Obamagate Shows Biden Is Inadequate in Challenging Trump
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Former U.S. President Barack Obama is coming under increasing pressure, led by what President Donald Trump is calling "Obamagate." This comes as Mexico has requested to finally clarify the affair with the secret sale of American weapons to Mexican drug …
globalresearch.ca/obamagate-shows-biden-inadequate-challenging-trump/5712924

EU Offers West Balkans €3.3 Billion as Forgiveness for Coronavirus Snub
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
The European Union promised ‚Ǩ3.3 billion to the West Balkan countries and provinces of Serbia, Montenegro Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia. In return, the European Union is demanding loyalty and renunciation of close ties with Moscow and Beijing. …
globalresearch.ca/eu-offers-west-balkans-billion-forgiveness-coronavirus-snub/5712802

Will Turkey Contract Its Militarism Because of Its Economic Problems?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
A report by New Economy found that "Turkey had significant foreign exchange outflows" because of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's costly wars. The report also found that "Turkey's probability of bankruptcy is extremely high," along with its three big banks …
globalresearch.ca/will-turkey-contract-militarism-because-economic-problems/5712732

India Is Intensifying Its U.S. Backed Hybrid War on China
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Whether it's India's latest clashes with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), its selective embrace of "economic nationalism" to "poach" foreign companies from the People's Republic, or its forthcoming leadership of the World Health Assembly (WHA) where it …
globalresearch.ca/india-intensifying-american-backed-hybrid-war-china/5712884

Don't Expect to See Trump's Tax Returns Before the Election
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Donald Trump claims that while he is president, his pre-presidency financial records can't be subpoenaed and he can't even be investigated for criminal conduct. The Supreme Court will decide by the end of June whether Trump is indeed beyond the …
globalresearch.ca/dont-expect-see-trump-tax-returns-before-election/5712890

US Imperialism's Decomposition Accelerates: Outsourcing 'Regime Change'. Mercenary Incursions into Venezuela
Francisco Dominguez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
On May 3rd a bunch of mercenaries, led by Rambo-like US soldiers of fortune attempted to disembark on the coastal town of Macuto in the La Guaira state in Venezuela's Caribbean coast, in a so-called Operation Gedeon. | Their leader, 'contractor' …
globalresearch.ca/us-imperialism-regime-change/5712893

Ohio University lays off 140 workers amid massive statewide cuts to higher education
wsws.org | 2020-05-14
New layoffs and furloughs are in response to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine's $775 million budget cut, with $110 million to be cut from higher education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/14/layo…

The Future is Up for Grabs
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-14
When it comes to cashing in on Covid-19, the race has just begun. Whether you're talking about education or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-democratic, dystopian future is being charted while we the people are locked down, locked up and locked out. Naomi Klein's latest piece, "Screen New Deal" in the Intercept,…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/14/the-future-is-up-for-grabs/

Emergency Rallies/Press Conferences & Car Caravan to Stop the Destruction of CCSF
HEAT Higher Education Action Team | indybay.org | 2020-05-14
CCSF Mission Campus | 1125 Valencia St. | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/13/18833019.php

Imperial MBBS medics deliver action plans for London GPs and local communities
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-14
Third-year medical students have partnered with community, voluntary, health & social care leaders to respond to local needs in the era of COVID-19.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197237/imperial-mbbs-medics-deliver-action-plans

Africa: Lesotho Reports First COVID-19 Case
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
Lesotho Health Minister Nkaku Kabi announced on May 13 the first COVID-19 positive case in his nation. Lesotho is the latest African country to report the virus outbreak. | RELATED: | Cuba Rejects US Terrorism Accusations, as Habana Blacklisted | According to Kabi, 81 people were tested given their recent traveling chart. The positive patient is a Lesothan student who returned from Saudi Arabia via South Africa, with no visible symptoms. The health authorities decided to isolate…
telesurenglish.net/news/africa-lesotho-reports-first-covid19-case-20200514-0003.html

Australian pseudo-left groups try to rescue university union from outrage over sellout deal
wsws.org | 2020-05-14
The NTEU's deal with the employers exposes the desperate efforts of pseudo-left groups to prevent a revolt by university workers and students against the union.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/14/left…

AI-Powered Medical "Pre-Crime" Is Officially Here To "Fight COVID-19"
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-14
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 (5/13/19). 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 …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/ai-powered-medical-pre-crime-officially-here-fight-covid-19/

US Government Fails to Prevent a Worsening Economic Downturn
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
As leaders of the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives in the United States attempt to pass new legislation introduced on May 12 costing $3 trillion which is aimed at providing assistance to state and local governments, households and healthcare workers, the …
globalresearch.ca/government-fails-prevent-worsening-economic-downturn/5712870

COVID-19 Response Fund: Cutting-edge technologies advance coronavirus fight
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-14
Imperial researchers are driving forward the fight against coronavirus with new healthcare innovations and data insights.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197517/covid-19-response-fund-cutting-edge-technologies-advance

The COVID-19 Chronicles: USA
Ulson Gunnar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
The US is claimed to be hardest hit by COVID-19 with, at the time of writing, over 80,000 deaths attributed to the virus. The nation is also suffering from socioeconomic disaster as lockdowns have driven millions of Americans into not …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-chronicles-usa/5712850

Ousted Vaccine Agency Director Will Testify That Our "Darkest Winter" Is Ahead
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-14
Rick Bright, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), is testifying before Congress today, and it's going to be 40 miles of bad road for Donald Trump. It is also going to be the hard, unvarnished truth the entire country needs to hear. | Earlier in the week, Trump had to suffer through the congressional testimony of his hostage, Anthony Fauci, who contradicted Trump's lethal happy talk about reopening the country while the COVID pandemic still…
truthout.org/articles/ousted-vaccine-agency-director-will-testify-that-our-darkest-winter-is-ahead/

Revealed: Secretive British Unit Planning for 'Reconstruction' of Venezuela
John McEvoy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have exposed a secretive Foreign Office unit aimed at the 'reconstruction' of Venezuela. The files also reveal private discussions between Venezuelan opposition figures and UK officials, detailing proposals for the promotion of …
globalresearch.ca/british-unit-planning-reconstruction-venezuela/5712896

April 2020 Rockefeller Foundation Paper Urges Testing and Tracing Entire US Population
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
A 2020 Rockefeller Foundation Paper now proposes the next phase of the solution to the coronavirus crisis

A World Health Crisis? So Ramp Up Confrontation and Deploy Nuclear Bombers against China, Russia, Iran and North Korea
Brian Cloughley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
The Pentagon is excelling itself in its enthusiastic march to war. There are countless thousands suffering from the effects of the Covid-19 virus, including hundreds of members of the U.S. armed services, while the world's despots are relishing their freedom …
globalresearch.ca/world-health-crisis-ramp-up-confrontation-deploy-nuclear-bombers/5712909

Beijing opposes 'US slander' after it says 'China-linked hackers breaking into Covid-19 research'
rt.com | 2020-05-14
China's Foreign Ministry, asked about alleged China-linked hackers breaking into US Covid-19 research, said Beijing opposed what it called slander from the US. | Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian added on Thursday that any action online to sabotage efforts against the disease should be condemned. | In a joint statement on Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security said China-linked hackers are breaking into US organizations carrying out such research. | The FBI is investigating digital break-ins at US organizations by China-linked 'cyber actors' that it had monitored "a…
rt.com/newsline/488614-china-us-slander-hackers/

Unholy Shambles: Johnson's COVID Response Falling Apart at the Edges
Ian Dunt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
As soon as they had to do anything, the whole thing fell down. From the slogan, to the statement, to the guidance, it is an unholy shambles, a near-ceaseless demonstration of cack-handed inadequacy. | It's not like they didn't have time …
globalresearch.ca/johnson-covid-response-falling/5712841

Germany Split on Banning US Nuclear Weapons on Its Territory
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
NATO has a "sharing" treaty with Berlin where it delivers to Germany dozens of nuclear warheads, which are deposited in Buchel, at Ramstein Air Force Base. | The presence of these weapons in German territory has been controversial for a long …
globalresearch.ca/germany-split-banning-us-nuclear-weapons-territory/5712928

Beginning of the End of German Support for NATO
MISH | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Make way for the Greens and the Leftists. They do not want US nuclear weapons on German soil. |

| Three Consequences | Germany | …
globalresearch.ca/end-german-support-nato/5712911

Cuban Interferon Proven Effective Against COVID-19
Orfilio Peláez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Since the appearance, March 11, of the first cases of COVID-19 in Cuba, the country's Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) has reported that the inclusion of Recombinant Human Interferon Alpha 2b in treatment protocols for these patients has shown positive …
globalresearch.ca/cuban-interferon-proven-effective-against-covid-19/5712903

Is COVID-19 Killing Democracy?
Guy Verhofstadt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
Global media are so consumed by the public-health and economic consequences of COVID-19 that they have failed to pay adequate attention to growing political and institutional risks. In fact, if we are not careful, the biggest casualty of COVID-19 could …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-killing-democracy/5712915

British journo branded 'vile' after saying teachers should 'step up' & show 'same bravery' as health workers amid Covid-19 crisis
rt.com | 2020-05-14
British journalist Isabel Oakeshott has provoked a fiery backlash after claiming teachers must "step up" and show the "same bravery" as health workers by returning to school to educate kids as Covid-19 lockdown measures are eased. | Oakeshott

US Jobless Rate Broke Depression-Era Record–but Most Media Missed It
Dave Lindorff | fair.org | 2020-05-13
The New York Times (5/9/20) featured a chart of job losses that stretched all the way down the front page. | The Bureau of Labor Statistics' eagerly awaited Friday morning Official Unemployment Rate report for April–what editors generally call the BLS's "headline" rate of unemployment –was definitely headline-worthy. This was especially evident in the next day's New York Times (5/9/20), which ran a bar chart of historic unemployment going back to 1946 across the top of the front page, and then a long red bar down the right-hand column of the entire page showing job losses for April. | It was a drama…
fair.org/home/us-jobless-rate-broke-depression-era-record-but-most-media-missed-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-jobless-rate-broke-depression-era-record-but-most-media-missed-it

Britain's Political-media Complex in the COVID-19 War
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
It is not as if the battle of information warfare has not been going on for some time now. It was amply demonstrated in the runup to Brexit, throughout the three years to last December and is now fully deployed …
globalresearch.ca/britain-political-media-complex-covid-19/5712905

Selected Articles: More on COVID-19, Economic Crisis and NATO
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-14
To say that the public has become disillusioned and wary of constant doomsday media reports and news coverage is a gross understatement

The "Zionist Virus" and the Future of Palestine
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
To me, an American-Palestinian, the world tainted by the corona virus is analogous to Israel tainted by the evil it contains. | Every day for the past few days, I have been listening to New York Governor Cuomo give his daily …
globalresearch.ca/governor-cuomo-virus-nakba-me/5712787

Pompeo in Israel
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
At a time of COVID-19 related lockdowns and social distancing in most countries, Pompeo showed up in Israel Tuesday. | He came to meet with and bolster Netanyahu ahead of his upcoming trial to start later this month for bribery, fraud, …
globalresearch.ca/pompeo-israel/5712754

The Longterm Social Impacts from Economic Collapse and COVID-19 Outbreaks
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Economic collapse that's harming most ordinary people in the US, West, and elsewhere

A Close Look at Efforts of Pro-NATO Propaganda Units Behind the Scenes of South Front Censorship
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Pro-NATO propaganda units have broadcasted a new episode of their censorship excuse series. | On May 5th, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), published a new piece designed to label SouthFront as official Russian propaganda. ( LINK…
globalresearch.ca/efforts-pro-nato-propaganda-units-south-front-censorship/5712741

Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools
Sarah Lahm | progressive.org | 2020-05-13
For education "disruptors" like Bill Gates and Betsy DeVos, COVID-19 isn't a crisis–it's an opportunity.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/billionaires-threat-public-schools/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 research at Mayo Clinic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Thanks to its combination of practice, education, and research, Mayo Clinic has a strong foundation to respond quickly to a medical crisis such as COVID-19. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread worldwide, a research task force was formed at Mayo Clinic to review and approve research proposals related to the virus and the disease it causes. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-covid-19-research-at-mayo-clinic/

New York City education department, backed by teachers union, downplayed virus threat
wsws.org | 2020-05-13
An exposé in the journal the City demonstrates that New York City officials systematically downplayed the threat of the coronavirus to New York City students and educators…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/13/newy…

Stir Crazy! Episode #33: Not Safe For Work From Home
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-05-13
On today's show: TRNN visual producer Andrew Corkery, political consultant and community organizer Marcus Ferrell, and managing director of K-12 education for the Center for American Progress Dr. Khalilah Harris. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episode-33-not-safe-for-work-from

Imperial expands teaching of digital skills through executive education offer
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-13
The Business School has launched a series of programmes designed to help executives sharpen their digital skills and prepare for the future of work.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197518/imperial-expands-teaching-digital-skills-through

Connecting Patients: COVID-19 and transplant patients
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Mayo Clinic Connect is an online community where you can share your experiences and find support from people like you. You can also read Mayo Clinic expert blogs and take part in educational events. COVID-19 and Transplant Patients "As a kidney transplant recipient I have been extra vigilant/worried about protecting myself as COVID-19 spreads. Like …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/connecting-patients-covid-19-and-transplant-patients/

Fifty Years Ago: The Lessons of Kent State. Open Fire on Unarmed Student Anti-War Protesters
Donald Monaco | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
May 4, 2020 was the 50th anniversary of the Kent State University massacre that saw Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on a group of unarmed student anti-war protestors killing 4 and injuring 9 on campus. Not satisfied with the …
globalresearch.ca/lessons-kent-state/5712734

Florida College Student Arrested After Mass Shooting Threats
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-13
A 36-year-old student from the University of Florida was arrested after threatening to carry out a mass shooting at the Virginia State Polytechnic University campus. | RELATED: | US: Four Dead in a Shooting at Pensacola Naval Air Base | James Robert Kelly threatened to perform the attack if a journalist for the Independent Florida Alligator college newspaper made no changes to an article about him. | According to that publication, Kelly presented an ultimatum to society and threatened…
telesurenglish.net/news/Florida-College-Student-Arrested-After-Mass-Shooting-Threats-20200513-0014.html

78 Percent of Mountain Areas Are Undergoing a Snow Decline
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-13
Italy's applied research center EURAC holds that the snow surface of the world's mountain areas has decreased by 78 percent as a result of global warming. | RELATED: | Hole in the Ozone Layer Over Arctic Is Closed, WMO Confirms | Using data from 2000 to 2018, this scientific institution created a map of global snow coverage using high-resolution satellite imagery, field measurements, and simulation models. | The result reveals a worrying situation because the duration of the snow s…
telesurenglish.net/news/78-Percent-of-Mountain-Areas-Are-Undergoing-a-Snow-Decline-20200513-0006.html

PSY-OP COVID-19: Under House Arrest!
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Are we lab rats? Milgram-Asch-Laborit | In this article, I refer to the experience of countries that are confined in an authoritarian and arbitrary manner, with more than 3 billion human beings under the authority of a few people and under …
globalresearch.ca/psy-op-covid-19-under-house-arrest/5712701

HR 6666: The Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act. Towards a Totalitarian State?
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
And so it begins with the first Congressional effort to codify what may be the first of many unconstitutional legislative attempts to create a totalitarian One World Government under the guise of attacking the coronavirus COVID 19. | Some weeks ago …
globalresearch.ca/hr-6666-first-legislative-effort-codify-cv-response/5712581

Return of the Brown Shirts? US Federal and State Governments to Hire Contact Tracers to 'Hunt Down New Covid-19 Cases
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
The US federal and state governments are now hiring "Contact Tracers" to track those who are infected with the Coronavirus. The Daily Beast, a liberal online news site claims that in order to reopen businesses and institutions, the government needs …
globalresearch.ca/us-federal-state-governments-hire-contact-tracers-hunt-down-new-covid-19-cases/5712782

Lockdown Will Kill an Additional 18,000 Cancer Patients That Wouldn't Have Died Otherwise, Cancer Doctors Calculate
Denis Campbell | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-13
Almost 18,000 more people with cancer in England could die after the coronavirus pandemic led hospitals to suspend treatment and deterred patients from seeking NHS care, research has found. | Cancer experts claim that an extra 6,270 people in England who have been newly diagnosed with the disease could die from it over the next 12 months as a direct result of the disruption caused by [insane response to the] coronavirus, and the additional toll taking into account all those living with ca…
anti-empire.com/lockdown-will-kill-an-additional-18000-uk-cancer-patients-that-wouldnt-have-died-otherwise-researchers-find/

Mayo Clinic receives $26 million from BARDA for COVID-19 convalescent plasma expanded access program
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-13
Mayo Clinic was awarded a $26 million contract today from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The financial support is for the Expanded Access Program (EAP) for convalescent plasma to fight COVID-19. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-receives-26-million-from-barda-for-covid-19-convalescent-plasma-expanded-access-program/

The Mind-blowing History at Fort Detrick
Ceng Jing | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
Since the Trump administration declared national emergency in mid-march over the rapid spread of COVID-19, the task of developing a vaccine has fallen on the U.S. Army's top virus research lab in Fort Detrick, located in suburban Maryland some 50 …
globalresearch.ca/mind-blowing-history-fort-detrick/5712760

German Foreign Policy Is a CIA Front
Aidan O'Brien | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-13
On March 30 Germany declared the important Lebanese political group, Hezbollah, to be a "terrorist" organization and banned it from German soil. By doing so it gratuitously increased the tension in the eastern Mediterranean and exposed Berlin's lack of credibility …
globalresearch.ca/german-foreign-policy-cia-front/5712571