Daily Archives: May 24, 2020

2020-05-24: Social Media Postees

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Trump Claims to Have Venezuela ‘Surrounded’ as Iranian Tankers Approach
Lucas Koerner | zcomm.org | 2020-05-24
Venezuela’s armed forces will escort the vessels upon reaching territorial waters.
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First of 5 Iranian Tankers Enters Venezuelan Waters
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
First some facts establishment media suppress. | International trade is the sovereign right of all nations

China’s New National Security Law
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
Details of the new law are coming in the weeks ahead, likely in June. | The measure aims to counter months of US orchestrated nonviolent and violent protests that rocked Hong Kong last year

Battle Against COVID-19 in a Fragmented World has Ruined illions of Lives
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-24
It is not only about physically surviving the pandemic. People miss people, and places, sometimes desperately. And they die when separated. We are bombarded by briefings and numbers. We are scared into submission by horrifying medical stories, by shocking images, and then, simultaneously, by predictions of economic and social downfall. Day and night, day and …
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Crucial Reading For A Turbulent Time
John Rachel | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-05-24
In an era where a man like Julian Assange can be mercilessly persecuted for just doing honest journalism, it takes a great deal of courage to expose the lies and misdeeds of America’s imperial ambitions. Yet they must be exposed and condemned for exactly what they have been and continue to be. No More War: …
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Forward Momentum: Democracy isn’t a distraction
Deborah Hermanns | zcomm.org | 2020-05-24
Democracy isn’t a distraction – it’s the only way to transform Momentum and the Labour Party and effectively build power in our communities…
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The Inefficient and Incredibly Lucrative Chase for a Coronavirus Vaccine
Sam Pizzigati | zcomm.org | 2020-05-24
Our hottest biotech firm hasn’t yet manufactured an antidote to Covid-19. The company has manufactured three billionaires…
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The mendacity of Modi govt.’s ‘rescue package’
Prabhat Patnaik | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-24
The inhumanity of the Narendra Modi government towards the people is matched only by its mendacity. And in both respects, the Modi government is far ahead of most other governments in the world. Which other government would have passed off a slew of concessions to foreign and domestic monopolists as a “rescue package” for the people of the country? Which other government would have totted up loan plans for banks, and non-bank financial companies, as succor to the crisis-hit poor? Which other government would have projected abject prostration before globalized finance (and its credit-rating agencies) as a move…
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Changing Depictions of America in Cinema: Signs of ‘Self-Awareness’, ‘Resistance’ or a ‘Multipolar World’?
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
“How can I confound myself with those who today already find a hearing?

US declares vaccine war on the world
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-24
What prevents any country from making drugs and vaccines, once developed? Is it the threat of the US, or the belief that in the US-China vaccine war, they need to be on the US side?
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/24/us-declar…

Cuomo is Letting Billionaires Plan New York’s Future
Zephyr Teachout | zcomm.org | 2020-05-24
The New York governor is replacing elected representatives with private, unaccountable monopolists, and lawmakers across the US are doing the same thing…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/cuomo-is-letting-b…

A Chicago Neighborhood Fights Back
Juliana Pino | zcomm.org | 2020-05-24
Interview on environmental racism and some of the dirty work that’s been unfolding under the cover of a pandemic…
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Mutual Aid in Queens Amidst COVID-19
Sophie Jones | zcomm.org | 2020-05-24
We must create new, resilient social living systems. We need autonomy, and we need mutual aid. Most of all, we need each other…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/mutual-aid-in-quee…

Airlines at a Time of Crisis: Patterns of Compromise: The EasyJet Data Breach
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
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 …
globalresearch.ca/easyjet-data-breach/57…

EU ambassador urges Eid cease-fire in Libya
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-24
Alan Bugeja urged Libyan army and militias of warlord Khalifa Haftar “to respect the spirituality of Eid al-Fitr and allow the holidays to be celebrated in peace and compassion, which is the basis of the religion of Islam.””While this year’s Eid al-Fitr is being celebrated, Libyans, besides suffering from the coronavirus pandemic, still continue to be affected by the war that has caused death, destruction and displacement. It is time to hear the ongoing calls to end conflicts and return to dialogue,” Bugeja said in a statement on Saturday.Libya’s government, which has been under attack by Haftar’s forces since Ap…
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Africa records nearly 3,500 virus cases in a single day
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-24
Coronavirus cases in Africa jumped to nearly 107,500 on Sunday after some 3,500 people contracted the contagious virus across the continent in the last 24 hours.The latest update by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention showed that 63 patients have died over the same period, bringing the tally of continental death toll to 3,245.More than 42,600 patients have recovered from the disease so far, according to the data.South Africa remains the most affected country in terms of cases with 21,300 people having been infected while Egypt has followed it with 16,500 cases. However, Egypt has suffered 735 fa…
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Police fire tear gas during protest in Hong Kong
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-24
Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas in a popular shopping district, as hundreds took to the streets on 24 May to march against China’s proposed tough national security laws for the city.Pro-democracy supporters in Hong Kong have sharply criticised China’s proposal to enact a national security law that would ban secessionist and subversive activity. The law would also ban foreign interference and terrorism in the semi-autonomous territory.One country, two systems: Critics say it goes against the “one country, two systems” framework that promises the city freedoms not found on the mainland.On Sunday a…
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Video: Syrian Army Hunts Down ISIS Terrorists in Desert
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
This week, the Syrian Army, Liwa al-Quds and the National Defense Forces have conducted a series of anti-ISIS raids in the Homs-Deir Ezzor desert. | The intensification of the anti-ISIS efforts followed an ISIS attack near Ghabagheb, on the Damascus-Deir Ezzor …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-hunt…

Michel Chossudovsky: Biographical Summary
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
There are a number of deliberate “errors” and omissions in Michel Chossudovsky’s wikipedia entry. Defamatory statements | The same applies to the wikipedia entry for Global Research which has been merged with Chossudovsky’s entry. | Below is a biographical summary focussing …
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Bernie Sanders’ Political Team: Don’t Criticize Biden!
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
The coming together of Sanders and Biden underscores the fraud that the Democratic Party can be transformed into an instrument of progressive change.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/23/1883322…

#Protect Our VOTE: Car & Tailgate Protest in Contra Costa County
Declaration for American Democracy | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
Pleasant Hill: RSVPs will be sent exact location to participate…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/22/1883318…

Life Model Art Rally to Protest Fort Mason Arts Campus Closure
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
Awareness Raising Drawing Session protests cuts to much loved CCSF Arts resource.
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First Iranian tanker crosses into Venezuela’s economic zone as US ships spotted nearby – tracking data
rt.com | 2020-05-24
The first of five Iranian tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela has entered the nation’s exclusive economic zone, tracking data shows. Earlier, Tehran threatened the US with retaliation for interfering with the vessels’ passage. |
| The first of five Iranian tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela has entered the nation’s exclusive economic zone, tracking data shows. Earlier, Tehran threatened the US with retaliation for interfering with the vessels’ passage. | Iranian-flagged oil tanker ‘F…
rt.com/news/489600-tanker-venezuela-iran…

Washington pushing US & China to ‘brink of new Cold War,’ Beijing warns
rt.com | 2020-05-24
The US is pursuing policies that risk creating a protracted conflict with Beijing, China’s foreign minister has said. There is growing friction between the two nations over the Covid-19 pandemic and the situation in Hong Kong. |
| The US is pursuing policies that risk creating a protracted conflict with Beijing, China’s foreign minister has said. There is growing friction between the two nations over the Covid-19 pandemic and the situation in Hong Kong. | “It has come to our attention that som…
rt.com/news/489608-china-us-cold-war/

Alyssa Milano goes on defensive after showing off her KNITTED mask (that does NOTHING to stop Covid-19)
rt.com | 2020-05-24
Actress and liberal activist Alyssa Milano has pushed back against an avalanche of online mockery, after she shared a photo of herself donning a visibly unreliable knitted mask. |
| Actress and liberal activist Alyssa Milano has pushed back against an avalanche of online mockery, after she shared a photo of herself donning a visibly unreliable knitted mask. | The anti-Trump #Resistance ‘heroine’ urged her Twitter followers to don masks to stop the spread of Covid-19, and in…
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Hundreds call for ‘end to tyranny’ in anti-lockdown protest at California state Capitol (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-05-24
Some 2,000 people have descended on the California Capitol in Sacramento, demanding that the remaining coronavirus restrictions

Police in Hamburg use WATER CANNONS to disperse demonstrators against anti-lockdown protest (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-05-24
Police have deployed water cannons to break up a sparse crowd demonstrating against a sanctioned anti-lockdown rally in Hamburg, Germany, that saw dozens turn out while minding social distancing rules. |
| Police have deployed water cannons to break up a sparse crowd demonstrating against a sanctioned anti-lockdown rally in Hamburg, Germany, that saw dozens turn out while minding social distancing rules. | Police had to intervene after a small group of about 120 counter-pro…
rt.com/news/489599-germany-protests-lock…

Hundreds call for ‘end to tyranny’ in anti-lockdown protest at California state Capitol (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-05-24
Some 2,000 people have descended on the California Capitol in Sacramento, demanding that the remaining coronavirus restrictions

Fumes & scuffles as riot police fire tear gas amid renewed anti-govt unrest in Hong Kong (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-05-24
Brewing unrest in Hong Kong turned violent on Sunday, with police deploying tear gas grenades to keep back crowds of protesters who tried to go on the offensive, forcing the riot squad to retreat at times. |
| Brewing unrest in Hong Kong turned violent on Sunday, with police deploying tear gas grenades to keep back crowds of protesters who tried to go on the offensive, forcing the riot squad to retreat at times. | Turmoil resumed in the former British colony shortly after the Chinese governme…
rt.com/news/489605-hong-kong-tear-gas/

US War on Humanity Rages While Honoring Its Fallen Military Service Members
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
Memorial Day weekend should be a time to reflect on why a day was established to commemorate lost lives of US military men and women who were sent to wage preemptive wars against other nations threatening no one. | From before …
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Thailand reports no new coronavirus cases for fourth time this month
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-24
Thailand on Sunday reported no new coronavirus cases and no new deaths, maintaining the total to 3,040 confirmed cases and 56 fatalities since the outbreak began in January.Sunday was the fourth day in this month that there were no new daily cases, said Panprapa Yongtrakul, a spokeswoman for the government’s coronavirus task force.There are 2,921 patients who have recovered and returned home since the outbreak started.
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Death toll from coronavirus nears 7,500 in Iran
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-24
Iran on Sunday confirmed 58 more fatalities from coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 7,417.A further 2,180 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 135,701, said the Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour.He said 105,801 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, while 2,615 patients remain in critical condition.Jahanpour said no deaths have been reported in 13 states of the country in the last 24 hours due to COVID-19.In Iran, one of the countries in the Middle East hardest hit by the disease, COVID-19 was first detected…
yenisafak.com/en/world/death-toll-from-c…

Africa records nearly 3,500 virus cases in a single day
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-24
Coronavirus cases in Africa jumped to nearly 107,500 on Sunday after some 3,500 people contracted the contagious virus across the continent in the last 24 hours.The latest update by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention showed that 63 patients have died over the same period, bringing the tally of continental death toll to 3,245.More than 42,600 patients have recovered from the disease so far, according to the data.South Africa remains the most affected country in terms of cases with 21,300 people having been infected while Egypt has followed it with 16,500 cases. However, Egypt has suffered 735 fa…
yenisafak.com/en/world/africa-records-ne…

Tory MPs ramp up pressure on Johnson over Cummings ‘lockdown breaches’
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-24
Conservative MPs have ramped up pressure on Boris Johnson to dispense with his top aide Dominic Cummings. The pressure comes amid fresh allegations that Cummings broke lockdown rules more than once. | The prime minister has been urged to sack Cummings after reports surfaced that he made a second trip to County Durham, where his family lives, despite stringent social restrictions. | Tory MPs, including prominent 1922 Committee member Steve Baker, said Cummings “must go”. But transport secretary Grant Shapps said reports of a second trip were “not true”. The PM pledged his “full support” on Saturday 23 May to his u…
thecanary.co/uk/2020/05/24/tory-mps-ramp…

Whoever Is Elected War Is the Policy
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells us that despite the record of destroying in whole or part eight countries in recent years, the US is a “force for good.” This is the Trump regime’s version of the neoconservative doctrine espoused …
globalresearch.ca/whoever-elected-war-po…

USA Plan: Militarized Control of Population. The “National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan”
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
The Rockefeller Foundation has presented the “National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan”, indicating the “pragmatic steps to reopen our workplaces and our communities”. However, it is not simply a matter of health measures as it appears from the title. | The …
globalresearch.ca/usa-plan-militarized-c…

Challenges Facing LGBTQ Immigrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers (webinar)
Commonwealth Club & SF Pride | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
Online via livestream…
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Passing Behind Our Backs.”Everyone’s Life has a Shape, as if it Were a Drawing or Story or Song”
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-24
I never met the great basketball player, Bob Cousy, the man known as “the Houdini of the Hardwood,” yet he somehow influenced my life in ways I never knew, or to be more accurate, in ways I didn’t reflect upon …
globalresearch.ca/passing-behind-our-bac…

The death camp known as Gateway Care & Rehabilitation Center in Hayward
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic…
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Circuit Judge Tosses Out Governor Kate Brown’s Coronavirus Restrictions In Oregon
AP | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
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Police State Terrorism for Memorial Day Weekend
Swords to Plowshares Now | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
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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Artists United for Amazonia: Protecting the Protectors during COVID w/ Jane Goodall & more
Artists for Amazonia, Amazon Watch, others | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
Online via livestream | www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6tWbDM0jAY | or | www.amazonemergencyfund.org/
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Food Not Bombs Marks its 40th Anniversary by Responding to the Global Pandemic
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/22/1883318…

Covid-19 Pandemic: American Indian Nations & Tribal Communities (Health Care Voter)
Health Care Voter and partners | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
Online via livestream…
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Poor People’s Campaign: Virtual Mass Meeting on Poverty Amidst Pandemic
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
Online via livestream…
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Nurses, Covid-19, Healthcare Crisis & Defending Public Health With NNU Pres. Burger
Labor Videeo Project | indybay.org | 2020-05-24
Deborah Burger R.N. president of the National Nurses Union NNU-California Nurses Association CNA talks about the crisis in the healthcare system and the fight of the NNU-CNA to defend nurses, healthcare workers and the public.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/23/1883323…

Dithering while Britain burned: Lockdown delay led to UK Covid-19 death toll soaring to worst in Europe, says report
rt.com | 2020-05-24
As the UK government dithered and delayed over whether to introduce lockdown measures, the number of coronavirus infections skyrocketed and set the scene for Britain to suffer Europe’s worst Covid-19 death toll. |
| As the UK government dithered and delayed over whether to introduce lockdown measures, the number of coronavirus infections skyrocketed and set the scene for Britain to suffer Europe’s worst Covid-19 death toll. | Infections soared from 200,000 to 1.5 million i…
rt.com/uk/489619-uk-lockdown-delay-coron…

Breaking bad? ‘300-person’ DANCE PARTY in Siberia flouts social distancing rules (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-05-24
Scores of Russians poured into Siberia’s largest city Novosibirsk at the weekend to let off some steam during the coronavirus pandemic

Global human development to decline for first time in 30 years due to Covid-19, warns UN
rt.com | 2020-05-24
A report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says that the coronavirus pandemic is “unleashing a human development crisis,” with declines in fundamental areas of living standards expected to be felt worldwide. |
| A report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says that the coronavirus pandemic is “unleashing a human development crisis,” with declines in fundamental areas of living standards expected to be felt worldwide. | A combined measure of the w…
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Hotly-touted Oxford coronavirus VACCINE trial has only 50 percent chance of success, project leader warns
rt.com | 2020-05-24
The professor leading Oxford University’s highly-anticipated coronavirus vaccine trial has poured cold water on much of the hype surrounding the project by warning that it has only a 50 percent chance of being successful. |
| The professor leading Oxford University’s highly-anticipated coronavirus vaccine trial has poured cold water on much of the hype surrounding the project by warning that it has only a 50 percent chance of being successful. | In an interview…
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NYT includes MURDER VICTIM in controversial front page list of Covid-19 deaths
rt.com | 2020-05-24
The New York Times has split the internet over a provocative front page spread of Covid-19 victims. The list itself has come under scrutiny, with at least one of the deaths found to have actually resulted from homicide. | As the US death toll approaches 100,000, the paper decided to print a “long, solemn list of people whose lives were lost to the coronavirus pandemic.” Instead of trying to fit tens of thousands of names on the front page, the New York Times chose to highlight a curated selection of obituaries from across the country. | The Times explained that the list of 1,000 people was designed to remind A…
rt.com/usa/489602-nyt-coronavirus-deaths…

‘Pure fabrication’: Head of Wuhan lab DENIES claims virus leaked from there, says ‘we didn’t even know it existed’
rt.com | 2020-05-24
The head of Wuhan’s virology institute has debunked the evolving US ‘Wuhan virus’ theory, saying Covid-19 couldn’t have artificially leaked. She said her lab didn’t have the first virus samples until as late as the end of 2019. |
| The head of Wuhan’s virology institute has debunked the evolving US ‘Wuhan virus’ theory, saying Covid-19 couldn’t have artificially leaked. She said her lab didn’t have the first virus samples until as late as the end of 2019. | Wuhan Institute of Virolog…
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NYT includes MURDER VICTIM in controversial front page list of Covid-19 deaths
rt.com | 2020-05-24
The New York Times has split the internet over a provocative front page spread of Covid-19 victims. The list itself has come under scrutiny, with at least one of the deaths found to have actually resulted from homicide. |
| The New York Times has split the internet over a provocative front page spread of Covid-19 victims. The list itself has come under scrutiny, with at least one of the deaths found to have actually resulted from homicide. | As the US death toll appro…
rt.com/usa/489602-nyt-coronavirus-deaths…

Iran COVID-19 update: 2,180 new cases, 58 deaths in past 24 hours
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-24
TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA)

2020 Eid al-Fitr prayers in Iran’s provinces (1)
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-24
TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA)

Iran, Turkey stress need to reopen borders, resume trade
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-24
TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA)

Tehran-Caracas ties stronger than ever, says Iranian diplomat
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-24
TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA)

Iran calls for development of scientific, academic ties with Iraq
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-24
TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA)

Trump at Loss for Words When Asked About Biden’s Strong Points as Potential President
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-24
POTUS earlier criticised Biden while the latter was still in the thick of the Democratic Party primary race, insisting that the former vice president was one of the weakest candidates in the field, giving him the moniker “sleepy Joe”.
sputniknews.com/us/202005241079405004-tr…

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…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/23/wh…

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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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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[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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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…

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…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/23/march-dn…

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…

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…

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.
therealnews.com/stories/correction-offic…

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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[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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[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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[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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[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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[Commentary] Data explosion during COVID-19: A call for collaboration with the tech industry & data scrutiny
Elizabeth M. Hechenbleikner, Daniel V. Samarov, Ed Lin | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
The volume and speed of data generation in biomedical literature, social media, and other resources during the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. This mountain of data is growing daily across PubMed, Twitter, Google Scholar, and the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 database [1], naming a few. The recently published COVID-19 Twitter dataset may offer insights into multiple topics from compliance with social distancing to assembling homemade masks and mental health tips [2]. Beyond social media, the massive COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) has been assembled from tech giants like Microsoft, the Allen I…
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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] 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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[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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[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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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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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.
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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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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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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…

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.
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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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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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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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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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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…

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…

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…
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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…

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…

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.
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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…

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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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…

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

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…

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…

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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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

The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong
Wilfred Chan | thenation.com | 2020-05-23
The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong…
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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

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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/23/slco…

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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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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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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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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Iran Warns US Not to Interfere with Venezuelan Oil Flotilla
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-05-23
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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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‘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

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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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-…

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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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‘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…

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…

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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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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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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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…

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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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’.
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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…

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.”
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“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

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…

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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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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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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‘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.
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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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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.
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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…

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 …
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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…

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…

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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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…

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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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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Why Britain will now fail to contain the fallout of COVID-19
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-22
TruePublica Editor: 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

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 …
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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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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-…

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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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

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…

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…

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…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/22/tropical-…

U.S. Economy Needs to Reset, not Restart
Calvin Gladney | progressive.org | 2020-05-22
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reset the rules and take bold actions. Let’s not lose that boldness going forward.
progressive.org/op-eds/us-economy-needs-…

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

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
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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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…

Will the Democrats’ HEROES stimulus bill rescue farmers?
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-22
As farmers and communities across the country continue to struggle to adapt to the new normal that is life amidst a global pandemic, Congress set the stage this week for the fourth round of federal aid to combat this crisis. And while previous aid packages have addressed some of the most urgent relief, our nation’s …
peoplesworld.org/article/will-the-democr…

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…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/21/36-milli…

Diane Ravitch on Pandemic School Privatization
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-05-22
Media…
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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

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…

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…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/a-pandemic-a…