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Dramatic Increase in Global Poverty Generated by Coronavirus Crisis. No Scaling Back of US Militarism
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
The World Bank warns that there is a global poverty increase as tens of millions of people have fallen back into poverty because of the pandemic. Up to 60 million people worldwide may fall into extreme poverty due to the …
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‘Los amigos americanos’: Nuevos documentos revelan el espionaje de la CIA contra Julian Assange y el papel del financista de Trump
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-22
Una investigación exclusiva de The Grayzone revela nuevos detalles sobre el papel crítico que la compañía Las Vegas Sands del…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/22/espionaje-cia…

An Old Story Again: Capitalism vs. Health and Safety
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
The U.S. president recently ordered meatpacking employees back into workplaces plagued by coronavirus. He did not order the employers to make their slaughterhouses safe. GOP-proposed legislation exempts employers from lawsuits by employees sickened or killed by coronavirus infections at workplaces. The GOP is mostly silent about requiring employers to maintain safe or healthy workplaces. Employers…
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What is a Marxist-Leninist party?
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2020-05-22
This is a slightly edited version of a talk given during a discussion with members and candidates of Workers World Party on May 17. Many parties calling themselves Marxist and Leninist have come and gone. WWP is here and growing, after more than 60 years of struggle. This is due . . . | Continue reading What is a Marxist-Leninist party? at Workers.org
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As Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Takes the Lead, The Issue of “Gene-editing Vaccines”
Whitney Webb | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
More and more frequently, government officials, political pundits and self-appointed “global health experts” like billionaire Bill Gates have been instructing the public that mass gatherings and any semblance of “normalcy” will not return until a vaccine for the novel coronavirus …
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Why Israel Fears the Nakba: How Memory Became Palestine’s Greatest Weapon
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites all Palestinians, regardless of their political differences or backgrounds. For years, social media has added a whole new stratum to this process of commemoration. #Nakba72, along with #NakbaDay…
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Trump Claims to Have Venezuela ‘Surrounded’ as Iranian Tankers Approach
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
US President Donald Trump issued new threats against Venezuela on Wednesday. | “We’ve got it [Venezuela] surrounded, it’s surrounded at a level that nobody even knows but they know. We are watching to see what happens,” he warned during a conference | …
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Seeds of Destruction: The Diabolical World of Genetic Manipulation
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
“Control the oil, and you control nations. Control the food, and you control the people.”* -Henry Kissenger | “Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation” by F. William Engdahl is a skillfully researched book that …
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Poland is America’s Main Partner in Europe: The Talk About US Nukes in Poland Proves that Warsaw Trumps Berlin for Washington
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
It’s unimportant whether US nukes will eventually be deployed to Poland or not since the very fact that this scenario is seriously being discussed by both American and Russian diplomats proves that Warsaw trumps Berlin for Washington and that Poland …
globalresearch.ca/us-nukes-poland-proves…

Lives Depend on Argentina’s Debt Talks
Mark Weisbrot | zcomm.org | 2020-05-22
Creditors should accept the reality that unsustainable debt burdens only lead to worse crises up the road. At this crucial moment in the global pandemic and recession, many lives may depend on this understanding…
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Yemen: Aden Succumbs to COVID-19 as Saudi Coalition Infighting Distracts From Relief Efforts
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-22
The lives of civilians in Aden are being pushed into the abyss not only due to epidemic, disease, and fallout from flash floods but because of violent clashes between opposing factions of the Saudi-led Coalition.
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England Falsifies COVID Data: Tens of Thousands of Coronavirus Tests were “Double-counted”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
According to a recent Telegraph report: “samples taken from the same patient are being recorded as two separate tests in the Government’s official figures”. | “Tens of thousands of Covid-19 tests have been double-counted in the Government’s official tally, …
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England Falsifies COVID Data: More than A Hundred Thousand Coronavirus Tests were “Double-counted”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
According to The Daily Telegraph (May 21, 2020): “samples taken from the same patient are being recorded as two separate tests in the Government’s official figures”. | “Tens of thousands of Covid-19 tests have been double-counted in the Government’s official …
globalresearch.ca/england-falsifies-covi…

How the United States Government failed to prepare for the Global Pandemic
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-05-22
On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S. State Department instructing officials how they should speak about China and the novel coronavirus, according to the Daily Beast, which obtained the cable.
mronline.org/2020/05/22/how-the-united-s…

The Bouficha Appeal Against the Preparations for War
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-05-22
Stand against the use of military power to prevent the social development of the peoples of the world; defend the right of countries to build their sovereignty and their dignity.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-bouficha-appea…

The Bouficha appeal against the preparations for war
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-05-22
On 23 March, the UN Secretary General António Guterres called for a ceasefire. ‘The fury of the virus’, he said, ‘illustrates the folly of war’. In a recent report, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) wrote that the ‘call for a global ceasefire has not had the desired result’.
mronline.org/2020/05/22/the-bouficha-app…

Why socialist countries take lead in fighting COVID-19
Tony Murphy | workers.org | 2020-05-22
This is a slightly edited version of a talk given during the”What Road To Socialism?” webinar held by Workers World Party on May 16. The coronavirus crisis has made it clear that society is run by workers. Our party is called Workers World Party precisely because those who produce the . . . | Continue reading Why socialist countries take lead in fighting COVID-19 at Workers.org
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The Power of Propaganda: Americans Think Trump’s COVID-19 Performance Better than China’s
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-22
Americans rate their own government’s response, along with that of the UK and Italy, higher than that of China despite those countries having much higher death and infection rates.
mintpressnews.com/americans-think-trumps…

Video: Turkey Supported GNA Confronts Libya’s LNA: Turkish Drones Destroy LNA Pantsir Systems
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
Over the past days, forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) and Syrian militants supported by the Turkish military continued developing momentum against the Libyan National Army (LNA) in northern Libya. | After capturing the Watiya Air Base from the …
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ACLU Asks Supreme Court to Deny Bureau of Prisons Request to Block Order That Will Save Lives
commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
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Cuomo Order That Sent Estimated 4,300 Covid-19 Patients to Nursing Homes Denounced as ‘Single Dumbest Decision Anyone Could Make’
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
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How Obama Could Find Some Redemption
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
What would redemption look like for Barack Obama? First, it would entail admitting something unpleasant: his own deep complicity in the deadly ascendancy of the neofascist Donald Trump, who Noam Chomsky aptly calls “the most dangerous criminal in human history.” To no small extent, Trump owes his disastrous and malevolent presidency to the silver-tongued Obama’s eight years of White House service to the rich and powerful.
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How Obama Could Find Some Redemption
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
What would redemption look like for Barack Obama? First, it would entail admitting something unpleasant: his own deep complicity in the deadly ascendancy of the neofascist Donald Trump, who Noam Chomsky aptly calls “the most dangerous criminal in human history.” To no small extent, Trump owes his disastrous and malevolent presidency to the silver-tongued Obama’s eight years of White House service to the rich and powerful.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/how-obama-co…

Mike Davis: Workers Face “Sophie’s Choice” Between Income & Health as 50 States Reopen Amid Pandemic
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-22
All 50 states will be at least partially reopened this Memorial Day weekend, as the U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 outbreak tops 95,000 and some states prepare for a surge in cases. We’re joined by historian and writer Mike Davis, who says in Jacobin that “Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell.”
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/22/historian…

FBI Says It Will Investigate Breonna Taylor Shooting Death as Police Chief Announces Retirement
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-22
We speak with Ben Crump, attorney for the family of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old aspiring nurse who was shot to death by police inside her own apartment. Her family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department that details how police shot Taylor at least eight times after they burst into her apartment, unannounced, with a search warrant. The man police were looking for did not live in Taylor’s apartment and was reportedly already detained by police when officers arrived at Taylor’s residence on the night of March 13. At the time of her killing, Taylor had been working as an e…
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/22/breonna_t…

“Diarrhea, Dehydration, Hunger, Exhaustion”: India’s Rural Poor Suffer Most Under Lockdown
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-22
India just saw its biggest spike in coronavirus cases in 24 hours with 6,000 new reported infections, as an estimated 3 million seek shelter from a powerful cyclone and tens of thousands have no work or food. We go to Mumbai for an update from renowned journalist P. Sainath, founder of the People’s Archive of Rural India.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/22/p_sainath…

Third White Man Arrested for Murder in Ahmaud Arbery Shooting as DOJ Considers Hate Crime Charges
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-22
Authorities have arrested a third white man for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, this one charged with felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. We speak with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about how William Bryan filmed Arbery jogging down a narrow road in Brunswick, Georgia, in broad daylight, before he was confronted by two armed white men

Trump issues new threats as Iranian tankers approach Venezuela
World Socialist Web Site | iranian.com | 2020-05-22
In a telephone conference with right-wing Hispanic supporters in the United States Wednesday, President Donald Trump issued new threats against Venezuela, bragging about the US military siege that has been mounted against the embattled South American country. Referring to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Trump declared,”We have surrounded him at a level that no one knows, …
iranian.com/2020/05/21/trump-issues-new-…

Memorial Day Peace Caravan
Toby Blomé | indybay.org | 2020-05-22
Sponsored by CODEPINK | All invited to join Peace Caravan, with cars decorated with anti-war relevant signs and colorful visuals. We’ll travel across the Golden Gate Bridge, thru the Presidio, and end up at Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s SF Home for: Rally, Press Conference and Memorial Altar.
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Brazilian President Bolsonaro confesses to intervening in Police in order to protect his family
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-22
A video that surfaced today Friday May 22 revealed that far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro intervened in the Federal Police in order to protect his and his families’ interests. In the video, which was released during a court proceeding against the president in the Supreme Court, Bolsonaro, in a meeting of ministers, expresses his attempt to intervene in the Federal Police (PF) in order to protect his family. | “We have not had the strategic aspect. And forgive me, but the information service is ours, everyone, it is a…they are an embarrassment, an embarrassment. They don’t tell me anything! And I cann…
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With Iran Defying US Sanctions on Venezuela, Trump Must Choose Between Two Different Cowardly Paths
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-22
Washington’s illegal and deadly sanctions on Venezuela continue. However, President Nicolas Maduro has found an ally from across the world in …
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/with-iran-d…

“We Thought You Were Muslim”: Police in India Apologize for Beating Hindu lawyer
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-22
A group of Hindu policemen in central India beat a diabetic man seeking treatment at a hospital after they mistook him for a Muslim man because of his beard.
mintpressnews.com/we-thought-you-were-mu…

Roaming Charges: Shallà≤: 120 Days of COVID
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
As the USA approaches an official tally of 100,000 dead from COVID-19, let us recall that this bracing toll is still 467,000 fewer deaths than the number of Iraqi children who died as a result of the Bush/Clinton economic sanctions (not to mention the ongoing war itself.)…
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Deal Breaking Trump Regime Abandons Open Skies Treaty (OST)
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
Throughout his time in office, Trump proved he’s more a deal breaker than observer of international law, treaties and agreements. | He abandoned the landmark 1987 INF Treaty with Russia, the 2016 Security Council adopted JCPOA, the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, …
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Indian trade unions protest attack on workers’ rights
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-22
Ten central trade unions in India issued a nationwide protest call against the changes being made to labour laws. On Friday, May 22, unions across the country took to the streets to stage demonstrations against the attack on workers’ rights. The protestors were peaceful and followed physical distancing and other safety norms. Still, multiple instances of repression and detentions took place.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/22/indian-tr…

Canada Must Oppose Israel’s Annexation Plans
CJPME | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) urges the Canadian government to take a strong stand against Israel’s planned annexation of huge swaths of Palestinian territory in the West Bank. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his …
globalresearch.ca/canada-must-oppose-isr…

Memorial Day Car Caravan for Peace
Charlotte Casey | indybay.org | 2020-05-22
Stevens Creek & Winchester Blvds, San Jose…
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Strikes and protests by Brazilian nurses amid explosion of COVID-19 cases
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
Over the last 15 days, there have been dozens of protests and strikes by health care workers across Brazil, as more nurses are dying than anywhere else in the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/braz…

The lockdown protestors are not working class
Yves Smith | mronline.org | 2020-05-22
Sarah Jones, in The Coronavirus Class War in New York Magazine, does a neat, tidy job of kneecapping the notion that the anti-lockdown protests are manned by workers who want to get back to their jobs so they can start making money again.
mronline.org/2020/05/22/the-lockdown-pro…

‘Children Are Infected, Inmates Are Dying’
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-22
Maryland’s largest public sector union staged a socially-distanced protest to demand more PPE, testing, and safer working conditions.
therealnews.com/stories/larry-hogan-mary…

‘Children Are Infected, Inmates Are Dying’
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-22
Maryland’s largest public sector union staged a socially-distanced protest to demand more PPE, testing, and safer working conditions.
therealnews.com/stories/larry-hogan-mary…

New Zealand government stokes tensions with China
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
New Zealand, a de facto American ally and member of the US-led Five Eyes intelligence network, is integrated into the anti-China build-up.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/nzch…

No to the anti-China campaign! For international solidarity against the pandemic and capitalism!
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
The SEP rejects the chauvinistic attacks by the Trump administration and Democrats aimed at shifting responsibility for the mass death due to the coronavirus pandemic from the American ruling class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/chin…

Washington incites India in tense border dispute with China
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
Washington’s vocal support for New Delhi is in marked contrast with its stance during the 2017 Indo-China border dispute, and is part of a dramatic escalation of its anti-China offensive.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/inch…

How the Pandemic Defrocked Hegemonic Neoliberalism
Tim Anderson | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-22
The global pretensions of the USA and the UK have been stripped naked by the virus and responses to it. These profit-driven systems failed to protect lives. Only the fabricated anti-China hysteria and the pseudo-science of the pandemic sceptics hides this. In a diverse post neoliberal world, strong public health systems will be crucial. | The COVID19 pandemic has laid bare the human disaster that is hegemonic liberalism, a project of the Anglo-American powers. In terms of the basic protection of human life the virus has made it plain that there are few countries whose performance is as bad as that of the USA and…
thealtworld.com/tim_anderson/how-the-pan…

COVID-19 Coronavirus: Scripted by the CDC in 2003? Dead Zone Plague
Bill Sardi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
Deadzone (2003, Screenplay Stephen King, Jeffrey Boam): When Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) awakens from a coma caused by a car accident, he finds that years have passed, and he now has psychic abilities. Heartbroken that his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) has …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-coronavirus-s…

UK Labour council, Community union reject appeal to close ASOS warehouse after confirmed COVID-19 cases
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
The defence of ASOS workers’ lives requires a fight against the veto that such corporations enjoy over workplace safety.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/asos…

Cyclone Amphan kills over 90 and devastates wide areas of eastern India and Bangladesh
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
Millions of people have been evacuated from cyclone-hit areas in South Asia, but their relocation into overcrowded temporary shelters place them in real danger of contracting COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/cycl…

Factory Farming on Hold
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
Covid-19 has infected meat-packers, almost 12,000 of them. At least 48 have died and many plants have temporarily closed. So it seems like a good time to ask, would it be so terrible if slaughterhouses shut down for good? True, meat-packers would have to find other employment, but the end of factory farming and industrial…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/factory-farm…

Can Public Education Survive COVID-19?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-22
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted apartheid conditions in US public schools.
therealnews.com/stories/can-public-educa…

The Wuhan Hoax
Bob Dreyfuss | zcomm.org | 2020-05-22
Covid-19 and Trump’s War on the U.S. Intelligence Community…
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North Dakota Governor Delivers Testing Ground for Mass Tracking Tech
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-22
Privacy advocates are raising the alarm over the North Dakota governor’s cozy ties to Bill Gates and big tech as the state deploys new mass surveillance tech under the auspices of limiting COVID-19.
mintpressnews.com/north-dakota-testing-g…

Fast-Tracking a COVID-19 Vaccine: Why Should We Worry?
Richard Gale | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
The CoV-19 pandemic is now exposing the hidden agendas and motives of the powers that be in government, in the pharmaceutical industry and Wall Street, and in the media. Despairingly opponents of vaccine mandates are largely divided. Many Trump supporters …
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Moderna’s “Clinical Trial Results for Its Groundbreaking COVID Vaccine Could Not Be Much Worse”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
The Warp Speed Timeline

The human toll of COVID-19 in Brazil
Vyshakh T | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-22
The corona crisis has also brought to the forefront the crisis in Brazil’s healthcare system. The Sistema àönico de Saúde – SUS -, Brazil’s publicly funded health system has been facing dire budget cuts over the past several years while the private system has been steadily growing.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/22/the-human…

COVID-19 and the race for the vaccine
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-22
There are over 100 candidate vaccines that are currently being developed in labs across the world. Human trials have begun for three potential vaccines developed by the University of Oxford, Moderna Pharmaceuticals and the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products. Who might get there first and how affordable is it going to be?
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/22/covid-19-…

Wave of global brands file for bankruptcy
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-22
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a nightmare for countless industries

Georgetown, Kentucky Toyota plant remains open as autoworker tests positive for COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
In the absence of testing, it is likely that many more infected workers are in the auto plants, unaware that they are carriers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/auto…

NY Governor Cuomo shields nursing homes from prosecutions related to 5,600 COVID-19 deaths
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
The Democratic governor simultaneously praised his administration’s response to the pandemic and asserted that “nobody” should be held accountable for the tremendous number of needless deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/cuom…

Car caravan: Free Our Youth!
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2020-05-22
As states across the U.S. took steps to stop the spread of COVID-19

Trump’s COVID-19 Disinformation Campaign Is a Preview of the 2020 Elections
Mike Ludwig | zcomm.org | 2020-05-22
Media watchdogs say homegrown disinformation is now a much bigger problem than foreign interference, thanks to President Trump, his reelection campaign and right-wing extremists fueling viral media content shared widely by the president’s supporters…
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Tropical cyclones become stronger as Earth warms
Sandipan Talukdar | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-22
Super cyclone Amphan has just passed, devastating large parts of India and Bangladesh. In India, large parts of the State of West Bengal, including the capital Kolkata, faced its wrath. Just a year ago, Cyclone Foni had wreaked havoc in the eastern coast of India. Large and very intense storms have become an almost yearly phenomenon in different parts of the globe. Every year, super cyclones in the tropics take a heavy toll on human lives and properties. | For at least the past two decades, a very significant question in cyclone and hurricane research is whether there is already a discernible trend of stronger wi…
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Why Russiagate Still Matters
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
A thought experiment with a purpose is to ask: if a group of former Directors of the CIA, NSA and FBI put forward a story about a malevolent foreign power acting against the U.S. without providing evidence that their story is true, who would believe them? While this wasn’t precisely the setup for Russiagate, all…
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South African teachers’ unions warn against reopening schools without proper precautions
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-22
Five unions in the education sector have advised their members to not return to schools unless PPE is provided and the premises are sanitized. Classes are set to resume in South Africa on June 1 and teachers have to report for duty on May 25…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/22/south-afr…

US withdraws from Open Skies Treaty, heightening danger of war with Russia
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty is a deliberate escalation of military tensions not only with Russia, but also with the major European imperialist powers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/open…

Why Russiagate Still Matters
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
A thought experiment with a purpose is to ask: if a group of former Directors of the CIA, NSA and FBI put forward a story about a malevolent foreign power acting against the U.S. without providing evidence that their story is true, who would believe them? While this wasn’t precisely the setup for Russiagate, all…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/why-russiaga…

On Meeting Bao Ninh: “These Good Men Meant as Much to Me as Yours Did to You”
Marc Levy | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
Three years after the Americans abandoned Vietnam, in the depths of the Jungle of Screaming Souls, NVA veterans search for the remains of men and women killed in combat. So begins The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh. In 1995, when reading my paperback copy, I would fall into a trance, feel as if I were floating above my bed. What was happening, I did not know. Several months later, traveling in Southeast Asia, I invented reasons not to locate Bao Ninh.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/on-meeting-b…

World on Fire: Dramas of World War II
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
World on Fire, a seven-episode series, is set at the beginning of World War II and follows characters from five countries. Colored by anti-war and anti-fascist views, it takes place in France, Britain, Germany and Poland.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/worl…

Merkel and Macron’s European bailout: ‚Ǩ500 billion for trade war and austerity
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
Merkel and Macron see the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to strengthen their countries’ position in the world market and reorganise the European economy in the interests of the major corporations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/euro…

“Obamagate” claims spark new round in internal US political warfare
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
There is no progressive or democratic side in the conflict between Trump and the Democrats.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/gate…

Inside America’s Cash-Hungry Plainclothes Police Units
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-22
Breonna Taylor, an EMT, was shot eight times in a botched no-knock drug raid. PAR interviews an ex-cop who tells the truth about drug raids, warrants, and asset forfeiture, and speaks with cop watcher Laura Shark.
therealnews.com/stories/police-accountab…

The Long March of the Locked-Down Migrants
Aadesh Ravi | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
I had to write this song because the world is facing a difficult and turbulent time. At the very hour that some of us implemented the lockdown and bolted ourselves in our houses, we hardly expected hundreds, thousands, lakhs of people to start walking to their faraway homes. This made me extremely sad and agonised.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/the-long-mar…

Coronavirus and the Constitution: Entering the Not-So-Brave New World
Prof. Lynn Wolfe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
Two months have passed since the lockdown began, and statistics indicate that the coronavirus death toll hasn’t risen as high as we might have supposed. Yet already we hear rhetoric of a “post-COVID world,” hauntingly reminiscent of the “post-9/11 world.” …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-constituti…

Venezuelan Army to escort Iranian tankers bringing gasoline to Venezuelans blockaded by U.S. sanctions
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-05-22
This was announced by the Minister for Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, this Wednesday. “We have established contact with the Minister of Defense of Iran. All these ships, when they enter our exclusive economic zone (370Km), will be escorted by ships and planes of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), to welcome them and say to …
mronline.org/2020/05/22/venezuelan-army-…

Venezuela sends military to escort Iranian fuel tankers over US threats
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-22
Officials in the Trump administration have told the press that the US will consider mobilizing its forces in the Caribbean against Iranian shipment of petrol en route to Venezuela…
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US Militarizes the Caribbean Sea to Surround Venezuela
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
Recently, the number of American ships and planes in the Caribbean Sea has increased exponentially. The most likely hypothesis so far is that there will be an attempt to block Venezuela, as the military flow in the region began to …
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Trump issues new threats as Iranian tankers approach Venezuela
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
The Trump administration has vowed to take unspecified “measures” to block the shipment of Iranian fuel to Venezuela, raising the threat of state piracy on the high seas.
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A Simple Solution for the Coronavirus Crisis in Prisons
Robert P. Alvarez | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
If you’ve ever had a parent or loved one incarcerated, you know how scary it can be. There’s so much that can go wrong in prison, and neither you nor your loved one have much control over it. Thanks to mass incarceration, millions live with this fear every day

10C Above Baseline
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
Earth at 10 ∞C above pre-industrial is unimaginable. It’s a deadly horrifying thought, but as shall be explained herein, it should not be dismissed out of hand. The following story might be labeled as reckless, and it might be criticized as a fearmongering piece of journalism and probably will be. Nevertheless, “10C Above Baseline” explores a…
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Alex Azar Knows About Diabetes
Ishmael Reed | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
As soon as the Administration got into trouble because it failed to respond to the plague, it began hunting around for scapegoats. Trump’s calling it a “Chinese virus” put heat on the entire Asian American community because the average American can’t distinguish between members of 38 culturally distinct groups. This gave the Trump Shirts an…
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The Man Who Cried Wolf
Richard C. Gross | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
When it comes to the Big Lie, one must turn to the master, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief who theorized:…
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Don’t Be Black in America
Brian Cloughley | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
Brown and blue and white and black, All one color on the one-way track.

Work is Inevitable But its Organization is Not
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
All human societies, from the most primitive to the most modern, have an important commonality

A Pandemic and a Plague of Absurdity
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
At a certain point in an age of absurdity the normalization of madness becomes so common that it is almost indiscernible to most in the thick of it. Indeed, late capitalism, the stage which is undoubtedly preceding complete barbarism, has produced an endless stream of absurdities which not only insult the senses of those who…
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Will Things Fall Apart Now or in November?
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
“[T]he Republican fraud drumbeat could lay the groundwork for Mr. Trump and his supporters to reject the election results should he lose.”

Our Friend Eugene Schulman
Matthew Stevenson | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
Our friend Gene Schulman died today. He was in his ninetieth year. Mercifully, he was only critically ill for less than twenty-four hours. Yesterday he had an aneurysm; last night he refused heroic, life-saving surgery on his heart; and today he is dead. He would rather still be with us, I am sure, but at…
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America and the Rise of the Chinese Century
David A. Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
News of America’s global supremacy and victory as well as demise are often premature. In 1942 journalist Henry Luce described the coming years as the American Century. And it looked like he was right despite some setbacks. Yet coming out of the coronavirus and the Trump presidency, this time maybe the end of the American…
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Work is Inevitable but its Organization is Not
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
All human societies, from the most primitive to the most modern, have an important commonality

3.6 million more applied for unemployment last week
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-22
San José, CA – On Thursday, May 21, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that 2.4 million more people have applied for state unemployment insurance, or UI, in the week ending May 16. In addition, about 1.2 million people applied for the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, set up by the recent CARES act for the self-employed. This increase of 3.6 million applications for unemployment benefits means that a total of more than 47 million people have lost their livelihood in the last eight weeks. | Where is the good news? Well for the second week in a row, new claims for state unemployment benefits drop…
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Nearly 1.5 million health care workers laid off in pandemic-fueled jobs massacre
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 43,000 health care workers lost their jobs in March, while 1.4 million more lost their jobs in April.
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The economic impact of the pandemic on young workers in Wayne County, Michigan
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
The WSWS spoke with Karissa, 27, about her experiences over the past eight weeks since she and her fiancé lost their jobs when the coronavirus pandemic hit the Detroit area.
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US pandemic cover-up responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
On Wednesday, researchers from Columbia University posted a study showing that the massive US death toll, now approaching 100,000, is a direct consequence of decisions made by the Trump administration.
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Diane Ravitch on Pandemic School Privatization
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-05-22
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Australian unions back pay cuts for fast food workers
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
The attack on some of the lowest-paid workers, on the pretext of the coronavirus pandemic, is a precedent for a broader pro-business restructuring.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/fast…

Bolivians continue their struggle against the coup regime
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-22
Since May 11, thousands of Bolivians have been mobilizing, against hunger and to demand the resignation of self-appointed president Jeanine àÅñez and for democratic elections in the country…
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US Unemployment Insurance Claims Approaches 40 Million
Niles Niemuth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
The United States Department of Labor reported on Thursday that more than 2.4 million Americans applied for unemployment insurance last week, bringing the total number of new claims to 38.6 million since mid-March, when social distancing measures and statewide stay-at-home …
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The Palestinian Legacy of East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood Cannot Be Erased
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-22
The rich history and historical significance of Sheikh Jarrah, an East Jerusalem neighborhood dating back to the times of Salahaddin, endures despite the best efforts of Israeli authorities.
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Third man charged in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
William Bryan, who recorded video of Arbery being shot and killed by Travis McMichael in February, was arrested Thursday and charged with felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/22/arbr…

A Simple Solution for the Coronavirus Crisis in Prisons
Robert P. Alvarez | zcomm.org | 2020-05-22
Releasing low-risk inmates would ease the risk that sky-high prison infection rates pose to all of us…
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UK university team predicts doubling or tripling of US death toll over the next two months
wsws.org | 2020-05-22
The Imperial College projection predicts that community transmission of the virus will accelerate in the US over the next two months, with the death toll rising to 2–3 times the current total.
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Imperialism and the right to self-determination
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-05-22
This is a slightly edited version of a talk given during the”What Road To Socialism?” webinar held by Workers World Party on May 16. One of the five features V.I. Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, laid out in his 1916 book, “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism,” was the . . . | Continue reading Imperialism and the right to self-determination at Workers.org
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Why I joined Workers World
Arielle Robinson | workers.org | 2020-05-22
This is a slightly edited version of a talk given during the”What Road To Socialism?” webinar held by Workers World Party on May 16. Arielle Robinson speaking during What Road to Socialism Webinar, May 16. I was introduced to Workers World Party when I first moved to Atlanta from Derry, . . . | Continue reading Why I joined Workers World at Workers.org
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Imperialism and the right to self-determination
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-05-22
This is a slightly edited version of a talk given during the”What Road To Socialism?” webinar held by Workers World Party on May 16. One of the five features V.I. Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, laid out in his 1916 book, “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism,” was the . . . | Continue reading Imperialism and the right to self-determination at Workers.org
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What Stanford University and Fox News Have in Common
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
On April 21, Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, one of Donald Trump’s most vociferous supporters, spoke to Stanford University physician-professor John Ioannidis about COVID-19. She prefaced the interview with reference to the pandemic as a nothing-burger: And new antibodies testing on the West and East Coast shows that the true infection rate may be 55 times…
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
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Investigation needed after Serco shared email addresses of contact tracers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-22
The Government has been urged to launch an investigation after the email addresses of almost 300 new recruits to its coronavirus contact-tracing programme were shared by mistake. | The error prompted an apology from outsourcing firm Serco which said it would “review its processes” following the incident in which it had emailed new trainees to tell them about training. | A total of 296 addresses were included in a CC (carbon copy) section of an email rather than BCC (blind carbon copy), meaning they were visible to recipients. | The company are helping to sign people up to support efforts to track and trace cases…
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Khashoggi family announces PARDON for slain journalist’s killers as Muslims mark the end of Ramadan fest
rt.com | 2020-05-22
The family of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has declared “forgiveness” for his killers, extending pardons to the accused, who faced execution in Saudi Arabia, as Muslims gear to celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan. | One of the Washington Post columnist’s two sons, Salah Khashoggi, announced amnesty for the murderers in a statement posted to Twitter on Thursday. Five men were sentenced to death in the case last year in a Saudi court, while three others were given 24 years in prison for their role in the murder plot. | Sons of Jamal Khashoggi say they have decided to pardon the killers of their father -…
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Stimulus spending for whom?
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-22
Workers & unions Sam WainwrightIssue 1266 Australia Green Left Fighting Fund COVID-19 JobKeeperMay 22, 2020The COVID-19 shutdo…
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Land Grab and Deportation: A Leading Israeli Lawyer’s Annexation Prediction
Michael Sfard | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
Almost 53 years after it occupied the West Bank, Israel is closer than ever to annexing parts of the Palestinian territory. | Article 39 of the coalition deal signed between Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Benny Gantz’s …
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Sinking alliance? Coronavirus puts Renault’s existence in question & threatens 20,000 jobs at Nissan
rt.com | 2020-05-22
The Renault-Nissan automaking alliance has taken a huge hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic. French carmaker Renault may not survive without government aid, and its Japanese partner faces massive job cuts to stay afloat. | Renault seeks a €5 billion (US$5.5 billion) state-guaranteed loan to cope with the fallout from the virus outbreak. While the government is still considering whether to provide the funds, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned that the company is facing “serious financial difficulty” and its future could be at stake. | “Yes, Renault could disappear,” the minister told Europe 1 radio…
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ACLU and Partners Challenge Michigan Absentee Ballot Deadline
commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
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International Proposals for Warrantless Location Surveillance To Fight COVID-19
Katitza Rodriguez, Svea Windwehr | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
While location surveillance is problematic at any time, the coronavirus crisis has led to a rapid uptick in its use; many measures to facilitate it have been passed by fast-tracked legislative procedures during national state of emergencies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Kotecki) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Covid-19 Profiteers Are Making a Killing
Amber Colón Núñez | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
Amazon head Jeff Bezos appears at a company event Sept. 25, 2019. Thanks to Covid-19’s sales boosts, in the first quarter of 2020 Bezos made back the $10 billion he lost in 2019 more than twice over. Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa (Photo: Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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As Warnings Mount of So-Called ‘Second Wave’ of Covid-19, Trump Says He Won’t ‘Close the Country’ Again
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
“We are witnessing the complete breakdown of the United States government.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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5 Reasons We Must Act Now to End Oil and Gas Production
Kelly Trout | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
A return to “normal” in governments’ policies towards fossil fuel production—which were largely still enabling its expansion—is out of the question. To “build back better,” governments must exit the unstable boom-bust cycles of extraction, and instead manage its phase-out in a predictable, people-centered, and Paris-proof way. (Photo: Pixabay.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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‘A Misbegotten, Warped Freedom Obsession Is Killing Us’: Video of Trumpian Anti-Mask Jerks Goes Viral
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
On social media Friday, author Anand Giridharadas shared what he called an “end-of-empire” video featuring a number of people refusing to wear face masks in public places, coughing on others, and claiming their “freedom” is being trampled by public health guidance. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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A Simple Solution for the Coronavirus Crisis in Prisons
Robert P. Alvarez | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
We’ve got over a million people in prison, nearly a million more in jail, and half a million in immigrant detention. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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This Year’s Forest Fire Season Could Be Even Deadlier
Luciana Tellez-Chavez | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
In addition to contributing to climate change, forest fires present a more immediate and very grave threat to public health. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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U.S. Unprepared for Nuclear Accident During Pandemic
commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
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Michigan Flood, Says Group, Shows US Unprepared for ‘Nightmarish’ Threat of Nuclear Disaster Combined With Pandemic
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
“The prospect of a nuclear disaster prompting a mass evacuation during a viral pandemic reinforces the need for an energy policy focused on safe, clean and affordable renewable energy.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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A Tale of Two Pandemics
Robert Reich | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
Systematic inequality in America has produced two very different pandemics. (Photo: Screenshot/Youtube) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Why We Should Commandeer Hotels to House the Homeless
Jules Boykoff | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
A homeless man walks down the street in the Montclair district of Oakland, Calif., on Monday, May 18, 2019. Unhoused people across the U.S. are among the most vulnerable to the pandemic, but there are ways to ease their burdens amid the crisis—and for the long term. (Photo: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Oil Companies Can Set Their Own Rates for Royalties From Drilling on Public Lands Thanks to Trump: Report
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
“Oil and gas corporations already pay pennies compared to what they make in profits from plundering public lands—land that belongs to the American people—and now they’ll pay even less.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Key Biden Adviser Offers Little Hope for Palestinians
Mitchell Plitnick | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
Speaking in a web broadcast organized by the so-called Democratic Majority for Israel, Blinken stated bluntly that Biden “would not tie military assistance to Israel to any political decisions it makes, full stop.”(Photo: Matt Smith Photographer / Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Fridays for Future Europe Calls for Transforming Agricultural Policy to Tackle the Climate Crisis
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-22
As the world recognized the International Day for Biological Diversity on Friday, the youth-led Fridays for Future movement sent an open letter to European Union leaders demanding a transformation of the economic and political coalition’s agricultural policies to tackle the intertwined biodiversity and climate crises. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Malaysia PM in home quarantine after officer tests positive for COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-22
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be home quarantined for 14 days after an officer who attended a meeting with him this week tested positive for the new coronavirus, the prime minister’s office said in a statement on Friday.Muhyiddin has tested negative but “all members of the meeting have been instructed to undergo screening and 14 days’ home quarantine”, the statement added.
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Conflicts displaced over half-million amid virus: Report
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-22
At least 661,000 people have been displaced due to armed conflicts in 19 countries during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report. | The report, Crossfire and Covid-19: Double crisis for displaced civilians, by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), said the “conflict-affected countries are likely to be among the worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.” | It stressed that hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced between March 23 and May 15 as conflicts continued in various regions despite calls by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to all warring sides to cease fire globally to ensure…
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America is Drowning in Problems: Washington is Picking Another Fight With China
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
Washington is picking yet another fight with China. On top of the trade war we now have the coronavirus war. China is accused of being responsible for the virus by withholding information about it. Some in Washington want to make …
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‘We have lions on the front line, we need lions in leadership’: Nobel Prize-winning scientist SLAMS UK govt response to Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Top scientist Sir Paul Nurse has blasted the UK government for lacking proper leadership over the Covid-19 outbreak, saying Westminster has been “increasingly playing catch-up” and “firefighting” its way through successive crises. | In an interview with BBC Radio 4 on Friday, Nurse claimed that he believed that the UK government has not responded effectively to the outbreak of Covid-19. | Nurse – who won a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2001

How the British Empire Created and Killed George Orwell
Martin Sieff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), happily amplified by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the United States which carries its World News, continues to pump out its regular dreck about the alleged economic chaos in Russia and the imagined miserable …
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Tories making redundancies at HQ in cash crisis
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-22
Rob Woodward: There are a lot of stories floating around the newsrooms of just how badly Boris Johnson’s government are doing in the pandemic. What we see publicly and what happens behind closed doors are entirely different. Publicly, we see the Tories boycotting media organisations that dare to challenge their actions, blatantly lying about their …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/tories-making-redundancies-at-hq-in-cash-crisis/

Cruise Ship of State
Peter Kuper | thenation.com | 2020-05-22
A president without a moral compass steers us toward the rocks.
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Is Mexico’s ‘Mayan Train’ a Boondoggle?
Meaghan Beatley, Sam Edwards | thenation.com | 2020-05-22
Is Mexico’s ‘Mayan Train’ a Boondoggle?
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Here’s What We’re Doing With Your Check, Donald
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-05-22
Here’s What We’re Doing With Your Check, Donald…
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If Nancy Pelosi Is So Great, How Come Donald Trump Still Isn’t Dead in the Water?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
To hear Democratic Party propagandists and anti-Trump Republicans on the cable networks tell it, Nancy Pelosi is the shrewdest, most politically savvy Democrat in living memory. MSNBC is the worst, and Rachel Maddow is the worst of the worst, but, in effect, they all speak with one voice, and they all agree that the woman…
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If Nancy Pelosi Is So Great, How Come Donald Trump Still Isn’t Dead in the Water?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
To hear Democratic Party propagandists and anti-Trump Republicans on the cable networks tell it, Nancy Pelosi is the shrewdest, most politically savvy Democrat in living memory. MSNBC is the worst, and Rachel Maddow is the worst of the worst, but, in effect, they all speak with one voice, and they all agree that the woman…
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UK Dropped South Korea-Style Widespread Testing Due to ‘Sheer Scale’ of Coronavirus Outbreak
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-22
The coronavirus pandemic has spread across the United Kingdom to such a degree that it has become the worst country in Europe for total deaths from the disease. The government has been under fire in recent weeks for not rolling out sufficient testing and learning from the example of countries which were hit by the outbreak earlier.
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Robot sex dolls: The real winners in the coronavirus pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Though made of silicone and often considered the choice of sexual loners, there’s nothing inflated about the success of the robot sex doll industry, as the lockdown leaves singles and couples alike craving experimental excitement. | While the economic figures out today from the Office for Budget Responsibility show that the UK’s economic hit for the financial year ending April 2021 could be around £300 billion, one area of the economy is certainly enjoying a fantastic pandemic… the robot sex doll industry. | So when yo…
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Why the West Is Not the Best When It Comes to COVID-19
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-22
East Asia fares significantly better in terms of the impact of COVID-19 than the West. Although the virus is believed to have originated in East Asia, as of May 22, 2020 no East Asian nation was among the first ten countries in number of total cases of COVID-19. No matter what type of rule

U.S. Warplane Profits Scramble Over Germany’s Anti-Nuclear Push
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-22
When Germany’s Social Democrats

America the Terrified: What Makes This Superpower So Sensitive?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-22
They want to meet me not because I’m Mike from Kansas, because I represent the greatest nation in the history of civilization. | U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 28 February 2020 | I want everyone to be reminded that America remains the world’s leading light of humanitarian goodness as well amidst this global pandemic. | U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 7 April 2020 | …no greater privilege and no greater hono…
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Aiming Missiles at Viruses: a Plea for Sanity in a Time of Plague
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-22
Hugh IGLARSH | The point I am trying to make here is a simple and obvious one, or would be in a society not burdened with a two-pronged ideology of extreme militarism and extreme individualism. It is this: In feeding the military-industrial complex so richly at this time, we are starving ourselves of many vital things and weakening ourselves as a society, perhaps to the point of suicide. We are in effect sacrificing our future on the altar of American imperialism, which like some dark god of the past, is ever hungry and can be assuaged only by human life. | The coronavirus plague now sweeping the globe

Covid-19 resurgence is a real possibility warns a leaked Pentagon memo
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-22
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic…
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Has coronavirus Covid-19 turned local skilled nursing facilities into death camps?
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-22
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic…
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Tenants denied rent relief, as Trump Organization seeks rent relief
Lynda carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-22
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Climate Change and the 2020 Election during the Pandemic
The Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-05-22
Online via livestream…
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Food Not Bombs Marks its 40th Anniversary by Responding to the Global Pandemic
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2020-05-22
The shock of COVID 19 and economic crisis is not the way I imagined Food Not Bombs would be marking our fourth decade. The vision of free concerts in cities all over the world has vanished and now we find ourselves rushing to support the food and safety needs of people who were already marginalized before the crisis.
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#MakeThemPay: Rent Striking Tenants Car Caravan to Bay Area Corporate Landlord
Posted By Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-22
#MakeThemPay: Rent Striking Tenants Car Caravan to Bay Area Corporate Landlord as Part of National Day of Action Organized by #CancelRent Movement!
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Haftar’s army spokesman accuses Turkey of sending arms & militants to Libya in violation of UN embargo
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Turkey has been violating the UN embargo by sending arms and militants from Syria to Libya, a spokesman for Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) claimed as he showed videos that allegedly proved Ankara’s violations. | Turkey “continues its aggression against our country” by supporting the rivaling Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), Major General Ahmed al-Mesmari, the LNA’s official spokesman, said during a press-conference. | Once prosperous, Libya remains divided since 2011 when NATO led a bombing campaign to overthrow the country’s longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi. The fighting between…
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‘If you see his sister running the country, something’s wrong’: Rodman wades in on rumors of pal Kim Jong-un’s ill health
rt.com | 2020-05-22
NBA legend Dennis Rodman, who recently revealed his unlikely friendship with Kim Jong-un began at a boozy karaoke session, has fueled rumors of the North Korean leader’s ill health by suggesting that his sister has succeeded him. | Kim Yo-jong, Jong-un’s younger sister, made her first public statement in March, having long held the trust of her ruling sibling to inform policy behind the scenes and represent him at major global events including the 2018 Winter Olympic. | The prominent political figure accompanied her brother to his two summits with US President Donald Trump and was even said to be acting as his…
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Lenin for sale? Russian politician suggests flogging Soviet leader’s body to the Chinese
rt.com | 2020-05-22
No stranger to controversy, veteran politician and perennial presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky caused a stir online after suggesting that Russia sells the preserved body of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. | “In France, a businessman wants to sell the painting ‘Mona Lisa’. We could sell Lenin’s mummy. There are buyers: China, Vietnam, or some other kind of communist. Lenin, in good condition, mummified just 96 years ago,” he tweeted. The Soviet leader’s body has been on public display since shortly after his death in 1924. | The controversial Russian politician was referring to a recent suggestio…
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‘Not worthy of a test?’: UK family unable to find closure after beloved grandma dies in care home during Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-22
The elderly are people too, but the UK authorities forgot that when they prioritized the NHS over care homes amid the coronavirus outbreak, a grieving relative told RT. Her late mom-in-law couldn’t even get a Covid-19 test. | “We put her in a nursing home to keep her safe,” Dawn Hopkins from Cheshire said of her mother-in-law and the grandmother of her children. But, tragically, things took a completely different turn, with the old lady passing away at the care facility after apparently becoming infected with Covid-19. | There’s a 99.9 percent chance that the coronavirus was to blame for her death, but there’s…
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How about ‘1 coffin’? BoJo’s office ridiculed after suggesting people social distance ‘3 fridges’ apart
rt.com | 2020-05-22
No. 10 Downing Street’s Twitter account was brutally mocked after recommending UK citizens visualize household items such as beds, benches, fridges and chairs to help them stick to the two-meter Covid-19 social distancing rule. | The strict regulation has been a key feature of coronavirus-mitigating restrictions imposed by countries around the globe, including the UK. In what was perhaps an attempt to communicate the physical distancing rule in a more relatable way, the PM’s office tweeted on Friday: “Keep 2 metres apart when you go outside. That’s 1 bed; 2 benches; 3 fridges; 4 chairs.” | Keep 2 metres apart…
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Putin warns of potential 2nd wave of Covid-19 infections in the fall, tells Russian Health Ministry to prepare
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Right now, most of the world seems to think the worst of the coronavirus epidemic has passed, with many countries beginning to come out of lockdown. But Russian President Vladimir Putin believes there may be more pain ahead. | According to Putin, the virus may once again begin to spread widely from October to November. During a meeting to discuss the epidemiological situation in Russia, he said the country needs to be ready for a second wave later in the year. | Putin added that the removal of the present restrictions in Russia must be guided by science. However, he also asked officials to prepare recommendati…
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Covid-19 pandemic is all but OVER and we already have HERD IMMUNITY, says top Oxford scientist
rt.com | 2020-05-22
The UK government was one of many that reacted to the coronavirus outbreak based on worst-case scenario predictions. But the author of an alternative model has restated her position, saying the virus is already “on its way out.” | Sunetra Gupta is a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Back in March, before the UK’s lockdown, she and her team published a study suggesting that the coronavirus may have infected 50% of the British population back in early March, before the lockdown…
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Hollywood producer charged with defrauding Covid-19 aid program, stealing from studio
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Prosecutors in New York and Los Angeles have charged William Sadleir, former chair of Aviron Pictures, with defrauding both studio investors and the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program to pay for personal expenses. | Sadleir took more than $25 million from Aviron to buy a $14 million mansion in Beverly Hills, California and other personal expenses, according to a criminal indictment in New York. Another case, brought against him in Los Angeles, accuses the producer of taking $1.7 million in PPP loans

Trump designates houses of worship as essential, orders US governors to reopen them NOW
rt.com | 2020-05-22
US President Donald Trump has declared that churches, synagogues and mosques are ‘essential’ establishments. He ordered governors to allow them to reopen immediately, and threatened to override them if they refuse. | “These are places that hold our society together and keep our people united,” Trump announced at the White House on Friday, adding that it’s “not right” that some states have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential, but mandated that houses of worship remain closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. | Any governor that has a problem with this can call the president, but will not find un…
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New hydrophobic membrane could hold key to combating global mask shortage
rt.com | 2020-05-22
While shortages of protective equipment against Covid-19 are still common worldwide, researchers have created a hydrophobic membrane that makes the surgical grade N95 mask, used globally in hospitals, reusable and more effective. | Populations have been advised that the masks mitigate the risks of Covid-19, as the virus is believed to be transmitted via respiratory droplets. But the production has not been able to keep up with demand, especially when it comes to N95 masks, believed to be the most effective. | Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and the University of California
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Portugal’s ‘doors are open to tourists’ as EU’s doors are still closed
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Portugal’s Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on Friday that the country’s doors are open to tourists as it becomes one of the first European satets to welcome back visitors from elsewhere in the continent. | “Tourists are welcome in Portugal,” Santos Silva told Observador newspaper, explaining that some health checks will be introduced at airports but there will be no compulsory quarantine for those flying in. | Portugal, which has so far recorded 30,200 confirmed Covid-19 cases and 1,289 deaths, is slowly easing restrictions in place since mid-March, Reuters said. Many shops and have already reopened…
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Covid-19 mass screening: first results show 14% of tested Russians have coronavirus antibodies
rt.com | 2020-05-22
After the first few days of private clinic antibody testing in Russia, one national chain has revealed that at least 14% of the 40,000 people who took the test in their laboratory received a positive result for SARS-CoV-2. | Invitro, the chain who conducted the tests, began mass testing for Covid-19 antibodies on May 18, using their entire network, which comprises almost 1,500 medical offices. Each test costs 950 rubles ($13), with an extra 200-300 rubles ($3-4) charged for the process of taking the sample. The company is accepting anyone who wants to be tested, apart from those displaying symptoms of an acute…
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‘WHO has worked day & night’ on global response to pandemic, director-general tells 34-member board
rt.com | 2020-05-22
The World Health Organization has worked non-stop since the novel coronavirus emerged, informing its 194 member states of its evolution and providing technical advice, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. | “WHO has worked day and night to coordinate the global response at all three levels of the organization, providing technical advice, catalyzing political solidarity, mobilizing resources, coordinating resources and much more,” he told the WHO Executive Board. | “So far almost $800 million has been pledged or received towards WHO’s appeal for Covid-19 programs, leaving a gap of jus…
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It is ‘not safe’ for England’s schools to reopen on June 1, former UK chief scientific adviser’s group warns
rt.com | 2020-05-22
A group of top scientists led by a former UK government chief scientific adviser has warned against reopening English schools on June 1, saying it is too soon for kids to return to classrooms safely amid the threat of Covid-19. | A report published by the ‘Independent Sage’ committee, chaired by Sir David King, says that “well-functioning local test, trace, and isolate protocols”

Soros says EU may not survive unless it props up ‘sick man of Europe’ Italy
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Billionaire financier George Soros has warned that the preservation of the European Union is dependent upon the economic health of Italy and other states hit hard by coronavirus, adding that the current aid policies favor Germany. | The Hungarian-American philanthropist argued that the bloc must issue perpetual bonds in order to raise money to support countries that have suffered the most from Covid-19, singling out Italy as particularly vulnerable. In a transcript of a question-and-answer session distributed to the media, Soros also railed against the reluctance of better-off member states to work together to…
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Epidemic ‘is under control’ in Czech Republic as it opens hotels, relaxes mask-wearing rules next week
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Czech health authorities believe the spread of the new coronavirus is under control despite an uptick in cases in recent days. The country is preparing to open pubs, hotels and relax mask-wearing rules on Monday. | Public events for up to 300 people will be allowed next week, and swimming pools and schools will reopen. An initial easing of restrictions from May 11 had not had an adverse effect, Health Minister Adam Vojtech said. | The country had recorded 8,757 cases of Covid-19 by Friday morning, with 306 deaths, Reuters reports. | Chief public health officer Jarmila Razova said there were currently two main…
rt.com/newsline/489473-control-czech-ope…

WATCH: Drunk man tries to kill BEAR in Warsaw zoo just one day after coronavirus lockdown lifted
rt.com | 2020-05-22
A 23-year-old man was arrested after a brief visit to hospital after he picked a fight with an elderly bear in Warsaw zoo, just one day after it reopened following the lifting of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. | In shocking and disturbing footage from the scene, the visibly intoxicated man can be seen jumping into the water in the bear’s enclosure after she lunges at him. | Sabina the bear then hunts the foolish man down at which point he begins to grapple with her and tries to force and keep her head under the water in an attempt to drown her. | Zoo officials have said the bear was “disturbed” and “str…
rt.com/news/489458-drunk-man-wrestles-be…

No, there is not a parallel universe in Antarctica where time runs backwards
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Mixed reports surrounding the possible discovery of a parallel universe in Antarctica have found their way into global news outlets in recent weeks. The initial stories were incorrect, so how did so many outlets get it wrong? | The actual source of the tale came from the April edition of New Scientist magazine. “We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time” ran the feature in question, which reported the atypical results of a particle de…
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US billionaire wealth skyrockets to over $3 TRILLION during pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Over the last two months unemployment in the United States has risen to levels not seen since the Great Depression. However, US billionaires got even richer during the same period of coronavirus pandemic. | A new report by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and the Institute for Policy Studies showed their fortunes soared by $434 billion or 15 percent during the nation’s lockdown between mid-March and mid-May. The billionaires’ combined net worth rose from $2.948 trillion to $3.382 trillion. | The top five US billion…
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Spain to partly lift lockdown restrictions in Madrid on Monday as pace of contagion slows down
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Spanish authorities will lift part of the lockdown restrictions in Madrid on Monday, the regional health department said on Friday. It says the pace of the coronavirus contagion in the region has slowed down. | The restrictions in the capital are now the same as in most of the country that started phasing out the lockdown in early May. | Bars and restaurants in Madrid will be allowed to reopen terraces and groups of up to 10 people will be allowed to meet, according to Reuters.
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Bars & restaurants set to reopen in Madrid as Spain sheds more lockdown measures
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Patrons will soon be welcomed back to Madrid’s bars and restaurants, marking a positive milestone in Spain’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The nation had one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe. | Eateries and watering holes in the Spanish capital are scheduled to resume operations on Monday, under a phased plan for reopening the city. Smaller cities and municipalities were permitted to open their bars and restaurants last week. | The new provisions come with some conditions, however. Establishments can only serve customers in outdoor terraces, with a capacity limit of 50%. Revelers will also be lim…
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Scientists in Brazil make faster, cheaper coronavirus test that doesn’t produce false negatives
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Researchers in Brazil have announced a quicker, more accurate coronavirus test than the existing method, allowing them to assess more people at once. The test has already been patented in the US and will be available from June. | Scientists at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo used Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), which identifies a particular disease by reading fragments of DNA. They adapted the NGS test to detect ribonucleic acid (RNA), the predominant molecule in viruses like SARS-CoV-2. | “The virus has RNA and our research group was interested in knowing how a molecular test could be us…
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Biden apologizes for telling black DJ he ‘ain’t black,’ but his supporters were already making excuses for him
rt.com | 2020-05-22
Joe Biden has apologized for questioning the blackness of a black radio host, saying he “shouldn’t have been such a wiseguy.” His earlier remarks caused an outcry, but the former VP’s supporters were already covering for him. | In a radio interview with ‘The Breakfast Club’ host Charlamagne Tha God on Friday morning, Biden appeared agitated. After Charlamagne pressed him on a list of racial issues, he asked Biden to return for another questioning before November, saying “we’ve got more questions.” | Biden, having evidently reached the end of his tether, snapped. “You’ve got more questions?” he jibed. “Well I…
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The Heat: COVID-19 in Mexico and Global Impact
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-05-22
Latin America is seeing a surge in cases with Mexico emerging as one of the hotspots. More than 54,000 people have been infected and over five thousand people have died.
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Top general vows Iran’s crushing response in case of enemy miscalculation
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-22
TEHRAN, May 22 (MNA)

Widespread media coverage of Leader’s speech on Quds Day
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-22
TEHRAN, May 22 (MNA)

Iran records 2,311 new cases, 51 deaths on Friday
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-22
TEHRAN, May 22 (MNA)

Government Probe Urged After Email Addresses of COVID-19 Contact Tracers Shared in Error by Serco
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-22
Outsourcing company Serco accidentally shared the email addresses of almost 300 contact tracers, who had signed up to the UK government’s coronavirus “test, track and trace” strategy, with the incident occurring when the company was contacting new recruits about the details of their training.
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Tampa students say no to attack on video game club by USF administration
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-22
Tampa, FL – Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) hosted an email-in on Wednesday, May 20, fighting back against the University of South Florida’s administration. Under the panic of the COVID-19 crisis, USF administration has defunded, suspended and effectively disbanded the Video Game Club (VGC) at USF. The student organizers demanded the reinstatement of the VGC, in addition to maintaining students’ prior demands of refunds for ‘distance learning fees’ and all activity and service fees, as the mandatory off-campus learning gives the fees no reason to be charged. | The suspension of student-run Vide…
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UNAC denounces any attempts by the US to stop shipments of Iranian fuel to Venezuela
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-22
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC). | Last week, an Iran-flagged tanker passed the Suez Canal, reportedly bound for Venezuela with a shipment of refined fuel. Despite having the largest proven oil reserves in the world, Venezuela’s refining capacity has been damaged by the U.S. embargo, greatly hindering its economy US officials have claimed that Venezuela has begun to purchase fuel from Iran directly with gold, thereby bypassing U.S. controlled imperialist trade mechanisms. | Four additional Iran-flagged tankers loaded with refined fue…
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Is the US-Saudi Alliance Headed Off a Cliff?
Charles Pierson | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
Can the US-Saudi alliance endure? Should it? World oil prices crashed in March during a price war between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and rival oil producer Russia. Disregarding the advice of his ministers, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (“MBS,” as he is known to friends and foes), the kingdom’s de facto ruler, turned the…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/is-the-us-sa…

The role of the state in Venezuela
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-05-22
Venezuelan former Vice President Elias Jaua calls for the government to rebuild the state and retake the reins of the economy.
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The Fed’s Chair and Vice Chair Got Rich at Carlyle Group, a Private Equity Fund With a String of Bankruptcies and Job Losses
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
Private equity funds have been variously called “merchants of debt,” “vultures,” or “corporate raiders.” What a private equity fund typically does is to buy up companies by piling debt on the balance sheet, selling off valuable assets like real estate, extracting giant dividends for the private equity partners to the detriment of workers and customers,…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/the-feds-cha…

Greening the Old New Deal
Joan Roelofs | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-22
New bills in Congress “Pandemic Response and Opportunity Through National Service Act” (H.R. 6702 and S. 3624) invoke the 1930s recovery programs as precedents: More than 80 years ago, the Nation rose to the challenge of the Great Depression with the creation of citizen service programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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From Syria to U.S.-Mexico Border, Refugees Worldwide Face Hunger & Deprivation as COVID-19 Spreads
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-21
We look at the coronavirus threat to millions of refugees across the globe, where social distancing is often impossible and healthcare is extremely limited. We’re joined by Dr. Miriam Orcutt, executive director of Lancet Migration.
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Refugees Worldwide Face Hunger and Deprivation as COVID-19 Spreads
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-21
We look at the coronavirus threat to millions of refugees across the globe, where social distancing is often impossible and healthcare is extremely limited. We’re joined by Dr. Miriam Orcutt, executive director of Lancet Migration. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh, as we look now to the spread of the coronavirus across the globe and how i…
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Crowded & Desperate: Rohingya in World’s Largest Refugee Camp Face Dual Crises of Cyclone & COVID-19
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-21
A major cyclone hits India and Bangladesh amid the pandemic, displacing 3 million people and unleashing heavy rain on Cox’s Bazar, home to 1 million Rohingya refugees, where the first cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed. We get an update from Steven Corliss, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Bangladesh, and speak with Tun Khin, a Rohingya activist, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK.
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Study Warns 1.1 Million Children Could Die as Pandemic Interrupts Access to Food & Medical Care
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-21
A new report finds 1.1 million children under 5 could die the next six months from secondary impacts of the pandemic, like disruptions to health services and access to food. Mothers are also imperiled. We speak with Tim Roberton, lead author of the study and assistant scientist in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and with infectious diseases pediatrician Dr. Beate Kampmann.
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Foreign Correspondent: Michael Flynn’s Forgotten Turkish Connection
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2020-05-21
Before Russiagate, the former national security advisor was an operative for Turkey, tilting foreign policy against the Kurds.
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Leading Neocon Directs Pentagon Middle East Planning
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-21
The Global War on Terror or GWOT was declared in the wake of 9/11 by President George W. Bush. It basically committed the United States to work to eliminate all “terrorist” groups worldwide, whether or not the countries being …
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Leading Neocon Directs Pentagon Middle East Planning
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-21
One aspect of the American heavy footprint that is little noted is the ruin of many formerly functioning countries that it brings with it. | The Global War on Terror or GWOT was declared in the wake of 9/11 by President George W. Bush. It basically committed the United States to work to eliminate all “terrorist” groups worldwide, whether or not the countries being targeted agreed that they were beset by terrorists and whether or not they welcomed U.S. “help.” The GWOT was promoted with brain-dead expressions like “there’s a new sheriff in town” which, after the destruction of large parts of the Middle East and Ce…
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In a Class War—Like It or Not—the System Always Makes a Killing
Norman Solomon | commondreams.org | 2020-05-21
Demonstrators unload fake body bags from a truck in protest of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, in Lafayette Park near the White House, May 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. All 50 states have reopened to varying degrees more than two months after lockdown, but the moves have not been coordinated, with the Northeast and West Coast moving slower than states in the South. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Regime Change Back In Focus: Pompeo Targets Iran, Cuba & Venezuela In Epic Tweet Thread
Zero Hedge | iranian.com | 2020-05-21
Given the very noticeable rise in threatening rhetoric focused on Iran over the past week, it seems thoughts of regime change in Tehran are once again top of the agenda. Or perhaps simultaneously the administration needs a significant distraction of sorts amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the persistent national reopening question and agenda. On Wednesday, Secretary …
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PDF of May 21 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-05-21
Download entire 12-page PDF here. ‘Reopening’ fuels resistance. Capitalism or Socialism? Also: #FreeBlackMamas; Save the USPS! Working-class democracy; Trump vs. birth control; Becoming a Marxist; MOVE says “Free Mumia’; Sandino lives! Editorial: . Breonna Taylor; Malcolm X & Ho Chi Minh. World: Palestine’s Nakba; Sanctions Kill; Ecuador. Tear down prisons: Andrea . . . | Continue reading PDF of May 21 issue at Workers.org
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Why Israel Fears the Nakba: How Memory Became Palestine’s Greatest Weapon
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-21
On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites all Palestinians, regardless of their political differences or backgrounds. | For years, social media has added a whole new stratum to this process of commemoration. #Nakba72, along with #NakbaDay and #Nakba, have all trended on Twitter for days. Facebook was inundated with countless stories, videos, images, and statements, written by Palestinians, or in global support of the Palestinian people. | The dominant Nakba narrative remains &#150…
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Israeli Prison Moves Palestinian Prisoner on Hunger Strike to Solitary Confinement
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-21
Israeli Prison Service (IPS), on Wednesday, transferred Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike, to solitary confinement, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. The Palestine Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said that the IPS transferred Palestinian prisoner, Sami Janazreh, who began a hunger strike ten days ago, in opposition to being placed under administrative …
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Trump Claims to Have Venezuela ‘Surrounded’ as Iranian Tankers Approach
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-05-21
Venezuela’s armed forces will escort the vessels upon reaching territorial waters.
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Sanders, Warner, Jones and Blumenthal Introduce Paycheck Security Act to Keep Millions of Workers on Payrolls During Pandemic
commondreams.org | 2020-05-21
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Abortion Rights are on the Line in New Mexico’s Primary
Ellie Rushforth | aclu.org | 2020-05-21
Abortion is still legal in all 50 states, but if the past year has taught us anything, there is no guarantee it will stay that way. Should Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, be overturned, several states

The Real UkraineGate Scandal: There’s No Longer Any Question that Joe Biden Carried Out a Cover-Up in Ukraine
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-21
Trump stands vindicated for accusing Biden of trying to cover up his son’s corruption in Ukraine after one of that country’s lawmakers released audio recordings of the former Vice President’s numerous conversations with former President Poroshenko to that effect, proving …
globalresearch.ca/no-question-biden-carr…

Wuhan’s latest anti-pandemic measure is a bold move in an essential direction
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-05-21
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic started in Wuhan, China. Although China is still investigating the exact origin of the disease, it’s believed it was connected to a live animal market in the city. Now, Wuhan has made a bold and promising move: it has banned people from eating wild animals for five years. The authorities have also introduced new restrictions on hunting and breeding wild animals. And it seems other provinces a…
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Warren Tops MoveOn Survey for Preferred Biden VP Pick
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-21
The new poll shows 73% of the group’s members would be more likely to vote for the former vice president if Sen. Elizabeth Warren is his running mate. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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