase in Femincides Amid Quarantine
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
Peru’s Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (MIMP) announced that seven feminicides occurred during the COVID-19 quarantine and social isolation.. | RELATED: | Peru: Massive Exodus Continues Amid COVID-19 Pandemic | According to Gloria Montenegro, head of the aforementioned ministry, following the announcement of the state quarantine declaration on March 16, the total number of domestic violence cases significantly increased. | The National Institute of Statistics and Information Techn…
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The U.S. aims at Greenland, targets the Arctic
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-04-29
By G. Dunkel and Paddy Colligan The United States, even in the midst of a pandemic, doesn’t want to relax its imperialist exploits in the Arctic. Global warming is proceeding more rapidly in the Arctic than in any other region of the world. As it proceeds, resources, until recently buried . . . | Continue reading The U.S. aims at Greenland, targets the Arctic at Workers.org
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COVID-19’s devastating impact on artists
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
Ninety-five percent of arts workers in the US have lost income due to the coronavirus pandemic, with 62 percent now unemployed, according to a recently published survey by Americans for the Arts.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/arts…

10,000 nursing home workers vote to strike in Illinois in the face of life-threatening working conditions
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
The coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage nursing home residents and staff, accounting for 35 percent of COVID-19 cases in Illinois.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/seiu…

Millions of US Workers Blocked from Applying for Jobless Benefits
Kevin Reed | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
While the US government has proceeded expeditiously to hand over trillions of dollars to the Wall Street banks and corporations, millions of workers who have lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic have been blocked from applying for unemployment benefits….
globalresearch.ca/millions-us-workers-bl…

US Prevents Cuba From Acquiring Pharmaceutical Raw Materials
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
The pharmaceutical business group FarmaCuba director Neyra Muguercia reported that the U.S. blockade prevents her country from acquiring raw materials for the production of drugs in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Cuba: Interferon’s Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Confirmed | “The U.S. actions against Cuba are increasingly aggressive. They pursue all of our operations. Many times we have to import from a second, third, or even a fourth country for fear of suppliers be…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Prevents-Cuba…

Brazil Admits Country Is Getting Worse Due to COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
With 5,017 people affected by COVID-19, the Brazilian government on Tuesday admitted that emergency situation is getting worse in the country due to the pandemic. | RELATED: | Brazil: Workers’ Party Files Lawsuit Against Bolsonaro and Moro | In the last 24 hours, 474 deaths were reported, the highest number recorded since the beginning of the epidemic. | The country’s health authorities said the number of infections and deaths continues to grow. That reality must be treated as…
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Turkey Pledges Support to US in Fight Against COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged “all means of solidarity” with the United States in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak and its aftermath, Turkey’s presidential office said Wednesday. | RELATED: | Mideast: Turkey’s COVID-19 Cases 105,000; Iran’s Over 88,000 | “As a reliable and strong partner of the U.S., we will continue to demonstrate solidarity in every way possible in meeting the present needs required for the struggle against this pandemic as well as during the…
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True Number of Americans Run Out of Work by Virus Maoists So Far Could Be 10 Million Higher at 36 Million
Andy Sullivan | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-29
Millions of Americans who have been thrown out of work during the coronavirus pandemic have been unable to register for unemployment benefits since the U.S. economy entered a free fall, according to a poll released on Tuesday. | The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found in an online poll that for every 10 people who have successfully filed unemployment claims, three or four people have been unable to register and another two people have not tried to apply at a time of acute economic crisis. | Official U.S. statistics show that 26.5 million people have applied for unemployment benefits since mid-March, w…
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Coronavirus pandemic surges across South Asia, even as governments push for a return to work
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
The response of South Asia’s governments to the pandemic underscores the contempt of the national bourgeoisie for the lives of hundreds of millions of working people and rural toilers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/asia…

The Beginning of the End for Oil?
Michael T. Klare | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
Energy in a Post-Pandemic World…
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Global arms spending tops $1.9 trillion as fight against COVID-19 is starved of resources
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
The continued spending of trillions on arms and war amid the present pandemic represents a crime against humanity.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/mili…

Pseudo-lefts ask: “What is the least we can accept?”
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
As the ruling class prepares to use the ongoing pandemic as an excuse to carry out long-planned attacks on public education, pseudo-lefts promote Biden.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/haym…

COVID-19 cases increase across Illinois as many counties push to reopen
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
The pandemic poses enormous problems for rural areas where public health programs and hospitals have been greatly defunded over the last decade, leaving vulnerable residents in greater danger.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/illi…

New Zealand: Daily Blog ramps up anti-China campaign
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
The attempt to foist responsibility for COVID-19 on China, recently endorsed by the Ardern Labour government, is a reactionary political lie.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/nzch…

Will China Replace Islam as the West’s New Enemy?
Peter Oborne | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
It’s just over a quarter of a century since the American political scientist Samuel Huntington wrote his famous essay on the Clash of Civilisations. It set the tone for a series of wars. | Huntington was writing after the fall …
globalresearch.ca/will-china-replace-isl…

WTI Oil Price Increases by 30.6 Percent Due to Upturn in Demand
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
As of Wednesday noon, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil increased by 30.6 percent and reached USD16.12 per barrel, driven by the prospect of a rebound in the global demand and a very slight increase in the U.S. inventories. | RELATED: | Trump Orders U.S. Oil Companies to Halt Operations in Venezuela | Compared to what happened on Tuesday, the futures for oil delivery improved by US$3.78. At some times today, oil prices rose even more than 34 percent. | This…
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U.S. is a prison house of oppressed peoples
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-04-29
Based on a talk given during an April 9 Workers World Party national webinar: “Free them all! COVID-19 and racist mass incarceration.” Mass incarceration is nothing new to the U.S. This brutal policy of social control of workers

Pandemia y capitalismo están detrás del aumento del hambre en EE.UU
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-04-29
Los productores lecheros están vertiendo millones de galones de leche en las lagunas. Los productores agrícolas están volcando las verduras frescas al suelo. Se están destruyendo miles de millones de dólares en alimentos. Esto está sucediendo mientras millones de personas hacen fila para llegar a los bancos de alimentos locales . . . | Continue reading Pandemia y capitalismo están detrás del aumento del hambre en EE.UU. at Workers.org
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UN genocide prevention chief looking into Colombia’s mass killing of rights defenders
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
The United Nations’ genocide prevention chief wants to visit Colombia while looking into the ongoing mass killing of human rights defenders, community leaders and demobilized guerrillas. The UN’s Special Adviser…
colombiareports.com/un-genocide-preventi…

Colombia: Over 70 Indigenous Families Displaced in Urrao
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
Colombian Antioquia Indigenous Organization (OIA) said on Thursday that their native communities suffered from forced displacement due to the armed groups present in their territory. | RELATED: | Colombia: Bus Crowds Mark Gradual Opening Since Quarantine | According to OIA representatives, over 70 indigenous families left their homes in the southeast municipality of Urrao. As communication states, another 1,000 families could also be in displacement risk in Perdidas Valley and Andabu…
telesurenglish.net/news/-colombia-over-7…

BRICS Countries Seek Ways to Mitigate COVID-19’s Impact
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
The BRICS countries discussed on Tuesday night the actions to be taken by the bloc’s member nations to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. | RELATED: | G20 Summit: BRICS Pushes For ‘Democratic International Order’ | The debate took place during the Extraordinary Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the BRICS countries, held on the evening of Tuesday 28 April via videoconference. | The virtual meeting was chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. | The Ministers of F…
telesurenglish.net/news/brics-countries-…

Syrian Resistance to the US Occupation Escalates
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
US President Trump ordered a surprise withdrawal of US troops from Syria in October 2019; however, he bent to pressure from aides and Pentagon officials and soon reversed his decision. He then ordered about 500 US soldiers to occupy the …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-resistance-us-o…

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

How to explain climate change? With comic books
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-29
If you are reading this, you probably already know a lot about climate change. But what images come to mind if I asked you to visualize climate change?>…
mronline.org/2020/04/29/how-to-explain-c…

Washington Post: ‘The Key to Escaping Lockdown? Sleep in Your Guest Room and Pretend It’s a Trip’
John Kelly | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-29
Surely our headline was satire? | We wish, it’s actually verbatim: | Nice view. I’m sure that’s standard for locked-down Americans.
anti-empire.com/washington-post-the-key-…

COVID-19 infection at sporting fixtures underscores criminality of Johnson government’s herd immunity policy
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
It was only due to growing opposition that the government was forced to impose a lockdown. But much of the damage had already been done, as evidenced by its allowing three sporting events to take place.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/spor…

New Zealand Government Bans Online Book Purchases as ‘Non-Essential’
Ian Miles Cheong | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-29
Besides video games and Netflix, books are the only things any of us have left to keep us sane besides conversations with our significant others on Facetime. Yes, there’s plenty to do–plenty of options to fill the time in between trips to the grocery store and reading news about the Chinese coronavirus, and books fill a void that otherwise goes unfilled, leaving only anxiety to take its place. | Books are essential in lockdown, but the New Zealand government doesn’t think so. Under the onerous orders of Jacinda Ardern, a leader praised for her ability to lead the country through this global struggle unde…
anti-empire.com/new-zealand-government-b…

How to Think Post-Planet Lockdown
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Between unaccountability of elites and total fragmentation of civil society, Covid-19 as a circuit breaker is showing how the king

Classical musicians, orchestras and opera companies confront COVID-19 lockdown
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
Freelance and younger musicians are especially hard hit by cancellations and shutdowns.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/musi…

Nearly half of global workforce at risk as job losses increase due to COVID-19: UN labour agency
news.un.org | 2020-04-29
Some 1.6 billion people employed in the informal economy

Small vendors hard hit by government ordered demolitions in Zimbabwe
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-29
Human rights organizations allege that the Zimbabwe government is taking advantage of the lockdown powers to go on a demolition spree, displacing small vendors en masse…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/29/small-ven…

On the Recovery from the Shutdown
Dean Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-04-29
This is not a zero/one story where there is either zero risk or an intolerable risk, the issue is one of reducing the probability of catching the virus so that more people can feel comfortable engaging in normal activities…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-the-recovery-fr…

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

How Can Oil Be Worth Less Than Zero?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-29
Dan Dicker traded oil futures for 25 years on the NYSE. He explains how COVID-19 created a perfect storm for oil markets, and why it still doesn’t make green energy inevitable.
therealnews.com/stories/oil-market-price…

CARES Act Funding For Native Tribes Reveals Continued US Colonization
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-29
The recent CARES Act is another example of the continued effort to dismiss Indigenous peoples’ sovereignty, and doesn’t provide adequate funding to fight COVID-19.
therealnews.com/stories/cares-act-native…

The Coronavirus 5th “Relief Package” We Need
Howie Hawkins | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
The coronavirus depression is fast becoming as deep as the Great Depression. The federal government’s response has been too little, too late. | While sickness and death spread, while unemployment and small business failures soar, while health care and essential workers …
globalresearch.ca/5th-coronavirus-relief…

Giulietto Chiesa: Lets Free Ourselves from the Virus of War
Comitato No Nato | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
GIULIETTO CHIESA remained on the front line of the fight, to implement Article 11 of the Constitution, to take Italy out of the “War System”. | Giulietto Chiesa passed away a few hours after the conclusion, on the 75th Anniversary of …
globalresearch.ca/giulietto-chiesa-lets-…

With over 1 million coronavirus cases and 60,000 fatalities in the US, markets eager to get back to business
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
The markets are clamoring for a rapid reopening of businesses, regardless of concerns about the impact of a second wave of the coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/covi…

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

It Can’t Happen Here? The Roots Run Deep!
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Sinclair Lewis wrote an important novel in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here. In the fictitious book, based on the threats at the time of fascism taking root in the USA, we see how this virus spread. | As with Philip Roth’s …
globalresearch.ca/it-cant-happen-here-ro…

Declaring victory too soon: Lessons from Europe’s different responses to coronavirus
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-29
But do these assumptions hold up to the test? To find out, we must first take a quick look at some recent history.
mronline.org/2020/04/29/declaring-victor…

Being male or overweight can lead to more serious COVID-19 hospital admissions
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-04-29
New UK research has found that being male or obese reduces chance of survival from severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
imperial.ac.uk/news/197216/being-male-overweight-lead-more-serious

Cuban working class facing disaster due to coronavirus-related tourism collapse
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
While Cuba appears to have effectively slowed the spread of COVID-19, the collapse of tourism has left huge numbers of workers unemployed and threatens imports of needed goods.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/cuba…

Baking Cakes, Coronavirus and Survival Through Turbulent Times
Scott Owen | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
It was a kind of revelation when in one of my afternoon meditations I blinked on to the simple philosophical idea that if one wishes to bake a cake (for instance) one must believe that they can bake a cake! I say this of course because I saw the obvious problem, that if you don’t…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/baking-cakes…

Democracy: Just five Lords debated the Second Reading of the telecoms infrastructure bill
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-29
By Darren Hughes

On the Recovery From the COVID-19 Shutdown
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
The Congressional Budget Office came out with its new economic projections and they look realistically bad to me. They show the economy declining at a 39.6 percent annual rate in the current quarter and then rebounding at a 23.5 percent rate in the third quarter and closing out the year with a 10.5 percent increase.
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/on-the-recov…

Australian health workers infected with COVID-19 but governments cover up full picture
wsws.org | 2020-04-29
Even according to the officially-reported cases, Melbourne’s health system is one of the worst-affected in Australia.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/29/heal…

COVID-19 Sweeping Through US Immigrant Farmworker and Meatpacker Ranks
Danica Jorden | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
“We work shoulder to shoulder. We’re very close to each other…. I’ve had a fever and flu symptoms, but I take Tylenol and keep working.” María, worker from Butterball. Español | On April 7, Tyson Foods announced it was closing an | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-sweeping-us-i…

COVID-19 Lights Up Biological Annihilation
Subhankar Banerjee | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
As the COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths continue to rise rapidly in the United States and around the world, one question many people have been asking is: Where did COVID-19 come from? The most obvious first stop to get some answers would be the White House. As it turns out the President has become one…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/covid-19-lig…

New guidance to support innovators fighting COVID-19
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-04-29
Imperial researchers have set out key regulations innovators must comply with when designing and building technologies safely to tackle COVID-19.
imperial.ac.uk/news/196896/new-guidance-support-innovators-fighting-covid-19

Hunger Grows in Lebanon–MES EP.51
Marwa Osman | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-29
The past six months have brought hardships unseen in Lebanon even during the bitter days of its 15-year civil wae that ended in 1990. Decades of corruption and financial mismanagement by warlords-turned-politicians and a cabal of business elites combined with greedy Banks to plunge Lebanon’s economy into its worst crisis in living memory. We discuss this segment with Dr. Nasri Harb, economist at USAL university. | In the meantime, Israelis are sparing no effort to complete the process of Judaization. In light of the world’s preoccupation with the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, the pace of settlement expansi…
thealtworld.com/marwa_osman/hunger-grows…

Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Monday ordered an investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro, due to accusations by former Justice Minister Sergio Moro. | Moro, who resigned from his post at the Ministry of Justice last Friday, accused Bolsonaro …
globalresearch.ca/brazilian-court-orders…

Data and Privacy Unprotected in One Third of Countries, Despite Progress
UNCTAD | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Only 66% of the nations of the world safeguard people’s data and privacy, despite an 11 percentage point increase in the adoption of data protection and privacy legislation in the period 2015-2020, according to new UNCTAD data. | Results of a | …
globalresearch.ca/data-privacy-unprotect…

The Myth of V-Shape US Economic Recovery
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
The spin is in! Trump administration economic ‘message bearers’, Steve Mnuchin, US Treasury Secretary, and Kevin Hasset, senior economic adviser to Trump, this past Sunday on the Washington TV talking heads circuit launched a coordinated effort to calm …
globalresearch.ca/myth-v-shape-us-econom…

The EPA’s Dirty Water: New Rule Discards Science, Ignores Importance of Wetlands and Tributaries
Derrick Z. Jackson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Water, water everywhere and hardly a drop is being protected by the Trump administration. In its latest act of abdication, the Environmental Protection Agency published its Navigable Waters Protection Rule in the Federal Register on April 21. The rule is …
globalresearch.ca/epa-dirty-water-new-ru…

Round Two of the “Paycheck Protection Program”: Another Disaster for US Small Businesses and Their Employees
Barry Grey | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
The launch Monday morning of the second round of the US “small business” Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a debacle. Millions of family-owned entities, desperate for credit and tottering on the brink of permanent closure, were once again shut out …
globalresearch.ca/round-two-paycheck-pro…

Iraq Facing a Great US Threat: Expanding the US’ “Harir” Military Base in Iraqi Kurdistan
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
No country could fail to be shaken by the kind of profound struggle between all its political groups that currently prevails in Iraq. The US does not need to make any great effort to sow discord between the parties because …
globalresearch.ca/iraq-facing-great-us-t…

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

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

Flooding and water management a growing challenge, academics warn policymakers
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-04-29
Tackling an issue of growing environmental concern

In the American Snake Oil Stain
Martin Billheimer | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
In his Journal of the Plague Year, 1664, De Foe tells us that ”
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Feed Sonoma: Agricultural Cooperatives will help save the world
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
“Building a new world in the shell of the old.”

Threatening the Governors: Barr’s Commercial and Civil Liberties Brief
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
“[Y]ou can’t just keep on feeding the patient chemotherapy and say well, we’re killing the cancer, because we were getting to the point where we’re killing the patient.”

As US Approaches Record Deficit, Israel Asks for Record Handout
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
The request would work out to almost $21 million per day from American taxpayers, even as the U.S. is approaching a $4 trillion deficit (the largest in the world), and Israel typically has a lower unemployment rate than the United States.
mintpressnews.com/us-approachs-record-de…

Cuba Cannot Get Swiss Respirators Due to US Inhuman Blockade
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
Journalist Laura Hunter published an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier denouncing that the companies IMT Medical AG and Acutronic Medical Systems AG were ordered not to sell high-tech respirators to Cuba. | RELATED: | US Prevents Cuba From Acquiring Pharmaceutical Raw Materials | Claiming that they do not wish to subvert the U.S. unilateral sanctions, those companies, which were acquired by Vyaire Medical two years ago, refused to deliver their products, as the Cuban For…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Cannot-Get-…

Bolivians in Chile May Return to Country After Quarantine
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
The governments of Chile and Bolivia agreed on Tuesday that Bolivian citizens who have been camping for days in the Chilean commune of Providencia will be able to return to their country after completing a 14-day quarantine. | RELATED: | Evo Morales Concerned Over Añez’s Lack of Scientific Advisory | Chilean Foreign Minister Teodoro Ribera Neumann announced the decision, taken during a meeting with Bolivian Foreign Minister Karen Longaric. | “Bolivia’s borders were closed…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivians-in-Chi…

Uruguay: Broad Front Submits Motion Against Right-Wing Law
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-29
The Uruguayan Broad Front party presented on April 28, a motion for the senate’s consideration to invalidate a government bill. | RELATED: | Uruguay: Nationals Returning Flights Extended Until May | The “urgent consideration law”, a government denominated the bill, is the third modification of a prior law project. It proposes Civil Code modification, strike right regulation, wage payments in cash among others adjustments. As Broad Front representatives stressed, none of these measures…
telesurenglish.net/news/uruguay-broad-fr…

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel’s New Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Takes Aim at the Holy Sanctuary
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
Israel’s right-wing poster boy has been slated for the role of Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, giving him both the position and power to carry out his apocalyptic vision of building a Jewish Temple on the site of the Dome of the Rock.
mintpressnews.com/bezalel-smotrich-apoca…

Students Face Unequal Access During COVID-19 Shutdown
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
We look at the impact of the pandemic on schools, universities, students, parents, teachers and professors

Social Distancing Doesn’t Matter When It Comes to Racist, Aggressive Policing
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have implored New Yorkers to keep respectable distances from one another, with the hopes of stopping the spread of the virus. The state’s and city’s economies were grounded to a halt as all kinds of businesses were ordered to shut their doors. Schools have been closed since March, and de Blasio recently announced that they will remain closed for the remainder of the year. Court affairs are being condu…
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The Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped Aggressive Medical-Debt Collection
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
Darcel Richardson knows she’s fortunate in one sense: She still has her job as a vocational counselor in Baltimore. But despite that, she won’t be able to make her rent payment this month because she’s not getting her full salary for a while. More than $400 per biweekly paycheck

People With Disabilities and Their Personal Assistants Need COVID Relief Now
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the risks to people with disabilities

Pence’s Barefaced Mayo Clinic Tour Proves He Still Does Not Take COVID Seriously
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the Mayo Clinic on Tuesday upset a lot of people after images released from the event demonstrated he did not wear a mask while touring the facility. | Pictures quickly circulated on social media showing how Pence toured the clinic, being one of the only individuals during the ordeal to not be wearing a mask (medical or fabric) to prevent the possible spread of coronavirus while he was there. After it became clear that the imagery was receiving a lot of…
truthout.org/articles/pences-barefaced-m…

As Many as 9,000 Early COVID-19 Deaths May Not Have Been Counted
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
Two studies looking at “excess” death counts across the country seem to suggest that the total number of casualties from COVID-19 in the U.S. so far may have been undercounted in a dramatic way during the early weeks of the crisis. | “Excess deaths” from both studies were calculated by taking the total number of deaths documented from March to early April, then subtracting the average number of deaths typically seen at that time of year. From that number, the total number of deaths related to COVID-19 wer…
truthout.org/articles/as-many-as-9000-ea…

Head of Postal Union Says Mailed Ballots Are Best Way to Secure 2020 Election
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
President Trump calls the U.S. Postal Service “a joke,” and as millions face orders to stay home, his attacks on the agency could also threaten efforts to vote by mail, a method Trump has called “a terrible thing.” “We’re talking now about basic access to the ballot box,” says American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein, who notes ”
truthout.org/video/head-of-postal-union-…

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

‘Impossible’ to hold Olympics unless pandemic is contained, Japan’s PM Abe says
rt.com | 2020-04-29
It will be impossible to host the Tokyo Olympic Games next year unless the coronavirus pandemic is contained, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday. | “The Olympic Games must be held in a way that shows the world has won its battle against the coronavirus pandemic,” Abe told parliament. “Otherwise, it will be hard to hold the Games,” Reuters quoted him as saying. | The prime minister was replying to a query from an opposition lawmaker whether Tokyo could host the Games next year, after this year’s delay caused by the pandemic.
rt.com/newsline/487187-japan-hold-olympi…

Poland to reopen hotels, shopping malls on May 4
rt.com | 2020-04-29
Polish hotels and shopping malls will reopen on May 4 and pre-schools will have the option to open on May 6, PM Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday. The largest economy in the European Union’s eastern wing started relaxing some of its curbs on public life earlier in April, alongside other countries keen to prop up industry damaged by the pandemic. | Morawiecki also reaffirmed the government’s plan to hold a presidential election as scheduled on May 10, or with a delay of a couple of weeks at most, despite calls from opposition parties and others for a much longer delay. | Further steps to unfreeze the economy…
rt.com/newsline/487213-poland-reopen-hot…

‘Immediate danger’: Half of world’s workforce could lose livelihood due to Covid-19, UN agency warns
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned that around half of the world’s workforce, or 1.6 billion workers, are at imminent risk of losing their livelihood because of the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. | In its latest report, the UN agency stated that those hardest hit by the financial effects of the Covid-19 outbreak have been ‘informal economy’ workers, including the self-employed and those on a short-term contract. | “The first month of the crisis is estimated to have resulted in a drop of 60 percent in the income of informal workers globally,” the ILO said of the economic damage…
rt.com/news/487288-coronavirus-economic-…

Tunisia to partially reopen economy from next week, half of govt employees may return to work
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The Tunisian government will start relaxing its coronavirus lockdown next week, reopening parts of the food and construction sectors. Half of government employees will be allowed to return to work. | The lockdown, in place since March, has stopped 25,000 cases of the virus and 1,000 deaths, Health Minister Abdelatif el-Makki said on television. Tunisia, which has about 500 intensive care beds, has confirmed fewer than 1,000 cases. | “Tunisia has controlled the first wave of the pandemic, but we do not know about a possible second wave,” the minister said on Wednesday. | The lockdown will begin to be eased on M…
rt.com/newsline/487239-tunisia-governmen…

US economy dives to start year amid business shutdown & worst is yet to come
rt.com | 2020-04-29
US gross domestic product (GDP) fell 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, according to data released by the Department of Commerce on Wednesday. | The decline is worse than expected by economists. It is the first negative GDP reading since the 1.1 percent decline in the first quarter of 2014, and the lowest level since the 8.4 percent plunge in Q4 of 2008 during the global financial crisis. | Consumer spending, nonresidential fixed investment, exports and inventories were the biggest drags on the economy. Consumer expenditures, which comprise 67 percent of total GDP,…
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China’s parliament to begin annual meeting on May 22 as ‘epidemic situation improves’
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The parliament of China will start its annual meeting on May 22, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. The session will be held over two months later than originally planned, owing to the fallout from the Covid-19 outbreak. | Conditions for holding the annual meeting of parliament have been met, now that the coronavirus epidemic situation has improved in the country, officials at the top decision-making body of the Chinese parliament were quoted as saying. | The top political consultative body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, has also proposed to start its annual sessio…
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Unexpected effect? Russians give up booze and sweets as Covid-19 causes healthy lifestyle kick
rt.com | 2020-04-29
When it comes to the coronavirus, good news is few and far between. But, in Russia, a sudden silver lining may finally have been found: some people are drinking less and eating healthier. | According to a new survey from Roskachestvo Consumer Behavior Research Center and Online Market Intelligence, during the Covid-19 lockdown, Russian people have significantly changed their shopping habits to avoid from more harmful food and drink. | The study, conducted between April 21-22, shows that 45 percent of Russians gave up alcohol, 38 percent gave up sweets, and 35 percent gave up sausages. Interestingly, those from…
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Not kitten around: Cat that Putin gifted to Japanese governor placed in isolation over coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A Siberian cat named Mir that Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted to the Governor of Japan’s Akita prefecture has been placed in quarantine over the paw-sibility that it could catch Covid-19. | President Putin gave Norihisa Satake the 11-month-old gray kitten back in 2012, after the governor gifted him an Akita Inu puppy called Yume (‘Dream’). The governor’s gift was in gratitude for Russia helping Japan deal with the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011. | | President Putin and Yume. © Global Look Press | Mir quickly became a be…
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‘Better call Singapore!’, Kremlin suggests, as scientists in Asian city-state predict exact day of Covid-19 ending in Russia
rt.com | 2020-04-29
With no end in sight for Russia’s coronavirus crisis, Singaporean academics have finally put a date on it: August 19. The Kremlin remains unconvinced, however, believing it’s too early to make such a precise prediction. | According to scientists at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, the coronavirus epidemic in Russia will come to an end in the middle of August. The latest prediction comes after new data on Covid-19, with the same experts having previously suggested an end-date of June 20. | Using a mathematical model, the Singaporean scientists have predicted the final days of coronavirus in co…
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Lies, half-truths & propaganda: Even during Covid-19 crisis, Britain’s leading news source can’t resist Russia-bashing
rt.com | 2020-04-29
One of the side-effects of attaining any reasonable level of knowledge about Russia is that it’s subsequently impossible to read most US/UK media coverage of the country without suffering a discomforting rise in blood pressure. | Viewed from here, it can seem like every Anglo-American mainstream media publication is printing reams of never-ending drivel about Russia. Of course, in reality, for the average joe in London or New York, Russia is barely even a consideration. It is just another nation in a long list of far-away lands, and naturally, people are more concerned about issues at home. Yet, media elites h…
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Czech MPs back emergency extension until May 17 as lockdown could be ended early
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The lower house of the Czech parliament has voted to extend a state of emergency until May 17

‘FREE AMERICA’: Elon Musk divides opinions after calling for lockdown to be lifted and tweeting ‘give people their freedom back!’
rt.com | 2020-04-29
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has come out in favor of reducing restrictions on freedoms and businesses, sparking a fierce debate on Twitter. Some lauded him and others chastised him for putting profits ahead of people’s safety. | The Tesla and SpaceX founder called on Wednesday for the US to lift the lockdown, tweeting “FREE AMERICA NOW” and “Give people their freedom back!” | FREE AMERICA NOW– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2020 | He also attached links to a Wall Street Journal article suggesting lockdowns were ine…
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Brexit and Covid-19 are keeping migrant agricultural workers away, but will the British ever dig for food, let alone victory?
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The UK’s environment secretary has admitted that some 20,000 agricultural workers who’d been expected from EU countries haven’t arrived. As peak harvest time nears, he wants Brits to fill the void, but that’s wishful thinking. | The UK had expected 30,000 casual agricultural laborers to have landed in the country by now for the peak harvests in May and June. On Wednesday morning, UK environment secretary George Eustice told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that only a third of that number had arrived, leaving the British farming industry in deep manure. | Many have been prevented from coming due to ‘lockdown’ mea…
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Covid-19 may plunge Germany into worst recession since WWII
rt.com | 2020-04-29
Europe’s leading economy, Germany, is bracing for a painful fallout from the coronavirus crisis that is likely to result in the country’s deepest recession in…
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NYC mayor blasted for ‘anti-Semitism’ after threatening to arrest Jews for flouting Covid-19 distancing rules at rabbi’s funeral
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A tightly-packed funeral procession of Orthodox Jews attracted the ire of Bill de Blasio, but netizens had something to say about the mayor’s own distancing policy and said his outburst had “invited anti-Semitism.” | The New York City mayor tweeted his anger at members of Brooklyn’s Jewish community who gathered on Tuesday night for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz. “My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,” he wrote. | Photos of the procession were circulated in the media, with many of the participants visibly defying social distancing rules, w…
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Questions raised as UK Ministry of Defence tests if insect repellent can KILL Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The UK’s Ministry of Defence is conducting tests into whether an insect repellent can kill Covid-19, but questions are being raised about the scientific and ethical basis of the research. | The active ingredient found in many brands of insect repellent, citriodiol, is known to kill other types of coronaviruses, so scientists at Britain’s defense laboratory at Porton Down are examining if it can combat the latest one, which causes Covid-19. | It comes after some British soldiers were issued with insect repellent last week. Use of the repellent is said to be optional and soldiers working as part of the UK’s effo…
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UK’s Covid-19 death toll jumps to second in Europe as government FINALLY includes care-home deaths
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The United Kingdom’s death toll from Covid-19 climbed to the second highest in Europe on Wednesday after the government finally included people who died in care homes and the wider community in its fatality figures. | Health officials had previously only counted people who died in hospital after testing positive for the illness in its official stats, leading many to allege that Britons weren’t being given the full picture. | Public Health England released figures on Wednesday that cover fatalities in all settings, including in nursing homes. The stats show that some 26,097 people died after testing positive fo…
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Big Ag break-up? Senators target America’s meat monopolies, as virus threatens shortages
rt.com | 2020-04-29
Two US senators have asked the Federal Trade Commission to launch an antitrust probe into the US meatpacking industry. As these firms struggle to maintain supply chains, calls are growing for a return to small-scale farming. | In the last couple of decades, the American meatpacking industry went through a rapid consolidation. Four companies now handle 85 percent of all beef production in the US, and three of these firms control 63 percent of the country’s pork production. The companies

The death of US oil
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The US oil industry is facing an unprecedented collapse, and as the global economy faces its worst recession since the 1930s, the industry isn’t likely to recover to pre-crash levels ever again. | It’s game-over for most of the US oil industry. Prices have collapsed and storage is nearly full. The only option for many producers is to shut in their wells. That means no income. Most have considerable debt so bankruptcy is next. | Peggy Noonan wrote in her column recently that “this is a ne…
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‘You misspelled censorship!’ YouTube expands ‘fact checks’ to protect Americans from coronavirus ‘misinformation’
rt.com | 2020-04-29
YouTube will now “fact check” US search queries, expanding a feature tried in other countries last year in an effort to eradicate “misinformation” about Covid-19

Golfer John Daly apologizes after suggesting downing BOTTLE OF VODKA a day will fight coronavirus (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The beer-swilling, cigar-smoking John Daly likely isn’t somebody that fans should be taking health tips from, but nonetheless he has been forced to apologize after saying that a steady diet of vodka will help fight off Covid-19. | Daly has a history of alcohol and gambling addiction through his storied career, which saw the former Open and USPGA champion emerge as one of golf’s biggest names in the 1990s and early 2000s. | However, given an almost innate predisposition to burning the candle at both ends, Daly’s career stagnated towards mediocrity soon after – and with the titles, accolades and adulation almost…
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EU opens new legal case against Warsaw over ‘muzzling judges’
rt.com | 2020-04-29
The European Union’s executive on Wednesday started a new legal case against the Polish government over what it said was the muzzling of judges. Brussels has long accused the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party of undermining Polish democracy by increasing direct state control over the courts, media and civic society. The party rejects the charge. | The European Commission said it was giving Poland two months to address its concerns about a law introduced earlier this year that would allow to punish judges who criticize the government’s reforms of the judicial system. | “There are clear risks that the provision…
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‘It’s the Persian Gulf, not Gulf of NY’: Rouhani schools US as Iranian military tells America to prepare for ‘HARDER SLAP’
rt.com | 2020-04-29
American forces will get a heavy response if they cause trouble in a gulf that is historically linked to Persia, not to the US, Tehran has warned, a week after Trump vowed to “shoot and destroy” its ships in the troubled waters. | …
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Turkey vows to ‘defend’ Tripoli-based govt against Haftar ‘dictatorship’ in Libya
rt.com | 2020-04-29
Ankara on Wednesday accused eastern Libya’s commander Khalifa Haftar of seeking to “create a military dictatorship” and vowed to “defend” the country’s Tripoli-based government. | Haftar, who controls swathes of eastern Libya, launched an offensive in April last year to seize Tripoli. He said on Monday that his self-styled army had “accepted the will of the people and its mandate.” | Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said that, with this announcement, Haftar “has once again demonstrated that he does not seek a political solution to the crisis in Libya, does not support international efforts in this regard… and aims…
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Why is it even called 5th generation? Pentagon’s decision not to fix supersonic speed issue with F-35C defeats jet’s very purpose
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A US decision to limit the F-35C’s supersonic flight capabilities instead of fixing an issue that increases the risk of tail damage will put a strain on pilots and deal a huge blow to the fighter’s combat power, analysts warn. | The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO)

RT IN THE WEBBY FINALS IN 6 CATEGORIES
rt.com | 2020-04-29
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From hairdressers to beaches – Spain’s plan to phase out lockdown
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
Spain announced a four-phase plan late on Tuesday to lift one of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in Europe and return to normality by the end of June.Following are the key points of the plan, which will vary from province to province. Advancing through the stages will depend on factors such as how the rate of infection evolves, the number of intensive care beds available locally and compliance with distancing rules. These targets are yet to be announced.Preparatory Phase 0 (May 4-11)- Hairdressers and other businesses that offer service by appointment can reopen.- Restaurants can offer take-away services.- Pro…
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Mike Pence tours medical clinic without a face mask
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-29
US vice president Mike Pence chose not to wear a face mask during a tour of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota on Tuesday, an apparent violation of the world-renowned medical centre’s policy requiring them.Video feeds show Pence did not wear a mask when he met with a Mayo employee who has recovered from Covid-19 and is now donating plasma, even though all other people in the room appeared to be wearing one.He was also without a mask when he visited a lab where Mayo conducts coronavirus tests.Vice President Mike Pence visits the molecular testing lab at Mayo Clinic (Jim Mone/AP) | And Pence was the only participant not…
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US: VP Pence violates hospital’s COVID-19 mask protocol
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
US Vice President Mike Pence has unleashed a storm on social media after he was seen on Tuesday violating the mask protocols of a private hospital in Minnesota.Pence, the head of White House Coronavirus Task Force, was the only person who chose not to wear a mask, despite warnings from the Mayo Clinic officials and its policy requiring them.Videos circulating in the local and social media showed the unprotected US vice president meeting with a hospital employee who has recovered from COVID-19, and maskless again when he visited one of its lab where coronavirus tests were conducted.He later joined a roundtable dis…
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Vice President Pence to visit Mayo Clinic in Rochester on April 28
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-29
Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Rochester, Minnesota, on Tuesday, April 28. He will tour Mayo Clinic facilities that support COVID-19 research and treatment, and speak with staff. Later that evening, Vice President Pence will return to Washington, D.C. Additional details about the vice president’s trip are forthcoming. Members of the media can contact …
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English hospital COVID-19 death toll rises 445 to 19,746
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-29
A further 445 people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died in English hospitals, bringing the total there to 19,746, the health service said.Of the 445, 27 had no known underlying health condition and were aged between 14 and 94.
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A Big Win for the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and a Call to Protect Wolves and Wilderness in Idaho
Dana Johnson | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-29
In January 2016 the U.S. Forest Service authorized the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to make 120 helicopter landings in the River of No Return Wilderness to place radio telemetry collars on 60 elk, despite the Wilderness Act’s clear prohibition on motorized intrusions and its directive to preserve an untrammeled Wilderness. To our…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/a-big-win-fo…

‘Hillary’s Been Enabling Sexual Predators’: Biden Accuser Rips Clinton for Endorsing Him
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-29
During a conference call on Tuesday, Joe Biden, the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for the presidential race, received a formal word of support from Hillary Clinton, yet another party member to wish the former vice president luck as he prepares to take on President Trump in November.
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Impacto a largo plazo de caída histórica del precio del petróleo
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-04-29
Por primera vez en la historia, el 20 de abril, el precio del petróleo estadounidense cayó a menos $38 por barril. Esta fue una caída de casi $100 por barril desde enero de 2020 cuando el petróleo era de $60 por barril. El 21 de abril, los precios del . . . | Continue reading Impacto a largo plazo de caída histórica del precio del petróleo at Workers.org
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Support Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles – Donate to Our GoFundMe So We Can Reopen Stronger
Uhuru Furniture and Collectibles | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
WEBINAR: Support Uhuru Furniture – Not the Banks and Wall Street! May 5, 3pm. Register: Zoom tinyurl.com/DefendUhuruFurniture. This pandemic is devastating our Black community! We are infected and dying of Covid-19 at disproportionately higher rates. UF has served the community for 31 years in Oakland, building an independent African economy. Donate GoFundMe uhurufurniture.org
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The Deterioration of the United States
Troy Prouty* | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
COVID-19 is just a Virus. Propaganda is the Disease.
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Racial Disparities During COVID-19 (webniar)
The Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
Online via livestream…
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Black Workers Unite, Covid-19 & Black Workers Under Attack On Front Lines In City of SF
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
San Francisco Black Workers Unite covered a panel on the health and safety conditions of Black city workers in San Francisco. They discuss the systemic racism, health and safety violations and retaliations against whistleblowers…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/27/1883266…

Funding Bernie’s Agenda
David Giesen | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
via ZOOM: zoom.us/j/96070608657?pwd=eUdMNExyMkllVF…
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Demanding Women: Quarintine Conversations About Gun Violence w/ Sen. Elizabeth Warren
MDAEFG | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
Facebook livestream…
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KPFA LSB Secretary Wofley’s Effort To Cancel Local Station Board Meeting
Follow The Bylaws Committee | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
KPFA Local Station Board Secretary Carol Wolfley in alliance with the losers on the Local Station Board in the Pacifica corporate bylaw changes is now cancelling KPFA Local Station Board meetings. The supporters of the coup at WBAI and the corporate bylaws that were voted down by two to one are now flagrantly violating the bylaws by refusing to have meetings for many months. This allows the management of KPFA to operate without any oversight or transparency with the elected station board.
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State pays Corona aid to tax tricksters
SZ.de | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
Thousands of companies want help from the state during the Corona crisis. The state of their tax morale is not under scrutiny. In the US, billionaires gained an additional $308 billion between 1990 and 2020 while tax obligations decreased 79%.
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Testing tsar ‘confident’ government will hit 100,000 target for Covid-19
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-29
The government’s testing tsar has said he is confident the 100,000 daily target for coronavirus tests will be met on Thursday.Professor John Newton, director of public health improvement for Public Health England (PHE), said: “We are pretty confident we will hit that target. It puts us really right up there with countries like Germany, so we need that now but we need that for the future as well.”There will be a lag in receiving the data but “by the end of the week we will know whether we have reached that target”, he added.The government has been under pressure over the target, with health secretary Matt Hancock…
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Qatar sends 4th batch of humanitarian aid to Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Rouhani, Imran Khan stress cooperation in COVID-19 battle
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Iranian scientist in US jail contracts coronavirus
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

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

Confirmed worldwide Covid-19 death toll passes 218,000
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

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

73,791 recovered from COVID-19 in Iran
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

‘This is Persian Gulf not gulf of New York or Washington’
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

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

Front pages of Iran international dailies on April 29
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Iran’s Zarif, Afghanistan’s Ghani hold phone talk
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

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

US cannot cite to JCPOA as withdrawn from Iran’s nuclear deal: MP
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

13-ton cargo of laboratory diagnostic equipment arrives Iran from France
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Eurasia reduces tariffs to zero on 10 Iranian exports items
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

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

Khanzadi described Persian Gulf as center of Resistance’ naval power
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

MP calls for increasing economic ties with other countries
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Iranian dailies’ headlines on April 29
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

Iran marks Persian Gulf National Day
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-29
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA)

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

Sticky Habits? 60 Percent of Brits Going Cashless as Rural Regions Left Behind Amid COVID-19 Crisis
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-29
More people are paying for goods and services with contactless payment systems amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but vulnerable groups in the British population, who depend on cash, should be safeguarded, reports revealed.
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Boeing Reportedly Planning to Cut Total Number of Employees by 10 Percent
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-29
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to reduce airline passenger traffic, the jobs of nearly 7 million people are at risk, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
sputniknews.com/business/202004291079133…

US GDP Contracts by 4.8 Percent in First Quarter
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-29
WASHINGTON (Sputnik)