(2020-04-16). The Decade of Transformation: Being in Balance with Nature. globalresearch.ca This is the fourth newsletter in our series on the 2020s as a decade of transformation See
(2020-04-16). Video: Coronavirus: Economic and Social Collapse: Mass Unemployment, Bankruptcy, Poverty and Despair. globalresearch.ca 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. …
(2020-04-16). As COVID-19 pandemic rages, World Bank backs restructuring of education in Brazil. wsws.org 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.
(2020-04-16). The COVID-19 Impact on Academia from a Contingent Faculty Perspective. zcomm.org That sort of pedagogical movement might be just what is necessary for many of us — and for meaningful, transformative tertiary education — to survive the novel coronavirus era.
(2020-04-16). Intensifying Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, Trump Is Weaponizing Coronavirus. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). Boris Is Back as the Blame Game Begins in Britain. globalresearch.ca A humble Boris Johnson addressed the nation last weekend after his release from hospital. The British Prime Minister had been admitted the week before after succumbing to coronavirus. In his emotional address, he spoke of the 'love' which he had …
(2020-04-16). The Russians Get Blamed Again, but Who Is Really Subverting American Democracy? globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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, …
(2020-04-16). Are COVID-19 Death Certificates Being Manipulated? A Conversation with Dr. Annie Bukacek. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). Danish study reveals that coronavirus may be almost 20 TIMES less deadly than WHO predicted. rt.com 
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…
(2020-04-16). 74 Million in Arab Region at Risk of COVID-19, Access to Clean Water: UN Report. globalresearch.ca The …
(2020-04-16). COVID-19 Prompts Austerity Budget in Detroit. globalresearch.ca 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 majority African American municipality (79 …
(2020-04-16). Ukraine to Build Military Base in the Sea of Azov. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). The Coronavirus and the Economic Crisis this Time. globalresearch.ca "…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" — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. | Crises — not regular downturns but major crises — …
(2020-04-16). COVID-19: How Big Pharma and Big Philanthropy Consume the World. counterpunch.org 
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
(2020-04-16). Are American Cities on the Path to Bankruptcy? globalresearch.ca According to financial watchdog Truth in Accounting's
(2020-04-16). Trump Regime Immunity Certificates for Mass Vaxxing and Population Control. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). Video: Syria and Iraq Launch Operations Against ISIS in Border Area. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). Coronavirus Pandemic Has Shown that Mediterranean Europe Does Not Need THE EU. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). More Than 40 Entities in China Donate Health Materials to Cuba. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). Visà£o Factual Epidemiológica: Portugal é um dos países mais perigosos do mundo na Covid-19. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). How Top Labour Officials Plotted to Bring Down Jeremy Corbyn. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). The Russia-Saudi Oil-Price War Is a Fraud and a Farce. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). Science Saturday: The new super power of handwashing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 …
(2020-04-16). Elizabeth Warren Joins the Biden Bandwagon, Betrays Supporters. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). In Palestine, COVID-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). "World War C" Presents a Host of Challenges for Central Asia. globalresearch.ca 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 …
(2020-04-16). Star proves Einstein's theory as it orbits supermassive black hole in stunning 'SPIROGRAPH' pattern (VIDEO). rt.com 
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…
(2020-04-16). 50 Headlines: Welcome to the "New Normal" globalresearch.ca Our erstwhile collaborators at Always remember that these Measures are for your own good. Doubting The …
(2020-04-16). New Discovery to Make Green Energy Much More Efficient. sputniknews.com Scientists at the National Research University of Electronic Technology "MIET" (Moscow, Russia), together with colleagues from Lodz University of Technology (Lodz, Poland), have developed a material that allows increasing the production efficiency of promising methanol fuel by more than 20 times.
(2020-04-16). "Something Has Gone Wrong": UK Government, Banks Screw Up Coronavirus Loans, Small Firms Near Collapse. Better Results in Other Countries. globalresearch.ca Thanks to its Brexit planning, the UK should have been better positioned to help its small businesses through the coronavirus crisis than most of its European peers. In early 2019, the UK treasury, together with the business department and the …
(2020-04-16). Selected Articles: COVID-19: Why the US Has the Highest Infection Rate. globalresearch.ca Lying is a money making activity and lies are commodities. There is a profitable global market for media and public figures committed to spreading disinformation. | Needless to say, "Telling the Truth", on the other hand, Is Not a Money-Making Proposition. …
(2020-04-16). "Pure Baloney": Zoologist Debunks Trump's COVID-19 Origin Theory, Explains Animal-Human Transmission. democracynow.org 
With the largest one-day death toll in the U.S. yet — 2,400 in just 24 hours — President Trump is trying to deflect attention from his handling of the pandemic by waging a war on public health experts and science, threatening to cut World Health Organization funding and fueling a theory that the coronavirus came from a lab in Wuhan, China. We speak to a zoologist who has been sounding the alarm about a coming pandemic for years. "The idea that this virus escaped from a lab is just pure baloney," says Peter Daszak, disease ecologist and the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that works global…
(2020-04-16). China rejects news report about Covid-19 origin, says WHO found 'no evidence' virus was made in lab. rt.com 
China's Foreign Ministry has said that claims about the novel coronavirus originating in a lab are not based on science, citing the WHO as it rebuked the latest news story on Covid-19 'patient zero.' | "I want to remind you that the head of the [World Health Organization] has repeatedly stated that there is no evidence that the novel coronavirus has been produced in the laboratory," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters on Thursday. | He added that "many well-known medical experts in the world also believe that the claims about the so-called leak [of the virus] from a laboratory are not base…
(2020-04-16). Is American Exceptionalism Shaping Our Scientific Response to the Coronavirus? mintpressnews.com 
While New York City suffers through coronavirus, it's worth recalling that in the name of science in 1966, the U.S. government released bacteria in the New York subways. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
(2020-04-16). Bay Area Refuse Fascism Members Bang Pots, Call for Removal of Trump/Pence. indybay.org 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.
(2020-04-16). Zoologist Debunks Trump's COVID-19 Origin Theory, Calling It "Pure Baloney" truthout.org With the largest one-day death toll in the U.S. yet — 2,400 in just 24 hours — President Trump is trying to deflect attention from his handling of the pandemic by waging a war on public health experts and science, threatening to cut World Health Organization funding and fueling a theory that the coronavirus came from a lab in Wuhan, China. We speak to a zoologist who has been sounding the alarm about a coming pandemic for years. "The idea that this virus escaped from a lab is just pure ba…
(2020-04-16). Scientists discover potentially habitable planet. yenisafak.com Using data from a now-dead telescope, scientists have discovered an Earth-sized planet that may be capable of supporting life.Believed to be in the habitable zone of a star located around 300 light-years from Earth, a group of transatlantic scientists said that the temperature on the planet, called Kepler-1649c, could be similar to Earth's."This intriguing, distant world gives us even greater hope that a second Earth lies among the stars, waiting to be found," said Thomas Zurbuchen, an associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, of the discovery, based on data from the Kepler Space Telescope, w…
(2020-04-16). An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left. thenation.com Former leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left…
(2020-04-16). Medical students share their thoughts on joining the NHS frontline. imperial.ac.uk Newly-qualified doctors from Imperial College London have spoken about joining frontline NHS staff in the fight against COVID-19.
(2020-04-16). Iran sends plane to Russia to return stranded students. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 16 (MNA) — Spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) of Iran Reza Jafarzadeh confirmed the transfer of Iranian students from Moscow to Tehran amid the outbreak of coronavirus global pandemic.
(2020-04-16). It's the End of the World Economy as We Know It, Just Like the Great Recession. cepr.net Neil Irwin tells us there will be fundamental changes in the world economy as a result of the pandemic. While he repeats many things that are conventional wisdom, as is often the case, the conventional wisdom is not very wise. First, the pandemic is supposed to teach us the dangers of having foreign sources of …
(2020-04-16). How Ecuador Descended into COVID-19 Chaos. cepr.net In the last few days and weeks, media outlets around the world have been publishing shocking stories and images of the COVID-19 crisis in Ecuador. Scenes of corpses abandoned in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador's second-largest city, have shaken audiences in Latin America and beyond. Statistics, even the highly untrustworthy official ones, have confirmed the …
(2020-04-16). Due to COVID-19, We Had First March Since 2002 Without a School Shooting. truthout.org The nationwide lockdown to stem the rise of the coronavirus has had one silver lining — March 2020 was the first March since 2002 without a school shooting. | "Depressing on mulitple levels," Washington Post reporter Robert Klemko made the observation Monday morning on Twitter. | "Heartbreaking statistic," tweeted the Wall Street Journal's Robbie Whelan in re…
(2020-04-16). Comments on OMB's Considerations for Additional Measures of Poverty. cepr.net To: Office of the Chief Statistician Re: Response to OMB's Request for Comment on Considerations for Additional Measures of Poverty, Docket Number OMB-2019-0007 PDF The Process for Adopting Poverty Statistics OMB should immediately publish a notice extending the comment period on this notice until at least 30 days after the end of the current National …
(2020-04-15). Even during COVID-19, art 'brings us closer together than ever' — UN cultural agency. news.un.org With billions of people either in lockdown or on the front lines battling the COVID-19 pandemic, this first celebration of World Art Day is a timely reminder that "art has the power to unite and connect in times of crisis", the head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on Wednesday.
(2020-04-15). 'Slaying Goliath': Diane Ravitch on the fight to save America's public schools. peoplesworld.org 
In her new book Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools, Diane Ravitch writes with anger—but it's righteous anger, it's justified and it's what we need right now. Ravitch, a longtime education writer and a research professor of ed ≠u ≠cation at New York University, examines the forces determined …
(2020-04-15). Imperial welcomes world-leading health, research and education designation. imperial.ac.uk Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre has been redesignated an AHSC for a further five years.
(2020-04-15). DeVos Group, Right-Wing Fringe Organization Threaten Public Health. commondreams.org ______________________________…