Daily Archives: May 23, 2020

2020-05-23: Social Media Postees

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Climate-Driven Monster Cyclone, Coronavirus hits Thousands in India,Bangladesh
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-05-23
Oceans have been heated by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane, which trap the heat of the sun’s rays and prevent them from radiating back out into outer space…
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[Comment] Offline: Health in the unhappy time of COVID-19
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
It was a tragedy for anyone hoping to see COVID-19 become a catalyst for international solidarity. On the first day of the first-ever virtual World Health Assembly, held during the worst acute global health crisis since WHO’s creation in 1948, Alex Azar, US Secretary of Health and Human Services, further damaged the credibility of the US Government as a constructive member of the international community. “We must be frank”, he began. What followed was an astonishing series of unsubstantiated allegations.
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According to Dr. Anthony Fauci the Reopening of the US Economy Would Endanger People’s Heath
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-23
Anthony Fauci, director of the IHSS is playing a “blame game”. | He wants the lock down to continue, no reopening of the US economy because that would endanger people’s health. | Dr. Fauci intimates that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are dangerous. | …
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Bernie Sanders threatens delegates with removal if they criticize Biden
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
Since ending his second bid for the presidency, Sanders has worked to browbeat his supporters into backing Joe Biden.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/sand…

Memorial Day rethought
Tom H. Hastings | zcomm.org | 2020-05-23
Memorial Day will always be a peace holiday. It should commemorate the hundreds of millions who did not die from thermonuclear warfare this year. May we be so lucky until next Memorial Day…
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Policing the pandemic: how UN Police are maintaining law, order, and public health
news.un.org | 2020-05-23
In several countries afflicted by years of armed conflict, The UN assists with law and order issues, including policing expertise. This work is being challenged, as never before, by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview with UN News, Luis Carrilho, head of the UN Police Division, describes how the virus is affecting the ability of his colleagues to keep the peace.
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[Obituary] Robert McCredie May
Geoff Watts | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
Physicist turned ecologist and UK Chief Scientific Adviser. He was born in Sydney, NSW, Australia, on Jan 8, 1936, and died of pneumonia in Oxford, UK, on April 28, 2020, aged 84 years.
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[Perspectives] Helena Legido-Quigley: proponent of health systems strengthening
Richard Lane | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
As Associate Professor in Health Systems at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore, Helena Legido-Quigley was able to observe at first-hand how the country responded to its first COVID-19 outbreak earlier this year. “It was striking how well Singapore was prepared, a legacy from the SARS era, with a dedicated infectious diseases hospital and 6 months of supplies of personal protective equipment and ventilators. The public health response was fast and efficient with good governance and effective health-risk communication”, she says.
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[World Report] Mexican President López Obrador draws doctors’ ire
David Agren | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
President López Obrador later apologised after his comments were denounced by Mexican medical associations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. David Agren reports from Mexico City.
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[Perspectives] Stereotype threat
Angela Saini | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
Among the disturbing statistics to have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the disproportionate impact in terms of death and severe illness on ethnic minorities in the UK and the USA. On April 7, 2020, it was reported that in the US city of Chicago, where the black population is roughly 30%, nearly 70% of COVID-19 deaths were in this demographic. A report released by the UK Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre on April 17, 2020, showed that 34% of patients in the UK receiving advanced respiratory support were non-white, despite the non-white population nationally being about 14%.
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[Articles] Regulatory cell therapy in kidney transplantation (The ONE Study): a harmonised design and analysis of seven non-randomised, single-arm, phase 1/2A trials
Birgit Sawitzki, Paul N Harden, Petra Reinke, Aurélie Moreau, James A Hutchinson, David S Game, Qizhi Tang, Eva C Guinan, Manuela Battaglia, William J Burlingham, Ian S D Roberts, Mathias Streitz, Régis Josien, Carsten A Bà∂ger, Cristiano Scottà , James F Markmann, Joanna L Hester, Karsten Juerchott, Cecile Braudeau, Ben James, Laura Contreras-Ruiz, Jeroen B van der Net, Tobias Bergler, Rossana Caldara, William Petchey, Matthias Edinger, Nathalie Dupas, Michael Kapinsky, Ingrid Mutzbauer, Natalie M Otto, Robert àñllinger, Maria P Hernandez-Fuentes, Fadi Issa, Norbert Ahrens, Christoph Meyenberg, Sandra Karitzky, Ulrich Kunzendorf, Stuart J Knechtle, Josep Grinyó, Peter J Morris, Leslie Brent, Andrew Bushell, Laurence A Turka, Jeffrey A Bluestone, Robert I Lechler, Hans J Schlitt, Maria C Cuturi, Stephan Schlickeiser, Peter J Friend, Tewfik Miloud, Alexander Scheffold, Antonio Secchi, Kerry Crisalli, Sang-Mo Kang, Rachel Hilton, Bernhard Banas, Gilles Blancho, Hans-Dieter Volk, Giovanna Lombardi, Kathryn J Wood, Edward K Geissler | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
Regulatory cell therapy is achievable and safe in living-donor kidney transplant recipients, and is associated with fewer infectious complications, but similar rejection rates in the first year. Therefore, immune cell therapy is a potentially useful therapeutic approach in recipients of kidney transplant to minimise the burden of general immunosuppression.
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[Clinical Picture] Alternative causes of ankle pain in a patient with enthesopathy and X-linked hypophosphataemia
Timothy Riddles, Nivene Saad, Helen Benham | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
A 43-year-old Australian-born, white man was referred to our unit because of increasing pain in both his ankles. The pain had developed approximately 7 days earlier. 3 days before the pain started, he had been admitted to hospital with cellulitis of his upper arm; he had been treated for septicaemia and acute kidney injury caused by an infection with Streptococcus pyogenes.
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[World Report] England and Wales see 20‚Äà000 excess deaths in care homes
Talha Burki | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
PPE shortages, lack of testing, and a vulnerable population have seen care homes in England and Wales become hotspots of the COVID-19 epidemic. Talha Burki reports.
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[Editorial] The plight of essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
The COVID-19 pandemic has vividly highlighted how much society depends upon essential workers. Praise for the heroic work being done by health-care workers to save lives worldwide in dangerous, exhausting conditions is everywhere. But those same workers are often left unprotected by governments and systems that have failed to supply them with enough personal protective equipment (PPE), supplies, and resources to do their jobs. In April alone, there were an estimated 27 COVID-19-related health worker deaths in the USA, 106 in the UK, and 180 in Russia, with tens of thousands of infections.
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[Comment] Kidney transplantation: a safe step forward for regulatory immune cell therapy
Angus W Thomson, Amit D Tevar | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
On the basis of promising animal studies and following the translational path of immune cell therapy in oncology,1 the field of organ transplantation has begun preliminary investigations of infusing regulatory immune cells into graft recipients. These early trials aim to reduce patients’ immunosuppressive drug burden and promote drug-free transplant tolerance. The ONE Study was established in 2011 as a multicentre collaborative effort (centres in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the USA) to compare the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of regulatory cell-based medicinal products (CBMPs) when combined with redu…
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March on the DNC meets with city of Milwaukee
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-23
Milwaukee, WI–The Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention met with officials from the city of Milwaukee on May 21 to discuss the coalition’s permit and plan to protest. The goals of the coalition are to defeat President Trump and to advance a progressive people’s agenda, thus building stronger movements to challenge the Democratic Party. Lawyers for the Wisconsin ACLU arranged the meeting and led the discussions. | The meeting with the city of Milwaukee confirmed that the COVID-19 health crisis is causing most in the Democratic Party to consider alternatives to an indoor convention with th…
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Cyclone Amphan’s death toll crosses 100, citizens protest over lack of facilities
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-23
The total damage is estimated to be in the range of USD 15 billion. Protests broke out in cities in the Indian State of West Bengal as normalcy has not been restored three days after the cyclone…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/23/cyclone-a…

Representatives from Germany’s parliamentary parties support far-right protests against coronavirus policies
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
The far-right demonstrations in Germany are being used to drum up support for the dangerous policy of easing coronavirus pandemic restrictions and intimidate all opposition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/germ…

Correction Officers And Inmate Advocates Prepare For Action At Jessup Prison
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-23
Corrections officers and prison abolitionists will join together Saturday to protest the lack of PPE and testing, and the need for parole, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Iranian Tankers To Reach Venezuela In Next 24 Hours Amid “Threat Of Imminent Military Force By US”
Zero Hedge | iranian.com | 2020-05-23
By as early as the evening on Saturday or Sunday morning it’s expected that the first among the five Iranian tankers transporting fuel to gasoline-starved Venezuela will enter the Latin American country’s coastal waters. Maduro officials have issued an emergency notice to the United Nations of an illegal “threat of imminent use of military force by the United States.” And with Washington …
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What Does Conservatism Mean After The Iraq War?
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-23
An Iraqi-American takes stock of how the Right supported regime change and warns of falling into the trap again. | Luma SIMMS | As a Christian and an American citizen of Iraqi heritage, I want to address a point raised in John Burtka’s recent article defending First Things. Namely, the impact of the War in Iraq on Christians in the country and conservatism in America. | “We do not know what we need to know until we ask the right questions, and we can identify the right questions only by subjecting our own ideas about the world to the test of public contro…
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Trump Has Won the Propaganda War With China
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-23
Donald Trump has finally won a war. It’s a war he’s uniquely suited to fight, a propaganda war, and he’s successfully waged it on China through his command of Western media. | Stating this doesn’t imply any kind of judgment on my part as to whether he should or should not have waged this war with China. He has and he has emerged victorious, thanks to his reframing the threat from COVID-19 as an evil Chinese plot to kill millions of people. | Now, I’m convinced that the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 were a plot by evil people to kill millions of people and usher in a bleak, authoritarian nightmare they’ve had…
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Memorial Day Peace Caravan
Toby Blomé | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
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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Bernie Sanders’ Political Team: Don’t Criticize Biden!
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
The coming together of Sanders and Biden underscores the fraud that the Democratic Party can be transformed into an instrument of progressive change.
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Memorial Day Car Caravan for Peace
Charlotte Casey | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
Stevens Creek & Winchester Blvds, San Jose…
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#Protect Our VOTE: Car & Tailgate Protest in Contra Costa County
Declaration for American Democracy | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
Pleasant Hill: RSVPs will be sent exact location to participate…
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Life Model Art Rally to Protest Fort Mason Arts Campus Closure
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
Awareness Raising Drawing Session protests cuts to much loved CCSF Arts resource.
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Secretive Right-Wing Nonprofit Plays Role in COVID-19 Organizing
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-23
A shadowy right-wing nonprofit is helping coordinate coronavirus response strategy and promoting the lockdown protests. | Working alongside close allies that have helped coordinate the protests, including Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation and FreedomWorks, Council for National Policy Action (CNP Action) has been hosting conference calls and publishing action memos around reopening states’ economies. | CNP Action is the 501(c)(4) nonprofit affiliate of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a coali…
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FIRST coronavirus death confirmed in Gaza, as Palestian territories lift lockdown
rt.com | 2020-05-23
The death of a 77-year-old woman in the Gaza Strip marks the enclave’s first coronavirus fatality, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. The illness has so far claimed three lives across the Palestinian territories. |
| The death of a 77-year-old woman in the Gaza Strip marks the enclave’s first coronavirus fatality, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. The illness has so far claimed three lives across the Palestinian territories. | The victim, who had been suffering fr…
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FIRST coronavirus death confirmed in Gaza, as Palestinian territories lift lockdown
rt.com | 2020-05-23
The death of a 77-year-old woman in the Gaza Strip marks the enclave’s first coronavirus fatality, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. The illness has so far claimed three lives across the Palestinian territories. |
| The death of a 77-year-old woman in the Gaza Strip marks the enclave’s first coronavirus fatality, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. The illness has so far claimed three lives across the Palestinian territories. | The victim, who had been suffering fr…
rt.com/news/489585-gaza-coronavirus-deat…

Sobre a “origem” e as “responsabilidades” da pandemia (II)
Yuri Martins Fontes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-23
Primeiro artigo : | | COVID-19

The Modern-Day Cult of Corona: The Imposition of a “Multilayer Control Grid”. The “Lock Step” Future of Humanity?
Helen Buyniski | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-23
Read Part I here. | Omnipotence and Omniscience in the 21st century | The contact-tracing platforms

Three states’ unemployment rates at Great Depression levels
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-23
San José, CA – On Friday, May 22, the monthly report on state-level labor markets saw the – unemployment rate for three states – Nevada, Michigan and Hawai’i – all soar to more than 20%, levels unseen since the worst of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Actual job losses, reported by business, came to almost 20% between March and April in Vermont and New York, along with Hawai’i. | Since the survey for state-level unemployment rates was taken in mid-April, as many as 15 million more unemployment insurance claims have been filed with the states and with the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program set up by the C…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/23/three-st…

Cuomo is Letting Billionaires Plan New York’s Future
Zephyr Teachout | zcomm.org | 2020-05-23
The New York governor is replacing elected representatives with private, unaccountable monopolists, and lawmakers across the US are doing the same thing…
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US Senate Quietly Approves $38 Billion for Israel Amid Historic Economic Downturn
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-23
S.3176 was passed without being named, debated, or even discussed, even though it would set into law the largest such aid package in US history.
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UK Local councils face financial collapse due to pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
Social care spending could face a shortfall of £3.5 billion, placing up to 225,000 adult social care places at risk in the coming year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/loca…

Wealth of US billionaires soars as pandemic expands, nearly 40 million unemployed
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
The class logic at play in the homicidal push to reopen the US economy before the spread of the coronavirus has been controlled is becoming increasingly clear.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/pers…

Safe Jobs Save Lives
Dante Strobino | workers.org | 2020-05-23
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. As the coronavirus continues to have a massive impact on people’s health and as some businesses have closed, there is a simultaneous crisis of the capitalist . . . | Continue reading Safe Jobs Save Lives at Workers.org
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Workers World: A communist newspaper, a collective organizer
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2020-05-23
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. When I first started writing for Workers World/Mundo Obrero newspaper, longtime comrade Leslie Feinberg said to me that older comrades always told hir, “Remember, no . . . | Continue reading Workers World: A communist newspaper, a collective organizer at Workers.org
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Role of a revolutionary party in an union
Steve Gillis | workers.org | 2020-05-23
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. United Steelworkers Local 8751 has three advantages during this pandemic when going to work on the frontlines is a daily exercise in confronting the life-or-death realities . . . | Continue reading Role of a revolutionary party in an union at Workers.org
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A historic crossroads: Socialism or Fascism?
Scott Williams | workers.org | 2020-05-23
The following is a slightly edited talk given during the Workers World Party webinar “What Road to Socialism?” on May 16. We are at a great crossroads in the history of humanity. With the pandemic and the social and economic crises caused by it, this is the most significant moment . . . | Continue reading A historic crossroads: Socialism or Fascism? at Workers.org
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Mercenaries, pandemic and riots in Venezuela: A grassroots perspective
Federico Fuentes | mronline.org | 2020-05-23
Venezuela is confronting COVID-19 amid foreign sanctions and mercenary incursions. Complicating matters further is the explosive combination of deep recession and a nationwide lockdown, which has triggered incidents of looting and riots.
mronline.org/2020/05/23/mercenaries-pand…

Hospitals overwhelmed in California and Alabama as national death toll approaches 100,000
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
The spike in cases in such divergent areas of the country is another indication that, contrary to official policy, the spread of the coronavirus pandemic is not slowing but increasing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/trum…

Patterns of Compromise: The EasyJet Data Breach
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-23
It has been a withering time for the airlines, whose unused planes moulder in a gruelling waiting game of survival. The receivers are smacking their lips; administration has become a reality for many. Governments across the globe dispute what measures to ease in response to the coronavirus pandemic; travel has been largely suspended; and the …
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What are the three concurrent crises of the coronavirus depression?
Nathan Tankus | mronline.org | 2020-05-23
The Keynes crisis, the Minsky crisis and the Means crisis…
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Jacinda Ardern Calls for Four-Day Week: No Wonder She’s Popular
Van Badham | zcomm.org | 2020-05-23
Among a claque of western leaders yearning for “snap back” to the way things were before the virus

The Importance of Compensating Veterans for Trauma
Beau Peters | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-23
Image Source: Unsplash Since the United States was established, veterans have put their lives on the line to fight for freedom and so much more. From the deadly battles of the Civil War to uniting with allies in World War I and II, to fighting against terrorism in more recent years, our military has never …
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South America a “new epicenter” of COVID-19 pandemic, WHO warns
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
The number of new deaths on the continent is surpassing Europe, and Brazil is rapidly overtaking Russia as the country with the second most infections after the US.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/lati…

Washington Farmworkers Become COVID-19 Guinea Pigs
David Bacon | zcomm.org | 2020-05-23
“Workers are trying to call attention to the danger to the whole community”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/washington-farmwor…

New Zealand unions enforce school returns, mass layoffs and wage cuts
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
Unions are helping to implement deep inroads into jobs, wages and conditions and to ensure the reopening of businesses and schools regardless of safety risks from COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/nzun…

Auto companies continue opposition to mass testing as COVID-19 spreads in factories
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
As more confirmed cases of COVID-19 are discovered at auto plants, the drive to restart production is being exposed as a reckless course of action that will inevitably lead to the needless deaths of workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/usau…

Detroit, Michigan teacher speaks on public education during the pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
Michigan is threatening mass layoffs of teachers and existential cuts to public schools while planning to reopen schools in the fall despite lack of COVID-19 safety measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/mich…

Australian governments fully reopen schools despite intense opposition
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
The danger of sending up to a million children back full-time in New South Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic is compounded by the public transport crisis.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/teac…

36 UPS employees test positive for COVID-19 in Tucson hub
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-23
Tampa, FL – At least 36 employees at a UPS hub in Tucson, Arizona have tested positive for COVID-19. The news comes as many states, including Arizona, are beginning to reopen more commercial business. Three of the 36 employees are currently being treated in intensive care. Because of the lack of proper testing at the facility, the number of total cases could be much higher. | Teamsters Local 104, which represents workers in the Tucson building, released a statement May 22 calling on UPS to close the building until proper safety practices can be implemented. The local also stated that UPS could have prevented the…
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Global Crisis Spurs Global Activism
Norman Stockwell | progressive.org | 2020-05-23
The COVID-19 Global Solidarity Coalition launches a manifesto for change.
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The US opioid crisis in the era of COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
According to a report from the American Medical Association, over 20 states have reported an increase in opioid-related mortality since the official declaration of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/opio…

Three UK meat processing workers die of COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
The three died in different sections of Cranswick Convenience Foods factory in Wombwell, Barnsley.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/wmcv…

Wayback Machine Latest Victim of Big Tech Consolidation and Censorship
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-23
The promise of an internet modeled around democratized access to information is quickly eroding before our very eyes as the Wayback Machine falls prey to censorship creep and major tech sector consolidations take us to the point of no return…
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VIDEO: Settlers Hold Parade While Soldiers Assault Palestinians in Jersualem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-05-23
Israeli security forces, on Friday, blocked several streets in occupied Jerusalem as illegal Israeli settlers provocative March outside Jaffa Gate, celebrated the so-called “reunification of Jerusalem as capital of Israel”, Quds News reported. Also on Friday, occupation forces assaulted Palestinians, near Bab Al-Asbat or Lion’s Gate, in the old city …
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Oppose the Trump administration’s deportation of 1,000 immigrant children!
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
International laws and statutes that once offered special protections for immigrant youth seeking asylum have been made a dead letter by the Trump administration.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/immi…

Right off the right wing radar screen!!
Philip Farruggio | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-23
What we have here in this, the middle of an ‘Era changing’ pandemic, is the use of power by this administration and its Republican Party cohorts going right off the radar screen!
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Combating Covid Through Peoples’ Collectives‚Ä®
Yadul Krishna | zcomm.org | 2020-05-23
The Indian state of Kerala has gained successful control over the pandemic with its people-centric policies and the role of participatory governance…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/combating-covid-th…

US Agriculture Department outlines program to aid farmers hit by pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
The design of the program will inevitably lead to a disproportionate share of funding flowing to large firms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/food…

Still looking for a bogeyman? Moscow slams US State Dept after it posts $250,000 grant to ‘expose Russian health disinformation’
rt.com | 2020-05-23
Instead of casting grudges aside to fight the coronavirus, anti-Russia elements in the US are striving to make the Kremlin a scapegoat, Moscow has said, decrying the new US grant to “expose Russian health disinformation.” |
| Instead of casting grudges aside to fight the coronavirus, anti-Russia elements in the US are striving to make the Kremlin a scapegoat, Moscow has said, decrying the new US grant to “expose Russian health disinformation.” | The Russian Foreign Ministry…
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Trump, Stracciatore Seriale di Trattati
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-23
Il presidente Trump ha annunciato il ritiro degli Stati uniti dal Trattato Open Skies (Cieli Aperti). Firmato nel 1992 subito dopo la fine della Guerra fredda ed entrato in vigore nel 2002, esso permette a ciascuno dei 34 Stati-parte di …
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Trump, o ‘Serial Killer’ dos Tratados
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-23
O Presidente Trump anunciou a retirada dos Estados Unidos do Tratado Céus Abertos/Open Skies. Assinado em 1992, imediatamente após o final da Guerra Fria e iniciado em 2002, permite que cada um dos 34 Estados Partes sobrevoe os territórios …
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Cummings has turned Johnson’s ‘very simple instruction’ into a complicated nightmare
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-23
The government has insisted Dominic Cummings was well within the rules when he travelled 260 miles from London to his family home in Durham during the lockdown. Cummings said he wanted help from his family caring for his young son if he and his wife became too ill to do so alone. Michael Gove tweeted: Caring for your wife and child is not a crime.But when Boris Johnson introduced the UK lockdown he gave “a very simple instruction

COVID-19: Tips for going out again
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-23
If coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) stay-at-home restrictions are easing in your community, you might wonder how to visit public places and protect your health. Here’s what you need to know. Before you head out Follow guidance where you live. In the U.S., activity restrictions vary among cities and states. Before you head out, check your …
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Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Convalescent plasma program
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-23
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Government is supporting a national Expanded Access Program to collect and provide convalescent plasma to patients in need across the country (uscovidplasma.org). Convalescent plasma refers to blood plasma collected from people who have recovered from COVID-19. That plasma, which contains antibodies against the virus, is then used …
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Mayo Clinic Q and A: Skin protection with excessive hand-washing, masking
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-23
Dear Mayo Clinic: Frequent hand-washing and cleaning during the COVID-19 pandemic has made my hands so dry that my skin in cracking. With recommendations for everyone to now wear a face mask while in public, I’m concerned about the mask rubbing across my face and irritating the skin. What is the best way for me …
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BBC blasted after political editor jumps to defend PM adviser Cummings following cross-country lockdown breach
rt.com | 2020-05-23
The revelation that Boris Johnson’s top adviser traveled over 250 miles to his parents as he had Covid-19 symptoms has unleashed outrage in the UK. The BBC is also under fire after its political editor jumped to defend the move. |
| The revelation that Boris Johnson’s top adviser traveled over 250 miles to his parents as he had Covid-19 symptoms has unleashed outrage in the UK. The BBC is also under fire after its political editor jumped to defend the move. | News of Domin…
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UK charges 5 with murder of Muslim woman in shooting
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-23
Three more men were charged on Friday night with the murder of Aya Hachem, a Muslim woman shot dead in broad daylight in Blackburn, England on Sunday.Lancashire Police said Uthman Satia, 28, Judy Chapman, 26, and Kashif Manzoor, 24, were charged for 19-year-old Hachem’s murder.The police announced earlier on Friday that two men had been charged: Feroz Suleman, 39, and Abubakir Satia, 31.The total number of people charged is now five.They will be charged for Hachem’s murder as well as the attempted murder of a man who was not the intended target in the incident. Police said two shots were fired, one hit a building…
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UK govt under fire as top adviser flouts lockdown rules
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-23
British government has come under fire from all opposition parties as they demand a top adviser to resign after reports that he flouted official directives weeks ago during the coronavirus lockdown and traveled hundreds of miles after developing symptoms. | Local media reported that Dominic Cummings, the chief aide to Premier Boris Johnson, visited his parents in Durham, north England around six weeks ago when he had the symptoms and had to self-isolate for two weeks in line with the official government advice. | Cummings travelled with his wife to Durham while she was also unwell, according to reports by the Gua…
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Eid preparation horde may worsen pandemic in Bangladesh
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-23
People in Bangladesh, especially women, have been massively gathering for the Eid al-Fitr shopping, violating social distancing rules, which a medical doctor dubbed destructive amid the country’s rising records of coronavirus.Until Friday, the South Asian state of 165 million people registered 432 deaths from the fatal virus while the tally of infections surpassed 30,000 mark.The virus has already reached to the country’s all of 64 districts and the fatality rate is on rise for the last couple of days.The government imposed countrywide lockdown on March 26 to stem the spread of the COVID-19 virus that has also pa…
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Spain to reopen to international tourism from July, PM Sanchez says
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-23
Spain will reopen to international tourism from July, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday.The country is emerging from one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns, implemented on March 14.
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Bangladesh: Virus cases top 32,000 after highest spike
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-23
The number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh crossed 32,000 on Saturday after the country’s highest single-day spike to date.Over the past 24 hours, 1,873 more people tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases to 32,078, a top health official told a news briefing.The death toll rose to 452 with 20 more fatalities, while 296 recoveries pushed the total to 6,486, according to Dr. Nasima Sultana of the Health Services Directorate General.She said 10,834 samples were tested at 47 authorized laboratories since Friday, raising the total to around 235,000.Infections among Bangladeshi police person…
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Coronavirus cases, deaths on rise in Eurasian countries
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-23
– UkraineIn Ukraine, the total number of cases has reached 20,580, while the death toll hit 605 with new 17 fatalities.The country conducted 10,248 tests in the last 24 hours and a total of 6,929 people have recovered from the virus.- KazakhstanIn Kazakhstan, the number of cases rose by 322, bringing the total to 7,919.So far, 35 people have died and 3,788 people are still under treatment while 4,096 have recovered.- ArmeniaIn Armenia, another 374 people were confirmed to have contracted COVID-19, bringing the total to 6,302.The number of recoveries reached 2,936 and the death toll hit 77.Also, 49,080 tests were…
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NBA legend Ewing contracts coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-23
NBA’s legendary player Patrick Ewing has tested positive for the new coronavirus.”I want to share that I have tested positive for COVID-19. This virus is serious and should not be taken lightly. I want to encourage everyone to stay safe and take care of yourselves and your loved ones,” Ewing, 57, said on Twitter early Saturday.Ewing was a New York Knicks star, playing for the franchise for 15 seasons (1985-2000).He has been coaching Georgetown University men’s basketball team Georgetown Hoyas since 2017.Before the 1985 NBA draft, Ewing had played for Georgetown while in college.The Knicks’ ex-center appeared in t…
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Turkey boasts 3rd-largest number of Blue Flag beaches
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-23
This year 23 more Turkish beaches got the Blue Flag, an international label from the International Foundation for Environmental Education recognizing high standards of cleanliness, pristine waters, and other parameters, said Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry on Friday.Turkey has a total of 486 beaches, 22 marinas and seven yacht docks bearing the coveted flag, behind only Spain and Greece, according to the Danish-based group.The number of Blue Flags in Turkey’s Mediterranean tourist hotspot of Antalya rose to 206, while Mugla has 105, Aydin 35, Izmir 52, Balikesir 31, Samsun 13, and Istanbul two.Other beaches…
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Foreign mercenary found dead south of Tripoli in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-23
A dead body of a foreign mercenary was found south of Tripoli, Libya’s capital, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.In a statement, the ministry said the Libyan army found the dead body in an area in the Salahaddin region, which was cleared of militias loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar.The concerned security units and judicial authorities are carrying out a joint investigation to clarify the facts related to the foreign mercenary, it said.After completing the investigation, the Libyan Foreign Ministry will submit the report on the matter to the United Nations Security Council as an additional evidence f…
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Sri Lankan government understates COVID-19 figures to recklessly reopen economy
wsws.org | 2020-05-23
The low number of infections in Sri Lanka is because few COVID-19 tests are being conducted–an average of less than 600 per day between February 18 and May 20.
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Dominic Cummings Defied Coronavirus Lockdown Rules Twice to Visit Parents, Report Claims
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-23
On 5 April, Boris Johnson’s top aide was spotted in Durham, in breach of nationwide lockdown regulations – the stay-at-home orders implemented to slow the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the United Kingdom – according to a joint investigation by The Guardian and the Daily Mirror released on Friday.
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Iran Warns US Not to Interfere with Venezuelan Oil Flotilla
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-05-23
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As Nation Mourns 100,000 Dead, Trump Goes Golfing
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-05-23
“100,000 Americans dead. 40,000,000 unemployed. So let’s go golfing.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Make a Resilient, Localized Food System Part of the Next Stimulus
Anthony Pahnke, Jim Goodman | commondreams.org | 2020-05-23
MEAT SOLUTIONS: The Cargill meatpacking plant remains in operation after scaling production after as many as 18 employees have contracted the coronavirus (COVID-19) virus on April 17, 2020 in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Meatpacking plants are altering their production as outbreaks of the virus have been reported at the factories in Colorado, South Dakota, and Iowa. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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COVID-19 Reveals Viral Discrimination, Higher Ed Should Pay Attention
Judy Rohrer | commondreams.org | 2020-05-23
A sign asking Navajo residents to stay safe and warning of a curfew near the Navajo Nation town of Casamero Lake in New Mexico on May 20, 2020. – The Navajo Nation now has the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rate in the country after surpassing New York. (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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The Pandemic and the Trumps
Christopher Brauchli | commondreams.org | 2020-05-23
Eric Trump arrives as US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in a wreath-laying and deliver remarks at the New York City Veterans Day Parade on November 11, 2019. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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‘Most unwise’: Police chief slams PM adviser Cummings’ 250-mile lockdown-breaking trip
rt.com | 2020-05-23
Boris Johnson’s top adviser Dominic Cummings has been scolded by a police chief after traveling over 250 miles (400 km) to his parents’ home despite the UK’s coronavirus lockdown being in place. |
| Boris Johnson’s top adviser Dominic Cummings has been scolded by a police chief after traveling over 250 miles (400 km) to his parents’ home despite the UK’s coronavirus lockdown being in place. | Downing Street confirmed on Saturday that Cummings had undertaken the seemingly…
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Neither foul nor fireable offense? Opposition demands Cummings gets the boot for his lockdown-evading ‘breach’
rt.com | 2020-05-23
Number 10 has locked horns with the opposition after it was revealed that Boris Johnson’s adviser, Dominic Cummings, took a cross-country journey in violation of the lockdown, leading to calls for his resignation. |
| Number 10 has locked horns with the opposition after it was revealed that Boris Johnson’s adviser, Dominic Cummings, took a cross-country journey in violation of the lockdown, leading to calls for his resignation. | A Downing Street spokesman argued on Saturday th…
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Senior Tory Says Boris Johnson ‘Lost His Edge’ After Battle With COVID-19 – Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-23
The comments come as Boris Johnson finds himself flanked by a series of challenges to his premiership, including widespread criticism of his response to the coronavirus and an increasingly popular opposition leader.
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Why Britain Will Now Fail to Contain the Fallout of COVID-19
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-23
TruePublica | Today we have a Prime Minister in charge of a national crisis, who is quite clearly out of his depth. To be fair, so would any PM right now. The problem is that the Coronavirus has a modus operandi that is not fully understood

Can Sex Workers Survive COVID-19 When The Government Won’t Give Aid?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-23
Sex Workers’ rights advocates have been demanding decriminalization of their work, but now under the pandemic regulations even legal forms of sex work like strip clubs have been targeted by the federal government and alienated from government aid.
therealnews.com/stories/can-sex-workers-…

To Understand Iran’s 150-Year Fight, Follow the Trail of Blood and Oil
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-23
This past Sunday, April 17th, a dispute between Iran and the U.S. occurred over the U.S.’ decision to increase its military presence in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific waters, with the purported reason being a counter-narcotics campaign. | Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres this past Sunday, that the real purpose for this move by the U.S. is to “intervene and create disruption in the transfer of Iran’s fuel to Venezuela.” In the same letter, Zarif expressed concern over “the United States’ intention to consider dangerous, unlawful and provocative measure…
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Artists United for Amazonia: Protecting the Protectors during COVID w/ Jane Goodall & more
Artists for Amazonia, Amazon Watch, others | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
Online via livestream | www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6tWbDM0jAY | or | www.amazonemergencyfund.org/
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Has coronavirus Covid-19 turned local skilled nursing facilities into death camps?
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic…
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The death camp known as Gateway Care & Rehabilitation Center in Hayward
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic…
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Police State Terrorism for Memorial Day Weekend
Swords to Plowshares Now | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
On the eve of a war holiday, Memorial Day weekend, recognized as the beginning of summer, Friday, May 22, 2020, the police state was out in full force wasting our tax dollars while we have 100,000 unemployed in San Francisco and 40 million unemployed nationwide, and perhaps 20,000 homeless in San Francisco and perhaps 1 million homeless nationwide.
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Covid-19 Pandemic: American Indian Nations & Tribal Communities (Health Care Voter)
Health Care Voter and partners | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
Online via livestream…
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Poor People’s Campaign: Virtual Mass Meeting on Poverty Amidst Pandemic
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
Online via livestream…
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Climate Change and the 2020 Election during the Pandemic
The Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
Online via livestream…
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Food Not Bombs Marks its 40th Anniversary by Responding to the Global Pandemic
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2020-05-23
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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Immigrants Jailed by ICE Are Winning Court Battles to Get Free
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-23
By the time the coronavirus pandemic reached a crisis level in the United States in March, José Velásquez had already spent almost 900 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention. A Guatemalan asylum seeker, Velásquez had celebrated his 18th and 19th birthdays behind bars, and, as the pandemic worsened, he worried about making it to his 20th. Over the course of two years in the notorious Adelanto detention center in California, the teenager had developed serious hypertension, a condition th…
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Cuomo Denounced for Order Sending Thousands of COVID Patients to Nursing Homes
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-23
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing new criticism after the Associated Press reported Friday that a state directive led to over 4,300 still recovering coronavirus patients being sent to New York’s “already vulnerable nursing homes.” | “It was a death sentence,” tweeted Daniel Choi, a doctor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/No…
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Law Firms Plan to Sue Governments for Profits Lost Due to Pandemic Measures
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-23
As in any crisis, there will be winners and losers from this global pandemic. | Those paying the price for COVID-19 are becoming more visible every day

US tech giants still doing business with blacklisted Chinese companies, research firm claims
rt.com | 2020-05-23
American behemoths such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft are providing web services to Chinese companies included in the infamous US Entity List, according to UK-based tech research firm Top10VPN. |
| American behemoths such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft are providing web services to Chinese companies included in the infamous US Entity List, according to UK-based tech research firm Top10VPN. | “Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to decouple the American and Ch…
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Newcastle ‘have made good offer to Pochettino’ to become new manager as Saudi takeover nears completion
rt.com | 2020-05-23
Talks have taken place between Newcastle representatives and Mauricio Pochettino and “a good offer” was made to make him new manager when the Saudi Arabian takeover of the club is complete, according to close friend Ossie Ardiles. |
| Talks have taken place between Newcastle representatives and Mauricio Pochettino and “a good offer” was made to make him new manager when the Saudi Arabian takeover of the club is complete, according to close friend Ossie Ardiles. | Ex-To…
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World’s ONLY floating nuclear power plant project goes fully operational in Russia (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-05-23
A one-of-a-kind floating nuclear power plant, designed and built by Russia, has become the most northerly nuclear facility in the world, as it begins commercial operations in a remote region in the Arctic. |
| A one-of-a-kind floating nuclear power plant, designed and built by Russia, has become the most northerly nuclear facility in the world, as it begins commercial operations in a remote region in the Arctic. | The Akademik Lomonosov, in a small town called Pevek in the far…
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As Americans lose their jobs, Senate gears up to give Israel A MINIMUM of $38 billion over 10 years
rt.com | 2020-05-23
With the US economy reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed to give Israel a minimum of $3.8 billion in military aid per year. A full vote on the gift is expected soon. | The US unemployment rate now stands at 14.7 percent, the worst figure since records began. Nearly 39 million Americans have lost their jobs since the coronavirus reached US shores in late January, and the Congressional Budget Office warned on Tuesday that the US economy won’t recover from its current contraction until after next year. Moreover, the federal government’s financial reli…
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As Americans lose their jobs, Senate gears up to give Israel A MINIMUM of $38 billion over 10 years
rt.com | 2020-05-23
With the US economy reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed to give Israel a minimum of $3.8 billion in military aid per year. A full vote on the gift is expected soon. |
| With the US economy reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed to give Israel a minimum of $3.8 billion in military aid per year. A full vote on the gift is expected soon. | The US unemployment rate no…
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All aboard! Spain is reopening to international TOURISM from July
rt.com | 2020-05-23
Spain took a major step towards the return of normality on Saturday, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that the country will reopen to international tourism from July. |
| Spain took a major step towards the return of normality on Saturday, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that the country will reopen to international tourism from July. | Spain was among the nations worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, racking up more than 28,000 deaths fr…
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Russian scientists hope to begin HUMAN TESTING on Covid-19 vaccine within weeks, having tried it on themselves first
rt.com | 2020-05-23
The very same researchers who tested a Covid-19 vaccine on their own bodies say they’re hopefully weeks away from starting human trials. If everything goes smoothly, the sought-after cure may enter production by summer’s end. |
| The very same researchers who tested a Covid-19 vaccine on their own bodies say they’re hopefully weeks away from starting human trials. If everything goes smoothly, the sought-after cure may enter production by summer’s end. | A scientific task force…
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French industrialist calls for 5G MORATORIUM amid Covid-19, conspiracy theories & burning of masts
rt.com | 2020-05-23
The CEO of French telecoms firm Bouygues has called on the government to postpone auctions for 5G frequencies, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and public mistrust of the technology. |
| The CEO of French telecoms firm Bouygues has called on the government to postpone auctions for 5G frequencies, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and public mistrust of the technology. | France is planning on auctioning 5G frequencies to telecoms companies at the end of the summer. How…
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Around 12% of Muscovites have Covid-19 IMMUNITY, city says, after random testing of 50,000 people
rt.com | 2020-05-23
At least 12.5 percent of Moscow residents have developed antibodies to Covid-19, the city authorities have said, after taking samples from 50,000 people. It’s just the beginning of a massive survey that will see millions tested. |
| At least 12.5 percent of Moscow residents have developed antibodies to Covid-19, the city authorities have said, after taking samples from 50,000 people. It’s just the beginning of a massive survey that will see millions tested. | Some 6,250 among…
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US needs more production instead of dollar-printing, market analyst tells Keiser Report
rt.com | 2020-05-23
When a country, namely the US, can print trillions of dollars to keep its economy afloat, but is struggling to produce basic medical gear during a pandemic, it raises serious questions about its economic basis. |
| When a country, namely the US, can print trillions of dollars to keep its economy afloat, but is struggling to produce basic medical gear during a pandemic, it raises serious questions about its economic basis. | RT’s veteran host Max Keiser sat in with Marshall Aue…
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Car rental giant & pioneer Hertz files for bankruptcy protection as Covid-19 dries up businesses
rt.com | 2020-05-23
Hertz, one of the world’s largest vehicle-rental companies, has sought bankruptcy protection after business nosedived as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic severely impacting demand. |
| Hertz, one of the world’s largest vehicle-rental companies, has sought bankruptcy protection after business nosedived as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic severely impacting demand. | Corporations worldwide have struggled to stay afloat during the health crisis. The company announced o…
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‘Someone dropped the ball’: Suspect in beating of 75yo nursing home patient was moved to facility AFTER contracting Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-23
The 20-year-old man accused of beating an elderly patient in a Detroit nursing home

NBA legend Patrick Ewing in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-23
Basketball icon Patrick Ewing, 57, has revealed he has tested positive for the coronavirus, urging fans “not to take the virus lightly” as he received treatment in hospital. |
| Basketball icon Patrick Ewing, 57, has revealed he has tested positive for the coronavirus, urging fans “not to take the virus lightly” as he received treatment in hospital. | The current head coach of Georgetown University men’s team sent out a statement on Twitter that revealed his result alongsid…
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Basketball rebounds: NBA set to resume play at Disney-owned ESPN complex in Florida in July
rt.com | 2020-05-23
The NBA is holding discussions with The Walt Disney Company about resuming its season as the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida as the league looks to rebound from its self-imposed coronavirus hiatus. |
| The NBA is holding discussions with The Walt Disney Company about resuming its season as the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida as the league looks to rebound from its self-imposed coronavirus hiatus. | NBA officials announced that the league was to be suspended in…
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US ‘will be IN TROUBLE’ if it makes ‘MISTAKE’ of interfering with Venezuela-bound tankers, Rouhani warns
rt.com | 2020-05-23
The United States will face consequences if it takes action against Iranian tankers en route to Venezuela, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has vowed. It comes after the Venezuelan military said it would escort the ships to port. |
| The United States will face consequences if it takes action against Iranian tankers en route to Venezuela, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has vowed. It comes after the Venezuelan military said it would escort the ships to port. | “If our tanke…
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‘Hitler’s favorite alligator’ dies at Moscow Zoo aged 84
rt.com | 2020-05-23
A legendary alligator that survived World War II and was said to have been Adolf Hitler’s favorite has finally breathed his last in Moscow. |
| A legendary alligator that survived World War II and was said to have been Adolf Hitler’s favorite has finally breathed his last in Moscow. | “Our Mississippi alligator Saturn has died of old age,” Moscow Zoo announced on social media on Saturday. | The venerable reptile was believed to be aged around 84, which is an impressive feat,…
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The Heat: China’s Two Sessions
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-05-23
China’s Two Sessions continue in Beijing as Premier Li delivers the 2020 government work report.
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Health min. congratulates Eid al-Fitr to counterparts in Islamic countries
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-23
TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA)

Iran to respond to any US aggression against its oil tankers: Rouhani
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-23
TEHRAN, May 23 (MNA)

FM spox felicitates anniversary of Khorramshahr liberation
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-23
TEHRAN, May 23 (MNA)

Iranian fuel tankers approach Caribbean: report
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-23
TEHRAN, May 23 (MNA)

Iranian documentary to vie at US’ Southeast Regional filmfest
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-23
TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA)

Kyrgyz President felicitates Iran on Eid al-Fitr
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-23
TEHRAN, May 23 (MNA) –In a Saturday message to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, Sooronbay Jeenbekov President of Kyrgyzstan congratulated Iran and the Iranian nation on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr (May 24).
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VIDEO: FM Zarif’s full speech on occasion of Intl. Quds Day
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-23
TEHRAN, May 23 (MNA)

‘Funfair’ to take part in 8 intl. film festivals
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-23
TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA)

‘Tremendously Bright’ Radio Bursts Not Necessarily Caused by Aliens, Research Suggests
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-23
New astronomic findings seem to have dealt a blow to persistent alien radio communication theories, or at least provided food for thought when it comes to super-distinct signals from outer space.
sputniknews.com/science/2020052310793990…

Video: Four-Alarm Fire Destroys Warehouse on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-23
The huge fire is said to have also affected an iconic World War II-era vessel, which prompted firefighters to go above and beyond in their efforts to stop the flames from further damaging the museum-ship.
sputniknews.com/us/202005231079401494-vi…

Israeli Authorities Place Palestinian under Administrative Detention
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-23
Israeli Prison Service (IPS) reportedly placed, on Saturday, a Palestinian man from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, under administrative detention, with no charges, for a period of six months. Family members of Mahmoud Said Alsa’dy, 40, told the Palestinian WAFA News Agency that the Israeli prison authority of …
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The Power of Propaganda: Americans Think Trump’s COVID-19 Performance Better than China’s
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.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. | MPN– A new poll published yesterday by the Pew Research Center foun…
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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.
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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…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/an-old-story…

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 …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-poverty-in…

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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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-…

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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‘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…

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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“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…

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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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 …
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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…

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…

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

“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.
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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…

PDF of May 21 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-05-22
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 | 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…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/why-israel-f…

Arab League Supports Palestine Against Israeli Annexation Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-22
The League of Arab States, comprising of 22 Arab countries, expressed, on Thursday, its full support for the Palestinian leadership, in the latter’s defiance of Israel’s plans, including the plan to annex parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley area of Al-Aghwar. Said Abuali, Under-Secretary General of the …
imemc.org/article/arab-league-supports-p…

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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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 …
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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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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…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/22/brazilian…

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 …
globalresearch.ca/moderna-covid-19-vacci…

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…

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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Creating a Climate for Real Change
Stan Cox | progressive.org | 2020-05-22
The Green New Deal is only a starting point toward a sustainable future.
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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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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.
mintpressnews.com/yemen-aden-covid-19-sa…

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 …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-drones-d…

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…

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…

McCOVID protest combo: McDonald’s workers PPE strike hits stores, shareholders meeting
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-22
OAK BROOK, Ill.–Lack of protection against the ravages of the coronavirus, including no masks, no paid sick leave, and no hazardous duty pay, led thousands of McDonald’s workers from coast to coast undertake a “virtual strike” of their giant fast-food employer on May 20. And pickets–spaced six feet apart to prevent spread of the virus–actually …
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‘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…

Israeli Troops Suppress Weekly Kufur Qaddoum Protest, Cause 5 Inhalation Injuries
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-05-22
Three Palestinian children were reportedly injured, on Friday, due to tear gas inhalation, after Israeli troops fired tear-gas canisters against protestors at the weekly protest of Kufur Qaddoum village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. The protest, staged on Fridays, in protest of Israel’s Apartheid Wall, settlements …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-suppres…

Chicago Passed Police Torture Reparations 5 Years Ago. Were They Implemented?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-22
This month, the movement against Chicago police violence celebrated the fifth anniversary of the passing of the historic reparations ordinance. Born out of more than three decades of legal and political struggle waged by an intergenerational and interracial movement comprised of torture survivors, their families and lawyers, activists and their organizations, and a handful of progressive journalists and politicia…
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We Can’t Afford to Be Bystanders During a Pandemic, Says Activist Linda Sarsour
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-22
Linda Sarsour has become one of the most celebrated intersectional movement leaders to disrupt the economic, political and racist paradigms in the United States. Her memoir, released in March 2020, profiles how a young Palestinian American Brooklynite would later become the co-chair of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington and executive director of the Arab American Association of…
truthout.org/articles/we-cant-afford-to-…

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.” …
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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 …
globalresearch.ca/us-militarizes-caribbe…

Measuring “Social Distancing”. Do I Know Enough to Get a Job as a Coronavirus “Contact Tracer”?
Caroline Chen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-22
Though requirements vary from state to state, many of them are hiring thousands of contact tracers in an effort to curb coronavirus spread. Here’s a brief quiz to check your knowledge. | *** | States across the country are scrambling to hire …
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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 …
globalresearch.ca/fast-tracking-covid-19…

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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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 …
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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
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ICE’s Lack of Transparency About COVID-19 in Detention Will Cost Lives
Eunice Cho | aclu.org | 2020-05-22
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detention system was marked by its lack of transparency, accountability, and oversight. In recent months, things have grown worse, as COVID-19 has spread rampantly throughout the system. At a time when even closer scrutiny of the immigration detention system is needed, the usual channels of accountability and oversight have ended: ICE has banned oversight tours by Congress and stakehold…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/ices-lac…

H.R. 40 Is Not a Symbolic Act. It’s a Path to Restorative Justice
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee | aclu.org | 2020-05-22
For nearly three decades, my former colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan would introduce H.R. 40, legislation seeking to establish a commission to study and develop reparation proposals. Though many thought it a lost cause, he believed that a day would come when our nation would need to account for the brutal mistreatment of African Americans during chattel slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and the enduring structural racism endemic to our society. With the rise and normalization of white supremacist expression during the Trump admi…
aclu.org/news/racial-justice/h-r-40-is-n…

Georgetown Students Demonstrate How Reparations Can Be Made to African-American Students
V.P. Franklin | aclu.org | 2020-05-22
This spring, something extraordinary and worthy of imitation occurred on Georgetown University’s campus in Washington, D.C., , On April 11, two-thirds of the undergraduate student body who took part in a referendum voted “yes” to create a reparations fund for the descendants of 272 slaves the university sold in 1838 to save the university from bankruptcy. When the Maryland Jesuits sold these human beings into further bondage on brutal Louisiana cotton plantations nearly t…
aclu.org/news/racial-justice/georgetown-…

America, It Is Time to Talk About Reparations
Jeffery Robinson | aclu.org | 2020-05-22
We are two months away from the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved people arriving in what would become the United States of America. It is time to renew the public discussion about reparations to descendants of Africans who were enslaved as our country was forming and growing rich. , , First as colonies and then as a nation, America has existed longer with slavery (1619-1865: 246 years) than without it (1865-2019: 154 years). And the reality of the institution of enslaving people is not the “good food and a decent place to live” narrative of Bill O’Reilly on Fox News and others who minimize the horror of…
aclu.org/news/racial-justice/america-it-…

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…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/22/venezuela…

Victims of intercommunal violence in South Sudan deserve ‘justice, truth and reparations’: Bachelet
news.un.org | 2020-05-22
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday condemned a fresh wave of intercommunal violence in the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, that has left hundreds dead across 28 villages in Jonglei State, according to local authorities.
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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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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

Watch out Trump: Here comes the team of Biden, Obama, Sanders, and Bloomberg
Michael Payne | nationofchange.org | 2020-05-22
It will be so interesting and very exciting to watch this formidable team in action. Many, many Americans will be tuning into their radios and TV channels to listen to what they say about Trump to take him down and out.
nationofchange.org/2020/05/22/watch-out-…

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…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/america-and-…

Yemen: Coronavirus transmission likely widespread, decimating ‘collapsed’ health system, UN warns
news.un.org | 2020-05-22
War-torn Yemen’s health system has ‘in effect, collapsed” under the strain of a widening COVID-19 outbreak, with epidemiologists estimating that the virus could spread faster and more widely than in many other countries, the UN warned on Friday.
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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…

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…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/alex-azar-kn…

Conservatives recruit ‘pro-Trump’ doctors to deliver only good news about reopening
Michael Biesecker, Jason Dearen | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-22
WASHINGTON (AP)–Republican political operatives are recruiting “extremely pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. The plan was discussed in a May 11 …
peoplesworld.org/article/conservatives-r…

China: one country, two sessions, three threats
Pepe Escobar | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-22
Getting back to domestic business quickly is essential for a renewed push on the grand chessboard | The key takeaways of the Two Sessions of the 13th National People’s Congress in Beijing are already in the public domain. | In a nutshell: no GDP target for 2020; a budget deficit of at least 3.6% of GDP; one trillion yuan in special treasury bonds; corporate fees/taxes cut by 2.5 trillion yuan; a defense budget rise of a modest 6.6%; and governments at all levels committed to “tighten their belts.” | The focus, as predicted, is to get China’s domestic economy, post-Covid-19, on track for solid growth in 2021. | Al…
thealtworld.com/pepe_escobar/china-one-c…

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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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

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.

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…