(2020-05-01). Harvard Postpones Commencement Indefinitely? Tele-Education and Tele-Medicine. globalresearch.ca Founded in 1636, Harvard commencements began in 1642, a handful of graduates alone in its early years, nine in 1642. | There were few college entrants at that time. In the 17th century after the school's founding, there were no graduates …
(2020-05-01). Science Saturday: Antimalarials, COVID-19, cardiac arrest. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Over the last few weeks, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have become household words. These antiparasitic drugs normally prescribed for malaria were introduced early in the rush to find potential treatments for COVID-19. As time goes on, the public discussion has centered on who should get these particular drugs and when. Meanwhile many doctors and medical researchers …
(2020-05-01). Millions Unable to Pay for Housing Next Month, Rent Strike in NYC. globalresearch.ca Want a grim picture of the state of American dissent during the coronavirus pandemic? Take an overview of media coverage from the last week. The press focused disproportionate attention on a
(2020-05-01). Video: Planet of the Humans. Michael Moore's Documentary. globalresearch.ca Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders …
(2020-05-01). Scuttling New START Treaty: Trump's China Distraction. globalresearch.ca "If we want to preserve strategic stability using arms control as a counterpart of that, as a tool in that toolkit, then China should be in as well." — US Defence Secretary Mark Esper,
(2020-05-01). Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science. counterpunch.org 
"Meat Improves Mental Health" mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the "study," published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, was funded by an "unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen's Beef Association." Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat. Whereas only
(2020-05-01). Blaming the Victim Is the West's Latest Infowar Tactic Against China. globalresearch.ca Fewer and fewer people believe Western officials and their media, which is the West's own fault for confusing their targeted audience with the mixed messages that they disseminated about COVID-19 over the past couple of months. It was an epic …
(2020-05-01). Video: Prospects of Turkish-Russian Military Conflict in Syria. globalresearch.ca The region of Greater Idlib remains the main source of tensions in Syria. | The March 5th ceasefire deal reached by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow allowed an end to be made to the …
(2020-05-01). Pompeo Demands Countries Block Airspace to Iran's 'Terrorist Airline' After Venezuela Deliveries. globalresearch.ca The US is going on the offensive once again against Venezuela, this time attempting to break up growing Iranian cooperation and assistance to Caracas. The two so-called 'rogue states' recently targeted for US-imposed regime change are helping each other fight …
(2020-05-01). A Protest From France. The Great Danger of Ill-Conceived Lockdowns. globalresearch.ca After WWI, the distinguished British economist Edwin Cannan was asked, somewhat reproachfully, what he did during the terrible war years. He replied: "I protested." The present article is a similar protest against the current lockdown policies put into place in …
(2020-05-01). The Defeat of Bernie Sanders and the Perfidy of the Democrats. globalresearch.ca The sudden collapse of Bernie Sanders' campaign for the presidency comes amidst what official sources are calling the worst influenza pandemic to hit the United States and much of the world since the misnamed 'Spanish Flu' in 1918. Sensational …
(2020-05-01). "They're Writing COVID On All the Death Certificates": NYC Funeral Directors Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic. globalresearch.ca Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with funeral home directors and their staff throughout New York City questioning the number of deaths officially attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. | *** | Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with …
(2020-05-01). Dr. Anthony Fauci: COVID-19 "May Turn Out to be Like a Bad Flu Season". His Peer Reviewed Article Versus His Public Statements. globalresearch.ca Dr. Anthony Fauci and two co-authors published an article on March 26, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine. | Anthony Fauci is head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the article, linked below, he states …
(2020-05-01). Uncivil Corporate Discourse. zcomm.org Focusing on the manners and debating skills of undergraduates makes the real problem disappear and serves the interests of those who would like to ally research universities all the more tightly to "corporate partners."
(2020-05-01). France Says COVID Was Already 'Silently Circulating' & DARPA's "Implantable Nanoplatform" Vaccines. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/30/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
(2020-05-01). Heads up! More than 16,000kg of EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIAL blasts Earth every year, study reveals. rt.com 
Groundbreaking fresh research has revealed that Earth is under constant assault from the heavens with 16,000kg of space material raining down on our planet every year. | A team of UK scientists went to Antarctica to hunt for meteorites in order to work out how often Earth is battered by space projectiles. It turns out that it happens all the time, as their calculations revealed that more than 16,000kg of meteorite material with a mass above 50g wallops the planet each year. | When smaller material is included, the figure rockets up to a staggering total of 40 million, but this is mostly made up of fine space d…
(2020-05-01). For World's Rarest Great Ape, COVID-19 Is Latest in a Litany of Threats. globalresearch.ca The COVID-19 pandemic has become the latest threat to the Tapanuli orangutan in Indonesia, the rarest great ape species of all and one already under severe pressure from a range of human threats. | The
(2020-05-01). The Truth Behind "Refrigerated Morgue Truck" Stories — Or How to Manufacture Mass Hysteria by Burying the Details. globalresearch.ca By now, everyone has seen the stories about the "refrigerated morgue trucks" and "ice rink morgues in Madrid." If you dig down into some of those stories, you will discover a rather mundane, but perfectly understandable explanation for these improvised …
(2020-05-01). All of the Coronavirus Models Were Wrong. globalresearch.ca How is it possible that all of the coronavirus models could have been so completely and utterly wrong about what was going to happen? Very early in this pandemic, some models that were predicting millions of deaths caused quite a …
(2020-05-01). Global smartphone market suffers largest annual decline in history due to coronavirus pandemic. rt.com 
The coronavirus has hit the global smartphone market hard, sinking worldwide shipments by up to 13 percent in the first quarter of 2020, new data from analyst firms shows. | While the International Data Corporation (IDC) says that the smartphones shipments tumbled 11.7 percent, analysts from Counterpoint Research and Canalys indicate that they fell even worse – by 13 percent. Whichever numbers are more accurate, this means that the global smartphone market declined the fastest ever. | Companies shipped fewer than 300 million smartphones in the first three months of 2020, with the IDC quarterly mobile tracker s…
(2020-05-01). Big-Pharma Put in Charge of COVID-19 "Vaccine" globalresearch.ca Big-Pharma is being given billions to develop a Covid-19 "vaccine." Would you trust your health to these profit driven criminals? | Coronavirus Disease 2019 or "Covid-19‚Ä≥ hysteria is sweeping the globe — with mass media-induced public panic paralyzing entire nations, gutting …
(2020-05-01). Trump Regime Threatens Escalated War on China by Other Means. globalresearch.ca Hegemons aren't like other nations. They operate extrajudicially on the world stage by their own rules — in pursuit of their aims, exploiting their own people at the same time. | The US is waging undeclared war by other means against …
(2020-05-01). Surveillance System and Privacy: Britain's NHS Ordered to Hand Over Security Keys of NHS Data to UK Intel and Security Authority GCHQ. globalresearch.ca Britain's NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, …
(2020-05-01). Video: Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Discovered HIV Says Coronavirus Was Created in Laboratory. globalresearch.ca In a highly significant development, Professor Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who shared the
(2020-05-01). "Food Supply Chain Is Breaking": Tyson Foods. globalresearch.ca News feeds in April have been inundated with food supply chain disruption stories due to
(2020-05-01). Cuba Cannot Get Swiss Respirators Due to US Inhuman Blockade. globalresearch.ca Journalist Laura Hunter published an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier denouncing that the companies IMT Medical AG and Acutronic Medical Systems AG were ordered not to sell high-tech respirators to Cuba. | Claiming that they do not wish to …
(2020-05-01). Physicians, scientists and physician-scientists connect dots between heart disease, potential for worse COVID-19 outcomes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? People with certain heart diseases may be more susceptible to worse outcomes with COVID-19, but the reason why has remained unknown. New research from Mayo Clinic indicates that in patients with one specific type of heart disease ? obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) ? the heart increases production of the ACE2 RNA transcript …
(2020-05-01). Case Asking Supreme Court to Halt Enforcement of "Stay-at-home Order". Justice Alito Orders Pennsylvania Government to Respond. globalresearch.ca
(2020-05-01). International May Day 2020. Workers of the World Unite! globalresearch.ca In order to survive the plague of global capitalism and prosper, working people must join hands nationally and internationally. | As the indisputable producers, they must become the new owners of the means of production. | There is no other solution. ….
(2020-05-01). How Mayo Clinic is using artificial intelligence in its COVID-19 research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Artificial intelligence has a vital role in helping researchers in their efforts to fight COVID-19 and is an important tool in the work being done at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Andrew Badley is an infectious diseases specialist and leads Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Research Task Force. In this Q&A, Dr. Badley answers questions about the task force …
(2020-05-01). Imperial community pays tribute to Lord Robert May (1936-2020). imperial.ac.uk Colleagues remember a 'towering figure in UK science', with a 'sharp, penetrating mind' and a passion for croquet.
(2020-05-01). Remdesivir as "miracle drug": Back-to-work propaganda vs. science. wsws.org The media's adulation of this "breakthrough" takes place in the midst of an increasingly frenzied effort to create the impression that the virus is "under control" and the crisis is all but over.
(2020-05-01). Two Down, Two More to Go: Earth is Bombarded by Asteroid Visits. sputniknews.com The development comes after NASA announced that a potentially hazardous asteroid is expected to fly by our planet on 7 May. 2009 XO belongs to the category of Apollo asteroids, whose orbit crosses that of the Earth.
(2020-05-01). EFF Off! Nonprofits Score Major Net Neutrality Win As ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale To Ethos Capital. sputniknews.com The 'important' ruling has been seen as a victory to preserve the internet for millions of non-for-profit entities and organisations, according to a major internet defence campaign.
(2020-05-01). Teacher, symbol of kindness, love. en.mehrnews.com SHABESTAR, May 01 (MNA) — The footage shows the efforts of a teacher, named Sohrabi in the village of Zangi in Shabestar County, East Azerbaijan Province, northeast of Iran, who travels long distances every day to educate students in remote areas.
(2020-05-01). UK: Indian Students Starving and Unable to Return Home. telesurenglish.net The closure of borders in India left thousands of students stranded in the United Kingdom. Now they depend on food donations from charity institutions to survive. | RELATED: | According to local media, most Indian college students work part-time in low-paying jobs to support their studies in this European country. | "The confinement forced by COVID-19 has caused many of them to lose their jobs,"
(2020-05-01). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Protests are continuing against attempts to restart operations in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic without proper safeguards, including French teachers, German doctors and nurses in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
(2020-05-01). Quebec workers denounce government's rush to "reopen" the economy amid raging COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org "We are being sent out to babysit so that business can make profits on the backs of working people," a Montreal teacher told the WSWS.
(2020-05-01). Ayatollah Khamenei congratulates teachers on their national day. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a message congratulated May 1, Iran's Teachers' Day.
(2020-05-01). What Cuba Has to Teach, in Pandemic Times and Beyond. counterpunch.org In July 2019, I visited the Cuban Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) as part of the 50th Anniversary Venceremos Brigade. We were impressed by the many scientific advances that the Institute had achieved, including the development of interferons to successfully fight viral diseases such as dengue and ebola. Little did we imagine that
(2020-04-30). Bolsonaro & COVID-19 push Brazil towards military dictatorship. thegrayzone.com Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Brazilian journalist and researcher, Aline Piva, after Brazil's Justice Minister, Sergio Moro, caught…
(2020-04-30). Video: How the US Makes Countries Pay for Its Wars: Economics of American Imperialism with Michael Hudson. globalresearch.ca Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own military occupation. | Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the economics of Washington's empire, …
(2020-04-30). Video: US Coronavirus 'Bailout' Scam Is $6 Trillion Giveaway to Wall St — Economist Michael Hudson Explains. globalresearch.ca Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the US Congress rammed through the CARES Act — which economist Michael Hudson explains is not a "bailout" but a massive, $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street, banks, large corporations, and stockholders. | Max Blumenthal and Ben …
(2020-04-30). 45 Years Ago, End of Vietnam War: Neoliberalism and "The Vietnam Model". Who Won the Vietnam War? globalresearch.ca April 1975 marks the official end of the Vietnam War. Yet today, Vietnam is an impoverished countries. The Hanoi government is a US proxy regime. Vietnam has become a new cheap labor frontier of the global economy. Neoliberalism prevails.
(2020-04-30). Stir Crazy! Episode #25: Schools Out For…Ever? therealnews.com 
On today's show: TRNN Executive Producer Lisa Snowden-McCray, "By Any Means Necessary" co-host Jacqueline Luqman, and special guest Center for American Progress Managing Director for K-12 Education Policy Dr. Khalilah Harris. Hosted by Kim Brown.
(2020-04-30). How can schools open up again safely? The UN has some new guidelines. news.un.org As countries grapple with severe disruptions to education caused by COVID-19, several UN agencies — as part of the Global Education Coalition — issued new guidelines on Thursday to help Governments make decisions on safely reopening schools for the world's 1.3 billion students affected by ongoing closures.
(2020-04-30). Surviving COVID-19 in Vietnam, the 'safest place in the world'. peoplesworld.org 
HANOI—Helicopters hovering over rice paddies, burning villages, and the sound of gunfire are the images many older Americans conjure when they hear the word Vietnam. Hollywood provides grist for our imagination about this country. For younger people, if they think of Vietnam at all, their images are those of a poor, developing country or elderly …
(2020-04-30). Cuba Continues African Solidarity in COVID-19 Battle. globalresearch.ca High-ranking governmental and military leaders in the Republic of South Africa greeted a Cuban medical mission which arrived on April 27. | The 217 Cuban healthcare workers are in the country to assist in efforts to contain and eradicate the COVID-19 …
(2020-04-30). Pentagon Would be Producing Biological Weapons in the Amazon Rainforest? globalresearch.ca The theme of biological warfare has gained increasing prominence in recent times. The global pandemic of the new coronavirus has aroused interest in this matter in particular, and several speculations have arisen by experts from many countries about the possibility …
(2020-04-30). The Real Economic Problem Is Not the Closedown. globalresearch.ca What do we make of it all? I just read an