Monthly Archives: May 2020

2020-05-11: Social Media Postees

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Trump responsible for deaths in US and globally because of Covid-19 response, says Chomsky
rt.com | 2020-05-11
Donald Trump is culpable for deaths in the US and beyond due to his Covid-19 pandemic response, according to Noam Chomsky, from making states deal with the crisis individually to cutting the World Health Organization funding. | The progressive activist and author is less than pleased with the president's coronavirus response, and insists his small government attitude and slashing of healthcare and research funds has put the US in a poor position to handle a pandemic. | …
rt.com/usa/488381-chomsky-trump-coronavirus-deaths/

Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies' victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or …
globalresearch.ca/victory-europe-day-american-corporations-aided-nazi-germany/5712411

Fake Coronavirus Data, Fear Campaign. Spread of the COVID-19 Infection
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Do not let yourself be misled by the fear campaign, pointing to a Worldwide coronavirus calamity with repeated "predictions" that hundreds of thousands of people are going to die. | According to the WHO, the death rate pertaining to Seasonal Influenza globally is between 6 to 12 times higher than COVID-19.
globalresearch.ca/fake-coronavirus-data-fear-campaign-spread-of-the-covid-19-infection/5708643

Fake Coronavirus Data, Fear Campaign. Spread of the COVID-19 Infection
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Do not let yourself be misled by the fear campaign, pointing to a Worldwide coronavirus calamity with repeated "predictions" that hundreds of thousands of people are going to die. | According to the WHO, the death rate pertaining to Seasonal Influenza globally is between 6 to 12 times higher than COVID-19.
globalresearch.ca/fake-coronavirus-data-fear-campaign-spread-of-the-covid-19-infection/5708643

Leaked UK Doc Shows Mandated Remote-Working Plan for Obese Brits
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Being fat obese can double someone's risk of going to the hospital for severe COVID-19 symptoms, a new report published by the University of Glasgow concluded this week. With that being said, a leaked document from the UK government obtained …
globalresearch.ca/leaked-uk-doc-shows-mandated-remote-working-plan-obese-brits/5712437

Geopolitical Corridors: Did Iran Inadvertently Sacrifice "The India Chabahar Corridor" for the Sake of Afghan Border Security?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
The recent political crisis that exploded between Iran and Afghanistan after the former's security forces were accused of forcing over 50 of the latter's illegal immigrants into a river on their shared border (where the majority of them are thought …
globalresearch.ca/did-iran-sacrifice-chabahar-afghan-border-security/5712464

Venezuela: Full Silvercorp Contract Unveiled, Guaido Involved
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
According to the Washington Post, the document was provided by Venezuelan opposition officials on the condition that one of the attachments be redacted. Nonetheless, the text showcases the extent of the intervention financed by Juan Guaido and his supporters. | Some …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-full-silvercorp-contract-unveiled-guaido-involved/5712434

A Dirty Military Incursion into Venezuela
Prof. Vijay Prashad | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, speedboats left the Colombian coastlines and headed toward Venezuela. These boats had no authorization to cross the maritime border. They landed on the Venezuelan coastline at La Guaira. This was clearly …
globalresearch.ca/military-incursion-venezuela/5712489

Indifference Toward Public Health and Welfare in America. The COVID-19 Healthcare Fiasco
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
The US is the only developed nation without some form of universal healthcare coverage. | The world's richest country is indifferent toward the rights, needs, and welfare of its ordinary people in more normal times. | It's much the same at times …
globalresearch.ca/indifference-toward-public-health-welfare-america/5712460

Trump Regime Further Escalates War on China by Other Means
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
In early April, China's official People's Daily broadsheet slammed the Trump regime's unacceptable restrictions imposed on the country's journalists in the US. | It called hostile US actions a "clumsy performance (that) further exposed the hypocrisy of the self-styled advocate of …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-escalates-war-china-other-means/5712405

Effects of US Lockdowns v. Lifting Them
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
A University of Pennsylvania Wharton School model isn't encouraging. | Its analysis is world's apart from what the Trump regime suggests. | Wharton warned that if US lockdowns are lifted nationwide, businesses reopen, and pre-COVID-19 activities resume, eight million cases and 350,000 …
globalresearch.ca/effects-us-lockdowns-lifting-them/5712404

Reinventing History a US Specialty. The Role of the Soviet Union In Defeating Nazi Germany
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
The power of endlessly repeated propaganda gets most people to believe almost anything

Connecting Patients: COVID-19 and transplant patients
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-11
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/

Mayo Clinic's comprehensive COVID-19 research
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-11
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinics-comprehensive-covid-19-research/

Acknowledging Disorientation After COVID-19: Beyond Horizons of Fear and Doubt
Richard Falk | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
More than earlier crises of my lifetime, including the Great Depression, World War II, 9/11, the COVID-19 pandemic illuminates as never before, how precarious and uncertain is the future wellbeing, and possibly survival, of the human species. The concreteness, immediacy, …
globalresearch.ca/disorientation-after-covid-19-fear-doubt/5712420

Democratic Governor and UAW Collude with Auto Bosses to Force Return to Work in Michigan
Jessica Goldstein | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday that manufacturing will be officially allowed to reopen in the state on Monday, May 11. The announcement stands in contrast to Whitmer's same-day extension of the state's stay-at-home order until May 28. | "Manufacturing | …
globalresearch.ca/democratic-governor-uaw-collude-auto-bosses-force-return-work-michigan/5712415

Bees and the "Eternally Not Talked About"
Prof Susan Babbitt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Dostoevsky said former seminarians (which included many Russian radicals then) were "too complete, too hostile, too sharp and therefore too limited." That is, they were limited precisely by being too complete, by fitting all the pieces together, in a tight-fitting …
globalresearch.ca/bees-eternally-not-talked-about/5712422

Political Hope Rises
Radhika Desai | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
The COVID-19 pandemic appears to be peaking in the mostly Western countries worst affected so far, though it will continue to scythe down thousands for weeks to come. The virus could also return for a far worse second wave, and …
globalresearch.ca/political-hope-rises/5712440

How can you calm your mind?
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-11
Dr. Amit Sood is a former internal medicine physician at Mayo Clinic. He was director of research in the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and was chair of the Mind-Body Medicine Initiative at Mayo Clinic. He also contributed to the weekly "Something to Think About" posts on the Mayo Clinic News Network. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-can-you-calm-your-mind/

Video: The Well-Known Hazards of Coronavirus Vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Interviewed by Dr. J. Mercola
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,1 son of Sen. and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, both of whom were tragically murdered, has continued in the footsteps of these famously courageous men by …
globalresearch.ca/well-known-hazards-coronavirus-vaccines/5712494

Fears of Bolsonaro's Threat to the Amazon Realized as New Data Shows Rainforest Destruction Up 55%
Jessica Corbett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
"Bolsonaro is not only turning a blind eye as land grabbers, illegal loggers, and miners continue to plunder Indigenous territories during the pandemic, he plans to make things easier for them." | *** | Greenpeace on Friday warned of far-right Brazilian President …
globalresearch.ca/fears-bolsonaro-threat-amazon-realized-new-data-shows-rainforest-destruction/5712426

Mayo Clinic expert discusses potential neurological effects of COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-11
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can take a severe toll on the respiratory system. However, recent research suggests that the virus may also infect the nervous system. A study of patients with COVID-19 out of Wuhan, China found that possible neurological signs and symptoms caused by COVID-19 can include loss of taste and smell, …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-expert-discusses-potential-neurological-effects-of-covid-19/

Reality Check of US Allegations Against China on COVID-19
Xinhua | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Recently, some US politicians and media outlets have been fabricating preposterous allegations and lies of one kind or another in order to shift the blame to China for their inadequate response to COVID-19. | However, as Abraham Lincoln said, "You can …
globalresearch.ca/reality-check-us-allegations-against-china-covid-19/5712472

Don't Cage Our Oceans
Recirculating Farms Coalition | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
On Thursday May 7, 2020, amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the White House issued a controversial Executive Order to streamline permitting for industrial marine finfish farms and gut other protective regulatory processes for managing ocean wildlife and habitat. The move …
globalresearch.ca/dont-cage-our-oceans/5712431

Facebook Removes News Outlets in Latest Orwellian Purge
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Over the past three years, Facebook has been removing accounts for participating in what they call "coordinated inauthentic behavior" (CIB). According to Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, the Orwellian term refers to when "groups of pages or people work together …
globalresearch.ca/facebook-removes-news-outlets-latest-orwellian-purge/5712487

Kashmiri Oppression and Suffering. Self-Determination and the Derogation of Fundamental Civil Rights
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
There are certain basic freedoms to which all people are entitled. Foundational to all of them is self-determination. Once that principle is enshrined in any nation, such freedoms as speech, press, movement, etc. follow. People who live under any system …
globalresearch.ca/kashmiri-oppression-suffering/5712466

This Is Why You Can't Trust The Fact Checkers
Derrick Broze | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-11
For the last eight years I have worked as a writer, researcher, and investigative reporter for many well-known American independent media outlets. I have spent my time investigating digital surveillance technology, attacks on indigenous communities, and the overall growth of the government and corporate power. As someone working in this field, writing about topics which …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/censorship/this-is-why-you-cant-trust-the-fact-checkers/

Holy Land: Heads of Churches Voice Concern About Israel's Planned Annexation of West Bank Land
PHHLC | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
As a result of the stagnation of the Peace Process in the Middle East between the Israelis and Palestinians, an array of plans for Israel to unilaterally annex West Bank land, backed mainly by right-wing factions, raises serious and catastrophic …
globalresearch.ca/heads-churches-voice-concern-israel-planned-annexation-west-bank-land/5712474

Mayo Clinic receives $26 million from BARDA for COVID-19 convalescent plasma expanded access program
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-11
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/

Federal Appeals Court Allows US Military Base Construction in Okinawa Despite Environmental Concerns
Rebecca Salamacha | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the US military can construct a base in Okinawa, Japan, despite environmental activists' concerns over the base's construction threatening the local dugong population. The activists filed suit under the National Historic Preservation Act …
globalresearch.ca/federal-appeals-court-allows-us-military-base-construction-okinawa-despite-environmental-concerns/5712479

May 9th World War II Commemoration: Russian Victory, NATO Defeat
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
This article was originally published on New Eastern Outlook in July 2015. | On February 2nd, 1943, the 6th German Army, under the command of Field Marshall Von Paulus, and elements of the 4th Panzer Army, surrendered to the Red Army …
globalresearch.ca/may-9th-commemoration-russian-victory-nato-defeat/5712413

Global Research: Breaking Down Divisions and Building Dialogue
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
On GlobalResearch.ca, the view points we put forth are not selected in the interest of pushing a specific narrative, but rather in breaking down divisions and building a dialogue. We publish pieces by a wide variety of specialists including journalists …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-breaking-down-divisions-and-building-dialogue/5712527

Nuclear Weapons: The Anatomy of a U.S. STRATCOM "Disinfographic"
John Krzyzaniak | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
United States Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for the nation's nuclear weapons, recently released an imperially misleading infographic on Twitter. The graphic is confused–not only about when to use bold typeface, but also about the …
globalresearch.ca/anatomy-stratcom-disinfographic/5712442

Winston Churchill: He Fought for His Class, Never Ours
Dominic Alexander | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Who was Winston Churchill? He was an aristocrat whose overwhelming commitment was to the maintenance of empire. He was a bitter opponent of the workers' movement in Britain, whether in Tonypandy and Llanelli in 1910 and 1911, where troops …
globalresearch.ca/winston-churchill-fought-his-class-never-ours/5712482

Coronavirus 'not yet under control' in Brazil, scientists warn
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-11
The coronavirus epidemic in Brazil is not yet under control according to a report from Imperial researchers.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197474/coronavirus-under-control-brazil-scientists-warn

We Need Urgent Answers About the Massive British NHS COVID Data Deal
Mary Fitzgerald | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Why is the UK government refusing to release details of its 'unprecedented' data transfer to US tech giants? If we don't get answers, we may seek them in the courts. | *** | This week openDemocracy and Foxglove, a tech justice start-up, | …
globalresearch.ca/we-need-urgent-answers-about-massive-nhs-covid-data-deal/5712492

The Cost of Big Pharma's COVID-19 Vaccine Will be Paid in Lives and in Billions of Dollars
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
Big Pharma and its minions such as Anthony Fauci and Robert Redfield are determined to use Covid-19 to vaccinate us all at the expense our lives and pocketbooks. They are using the media, grant-dependent professionals, medical journals, and the presstitute …
globalresearch.ca/cost-big-pharma-covid-19-vaccine-paid-lives-billions/5712409

Macron Government Ending France's Coronavirus Lockdown Beginning this Monday
Alex Lantier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
In a televised address on Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and five other ministers confirmed that President Emmanuel Macron had given the order for an end to confinement and the reopening of the economy on May 11. The government's …
globalresearch.ca/macron-government-ending-coronavirus-lockdown-beginning-monday/5712417

Three Cardinals Join Global Appeal Decrying Crackdown on Basic Freedoms Over Coronavirus
Paul Smeaton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
UPDATE (May 8, 9: 00AM EST): Archbishop Viganà≤, who gathered the signatures and communicated with Cardinal Sarah about the initiative, has now issued a timeline of his communications with Sarah. Read full report here. | UPDATE (May 7, 8: 00PM EST): This …
globalresearch.ca/three-cardinals-join-global-appeal-decrying-crackdown-basic-freedoms-coronavirus/5712477

China Will Not Accept Any US Invasion in Venezuela: Spokeswoman Hua Chunying
Orinoco Tribune | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
China repudiates the United States' attempt of a naval invasion of Venezuela and all interventionist maneuvers against the sovereignty of any country. | Through a statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, stressed again this Wednesday her rejection of …
globalresearch.ca/china-will-not-accept-any-us-invasion-venezuela-spokeswoman-hua-chunying/5712429

Patriotic Vaccines: The Divided Coronavirus Cause
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
When it comes to the politics of medicine and disease, the United States has always attempted to steal the limelight, while adding the now faded colouring of universal human welfare. In 1965, Washington pledged financial and technical support to the …
globalresearch.ca/vaccines-divided-coronavirus-cause/5712453

Selected Articles: Catholic Clergy Warns that COVID-19 Is Used as "Pretext" to "Control People"
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-11
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | | | If, like us, this is a …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-three-cardinals-join-global-appeal-decrying-crackdown-on-basic-freedoms-over-coronavirus/5712496

Science Saturday: Regenerative approaches could foster healing from COVID-19
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-11
Regenerative Medicine aims not only to repair or restore the function of cells, tissues or organs, but also the whole person. The latter is particularly important amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Regenerative approaches draw on the body's natural abilities to heal, focus on establishing the healing environments and building new, healthy ways of functioning. These aspects of regenerative …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-regenerative-approaches-could-foster-healing-from-covid-19/

China: New COVID-19 Outbreak Spreads Concern
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
A new coronavirus outbreak in Shulan, a Chinese city near the Russian border, and a spate of cases in Wuhan has prompted fears of a fresh wave of infections in China. | RELATED: | China: Middle School Students Return to Classes in Wuhan | According to Chinese authorities, Shulan is at high risk. A family cluster was diagnosed with COVID-19, after having contact with a woman with no known history of travel or exposure to the virus. | The news were given a week after China designated a…
telesurenglish.net/news/china-new-covid19-outbreaks-spreads-concern-20200511-0008.html

'Open anti-Semitism': Leaked letter shows Ukrainian police demanded Jews' names & addresses 'to fight organized crime'
rt.com | 2020-05-11
Outrage is brewing in Ukraine after the leak of an inquiry letter in which the national police demanded the Jewish community in a small city disclose the names and addresses of its members, supposedly to fight organized crime. | The letter was apparently sent in mid-February by a senior police official to Yakov Zalishchiker, the Jewish leader in the city of Kolomyya in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region. The official said he needed to know the names, phone numbers, and addresses of Orthodox Jews and university students "of Jewish ethnicity" who belong to the community. | The data was said to be necessary to fi…
rt.com/news/488339-ukraine-police-list-jews/

China: New COVID-19 Outbreak Spreads Concern
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-11
A new coronavirus outbreak in Shulan, a Chinese city near the Russian border, and a spate of cases in Wuhan has prompted fears of a fresh wave of infections in China. | RELATED: | China: Middle School Students Return to Classes in Wuhan | According to Chinese authorities, Shulan is at high risk. A family cluster was diagnosed with COVID-19, after having contact with a woman with no known history of travel or exposure to the virus. | The news were given a week after China designated a…
telesurenglish.net/news/china-new-covid19-outbreaks-spreads-concern-20200511-0008.html

Right wing on the defensive in Arizona elections
Joe Bernick | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-11
TUCSON–Arizona's right-wing governor and state legislature are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic in an attempt to defeat progressive change. The Republicans in this state are terrified that Arizona will flip to the Democrats in the 2020 elections. They are scared of the fightback by striking teachers, miners, and all working people, and of the rising militancy …
peoplesworld.org/article/right-wing-on-the-defensive-in-arizona-elections/

Raising awareness on social distancing in Ardabil
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-11
ARDABIL, May 12 (MNA)

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: The "Quarantine 15"
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-11
It's being called the "Quarantine 15" online

'Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach' e-tool to help children with mental health concerns
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-11
ROCHESTER, Minn.

2020-05-10: News Headlines

RT (2020-05-10). Former India PM Singh in hospital over 'chest pains' — reports. rt.com Manmohan Singh, the former prime minister of India, is getting medical care after suffering from chest pains and uneasiness, media reports say. | Singh, 87, was taken to All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on Sunday and was under observation in the cardio-thoracic ward where he was being treated by a cardiologist. He is currently not in critical condition and away from the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital in a private room. | Singh served as the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014, and he currently serves in the Upper House of Parliament. | The former prime minister…

RT (2020-05-10). NYC more than doubles number of 'social-distancing ambassadors' after cops' enforcement of Covid-19 rules causes backlash. rt.com Following troubling viral videos of arrests and concerns about racial disparity in enforcing Covid-19-related social distancing, Mayor Bill De Blasio says he is increasing "ambassadors" in the city from 1,000 to 2,300. | "Enforcement has always been the last resort," the mayor said at a press conference Sunday. | His comment comes in the wake of the city having come under increased scrutiny thanks to a viral video, of what some have flagged as police brutality, showing NYPD officers arresting several people suspected of breaking social-distancing rules, and also to statistics showing the last few months have s…

Project Veritas (2020-05-10). Funeral Directors in Covid-19 Epicenter Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic, Fear Numbers Are 'Padded'. anti-empire.com Judge Calls Bullsh*t on Relative's COVID-19 Cause of Death | Funeral Home: To Me all You're Doing is Padding the Statistics…Making the Death Rates in New York City Higher than Estimated | Staten Island Funeral Director Questions Mayor DeBlasio's Role and Adds: I Think It's Political | Brooklyn Funeral Director: They Are Padding Numbers; Medical Examiners Too Busy to Investigate | Brooklyn Funeral Director: 40-year-old Died in Home with No Symptoms Other Than Fever, Toe-Tagged as COVID-19 Victim | www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5f_6ltv7oI | Project Veritas today released another video featuri…

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-10). Latest Failed Coup Attempt Against Venezuela Made in the USA? globalresearch.ca UN Charter Article 2(4) states the following: | "All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-10). The End of World War II. From the Scourge of Fascism to America's Imperial "Fantasy Democracy" globalresearch.ca WW II had nothing to do with defeating the scourge of fascism, far from it. | Its belligerent face in the US, West, Israel, and their imperial allies resembles earlier versions in Germany, Japan and Italy with nationality and cultural differences….

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-10). Trump Regime Blocks UN Security Council Resolution for "Global Ceasefire" During COVID-19 Epidemic. globalresearch.ca Run by warlord members from both right wings of the one-party state, the US geopolitical agenda prioritizes permanent wars against invented enemies to enforce their will on humanity by brute force and other hostile actions. | At a time when containing …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-10). 'We are expected to face difficult autumn ahead': Namaki. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 10 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki said, "We are expected to have one of the toughest autumns ahead due to the coincidence of influenza and coronavirus, and if that happens, we need to be fully prepared."

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-10). Connecting Patients: COVID-19 and transplant patients. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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 (2020-05-10). Mayo Clinic's comprehensive COVID-19 research. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org "At Mayo, we've developed a comprehensive research portfolio, or what we call a COVID-19 research task force, in order to respond to every area that we need to learn more about this virus. We have scientists doing research in epidemiology. We have people doing research in immunology and vaccine development, in virology, in translational work, in …

John Bowden (2020-05-10). Chinese Ministry Warned President Xi Jinping of Armed Confrontation with US: Report. globalresearch.ca A report from China's top intelligence ministry presented to President Xi Jinping reportedly warned of growing anti-Chinese sentiment around the world and raised the possibility of military conflict with the U.S. |

Edward S. Herman (2020-05-10). U.S. Plans and Actions: "Foreign Engagement" versus Aggression. globalresearch.ca This article first appeared on GR on June 2016. | The double standard in the media's treatment of U.S. plans and actions ("us") and those of our allies, on the one hand, and enemy/target plans and actions ("them"), on the other …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-10). How can you calm your mind? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Dr. Amit Sood is a former internal medicine physician at Mayo Clinic. He was director of research in the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and was chair of the Mind-Body Medicine Initiative at Mayo Clinic. He also contributed to the weekly "Something to Think About" posts on the Mayo Clinic News Network. …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-10). EOR research projects on agenda of RIPI. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 10 (MNA) — Four large-scale research projects on enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is being pursued by the Upstream Faculty of the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI).

Iain Davis (2020-05-10). COVID 19 Is a Statistical Nonsense. globalresearch.ca The mortality statistics for COVID 19 have been incessantly hammered into our heads by the mainstream media (MSM). Every day they report these hardest of facts to justify the lockdown (house arrest) and to prove to us that living in …

Pepe Escobar (2020-05-10). China Forges Ahead Through Chaos and US Threats. globalresearch.ca Amid the deepest economic contraction in nearly a century, President Xi Jinping had already made it very clear, last month, that China should be ready for unprecedented, relentless foreign challenges. | He was not referring only to the possible decoupling of …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-10). Mayo Clinic receives $26 million from BARDA for COVID-19 convalescent plasma expanded access program. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org 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. …

Richard Gale (2020-05-10). Can We Trust the World Health Organization (WHO)? globalresearch.ca Many more questions are being raised than there are answers being discovered concerning the recent strains of coronavirus. Where and how did it originate? Was it the result of human engineering and manipulation or is it a strain that mutated …

Swiss Propaganda Research (2020-05-10). A Swiss Doctor on Covid-19. globalresearch.ca A Swiss medical doctor provided the following information on the current situation in order to enable our readers to make a realistic risk assessment. (Below you will find regular, but not daily, updates on medical and political developments.) | ***…

Jesús Chucho García (2020-05-10). Venezuela Bay of Pigs 2.0: The Chuao Beach Defeat of US Sponsored Mercenaries. globalresearch.ca Recently, Chuao, a town on the coast of Aragua State, Venezuela, was put on the geopolitical world map, given the incursion of some mercenaries from the Venezuelan radical opposition and some green berets from the Donald Trump government, who were …

Swiss Propaganda Research (2020-05-10). COVID-19 by "Swiss Doctor Team" globalresearch.ca Our "Swiss doctor" team provided the following information on the current situation in order to enable our readers to make a realistic risk assessment. (Below you will find regular, but not daily, updates on medical and political developments.) | ***…

Rosemary Frei (2020-05-10). 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 …

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2020-05-10). The Fed's Historic Gamble: Pre-Bailing Out the Banking System. globalresearch.ca There's a historic experiment underway among US capitalists and policy makers. That experiment may or may not succeed. It's the Federal Reserve PRE-BAILOUT of not only the US financial system but the entire business economy as well. | The Fed has …

James A. Lucas (2020-05-10). U.S. Regime Has Killed 20-30 Million People Since World War II. globalresearch.ca Originally published on March 22, 2018. May 8, 2020 commemorates the defeat of Nazi Germany, May 8, 1945, 75 years ago. | Introduction | After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger …

Swiss Propaganda Research (2020-05-10). Italy's Biased COVID-19 "Estimates". Figures and Analysis of Italy's National Health Institute (ISS). globalresearch.ca According to the

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-10). Mayo Clinic expert discusses potential neurological effects of COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can take a severe toll on the respiratory system. However, recent research suggests that the virus may also infect the nervous system. A study of patients with COVID-19 out of Wuhan, China found that possible neurological signs and symptoms caused by COVID-19 can include loss of taste and smell, …

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2020-05-10). Women's Rights and Social Justice: Julia Ward Howe's 1870 Anti-War Mother's Day Proclamation, A Day of Peace. globalresearch.ca Julia Ward Howe was a humanist who cared about suffering people, a feminist, a social justice activist & suffragette, and it was because of her anti-war commitment that she wrote the famous "Mother's Day Proclamation" 5 years after the Civil War, which resulted in 600,000 dead American soldiers…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-10). Science Saturday: Regenerative approaches could foster healing from COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Regenerative Medicine aims not only to repair or restore the function of cells, tissues or organs, but also the whole person. The latter is particularly important amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Regenerative approaches draw on the body's natural abilities to heal, focus on establishing the healing environments and building new, healthy ways of functioning. These aspects of regenerative …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-10). The Great Russiagate Hoax Exposed. Geopolitical Transition to Chinagate… globalresearch.ca Hoaxes are easy to detect. When accusations lack credible supportive evidence, they baseless. | Not a shred of evidence about alleged Russian US election meddling was ever presented by Washington's intelligence community, the House, Senate, or farcical Robert Mueller probe. | Russiagate …

sputniknews (2020-05-10). Respect Social Distancing! Puppy Teaches Its Owner Proper Quarantine Manners. sputniknews.com In view of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it is of the utmost importance to maintain so-called social distancing, that is to keep a distance of two metres away from people outside of your household in order to minimise the possibility of contracting the virus.

yenisafak (2020-05-10). Iran arrests 320 over 'provocative' COVID-19 posts. yenisafak.com Iran announced that it arrested at least 320 people for allegedly spreading "false and provocative" information on the novel coronavirus pandemic via social media, according to local reports on Sunday."320 people who were sharing false and provocative posts about the COVID-19 pandemic on social media were arrested," said police chief Hossein Ashtari, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported.Iran, one of the Middle Eastern countries hardest hit by the outbreak, COVID-19 was first detected in the city of Qom on Feb. 19, then spreading throughout the country.The coronavirus death toll in Iran rose to 6,589 a…

Adriaan Alsema (2020-05-10). Colombia claims stepping up coronavirus testing ahead of economic reactivation. colombiareports.com Colombia's government said Saturday that it has begun distributing 500,000 coronavirus tests in Bogota and to 20 of its 32 departments to improve the reliability of its contagion statistics. The…

Maya Chossudovsky-Ladouceur (2020-05-09). Celebrating Mother's Day amid the COVID-19 Lockdown. Your Government Doesn't Allow You to "Hug your Mom". globalresearch.ca Mother's Day. Sunday 10th of May 2020. The day families gather together, the day people in many countries around the World celebrate motherhood in every shape and form whether it be expectant mothers, the memory of mothers who have passed, …

Zero Hedge (2020-05-09). Iranian Hackers Targeted Gilead. Coronavirus Research Becomes New Cybercrime Holy Grail. iranian.com The same group of shadowy Iranian hackers who were caught trying to steal America's atomic secrets – a group that's known only by the nickname "Charming Kitten" – has been caught trying to hack into Gilead, Reuters reports in what the financial newswire billed as an "exclusive scoop". Just days after the US and Britain issued a joint warning …

The Canary (2020-05-09). Student and staff safety is paramount, education unions warn government. thecanary.co Unions have sent a list of key measures to the government which they say must be met before pupils in England can safely return to their desks.It includes extra money for deep cleaning and personal protective equipment (PPE) and local powers to close schools if clusters of coronavirus (Covid-19) infections break out in a particular area.Last week, an NHS chief warned the government it should be wary about reopening schools too early as scientists do not fully understand the extent of coronavirus transmission between children.The joint union statement was sent to education secretary Gavin Williamson on Friday by b…

RT (2020-05-09). Russian drone mini-sub plants memorial in WORLD'S DEEPEST Mariana Trench — all by its lonesome robotic self. rt.com A fully autonomous Russian drone has dived over 10 kilometers deep, reaching the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean. It even planted a buoy-like V-Day memorial to forever sway in the deep. | The deepest point of the plunge was registered at 10,028 meters, according to Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects, a defense research body that funded the creation of the drone. It technically means that the submersible could have gone deeper if it were to descend into the Challenger Deep, the lowest part of the trench, that's around 11 kilometers from the surface, but the tea…

Janine Jackson (2020-05-09). 'We Can Pool the World's Science to Develop Better Medical Tools' – CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on Covid-19 and the drug industry. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen's Peter Maybarduk about the drug industry and Covid-19 for the Media…

Daniel Carvaho (2020-05-09). Eu sou a Constituiàßà£o, diz Bolsonaro ao defender democracia e liberdade um dia após ato pró-golpe militar. globalresearch.ca Neste domingo, em cima da caàßamba de uma caminhonete, diante do quartel-general do Exército e se dirigindo a uma aglomeraàßà£o de apoiadores pró-intervenàßà£o militar no Brasil,

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-09). "Gene-Edited" Future Justified By COVID-19 & France Admits Athletes Infected At Wuhan Military Games. 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 (5/8/19). 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 …

Brian Shilhavy (2020-05-09). Video: Nevada Nurse in NYC: COVID Is Not Killing People — They're Being Murdered. globalresearch.ca Another nurse who has traveled to New York City to help with treating COVID-19 patients has gone public, describing the horrors she is seeing in how patients are being treated. | Nicole Sirotek is reported to be from Nevada, and she …

Richard Horton (2020-05-09). [Comment] Offline: Independent science advice for COVID-19—at last. thelancet.com "Is the government's objective to suppress infection or to manage the infection?", asked Sir David King at the first press conference of a newly formed independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), held last week. The UK now has two SAGEs. The officially constituted SAGE has seen its reputation collapse during the past 3 months. Partly, this loss of credibility arose out of the group's unwillingness to be transparent about its membership and its proceedings. At a moment of national emergency, SAGE's secrecy simply became unacceptable.

WSWS (2020-05-09). Germany reopens schools, endangering thousands of lives. wsws.org Schools are being reopened in nearly all federal states and the risky measure is meeting with growing opposition from teachers.

The New Arab (2020-05-08). Palestine President Abbas Threatens to Tear-up Agreements with Israel, US if West Bank Is Annexed. globalresearch.ca The During a meeting in Ramallah with the Fatah Central Committee, Mahmoud…

Jeffrey St. Clair (2020-05-08). Roaming Charges: Ain't Living Long Like This. counterpunch.org + The detestable rationalizations liberals make for sticking with Biden despite Tara Reade's convincing story can't come as any surprise. It's the same ritual contortions they've made about the Iraq war, fracking, abortion, the drug war, Anita Hill, social security, segregation, climate change, health care, deportations, a living wage, student debt, the Patriot Act, pipelines, the Libyan coup, climate change. To be a Democrat is to live in a constant state of denial, self-contradiction and moral hypocrisy.

Steve Sweeney (2020-05-08). Guaido Accused of Hiring Mercenaries Behind Foiled Coup Attempt in Venezuela. globalresearch.ca Washington-backed Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaido has been accused of hiring mercenaries responsible for two foiled terror attacks, as more details of the plot begin to emerge. | Venezuelan communications minister Jorge Rodriguez confirmed that the former president of the National …

Paul Antonopoulos (2020-05-08). The Coronavirus Crisis Has Exposed Germany's Ambition to Take Control of the EU. globalresearch.ca It has been repeatedly stated that the management of the coronavirus pandemic will be a barometer of how capable leaders are handling unprecedented crisis. Think how U.S. President Donald Trump has been lambasted all over the globe for letting coronavirus …

Staff (2020-05-08). Climate Crisis: False Techtopia, Tariffs Accounting, Orphan Wells, And The Dead Cow. therealnews.com Recent studies debunk the false techtopianism in climate science models, U.S. import tariffs failed climate accounting, and Argentina's shale industry is flailing. As fracking goes bust, what happens to orphaned wells?

Gordon Duff (2020-05-08). COVID May 8, 2020 An Intel Drop, White House Hiding a 500,000 Death Figure. thealtworld.com We begin with the deal breaker of all time. COVID is supposed to be a bat virus, a natural bat virus, unmodified, supposedly from China, right? | Name one animal that can't get COVID? | smiling COVID bat, Lugar Center 2018 | The folks in the White House mostly went to business school. They had statistics classes and they all know numbers. You can't steal without being able to count or at least without being able to hire someone who counts, as in Trump's case. | The numbers we are given are fake, not a little fake but great big fa…

Otis Grotewohl (2020-05-08). Long Live the Spirit of Kent and Jackson State! workers.org May 4 and May 15, 2020, mark the 50th anniversaries of the murders of students at Kent State and Jackson State in the United States. Many people are familiar with the National Guard shooting of students and protesters at Ohio's Kent State University in 1970, which left four dead and . . . |

Global Research News (2020-05-08). Selected Articles: Economics and the Pandemic, Where's the Money coming From? globalresearch.ca By As coronavirus broke out, Israel became the first Western country to close itself off to all flights . It then proceeded …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-08). What Future for American High School and University-College Graduates? Grim US "Class of 2020" Job Prospects. globalresearch.ca US class of 2020 high school and higher education graduates face the most dismal job market since the 1930s Great Depression with no near-term end of it in prospect. | According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, "(g)raduating in a …