Towards A New World Order, The Global Debt Crisis and the Privatization of the State
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
There is a serious health crisis which must be duly resolved. And this is a number one priority. | But there is another important dimension which has to be addressed. | Millions of people have lost their jobs, and their lifelong savings. …
globalresearch.ca/towards-a-new-world-order-the-global-debt-crisis-and-the-privatization-of-the-state/5709755

Video: US-trained Militants Surrender to Syrian Army. Israel Tries to Assassinate Hezbollah Commanders
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
On April 15th, 27 members of Maghawir al-Thawra, a militant group in the Al-Tanf zone, which is both funded and trained by the US-led coalition, surrendered to the Syrian Army with all of their weapons and equipment. These …
globalresearch.ca/video-us-trained-militants-surrender-syrian-army-israel-tries-assassinate-hezbollah-commanders/5709915

Working Class Heroes…. Stiffed! John Lennon
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
John Lennon, prolific as a writer as much as a performer, wrote this: | Working Class Hero | As soon as you're born they make you feel small | By giving you no time instead of it all | Till the pain is so | …
globalresearch.ca/working-class-heroes-stiffed-john-lennon/5709911

US Federal Reserve 'put the world on its back' with $2.3 TRILLION injection, chief research analyst tells Boom Bust
rt.com | 2020-04-17
As organizations like the IMF and the UN warn that this is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the US central bank has once again decided to pump trillions of dollars into the economy. | RT's Boom Bust talks to the CEO of Transformity Research, Tobin Smith, who has been sounding the alarm lately, saying that the economic downturn in the United States is not due to the coronavirus pandemic. | "Let's bear in mind that up until eight days ago we were in a free fall and then the Fed put the United States on its back and it really put the world on its back. It basically said that the world is too…
rt.com/business/486134-us-fed-injection-world/

Are COVID-19 Outbreaks Peaking or Heading Higher Ahead?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
The short answer is it's unknown

Science Saturday: The new super power of handwashing
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-17
Researchers are hard at work identifying ways to help patients with COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But in the meantime, one common household object can be used to help prevent infection. Soap. Good old soap, the Clark Kent of clean, is really the superhero fatty acid salt, the Superman of clean. Soap …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-the-new-super-power-of-handwashing/

How Complex Is this Pneumonia Crisis? Millions of People Lost Their Jobs, Food is Disappearing
Cal Crilly | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
How complex is this? If 8 Million people die from air pollution a year, is the virus THE crisis? | Today is 8th of April 2020 and as I type this millions and millions of people have lost their jobs …
globalresearch.ca/how-complex-pneumonia-crisis/5709953

Canada Member of Parliament Says 'We Need to Get Back to Work', "Successful Treatment of Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin and Zinc Sulphate"
Marilyn Gladu | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
Sarnia-Lambton's MP wants Canada to implement COVID-19 cures she claims have been proven in the United States, but are opposed by Canadian health experts. | Marilyn Gladu, the former Conservative health critic, said the Liberals are talking about waiting for …
globalresearch.ca/canada-member-of-parliament-says-we-need-to-get-back-to-work-successful-treatment-of-hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin-and-zinc-sulphate/5709923

The Illiberal Turn in Indonesian Democracy
Iqra Anugrah | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-04-17
asia-pacificresearch.com/illiberal-turn-indonesian-democracy/5629073

Cutting the Funding: The WHO, Trump and the Coronavirus Wars
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
The US president is in a warring mood. Having declared himself a president at war, a meaningless gesture given that the US is always, somewhere in the world, at war, finding necessary enemies in distraction was always going to be …
globalresearch.ca/cutting-funding-who-trump-coronavirus-wars/5709912

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-17
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Because SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus, researchers are still learning how the virus affects the body. And this raises questions for pregnant women. Can COVID-19 affect pregnancy? Is breastfeeding safe? How can a pregnant woman protect herself from the disease? On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-pregnancy-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

The Big Lie: Today's Mainstream Corporate Media
Richard Gale | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
The liberal media

Pentagon Escalates Tensions with Iran in Persian Gulf
Bill Van Auken | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
The US Navy charged Wednesday that 11 Iranian vessels had "repeatedly conducted dangerous and harassing approaches against multiple US naval ships operating in international waters." | The protest, issued by the command of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, represented a further …
globalresearch.ca/pentagon-escalates-tensions-iran-persian-gulf/5709955

New Indonesian Capital in Borneo: From Rural Misery to Grody Dreams of Urban Glory
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
An old road between Balikpapan and Samarinda passes through the poor villages, through rural slums, as well as stalls selling second-rate local fruits. The cheap, unhygienic eateries, are now half-empty. While the traffic is still heavy here, the 'real action' …
globalresearch.ca/indonesian-borneo-rural-misery-urban-glory/5709933

Treatments for COVID-19: Drugs Being Tested Against the Coronavirus. Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine
Live Science | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
The world is now desperate to find ways to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus and to find effective treatments. As of April 6, more than 200 clinical trials of COVID-19 treatments or vaccines that are either ongoing or …
globalresearch.ca/treatments-covid-19-drugs-being-tested-against-coronavirus/5709922

Bay Area Refuse Fascism Members Bang Pots, Call for Removal of Trump/Pence
On 2nd "OUTNOW! Tuesday" | indybay.org | 2020-04-17
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Refuse Fascism updated their 2020 Statement of Conscience/Call To Act. Included here are photos and a 4 second video of members displaying signage, wearing masks, maintaining physical distancing and banging pots on an "Out Now Tuesday" April 14. At the same time, 7pm, at other locations in the Bay Area, members shouted "Trump Pence Out Now!" for neighbors to hear.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/15/18832371.php

Prescribing an overdose: A chapter in the opioid epidemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-17
ROCHESTER, Minn.

Worst three months in decades: China's economy plunges almost 7% amid coronavirus battle
rt.com | 2020-04-17
The world's second largest economy, China, took a huge hit due to the Covid-19 outbreak, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics. It showed a 6.8 percent drop in the first quarter of 2020 from a year earlier. | That is the first such contraction since Beijing began reporting its quarterly gross domestic product in 1992. | Data showed that industrial production declined 8.4 percent in Q1, though March only saw a drop of 1.1 percent. Retail sales crashed 19 percent in the first quarter. Sales of consumer goods dipped by 15.8 percent in March, while online sales of physical goods rose almost six…
rt.com/business/486091-china-economic-fallout-coronavirus/

China denies covering up Covid-19 severity, says revision increasing deaths by 50 percent 'common practice'
rt.com | 2020-04-17
The correction of Wuhan's Covid-19 death toll, which rose by 1,290 and now stands at 3,869, was part of a statistical verification process and is a common international practice, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. | Zhao Lijian rejected claims that the Chinese government had engaged in a cover-up of the severity of the outbreak, saying at a daily briefing that Beijing would not allow such a thing. | The claim has been pushed, among others, by US President Donald Trump, who froze funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) this week after accusing it of conspiring with China to mislead the w…
rt.com/news/486095-china-death-cover-up/

Talks underway to return stranded Iranians from Italy: FM spox
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-17
TEHRAN, Apr. 17 (MNA)

The Decade of Transformation: Being in Balance with Nature
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
This is the fourth newsletter in our series on the 2020s as a decade of transformation See Remaking International Relations, Remaking the Economy for the People, and Remaking Healthcare. In addition to COVID-19 and the economic collapse, …
globalresearch.ca/decade-transformation-balance-nature/5709799

Video: Coronavirus: Economic and Social Collapse: Mass Unemployment, Bankruptcy, Poverty and Despair
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
There is a serious health crisis which must be duly resolved. But there is another important dimension which has to be addressed. | Millions of people have lost their jobs, and their lifelong savings. In developing countries, poverty and despair prevail. …
globalresearch.ca/video-corona-virus-economic-and-social-collapse-bankruptcy-debt-and-poverty/5709883

As COVID-19 pandemic rages, World Bank backs restructuring of education in Brazil
wsws.org | 2020-04-16
Joining Brazilian education officials and the private sector in an online meeting, a World Bank representative offered directives for a permanent for-profit distance learning system.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/16/bred…

COVID-19: Children need protection too
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-16
Education Fred FuentesIssue 1261 Australia COVID-19 JobKeeperApril 16, 2020The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young peoples' lives should not be discounted. An entire generation of children and teenagers are s…
greenleft.org.au/content/covid-19-children-need-protection-too

The Russians Get Blamed Again, but Who Is Really Subverting American Democracy?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
It is perhaps inevitable that a major health panic like the coronavirus will have political ramifications based on whether those most affected by the illness will perceive that the government performed well or poorly in the crisis. The government for …
globalresearch.ca/russians-get-blamed-again-who-really-subverting-american-democracy/5709858

Are American Cities on the Path to Bankruptcy?
Jose Nino | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
According to financial watchdog Truth in Accounting's 2020 Financial State of the Cities report, numerous American cities are in dire fiscal straits. Out of the 75 most populated cities observed in the report, 63 do not have the means …
globalresearch.ca/american-cities-path-bankruptcy/5709794

Coronavirus Pandemic Has Shown that Mediterranean Europe Does Not Need THE EU
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Germany's long history of wanting to rule the entirety of Europe extends back to both World Wars in the 20th Century, and perhaps even earlier. The German political structures believed that through war and conquest it could dominate the continent …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-pandemic-shown-mediterranean-europe-does-not-need-eu/5709824

Visà£o Factual Epidemiológica: Portugal é um dos países mais perigosos do mundo na Covid-19
Mondialisation | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Os portugueses està£o entre os povos mais afetados e em maior risco do mundo em casos confirmados de infectados de Covid-19 e mortes no mundo pelo SARS-Cov-2, considerando o tamanho da populaàßà£o. | Sou cientista fármaco-epidemiologista formado em Harvard e a …
globalresearch.ca/visao-factual-epidemiologica-portugal-e-um-dos-paises-mais-perigosos-do-mundo-na-covid-19/5709888

COVID-19 Prompts Austerity Budget in Detroit
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Detroit is one of the epicenters for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic where the city in southeast Michigan has the highest death rate from the infection in the United States. (See this) | This majority African American municipality (79 …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-prompts-austerity-budget-detroit/5709800

50 Headlines: Welcome to the "New Normal"
OffGuardian | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Our erstwhile collaborators at Consent Factory have put together a wonderful collection of all the great work being done by our Beloved Governments to keep us all safe. | Always remember that these Measures are for your own good. Doubting The …
globalresearch.ca/50-headlines-welcome-new-normal/5709838

Video: Syria and Iraq Launch Operations Against ISIS in Border Area
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkistan Islamic Party have four times shelled positions of the Syrian Army in the provinces of Lattakia and Hama over the past 24 hours, the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria reported. At the …
globalresearch.ca/video-syria-iraq-launch-operations-against-isis-border-area/5709787

Danish study reveals that coronavirus may be almost 20 TIMES less deadly than WHO predicted
rt.com | 2020-04-16
Research on a group of blood donors in Denmark points to its Covid-19 mortality rate being well below one percent of the number of people infected with the disease, according to a team at the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen. | Tests were carried out on 1,487 samples from Danish blood donors at the hospital showed a mortality rate of just 0.16 percent. | That puts the Danish scientists' estimates up to 20 times lower than those of the World Health Organization, which is putting deaths at anywhere between one percent and three percent of the number who contract Covid-19. | The study also suggested that far more Dan…
rt.com/news/486017-denmark-covid19-mortality-study/

In Palestine, COVID-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation
Yara Hawari | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
The first measures taken against COVID-19 in the West Bank occurred in early March after the confirmation of seven cases in Bethlehem that were linked to a Greek tourist group. The Palestinian Authority (PA) declared a state of emergency and …
globalresearch.ca/palestine-covid-19-meets-israeli-occupation/5709832

COVID-19: How Big Pharma and Big Philanthropy Consume the World
Michael Barker | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-16
Under capitalism, disease is an immensely profitable industry, and huge pharmaceutical corporations excel at extracting enormous amounts of wealth from our public health. Of course, big pharma would have us believe that without their investments in scientific research, millions of people would not benefit from the dizzying array of drugs they sell us, but the…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/16/covid-19-how-big-pharma-and-big-philanthropy-consume-the-world/

How Top Labour Officials Plotted to Bring Down Jeremy Corbyn
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
The findings of a leaked, 860-page report compiled by the British Labour Party on its handling of antisemitism complaints is both deeply shocking and entirely predictable all at once. | For the first time, extensive internal correspondence between senior party officials …
globalresearch.ca/how-top-labour-officials-plotted-bring-down-jeremy-corbyn/5709816

Ukraine to Build Military Base in the Sea of Azov
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Ukraine recently announced that it will start building a military base in the Sea of ‚Äã‚ÄãAzov, just 67 km away from the Russian coast. The news was confirmed on the last visit of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski to Berdiansk, where …
globalresearch.ca/ukraine-build-military-base-sea-azov/5709821

Trump Regime Immunity Certificates for Mass Vaxxing and Population Control
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Orwellian control over the lives and welfare of ordinary people would pose the greatest threat to free and open societies. | They'd no longer exist if the worst of it was imposed, notably by manipulating the public mind to accept the …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-immunity-certificates-mass-vaxxing-population-control/5709849

"World War C" Presents a Host of Challenges for Central Asia
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Central Asia is at risk of collapse if the socio-economic consequences of World War C aren't addressed after much-needed remittance flows from Russia were abruptly cut off as a result of that country's emergency quarantine measures, which in turn could …
globalresearch.ca/world-war-c-presents-challenges-central-asia/5709810

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-16
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Because SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus, researchers are still learning how the virus affects the body. And this raises questions for pregnant women. Can COVID-19 affect pregnancy? Is breastfeeding safe? How can a pregnant woman protect herself from the disease? On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-pregnancy-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

The Russia-Saudi Oil-Price War Is a Fraud and a Farce
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
The Russia-Saudi oil-price war is a fabrication concocted by the media. There's not a word of truth to any of it. Yes, there was a dust up at an OPEC meeting in early March that led to production increases and …
globalresearch.ca/russia-saudi-oil-price-war-fraud-farce/5709856

More Than 40 Entities in China Donate Health Materials to Cuba
Prensa Latina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
More than 40 companies and institutions in China have prepared donations of medical supplies to help Cuba strengthen its capacity to confront the Covid-19 pandemic, official sources reported today. | The ambassador of Havana in Beijing, Carlos Miguel Pereira, explained …
globalresearch.ca/more-than-40-entities-china-donate-health-materials-cuba/5709815

Elizabeth Warren Joins the Biden Bandwagon, Betrays Supporters
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Judge them by their actions, never their rhetoric, a rule of thumb in evaluating others, notably politicians. They all lie with the rarest of rare exceptions. | Warren's sellout to Dem party bosses followed Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders going the …
globalresearch.ca/elizabeth-warren-joins-biden-bandwagon-betrays-supporters/5709852

Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19
Don Fitz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Preparing for a pandemic requires understanding that a change in the relationship between people is primary and the production of things is secondary and flows from social factors. Investors in profit-based medicine cannot comprehend this concept. Nothing could exemplify it …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-aids-dengue-ebola-covid-19/5709803

Are COVID-19 Death Certificates Being Manipulated? A Conversation with Dr. Annie Bukacek
Dr. Annie Bukacek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Dr. Annie Bukacek of Kalispell, Montana speaks with me about COVID19 death certificates. | How do doctors decide whether or not to attribute a death to COVID19 and are the COVID19 deaths being exaggerated? | We also discuss what care is not …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-death-certificates-being-manipulated-dr-annie-bukacek/5709836

Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
Pushing workers back to work and attempting to "normalize" the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump. | "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-crisis-african-american-human-rights/5709781

Star proves Einstein's theory as it orbits supermassive black hole in stunning 'SPIROGRAPH' pattern (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-16
Observations of the star S2, which orbits a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, show that not only does it prove predictions made by Einstein's theory of general relativity, it does so in spectacular fashion. | Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have been tracking S2's orbit around the black hole Sagittarius A* since the 1990s. After poring over the data from the observations, the researchers have now concluded that S2's orbit isn't a fixed-in-position ellipse but instead shifts position like a spirograph drawing, as illustrated in this incredi…
rt.com/news/485972-star-orbits-black-hole-pattern/

Science Saturday: The new super power of handwashing
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-16
Researchers are hard at work identifying ways to help patients with COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But in the meantime, one common household object can be used to help prevent infection. Soap. Good old soap, the Clark Kent of clean, is really the superhero fatty acid salt, the Superman of clean. Soap …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-the-new-super-power-of-handwashing/

Intensifying Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, Trump Is Weaponizing Coronavirus
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
As the entire world grapples with the most devastating pandemic of the modern era, the United States is pouring kerosene on the fire in Iran and Venezuela. The U.S. government has maintained punishing sanctions against the people of Iran and …
globalresearch.ca/intensifying-sanctions-iran-venezuela-trump-weaponizing-coronavirus/5709831

74 Million in Arab Region at Risk of COVID-19, Access to Clean Water: UN Report
Eurasia Diary | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
The …
globalresearch.ca/74-million-arab-region-risk-covid-19-un/5709846

The Coronavirus and the Economic Crisis this Time
Prof. Sam Gindin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-16
"…so many of the out-of-the way things had happened lately, that Alice has begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible"