(2020-05-27). Ecuador Protests New Neoliberal Measures Amid Lockdown. popularresistance.org Above photo: Ecuador protests against neoliberal measures during pandemic from Twitter. Protesters state that Lenin Moreno's government has made decisions that only benefit big companies and private banks. Unions, students, teachers, workers, and social organizations took to the streets in Quito as others followed from home in several cities Monday with a pot-banging protest. In Quito, Cuenca, and Guayaquil the protesters …
(2020-05-27). Launch Of Apartheid Off Campus. popularresistance.org Apartheid Off Campus was born officially just over a week ago and it could not have come at a better time, with the new and ever-mounting challenges the Palestinians have had to face. In this 7-day window, AOC acquired over 2000 followers across three social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. AOC has received far-reaching and overwhelming support from students and activists alike, enough to remind us that now is as perfect a time as any to launch an active, dynamic student-led movement for Palestine. | After an online-only (courtesy of the lockdown!) student campaign launch, hundreds of students a…
(2020-05-27). Washington's Tall Tale of Iranian-Al Qaeda Alliance. globalresearch.ca The U.S. assassination of
(2020-05-27). NYC schools and COVID-19: A failed response and a looming crisis. liberationnews.org 
The burden was put on teachers to make sure over 1.1 million students were fed and had a place to go during the pandemic at the expense of our own health.
(2020-05-27). It's official: coronavirus has shown that men and women still don't have equality. thecanary.co 
New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has
(2020-05-27). Video: Dr. Ron Paul's Urgent Coronavirus Message for Every American. globalresearch.ca 
Most Americans will be blindsided by what's about to happen… | But not those who learn the critical steps necessary to protect yourself and your family from what's coming next. | |
(2020-05-27). NYU Response To Grad Student Sickout Puts Fall Semester In Question. therealnews.com 
On May 6-8, NYU's graduate students held a three-day sickout to try and force the administration to commit to additional financial support for students in the wake of the novel coronavirus. | The students of NYU are echoing the demands of students at other universities: summer funding, a one-year extension of current funding packages, committing to not have a hiring freeze, and support for undocumented students. But NYU's refusal to engage with the graduate students is especially galling given the university's endowment is, by its own accounting, $4.3 billion. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (C…
(2020-05-27). Life in Hell: Online Teaching. counterpunch.org 
I had long heard rumors from academicians about how "online teaching is a nightmare," "online teaching ruined my life," "online teaching sucked the brains out of my head," "online teaching is a new and insidious form of labor degradation," and the like. I foolishly tended to write these complaints off as hyperbole, saying "it can't be that bad." No more. I get it now.
(2020-05-27). From 9/11 to COVID-19: The United State[s] of Emergency. mintpressnews.com 
CHARLOTTESVILLE ( Pity them because they have spent their entire lives in a state of emergency. | They were born in the wake of the 9/11 attacks; raised without any expectation of privacy in a technologically-driven, mass surveillance state; educated in schools that teach conformity and compliance; saddled with a debt-ridden economy on the brink…
(2020-05-27). EU Trying To Take Over Serbia-Kosovo Negotiations From U.S. globalresearch.ca French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas
(2020-05-27). Iran and Venezuela: Standing Tall Against Imperial USA. globalresearch.ca If all nations operated like Iran and Venezuela, world peace and stability would replace endless wars of aggression against nations threatening no one. | If countries worldwide refused to subordinate their sovereign rights to US interests, its imperial scourge would be …
(2020-05-27). Hong Kong and China's New National Security Strategy. US Interventionism. Beijing is Intent on Fighting Back. globalresearch.ca Months of violence and vandalism in Hong Kong last year were orchestrated. | Any pretext will do for the US to wage wars on other nations by hot and/or other means — directly by terror-bombing and/or use of proxies, financed and …
(2020-05-27). Pakistan's Role in Russia's Greater Eurasian Partnership. globalresearch.ca Connectivity is one of the key trends of the 21st century, which Russia is fully embracing with its Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP) in order to counteract the chaotic processes unleashed throughout the course of the ongoing systemic transition from unipolarity …
(2020-05-27). The US Rubbished Another Arms Control Regime as Part of Its Risky Renegotiating Gamble. globalresearch.ca The US' planned withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty represents yet another rubbishing of the international arms control regimes that helped maintain strategic stability after the end of the Old Cold War, with this dramatic move and the others like …
(2020-05-27). Universities to Grad Students: Drop Dead. thenation.com Universities to Grad Students: Drop Dead…
(2020-05-27). Survey shows 1 in 5 teachers—citing COVID-19 concerns—likely won't return to US schools this fall. nationofchange.org "Though Americans are optimistic about a return to in-person learning, there is angst among teachers, parents, and America at large about how to keep our schools safe if the virus isn't fully contained."
(2020-05-27). A Gilead-Remdesivir Fix: The Ten Percent Solution. cepr.net The Washington Post had an excellent piece documenting how the government put up most of the money for developing remdesivir, a drug that now offers the hope of being the first effective treatment for the coronavirus. As the piece explains, in spite of the substantial contribution of public funds, Gilead Sciences holds a patent monopoly …
(2020-05-27). Science Group Joins Lawsuit to Reverse Vehicle Standards Rollback. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2020-05-27). COVID Racial Data Tracker: Ibram X. Kendi on How Better Data Reveals the True Toll of the Pandemic. democracynow.org 
Ibram X. Kendi says early media coverage of COVID-19 as "the great equalizer" missed the racial impact of the disease. But it soon became clear "that it was Latino Americans and African Americans and Native Americans in particular who were disproportionately being infected and dying." The award-winning author and founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University joins us to discuss why he started the COVID Racial Data Tracker.
(2020-05-27). From George Floyd to Chris Cooper: Ibram X. Kendi on "Racist Terror" Facing Black People in America. democracynow.org 
"I can't breathe" — that's what George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, repeatedly told a white Minneapolis police officer who pinned him to the ground Monday with a knee to his neck. Video of the police attack went viral. Now four officers have been fired. This comes as another video went viral of a white woman calling the cops on a Black man in New York City's Central Park and falsely accusing him of "threatening her life" after he asked her to leash her dog. We discuss these developments and more with Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American Univer…
(2020-05-27). Don't Kill Our Campus! CCSF Art Students Do Art & MusicTo Save Ft. Mason & Stop Sell-offs. indybay.org San Francisco City College art students had a modeling class at the Ocean campus to call for the protection of the campus at Ft. Mason. The pro-privatization interim chancellor supported by the CCSF Board of Trustees President Shanell Williams and the board majority supported the appointment of former corrupt Chancellor Mark Rocha's crony Dianne Gonzalez. Gonzalez is attacking the ESL program by firing faculty and wants to sell or shutdown campuses.
(2020-05-27). Memorial Day Peace Caravan/Demonstrators Drive to Donate to Homeless in San Jose. indybay.org On May 25, a Peace Caravan of activists drove in decorated cars through the streets of San Jose to demand human rights to health, housing, education, a living wage and all the components of a dignified life. The colorful caravan of about a dozen cars ended their protest at a homeless encampment where they made a donation and received thanks from Scott Wagers who serves and ministers to the city's unhoused.
(2020-05-27). 'Obsessive partisanship': Pew Research blasted for misleading tweet casting Dem districts as doing better on Covid-19 deaths. rt.com 
The Pew Research Center is being criticized on social media for appearing to spin a graphic depicting deaths from the coronavirus outbreak in favor of Democrats — despite the actual data painting a very different picture. | "Covid-19 deaths have declined in Democratic congressional districts since mid-April, but remained relatively steady in districts controlled by Republicans," the research body tweeted on Wednesday. | While the statement was technically true, it didn't quite match up with the data presented. According to Pew, and based on numbers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Democratic district…
(2020-05-27). Covid-19 and HIV use same tactics to evade our immune systems — Chinese study. rt.com 
In rather worrying news, researchers in China are warning that similar characteristics and tactics used by both HIV and SARS-CoV-2 could mean that humanity will have to adapt to life with the coronavirus, perhaps indefinitely. | Both viruses remove markers, known as the major histocompatibility complex or MHC for short, on the surface of cells used by our immune systems to identify and kill infections. Think of these markers like a special forces team marking a target with a laser before a precision airstrike. | The researchers, led by virologist Zhang Hui at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, collected kill…
(2020-05-27). California homeless deaths multiply as Covid-19 lockdowns cut off access to medical care, food & sanitation. rt.com 
Deaths of homeless people have spiked amid the Covid-19 pandemic — but not because of the virus. Lockdowns have deprived them of everything from medical care, to begging income, to soap and water, while shelter remains elusive. | San Francisco saw 48 deaths among its homeless population over the last two months, more than triple the fatalities seen during the same period last year, according to the city's Department of Public Health Street Medicine Team, which shared the grim statistics with the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday. An average of six homeless people have died every week since the city's lo…
(2020-05-27). Germany sees SURGE in anti-Semitic and 'politically motivated' crime. rt.com 
The German government has voiced alarm over the threat from the far right, after new figures showed a dramatic increase in anti-Semitic and politically motivated crime. | Anti-Semitic attacks rose by 13 percent in 2019, with more than 2,032 incidents recorded, and the number of politically motivated crimes surged 14 percent to 41,177. | The statistics were presented by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and the chief of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger Munch, at a media conference in Berlin. According to the data, more than a half of politically motivated crimes in 2019 were connected to the far right,…
(2020-05-27). Germany sees SURGE in anti-Semitic and 'politically-motivated' crime. rt.com The German government has voiced alarm over the threat from the far right, after new figures showed a dramatic increase in anti-Semitic and politically motivated crime. | Anti-Semitic attacks rose by 13 percent in 2019, with more than 2,032 incidents recorded, and the number of politically motived crimes surged 14 percent to 41,177. | The statistics were presented by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and the chief of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger Munch, at a media conference in Berlin. According to the data, more than a half of politically motivated crimes in 2019 were connected to the far right, w…
(2020-05-27). Majority voice non-democratic? Amid new protests, MSM piece grills Chinese students for voting to reject pro-Hong Kong resolution. rt.com 
As violence yet again grips the streets of Hong Kong, a fresh clash between Chinese students and a writer for website Axios shows how Western pundits are back demanding the people take a stand for 'pro-democracy' protesters. | Hong Kong's streets have once more become the scene of clashes between protesters and riot police as of last week. On Wednesday, officers used pepper pellets to disperse crowds at the city's financial heart. The fresh wave of demonstrations was triggered by a national security law proposed by Beijing, which would ramp up security in the autonomous Chinese city. | | ©REUTERS / Tyro…
(2020-05-27). Huawei Disappointed by Canadian Court Ruling, Believes Judicial System Will Vindicate CFO. sputniknews.com After a Canadian court ruled against Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on Wednesday in her extradition case to the US on fraud charges, the company said it has faith her innocence will ultimately be maintained.
(2020-05-27). Space X Launches First Crewed Mission to the ISS – Video. sputniknews.com This is going to be the first launch of NASA astronauts from the US since the end of the space shuttle programme in 2011.
(2020-05-27). Minister cannot say whether all primary pupils will return before holidays. thecanary.co It is "difficult to say" whether the government's ambition to bring back all primary school children to school before the summer holidays will come to fruition, an education minister has said. | Schools standards minister Nick Gibb did not confirm that the government's proposal had been given the green light, but he suggested that rotas could be used if there is wider reopening. | The government previously announced its ambition for all primary school pupils in England to go back to school for a month before the summer break began in July and August. | But Gibb told MPs that the final decision will be led by the…
(2020-05-27). Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don't Distance. globalresearch.ca Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products: the tracking bracelet. | Body monitors are associated with criminality and guilt in the …
(2020-05-27). Trump Administration Again OKs Oil Drilling in California's Carrizo Plain National Monument. globalresearch.ca On the eve of a holiday weekend and during a global pandemic, the Trump administration last week
(2020-05-27). Erdogan Warns that Turkey 'Will Not Allow' Israel to Annex West Bank. globalresearch.ca Turkey's President "We are witnessing a new plan of occupation…
(2020-05-27). Fog Around COVID-19 Made Thicker by New Ontario Rules for Handling Deaths. globalresearch.ca Alarming COVID-19 death statistics from seniors' facilities continue to be in the spotlight in Ontario and elsewhere. | However, all is not as it seems in the mainstream-media reports of those statistics. | Procedures that came into effect in Ontario one month …
(2020-05-27). I Can't Breathe. Police Brutality and Social Arrest. globalresearch.ca Every year in the U.S. more than 1,000 poor working people of all races and ethnicities are killed by police. | While President Trump and GOP encourage and glorify police brutality, the Democratic establishment and their functionaries with their racialist politics, …
(2020-05-27). When the War Was Close to Home. globalresearch.ca Memories are like those fireflies that sparkle your vision on a deep hot summer night. They entice you with their sudden appearance and just as sudden departure. So it is with this baby boomer's mind, transversed back so many decades …
(2020-05-27). Ego Trip: US Space Flags and Super-Duper Missiles. globalresearch.ca US President Donald Trump is much taken with the bombastic and the exaggerated. In
(2020-05-27). From 9/11 to COVID-19, It's Been a Perpetual State of Emergency. globalresearch.ca "The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to …
(2020-05-27). All The Numbers Are Wrong, Not Just COVID & They're Being Used To Justify "Immunity Passports" 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 (5/26/20). 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 …
(2020-05-27). The Montreal Nursing Homes' COVID-19 Fatalities. "Increasing" Quebec COVID-19 Death Rate? globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention of our readers this important article by author William Walter Kay. The article raises two fundamental issues: | The first pertains to the deplorable heath care conditions (and the lack of personnel) affecting patients in Quebec's …
(2020-05-27). Israel Reveals Date of Planned West Bank Annexation. globalresearch.ca The head of the Governmental Coalition in Israel, Mickey Zohar, revealed that the measures to legislate the process of imposing Israeli sovereignty on all Jewish residential communities in the West Bank will begin in early July. | The Likud MP said …
(2020-05-27). Unemployment skyrockets among youth. wsws.org A large body of research shows that young people, especially those without a college degree, are particularly vulnerable during economic downturns.
(2020-05-27). Selected Articles: US-China Relations. Are We Seeing a New Cold War? globalresearch.ca We hope that by publishing diverse view points, submitted by journalists and experts dotted all over the world, the website can serve as a reminder that no matter what narrative we are presented with, things are rarely as cut and …
(2020-05-27). The Campaign Against Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Clearing the Way for A Big Pharma Vaccine. globalresearch.ca The Covid-19 pandemic has brought out many disturbing features of our society. Misinformation, or perhaps more accurately, disinformation, abounds in the service of agendas ranging from those who interpret the virus as a useful ploy for the construction of a …
(2020-05-26). A History Of Mutual Aid Has Prepared POC For This Moment. popularresistance.org Southern Solidarity has gone from 24 daily meal distributions to 250. | "We're doing this because capitalism is making survival impossible," Araujo says. | She plans to meet with researchers and academics to develop a guidebook on how to create a mutual aid project during a pandemic but, in the meantime, she has advice for those of us interested in lending a hand: "Assess and observe," she says. "Do not mimic colonizer actions. Connect to existing institutions. And, most of all, insert your radical imagination."
(2020-05-26). Stay Home, Stay Safe, Be Kind: What New Zealand Can Teach the World About Eliminating COVID-19. democracynow.org 
New Zealand implemented one of the earliest lockdowns and has largely succeeded in eliminating the coronavirus under the leadership of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Some of the country's success has been attributed to her leadership, trust in science, and clear communication during the crisis. We get an update from Michael Baker, professor of public health at the University of Otago in Wellington, New Zealand. He is an epidemiologist and a member of the New Zealand Ministry of Health's Technical Advisory Group. Baker has been advising the government on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their slogan is "Stay…
(2020-05-26). Video: Turkey Dives Into Libyan Conflict. globalresearch.ca The Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) and Syrian militants supported by the Turkish military have achieved more gains in their battle against the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. | GNA forces have captured the …
(2020-05-26). Trump administration weaponizes lies and conspiracies instead of solutions. peoplesworld.org 
In an interview for CBS in early May, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seemed unable to distinguish between conspiracies or science. In almost one breath, the Harvard law graduate told a reporter earlier this month that "enormous evidence" exists to say that the virus that causes COVID-19 is "man made." He, then, immediately stated, …
(2020-05-26). Reparations — Has the Time Finally Come? aclu.org 
During a lull one afternoon when I was a high school student selling Black Panther Party newspapers on the streets of downtown Washington, D.C., in 1971, I sat down on the curb and opened the tabloid to the 10-point program, ""We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules … promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor…