This is what anti-imperialism looks like: Call for posters
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-04
Art and anti-imperialism | In the small French commune of Vallauris sits a 14th century chapel. On its walls, Spanish socialist painter Pablo Picasso created one of his largest murals
'Belongs in the Hague': Online Disgust Follows Glowing Praise for George W. Bush's Covid-19 Message
Andrea Germanos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
George W. Bush's record in office became the subject of numerous tweets after a video message released Saturday from the former president elicited praise from some Democrats. | . | . | . | Good morning. George W Bush belongs in The Hague. |
If We Want to Return to Normal, We Have to Fix the Policy
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Most of the United States is still under lockdown, but why? What is the purpose of the policy? | We've had the "flatten the curve" meme pounded into our brains for so long, that most people think it's the objective of …
globalresearch.ca/if-we-want-return-normal-we-have-fix-policy/5711674
Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again. Calls on Military to Support Him
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled …
globalresearch.ca/juan-guaido-trying-overthrow-venezuelan-government-again/5711721
Trump's Virtual Town Hall: A Vehicle for Deception, Finger-Pointing and Threats
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
On Sunday, Trump appeared on a Fox News televised virtual town hall session, using the Lincoln Memorial as a backdrop. | The event was part of his reelection campaign, notably an attempt to boost his low public approval rating in key …
globalresearch.ca/trump-virtual-town-hall-vehicle-deception-finger-pointing-threats/5711697
A Hillary/Obama Ticket to Challenge Trump?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Despite polls showing Biden favored to defeat Trump, the notion surfaced of resurrecting two-time loser Hillary with Obama as her VP running mate to replace the presumptive Dem nominee. | He's challenged by years of disturbing political baggage as US senator …
globalresearch.ca/hillary-obama-challenge-trump/5711700
America's Super-Rich See Their Wealth Rise by $282 Billion in Three Weeks of Pandemic
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies found that, while tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, America's ultra-wealthy elite have seen their net worth surge by $282 billion in just 23 …
globalresearch.ca/america-super-rich-wealth-rise-282-billion-three-weeks-pandemic/5711665
No, the US Isn't Going to Dump India over Its Atrocious Treatment of Minorities
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
There's been a lot of speculation that the US might be preparing to dump India over its atrocious treatment of minorities after the official White House Twitter account stopped following several Indian government ones including Prime Minister Modi's and the …
globalresearch.ca/us-isnt-going-dump-india-atrocious-treatment-minorities/5711728
Why Julian Assange Must Urgently be Freed: Stella Morris
Stella Moris | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Julian and I have two little boys. Since becoming a mother, I have been …
globalresearch.ca/why-julian-assange-must-urgently-freed/5711655
Parents in Paris exasperated as schools plan to take only 10% of students back in phase 1 of lifting lockdown
rt.com | 2020-05-04
When public schools in Paris finally reopen on May 11, only 10 percent of children will be accommodated, leaving many worried French parents in the lurch as they attempt to return to work after the Covid-19 lockdown. | The limited capacity is due to the numerous health measures which will need to be implemented in schools as restrictions are being phased out, the deputy mayor in charge of education Patrick Bloche told Le Figaro on Sunday. | "If we reach [this figure], it will already be very good," Bloche said, given that Paris is within France's 'red zone' for Covid-19 and that some school premises will strug…
rt.com/news/487711-paris-schools-reopening-lockdown/
The Impact of COVID-19 on Africa. The Case of Somalia
Dr. Bischara A. Egal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
"We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy".
Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: The Fed's Generous New Rules
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package
China Calls for Closing All U.S. Deep-State Bioweapons Laboratories in Former USSR Countries
Joaquin Flores | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
As countries have openly begun to utilize their military structures in fighting the coronavirus in programs intended to guard against biological warfare, Chinese authorities have come out in support the official position of Russia and considers it dangerous that there …
globalresearch.ca/china-calls-closing-all-u-s-deep-state-bioweapons-laboratories-former-ussr-countries/5711641
Trump Welcomes Israel's Illegal Plan to Annex West Bank Amid Growing Anger
The New Arab | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
The US announced it is willing to recognise and support Israel's annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank shortly after Israel announced its illegal plan. | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to go ahead with controversial…
globalresearch.ca/trump-welcomes-israel-illegal-plan-annex-west-bank-amid-growing-anger/5711649
US Push for "Low-yield Nukes" Makes Nuclear War More Likely as Russia Will Retaliate with Full Force, Moscow Says
Nebojsa Malic | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
The US State Department's case for tactical nuclear weapons is a case study in psychological projection not seen since the darkest days of the Cold War and its ever-present threat of world-ending atomic holocaust. | Back in February, the Pentagon announced | …
globalresearch.ca/us-push-low-yield-nukes-makes-atomic-war-more-likely-russia-retaliate-full-force/5711644
The COVID-19 Crisis Profoundly Exposes African Americans to the Scourge of Poverty and Racism
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
They live below the poverty level. They are prison inmates in large numbers. They are most likely to be killed by the police, a longstanding grievance that originated the Black Lives Matter (BTM) movement to protest against police killing and | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-profoundly-exposes-african-americans-racism/5711687
Why Foreign Interventionism?
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
What is the point of U.S. foreign interventionism? | Why are U.S. troops killing and dying in faraway countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia? | Why does the U.S. government have 165,000 troops stationed in more than 150 foreign countries? | Why …
globalresearch.ca/why-foreign-interventionism/5711647
Coronavirus and Saudi Arabia's "Soft Power". Will This Year's Hajj be Cancelled? "Pilgrims bring in Billions of Dollars…"
Mohammad Reza Mohammadi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Today, the tourism industry is considered as one of the important sources of the soft power of countries in promoting and disseminating its material and spiritual attractions to attract other nations of the world. Saudi Arabia is known as a …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-consequences-saudi-arabia-soft-power/5711695
Knock, Knock. We're From the Government, and We Want Your Family's Blood
Adam Dick | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Talk about creepy. The Georgia Department of Public Health has announced that it, the United Sates Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and county health boards are together sending teams of government agents to randomly selected homes in two …
globalresearch.ca/knock-knock-were-from-the-government-and-we-want-your-familys-blood/5711724
Science Saturday: Antimalarials, COVID-19, cardiac arrest
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-04
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 …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-antimalarials-covid-19-cardiac-arrest/
Physicians, scientists and physician-scientists connect dots between heart disease, potential for worse COVID-19 outcomes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-04
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 …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/physicians-scientists-and-physician-scientists-connect-dots-between-heart-disease-potential-for-worse-covid-19-outcomes/
Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-04
Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/04/cults-and-bioterrorism-toxic-duo/
Venezuelan Armed Forces Neutralize Colombian Paramilitary Incursion on Coast of La Guaira
Alberto Lovera | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
At dawn this Sunday, the Venezuelan state security forces neutralized a paramilitary incursion from Colombia on the coast of La Guaira, reported the Minister of People's Power for Interior, Justice and Peace, Nestor Reverol. | "They tried to carry out | …
globalresearch.ca/paramilitary-incursion-colombia-neutralized-la-guaira/5711686
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Civil Actions as a Social Movement
Prof. Paul Jobin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Like the many industrial disasters that have marked the history of modern and contemporary Japan, the nuclear disaster of March 2011 resulted in much litigation. By the ninth anniversary of the catastrophe in 2020, nearly four hundred individual civil actions, …
globalresearch.ca/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-civil-actions-social-movement/5711712
Unreliable COVID-19 "Estimates"in Virginia: Increase in "Testing Numbers" Attributable to Change in "Counting Methodology": Health Officials
Kate Masters | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Officials with the Virginia Department of Health abruptly announced Friday that they were changing their methodology for reporting the number of COVID-19 tests conducted in Virginia. | The announcement came after data on the state's coronavirus surveillance page appeared to show …
globalresearch.ca/increase-virginia-testing-numbers-due-change-counting-health-officials-say/5711708
Colorado Bans Cruel Wildlife-killing Contests
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted yesterday to ban wildlife-killing contests for various furbearing and small game species in the state. Colorado is the sixth state to prohibit these cruel events. | When it goes into effect on June 30, | …
globalresearch.ca/colorado-bans-cruel-wildlife-killing-contests/5711651
America's Long War… Family Stories from Ground Zero, by a New Generation of Filmmakers
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
For two decades now, following U.S. invasions of Afghanistan, then Iraq, and as we approach ten years of upheaval in Syria and five in Yemen, interpretation of these wars has been the domain of western observers– journalists, occupying soldiers, and …
globalresearch.ca/family-stories-from-ground-zero-new-generation-filmmakers/5711670
Likud Files Knesset Bill to Annex Occupied Palestinian Territories
The Palestinian Information Center | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Member of the Knesset May Golan (Likud) on Sunday submitted a bill calling for imposing Israel's sovereignty on the occupied territories of the Jordan Valley, the northern Dead Sea area and the West Bank. | According to Israel's Channel 7, economy …
globalresearch.ca/likud-files-knesset-bill-annex-occupied-palestinian-territories/5711704
Selected Articles: If We Want to Return to Normal, We Have to Fix the Policy
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Trump's Virtual Town Hall: A Vehicle for Deception, Finger-Pointing and Threats | By Stephen Lendman, May 04 2020 | On Sunday, Trump was his usual congenital lying self, falsely boasting to viewers that he's…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-if-we-want-to-return-to-normal-we-have-to-fix-the-policy/5711774
'Education, not Compulsion' Required for Successful Deployment of COVID-19 Vaccine – Commentator
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-04
European countries have pledged to raise £6.6 billion in a bid to help accelerate the process of finding a coronavirus vaccine. The UK will contribute £388 million to the cause. The UN has repeatedly outlined that the pandemic can only be ended, should an effective vaccine be developed and mass produced.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202005041079193857-education-not-compulsion-required-for-successful-deployment-of-covid-19-vaccine—commentator/
Does Weaponizing a Pandemic and Blaming China "Make America Great Again"?
Kim Petersen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
United States president Donald Trump is proud of the US effort against COVID-19. In his 1 May remarks on protecting America's seniors, he said, | Through aggressive actions and the devotion of our doctors and nurses, however, we have held our | …
globalresearch.ca/does-weaponizing-pandemic-blaming-china-make-america-great-again/5711653
Covid-19 victims 'would have died anyway'? Not so, says new research
rt.com | 2020-05-04
A new study analyzing the longevity prospects of people who died from Covid-19 has found that, far from being on death's door anyway, victims would have lived on for an average of 11 years had they not fallen to the disease. | …
rt.com/news/487758-coronavirus-lifespan-impact-study/
Queen's University Belfast given funding to develop rapid test for Covid-19
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-04
Queen's University Belfast has received funding to develop a rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19. | The trial is aimed at finding a highly accurate test which can show results within an hour, eliminating the need to send tests to a laboratory. | Professor Cliff Taggart, lead researcher from the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine at Queen's University, said: "The local availability, speed and accuracy of the test will help inform public health preparedness and response in the ongoing pandemic." | The study is in partnership with HiberGene Diagnostics Ltd, Medcaptain in China, and Italian Hospital…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/04/queens-university-belfast-given-funding-to-develop-rapid-test-for-covid-19/
The Deeper Historical Roots of Chinese Demonization
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Fasten your seat belts: the US hybrid war against China is bound to go on frenetic overdrive, as economic reports are already identifying Covid-19 as the tipping point when the Asian
"Homeland Defense" and the Militarisation of America
Frank Morales | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
The document states that although "the Founding Fathers' hesitancy to raise a standing army & their desire to render the military subordinate to civilian authority" is "rooted in the Constitution," "exceptions to the restrictions on employment of federal armed forces to assist state & local authorities are grounded in the Constitution…"
globalresearch.ca/homeland-defense-and-the-militarisation-of-america-2/5650654
Video: The Coronavirus Crisis: A Plea to Pause and Ponder
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
A Sharing by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, President, International Movement for a Just World (JUST), Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) | Recorded on May 1, 2020 | . | * | Note to readers: please click the share …
globalresearch.ca/video-coronavirus-crisis-plea-pause-ponder/5711725
The 'White Makes Right' Continuance
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
In September of 1962 James Meredith, a 28 Year old Air Force veteran, and proud black man, enrolled in the segregated University of Mississippi. All hell literally broke loose. In David Talbot's great look at the Kennedy years, aptly entitled …
globalresearch.ca/white-makes-right-continuance/5711635
Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Wayne Madsen | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-04
Although there is no recent history of nation-states propagating biological warfare attacks, there is a history of dangerous religious cults being involved in preparing for or carrying out them. | Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and…
UK Among Five European States Not Seeing Decline in Covid-19 Cases, Despite Government Claims
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-04
The United Kingdom has boasted that its lockdown strategy, intended to enforce social distancing measures and slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, was a success. However, this claim has now been contradicted by new reports released by European Union affiliated research groups.
sputniknews.com/uk/202005041079193249-uk-among-five-european-states-not-seeing-decline-in-covid-19-cases-despite-government-claims/
Dear Lockdown Enthusiasts, Science Isn't What You Think It Is
Rob Lyons | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-04
According to David Blunkett, a former senior cabinet minister in Tony Blair's governments, attempts to have a blanket lockdown on the over-70s are discriminatory. He believes that the current 'shielding' rules are too crude and need to be more nuanced. Whatever the merits of his ideas, his comments on the scientific advice that the government is receiving are interesting. | Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One on 28 April, Blunkett argued that the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has a problem. Drawing on Matthew Syed's book, Rebel…
anti-empire.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-science-tm/
During Crisis, Teachers Need Freedom to Focus on Student Needs
Amy Mizialko | zcomm.org | 2020-05-04
The aims of our work should be relationships, regular communication, and offering students opportunities for enrichment, practice learning, and support…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/during-crisis-teachers-need-freedom-to-focus-on-student-needs/
'Political child abuse': UK govt's 'help for disadvantaged students' during Covid-19 crisis slammed by critics citing austerity
rt.com | 2020-05-04
The UK government's pledge to give more resources to help disadvantaged school kids during the Covid-19 pandemic has received an angry backlash from critics who say students are suffering because of the Tories' self-imposed cuts. | During the government's daily Covid-19 briefing
May Day Caravan in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz News | indybay.org | 2020-05-04
#COLA4ALL activists in Santa Cruz organized a May Day Caravan to support those "striking and fighting for their right to live in this city". Beginning on the UC Santa Cruz campus to support the striking COLA graduate students, the caravan traveled downtown to the Santa Cruz Main Jail, and then on to support Food Not Bombs at Front and Laurel Streets. (Photos taken downtown by Keith McHenry of Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/02/18832785.php
Young Communists lead jobs drive in Vietnam for the unemployed
Morning Star | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-04
More than 10,000 people have found work in Vietnam's capital Hanoi thanks to a Communist-led initiative for students and young people whose jobs are most vulnerable due to the coronavirus pandemic. Led by the Hanoi section of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU), working alongside the Hanoi Students' Association and the Hanoi Youth …
peoplesworld.org/article/young-communists-lead-jobs-drive-in-vietnam-for-the-unemployed/
Not Trusting that Department of Ed: Looking to Higher Ed Relief via States
Greg Moses | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-04
Reeling from last week's attacks on Harvard and Stanford that bullied those schools and others into refusing federal relief allocated to their most needy students, the Young Invincibles this week released an open letter asking the schools to reconsider. The "Open Letter to College and University Leaders" argues that all schools…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/04/not-trusting-that-department-of-ed-looking-to-higher-ed-relief-via-states/
Fifty years since the massacre of students at Kent State
wsws.org | 2020-05-04
The killing of four students by National Guard soldiers touched off an unprecedented national wave of antiwar protests involving millions of youth.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/04/kent…
Four Dead in Ohio
Frank Joyce | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-04
If you are old enough, you will recognize that snippet from a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. If not, I am here to tell you that on May 4, 1970, four students were shot to death by members of the Ohio National Guard on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Nine others were wounded. | The students weren't doing anything wrong. Actually, they were doing something right. They were peacefully assembled to protest the U.S. war on Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia. They were part of an eruption of nationwide campus protests that followed President Nixon's announcement that the United States had launched a bom…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/04/four-dead-in-ohio-2/
The Anatomy of a Failing University
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-04
American universities are failing. They are private or public schools. They could be religiously-affiliated or not. They could be in the east, west, north, or south of the United States. They traditionally emphasized liberal arts. They are facing an enrollment and budget crunch for several years, seeing that the declining number of eighteen-year-olds in the coming years poses an existential threat. It has a modest endowment. It is not an elite school. It is a school like the one that many professors teach at. It was failing before Covid-19. It may not be around in five years. Wirth COVID-19, it may be around even…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/04/the-anatomy-of-a-failing-university/
Iran's corona diagnostic kits to be exported to Germany, Turkey: VP
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-04
TEHRAN, May 04 (MNA)
The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis Is Here
Matt Taibbi | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-04
| Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine