Monthly Archives: May 2020

2020-05-04: Social Media Postees

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This is what anti-imperialism looks like: Call for posters
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-04
Art and anti-imperialism | In the small French commune of Vallauris sits a 14th century chapel. On its walls, Spanish socialist painter Pablo Picasso created one of his largest murals

'Belongs in the Hague': Online Disgust Follows Glowing Praise for George W. Bush's Covid-19 Message
Andrea Germanos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
George W. Bush's record in office became the subject of numerous tweets after a video message released Saturday from the former president elicited praise from some Democrats. | . | . | . | Good morning. George W Bush belongs in The Hague. |

If We Want to Return to Normal, We Have to Fix the Policy
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Most of the United States is still under lockdown, but why? What is the purpose of the policy? | We've had the "flatten the curve" meme pounded into our brains for so long, that most people think it's the objective of …
globalresearch.ca/if-we-want-return-normal-we-have-fix-policy/5711674

Juan Guaidó Is Trying to Overthrow the Venezuelan Government Again. Calls on Military to Support Him
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, self-declared Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. "Today I speak to the patriotic soldiers of our Armed Forces who rebelled …
globalresearch.ca/juan-guaido-trying-overthrow-venezuelan-government-again/5711721

Trump's Virtual Town Hall: A Vehicle for Deception, Finger-Pointing and Threats
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
On Sunday, Trump appeared on a Fox News televised virtual town hall session, using the Lincoln Memorial as a backdrop. | The event was part of his reelection campaign, notably an attempt to boost his low public approval rating in key …
globalresearch.ca/trump-virtual-town-hall-vehicle-deception-finger-pointing-threats/5711697

A Hillary/Obama Ticket to Challenge Trump?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Despite polls showing Biden favored to defeat Trump, the notion surfaced of resurrecting two-time loser Hillary with Obama as her VP running mate to replace the presumptive Dem nominee. | He's challenged by years of disturbing political baggage as US senator …
globalresearch.ca/hillary-obama-challenge-trump/5711700

America's Super-Rich See Their Wealth Rise by $282 Billion in Three Weeks of Pandemic
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies found that, while tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, America's ultra-wealthy elite have seen their net worth surge by $282 billion in just 23 …
globalresearch.ca/america-super-rich-wealth-rise-282-billion-three-weeks-pandemic/5711665

No, the US Isn't Going to Dump India over Its Atrocious Treatment of Minorities
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
There's been a lot of speculation that the US might be preparing to dump India over its atrocious treatment of minorities after the official White House Twitter account stopped following several Indian government ones including Prime Minister Modi's and the …
globalresearch.ca/us-isnt-going-dump-india-atrocious-treatment-minorities/5711728

Why Julian Assange Must Urgently be Freed: Stella Morris
Stella Moris | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Julian and I have two little boys. Since becoming a mother, I have been …
globalresearch.ca/why-julian-assange-must-urgently-freed/5711655

Parents in Paris exasperated as schools plan to take only 10% of students back in phase 1 of lifting lockdown
rt.com | 2020-05-04
When public schools in Paris finally reopen on May 11, only 10 percent of children will be accommodated, leaving many worried French parents in the lurch as they attempt to return to work after the Covid-19 lockdown. | The limited capacity is due to the numerous health measures which will need to be implemented in schools as restrictions are being phased out, the deputy mayor in charge of education Patrick Bloche told Le Figaro on Sunday. | "If we reach [this figure], it will already be very good," Bloche said, given that Paris is within France's 'red zone' for Covid-19 and that some school premises will strug…
rt.com/news/487711-paris-schools-reopening-lockdown/

The Impact of COVID-19 on Africa. The Case of Somalia
Dr. Bischara A. Egal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
"We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy".

Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: The Fed's Generous New Rules
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package

China Calls for Closing All U.S. Deep-State Bioweapons Laboratories in Former USSR Countries
Joaquin Flores | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
As countries have openly begun to utilize their military structures in fighting the coronavirus in programs intended to guard against biological warfare, Chinese authorities have come out in support the official position of Russia and considers it dangerous that there …
globalresearch.ca/china-calls-closing-all-u-s-deep-state-bioweapons-laboratories-former-ussr-countries/5711641

Trump Welcomes Israel's Illegal Plan to Annex West Bank Amid Growing Anger
The New Arab | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
The US announced it is willing to recognise and support Israel's annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank shortly after Israel announced its illegal plan. | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to go ahead with controversial…
globalresearch.ca/trump-welcomes-israel-illegal-plan-annex-west-bank-amid-growing-anger/5711649

US Push for "Low-yield Nukes" Makes Nuclear War More Likely as Russia Will Retaliate with Full Force, Moscow Says
Nebojsa Malic | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
The US State Department's case for tactical nuclear weapons is a case study in psychological projection not seen since the darkest days of the Cold War and its ever-present threat of world-ending atomic holocaust. | Back in February, the Pentagon announced | …
globalresearch.ca/us-push-low-yield-nukes-makes-atomic-war-more-likely-russia-retaliate-full-force/5711644

The COVID-19 Crisis Profoundly Exposes African Americans to the Scourge of Poverty and Racism
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
They live below the poverty level. They are prison inmates in large numbers. They are most likely to be killed by the police, a longstanding grievance that originated the Black Lives Matter (BTM) movement to protest against police killing and | …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-profoundly-exposes-african-americans-racism/5711687

Why Foreign Interventionism?
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
What is the point of U.S. foreign interventionism? | Why are U.S. troops killing and dying in faraway countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia? | Why does the U.S. government have 165,000 troops stationed in more than 150 foreign countries? | Why …
globalresearch.ca/why-foreign-interventionism/5711647

Coronavirus and Saudi Arabia's "Soft Power". Will This Year's Hajj be Cancelled? "Pilgrims bring in Billions of Dollars…"
Mohammad Reza Mohammadi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Today, the tourism industry is considered as one of the important sources of the soft power of countries in promoting and disseminating its material and spiritual attractions to attract other nations of the world. Saudi Arabia is known as a …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-consequences-saudi-arabia-soft-power/5711695

Knock, Knock. We're From the Government, and We Want Your Family's Blood
Adam Dick | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Talk about creepy. The Georgia Department of Public Health has announced that it, the United Sates Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and county health boards are together sending teams of government agents to randomly selected homes in two …
globalresearch.ca/knock-knock-were-from-the-government-and-we-want-your-familys-blood/5711724

Science Saturday: Antimalarials, COVID-19, cardiac arrest
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-04
Over the last few weeks, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have become household words. These antiparasitic drugs normally prescribed for malaria were introduced early in the rush to find potential treatments for COVID-19. As time goes on, the public discussion has centered on who should get these particular drugs and when. Meanwhile many doctors and medical researchers …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-antimalarials-covid-19-cardiac-arrest/

Physicians, scientists and physician-scientists connect dots between heart disease, potential for worse COVID-19 outcomes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-04
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? People with certain heart diseases may be more susceptible to worse outcomes with COVID-19, but the reason why has remained unknown. New research from Mayo Clinic indicates that in patients with one specific type of heart disease ? obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) ? the heart increases production of the ACE2 RNA transcript …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/physicians-scientists-and-physician-scientists-connect-dots-between-heart-disease-potential-for-worse-covid-19-outcomes/

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-05-04
Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and produced biological warfare weapons, there is no recent documented proof of a government being engaged in the widespread release of a biological warfare agent to cause maximum deaths. The 1972 Con…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/04/cults-and-bioterrorism-toxic-duo/

Venezuelan Armed Forces Neutralize Colombian Paramilitary Incursion on Coast of La Guaira
Alberto Lovera | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
At dawn this Sunday, the Venezuelan state security forces neutralized a paramilitary incursion from Colombia on the coast of La Guaira, reported the Minister of People's Power for Interior, Justice and Peace, Nestor Reverol. | "They tried to carry out | …
globalresearch.ca/paramilitary-incursion-colombia-neutralized-la-guaira/5711686

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Civil Actions as a Social Movement
Prof. Paul Jobin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Like the many industrial disasters that have marked the history of modern and contemporary Japan, the nuclear disaster of March 2011 resulted in much litigation. By the ninth anniversary of the catastrophe in 2020, nearly four hundred individual civil actions, …
globalresearch.ca/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-civil-actions-social-movement/5711712

Unreliable COVID-19 "Estimates"in Virginia: Increase in "Testing Numbers" Attributable to Change in "Counting Methodology": Health Officials
Kate Masters | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Officials with the Virginia Department of Health abruptly announced Friday that they were changing their methodology for reporting the number of COVID-19 tests conducted in Virginia. | The announcement came after data on the state's coronavirus surveillance page appeared to show …
globalresearch.ca/increase-virginia-testing-numbers-due-change-counting-health-officials-say/5711708

Colorado Bans Cruel Wildlife-killing Contests

| globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted yesterday to ban wildlife-killing contests for various furbearing and small game species in the state. Colorado is the sixth state to prohibit these cruel events. | When it goes into effect on June 30, | …
globalresearch.ca/colorado-bans-cruel-wildlife-killing-contests/5711651

America's Long War… Family Stories from Ground Zero, by a New Generation of Filmmakers
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
For two decades now, following U.S. invasions of Afghanistan, then Iraq, and as we approach ten years of upheaval in Syria and five in Yemen, interpretation of these wars has been the domain of western observers– journalists, occupying soldiers, and …
globalresearch.ca/family-stories-from-ground-zero-new-generation-filmmakers/5711670

Likud Files Knesset Bill to Annex Occupied Palestinian Territories
The Palestinian Information Center | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Member of the Knesset May Golan (Likud) on Sunday submitted a bill calling for imposing Israel's sovereignty on the occupied territories of the Jordan Valley, the northern Dead Sea area and the West Bank. | According to Israel's Channel 7, economy …
globalresearch.ca/likud-files-knesset-bill-annex-occupied-palestinian-territories/5711704

Selected Articles: If We Want to Return to Normal, We Have to Fix the Policy
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Trump's Virtual Town Hall: A Vehicle for Deception, Finger-Pointing and Threats | By Stephen Lendman, May 04 2020 | On Sunday, Trump was his usual congenital lying self, falsely boasting to viewers that he's…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-if-we-want-to-return-to-normal-we-have-to-fix-the-policy/5711774

'Education, not Compulsion' Required for Successful Deployment of COVID-19 Vaccine – Commentator
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-04
European countries have pledged to raise £6.6 billion in a bid to help accelerate the process of finding a coronavirus vaccine. The UK will contribute £388 million to the cause. The UN has repeatedly outlined that the pandemic can only be ended, should an effective vaccine be developed and mass produced.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202005041079193857-education-not-compulsion-required-for-successful-deployment-of-covid-19-vaccine—commentator/

Does Weaponizing a Pandemic and Blaming China "Make America Great Again"?
Kim Petersen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
United States president Donald Trump is proud of the US effort against COVID-19. In his 1 May remarks on protecting America's seniors, he said, | Through aggressive actions and the devotion of our doctors and nurses, however, we have held our | …
globalresearch.ca/does-weaponizing-pandemic-blaming-china-make-america-great-again/5711653

Covid-19 victims 'would have died anyway'? Not so, says new research
rt.com | 2020-05-04
A new study analyzing the longevity prospects of people who died from Covid-19 has found that, far from being on death's door anyway, victims would have lived on for an average of 11 years had they not fallen to the disease. | …
rt.com/news/487758-coronavirus-lifespan-impact-study/

Queen's University Belfast given funding to develop rapid test for Covid-19
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-04
Queen's University Belfast has received funding to develop a rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19. | The trial is aimed at finding a highly accurate test which can show results within an hour, eliminating the need to send tests to a laboratory. | Professor Cliff Taggart, lead researcher from the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine at Queen's University, said: "The local availability, speed and accuracy of the test will help inform public health preparedness and response in the ongoing pandemic." | The study is in partnership with HiberGene Diagnostics Ltd, Medcaptain in China, and Italian Hospital…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/05/04/queens-university-belfast-given-funding-to-develop-rapid-test-for-covid-19/

The Deeper Historical Roots of Chinese Demonization
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
Fasten your seat belts: the US hybrid war against China is bound to go on frenetic overdrive, as economic reports are already identifying Covid-19 as the tipping point when the Asian

"Homeland Defense" and the Militarisation of America
Frank Morales | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
The document states that although "the Founding Fathers' hesitancy to raise a standing army & their desire to render the military subordinate to civilian authority" is "rooted in the Constitution," "exceptions to the restrictions on employment of federal armed forces to assist state & local authorities are grounded in the Constitution…"
globalresearch.ca/homeland-defense-and-the-militarisation-of-america-2/5650654

Video: The Coronavirus Crisis: A Plea to Pause and Ponder
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
A Sharing by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, President, International Movement for a Just World (JUST), Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) | Recorded on May 1, 2020 | . | * | Note to readers: please click the share …
globalresearch.ca/video-coronavirus-crisis-plea-pause-ponder/5711725

The 'White Makes Right' Continuance
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-04
In September of 1962 James Meredith, a 28 Year old Air Force veteran, and proud black man, enrolled in the segregated University of Mississippi. All hell literally broke loose. In David Talbot's great look at the Kennedy years, aptly entitled …
globalresearch.ca/white-makes-right-continuance/5711635

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo
Wayne Madsen | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-04
Although there is no recent history of nation-states propagating biological warfare attacks, there is a history of dangerous religious cults being involved in preparing for or carrying out them. | Far right-wingers in the United States and other countries are pushing the propaganda line that China was somehow involved in the creation or spread of the Covid-19 virus, formally known as SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome]-CoV-2, to the rest of the world either deliberately or from an accidental release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Although nation-states have, over the decades, conducted research on and…

Cults and Bioterrorism: A Toxic Duo

UK Among Five European States Not Seeing Decline in Covid-19 Cases, Despite Government Claims
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-04
The United Kingdom has boasted that its lockdown strategy, intended to enforce social distancing measures and slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, was a success. However, this claim has now been contradicted by new reports released by European Union affiliated research groups.
sputniknews.com/uk/202005041079193249-uk-among-five-european-states-not-seeing-decline-in-covid-19-cases-despite-government-claims/

Dear Lockdown Enthusiasts, Science Isn't What You Think It Is
Rob Lyons | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-04
According to David Blunkett, a former senior cabinet minister in Tony Blair's governments, attempts to have a blanket lockdown on the over-70s are discriminatory. He believes that the current 'shielding' rules are too crude and need to be more nuanced. Whatever the merits of his ideas, his comments on the scientific advice that the government is receiving are interesting. | Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One on 28 April, Blunkett argued that the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has a problem. Drawing on Matthew Syed's book, Rebel…
anti-empire.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-science-tm/

During Crisis, Teachers Need Freedom to Focus on Student Needs
Amy Mizialko | zcomm.org | 2020-05-04
The aims of our work should be relationships, regular communication, and offering students opportunities for enrichment, practice learning, and support…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/during-crisis-teachers-need-freedom-to-focus-on-student-needs/

'Political child abuse': UK govt's 'help for disadvantaged students' during Covid-19 crisis slammed by critics citing austerity
rt.com | 2020-05-04
The UK government's pledge to give more resources to help disadvantaged school kids during the Covid-19 pandemic has received an angry backlash from critics who say students are suffering because of the Tories' self-imposed cuts. | During the government's daily Covid-19 briefing

May Day Caravan in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz News | indybay.org | 2020-05-04
#COLA4ALL activists in Santa Cruz organized a May Day Caravan to support those "striking and fighting for their right to live in this city". Beginning on the UC Santa Cruz campus to support the striking COLA graduate students, the caravan traveled downtown to the Santa Cruz Main Jail, and then on to support Food Not Bombs at Front and Laurel Streets. (Photos taken downtown by Keith McHenry of Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/02/18832785.php

Young Communists lead jobs drive in Vietnam for the unemployed
Morning Star | peoplesworld.org | 2020-05-04
More than 10,000 people have found work in Vietnam's capital Hanoi thanks to a Communist-led initiative for students and young people whose jobs are most vulnerable due to the coronavirus pandemic. Led by the Hanoi section of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU), working alongside the Hanoi Students' Association and the Hanoi Youth …
peoplesworld.org/article/young-communists-lead-jobs-drive-in-vietnam-for-the-unemployed/

Not Trusting that Department of Ed: Looking to Higher Ed Relief via States
Greg Moses | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-04
Reeling from last week's attacks on Harvard and Stanford that bullied those schools and others into refusing federal relief allocated to their most needy students, the Young Invincibles this week released an open letter asking the schools to reconsider. The "Open Letter to College and University Leaders" argues that all schools…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/04/not-trusting-that-department-of-ed-looking-to-higher-ed-relief-via-states/

Fifty years since the massacre of students at Kent State
wsws.org | 2020-05-04
The killing of four students by National Guard soldiers touched off an unprecedented national wave of antiwar protests involving millions of youth.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/04/kent…

Four Dead in Ohio
Frank Joyce | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-04
If you are old enough, you will recognize that snippet from a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. If not, I am here to tell you that on May 4, 1970, four students were shot to death by members of the Ohio National Guard on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Nine others were wounded. | The students weren't doing anything wrong. Actually, they were doing something right. They were peacefully assembled to protest the U.S. war on Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia. They were part of an eruption of nationwide campus protests that followed President Nixon's announcement that the United States had launched a bom…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/04/four-dead-in-ohio-2/

The Anatomy of a Failing University
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-04
American universities are failing. They are private or public schools. They could be religiously-affiliated or not. They could be in the east, west, north, or south of the United States. They traditionally emphasized liberal arts. They are facing an enrollment and budget crunch for several years, seeing that the declining number of eighteen-year-olds in the coming years poses an existential threat. It has a modest endowment. It is not an elite school. It is a school like the one that many professors teach at. It was failing before Covid-19. It may not be around in five years. Wirth COVID-19, it may be around even…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/04/the-anatomy-of-a-failing-university/

Iran's corona diagnostic kits to be exported to Germany, Turkey: VP
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-04
TEHRAN, May 04 (MNA)

The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis Is Here
Matt Taibbi | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-04

Instead of asking calmly if hydroxychloroquine works, or if the less restrictive Swedish crisis response has merit, or questioning why certain statistical assumptions about the seriousness of the crisis might have been off, we're denouncing the questions themselves as infamous

| Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine

2020-05-03: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-05-03). 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Caused Brain Damage in Children. Dr. Anthony Fauci on "Vaccine Safety" Issues. globalresearch.ca In 2009, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci was firmly in support of a multibillion dollar H1N1 vaccine project | Today he is an avid supporter of a COVID-19 vaccine. | What he fails to acknowledge is that the 2009 H1N1 Vaccine caused brain …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-05-03). Towards A New World Order? The Global Debt Crisis and the Privatization of the State. globalresearch.ca This is the true picture of what is happening. Poverty is Worldwide. While famines are erupting in Third World countries, closer to home, in the richest country on earth, "millions of desperate Americans wait in long crowded lines for handouts"

Staff (2020-05-03). Corporations Don't Need Another Bailout — Schools Do. truthout.org Money matters in education. Someone needs to tell Mitch McConnell that. | The Senate majority leader said on April 22 that the federal government should let states battling COVID-19 go

Patrick Henningsen (2020-05-03). Why Sweden Has Already Won the Debate on COVID 'Lockdown' Policy. globalresearch.ca As Europe and North America continue suffering their steady economic and social decline as a direct result of imposing 'lockdown' on their populations, other countries have taken a different approach to dealing with the coronavirus threat. You wouldn't know it …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-03). Big Pharma Controlled FDA Approves Inadequately Tested Drug for COVID-19. globalresearch.ca Big Pharma officials run the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), its mandate focused on profit-making over human health and welfare. | Consumer advocate Ralph Nader earlier slammed "unrestrained drug industry havoc." | Big Pharma "receives billions of dollars in tax credits …

Whitney Webb (2020-05-03). Bill Gates Partners With DARPA & Department of Defense For New DNA Nanotech COVID19 Vaccine! thealtworld.com In this powerful interview, Spiro is joined by Whitney Webb and Ryan Cristián from The Last American Vagabond, as they discuss the rollout of a new system of control the likes of which the world has never seen. | It has been said to never let a good crisis go to waste, and it appears the ones pulling the strings are taking full advantage of the current crisis as more and more evidence emerges contradicting the official story that suggests this crisis is no accident. | The fact that Bill Gates has teamed up with the Department of Defense and DARPA, which is the special project research and development arm of the P…

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2020-05-03). Reopening in Words Only? globalresearch.ca The "reopenings" underway in 30 states in the US might be in words only just as the ballyhooed "open" Swedish economy is not open in fact and has been closed by non-participation. The Swedish Riksbank reports that attendance at cinema, …

Rob Slane (2020-05-03). Shutting Down an Entire Economy. Weighing up the Threat From the Virus and the Threat From the Reaction. globalresearch.ca Would you consider the shutting down of an entire national economy for a disease such as the Black Death, which between 1347-1351 killed an estimated

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2020-05-03). Challenging the Narrative: Media Propaganda Launches Conspiracy Theories Against Covid-19 Skeptics. globalresearch.ca Following the September 11th attacks in New York City, it instantaneously changed everything, from expanding US wars abroad against Afghanistan and Iraq, the dismantling of whatever civil rights you had left to the increased use of drones for surveillance and …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-03). Science Saturday: Antimalarials, COVID-19, cardiac arrest. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Over the last few weeks, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have become household words. These antiparasitic drugs normally prescribed for malaria were introduced early in the rush to find potential treatments for COVID-19. As time goes on, the public discussion has centered on who should get these particular drugs and when. Meanwhile many doctors and medical researchers …

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-05-03). Israel Behind Air Strikes in Syria Directed against Hezbollah. "Greater Israel" in the Making? globalresearch.ca Tensions have worsened in the Middle East. Apparently, the Israeli government is promoting an escalation of violence in Syria with the aim of expelling any trace of Iranian presence from the country, leading to the collapse of relations between Tehran …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-03). The Trump Regime's Latest Diabolical Anti-Iran Scheme. With the Support of Bibi. globalresearch.ca Decades of US hostility toward Iran for not bowing to its hegemonic will reached a fever pitch under Trump. | Regime hardliners and Netanyahu convinced him to wage all-out war by other means on Tehran, an agenda that risks things turning …

Prof. Dr. Mujahid Kamran (2020-05-03). Who Really Controls the World? Deadly Weapons, Concentration of Wealth, Corporate Media. globalresearch.ca (Article originally published in April 2015) | Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. …

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-03). The FULL Story Behind "Fauci's" 3.7 Million To Wuhan, Flu/CV Overlap & It Was Always Israelgate. 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 (5/2/19). 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 …

Steve Sweeney (2020-05-03). This Weekend We Mark "Press Freedom Day". But Whose Freedom? globalresearch.ca Global human rights organisations and press freedom groups will today hold events across the world to mark International Press Freedom day, held annually on May 3. | It was established by the United Nations in 1993 on the second anniversary of …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-03). The Trump Regime Redeploys Its ISIS (Terrorist) "Freedom Fighters" to Iraq, Courtesy of the Pentagon. globalresearch.ca For over 40 years, Iraqis suffered from the scourge of US wars by hot and other means with no let-up, millions perishing, an entire population immiserated. | The Iraqi government and vast majority of its people want their country back — …

South Front (2020-05-03). Video: Golan Heights Escalation and New Drama in Idlib. globalresearch.ca Early on May 1, several missiles launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hit positions of the Syrian Army near Tell Ahmar and Quneitra city. The strike reportedly led to no casualties among Syrian personnel, but destroyed several pieces of military …

Mike Whitney (2020-05-03). Why Sweden Succeeded While Others Failed. globalresearch.ca How do you measure success in dealing with an illness for which there is no cure? | This is the question we need to ask ourselves before judging which country's approach has been most successful in dealing with the coronavirus. The …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-03). Lancet Editor Praises China, Slams Western Mishandling of COVID-19 Outbreaks. globalresearch.ca Lancet editor Richard Horton debunked phony claims by the US and West, falsely blaming China for spreading COVID-19 outbreaks. | Friday on China's CCTV, he stressed that Beijing "isn't responsible for" what's happening. | Calls by US and other Western leaders for …

Kurt Nimmo (2020-05-03). Fear and Loathing of the COVID-19 Economy. globalresearch.ca Let me begin by saying I don't know anything definitive about the origin of COVID-19. I don't know if it is a natural mutation or a manmade biological weapon. I don't trust the government and its media corporations to report …

graham (2020-05-03). COVID-19 pandemic could last up to 2 years, according to US experts. truepublica.org.uk A new report from researchers at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy lays out three scenarios for how the coronavirus pandemic will progress in the coming months. Using the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic as a model, experts suggested the COVID-19 outbreak will last between 18 and 24 months. The pandemic "likely won't be …

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2020-05-03). Politics and Corruption at the World Health Organization (WHO). globalresearch.ca This article, translated from French, was written prior to Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic outbreak | *** | The WHO [OMS in French] is the World Health Organisation. 'WHO' in English — and that's much more appropriate. WHO: who is it really? | Would the …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-03). Physicians, scientists and physician-scientists connect dots between heart disease, potential for worse COVID-19 outcomes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. ? People with certain heart diseases may be more susceptible to worse outcomes with COVID-19, but the reason why has remained unknown. New research from Mayo Clinic indicates that in patients with one specific type of heart disease ? obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) ? the heart increases production of the ACE2 RNA transcript …

Dr. Dan Erickson (2020-05-03). Video: California Doctors Debunk Covid-19 Media Hysteria. globalresearch.ca Two doctors, Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care, which offers Bakersfield's only private walk-in COVID-19 testing site, held a press conference on April 22 to report their conclusions about COVID-19 test results. The doctors said that …

en.mehrnews (2020-05-03). European, American seminary students in Qom prov. en.mehrnews.com QOM, May 03 (MNA) — In line with the special emphasis of Leader of the Islamic Revolution in implementing "Equality, Sincere Assistance Maneuver" during the holy month of Ramadan, over 2,000 livelihood foodstuff packages were distributed among the needy families in Qom province at the initiative taken by Amir al-Momenin Seminary School, where non-Iranian seminary students study at this center.

Santa Cruz News (2020-05-03). May Day Caravan in Santa Cruz. indybay.org #COLA4ALL activists in Santa Cruz organized a May Day Caravan to support those "striking and fighting for their right to live in this city". Beginning on the UC Santa Cruz campus to support the striking COLA graduate students, the caravan traveled downtown to the Santa Cruz Main Jail, and then on to support Food Not Bombs at Front and Laurel Streets. (Photos taken downtown by Keith McHenry of Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs.)…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-05-02). Déjà Vu: The WHO's Handling of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic: "Deeply Marred by Secrecy and Conflict of Interest" globalresearch.ca The same Big Pharma actors, the Gates Foundation, Anthony Fauci et al were behind the H1N1 swine flu scam. | Members of the Expert committee of the WHO (including Director General Margaret Chan) were bribed in 2009. | The same committee …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-05-02). Remember the "Fake" 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency. globalresearch.ca A Worldwide public health emergency is unfolding, 4.9 billion doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine are envisaged by the WHO.

Julia Conley (2020-05-02). A new low': Betsy DeVos sued for garnishing wages of nearly 300,000 student loan borrowers during pandemic. nationofchange.org "By continuing to use its harsh collection tools during this public health and economic crisis, the Department of Education is placing the health, safety, and well-being of vulnerable student loan borrowers in peril."

Staff (2020-05-02). Betsy DeVos Sued for Garnishing Wages of 285,000 Student Borrowers Amid Pandemic. truthout.org A home health aide who earns just under $13 per hour is the lead plaintiff in a The CARES Act, which was signed into law in late March, pro…

F. William Engdahl (2020-05-02). Coronavirus, Vaccines and the Gates Foundation. globalresearch.ca First published on March 20, 2020 | Arguably, no one has been more active in promoting and funding research on vaccines aimed at dealing with coronavirus than Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. From sponsoring a simulation of …

Daniel Espinosa Winder (2020-05-02). The Covid-19 "Manhattan Project" and its Ties to the CIA. dissidentvoice.org On April 27, the Wall Street Journal reported about the creation of a "Manhattan Project" for Covid-19. A "secret group", consisting in a dozen scientists and a few billionaires, was working "to cull the world's most promising research on the pandemic" to then advise the White House in the best course of action. As Rob …

Peter J Blankestijn, Sabine C Meijvis (2020-05-02). [Comment] Renal denervation: time to refine the focus of research. thelancet.com In The Lancet, Michael Bà∂hm and colleagues report the results of their international, prospective, randomised controlled trial on the effects of renal denervation in unmedicated patients.1 They report that, in a cohort of 331 patients with hypertension assigned to either a renal denervation procedure (n=166; mean age 52 years [SD 11], 36% women) or sham procedure (n=165; 53 years [10], 32% women), treatment differences were ‚àí3 ∑9 mm Hg (Bayesian 95% credible interval ‚àí6 ∑2 to ‚àí1 ∑6) for 24 h systolic blood pressure and ‚&agr…

Wayne Dupree (2020-05-02). US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as 'Coronavirus'. globalresearch.ca First published on April 15, 2020 | Senator Scott Jensen represents Minnesota. He's also a doctor. He appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingram where he revealed a very disturbing piece of information. | Dr. Scott Jensen says the American Medical Association …

The Canary (2020-05-02). New blood plasma coronavirus treatment set to be trialled in the UK. thecanary.co Doctors at London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospital are set to trial a potential treatment for coronavirus (Covid-19) using blood plasma from recovered patients. | The hospital's Biomedical Research Centre said the first plasma donations have been collected, and transfusions will begin in "the coming weeks". It's hoped the potential treatment, known as convalescent plasma, will help patients whose bodies are not producing sufficient antibodies to fight the virus. | The hospital said if the trials prove the treatment to be effective, NHS Blood and Transplant will begin a national programme to deliver up to 10,000 un…

Philip Giraldi (2020-05-02). "America the Victim": Are "Enemies" Lining Up for Revenge in the Wake of the Coronavirus? globalresearch.ca When in trouble politically, governments have traditionally conjured up a foreign enemy to explain why things are going wrong. Whatever one chooses to believe about the coronavirus, the fact is that it has resulted in considerable political backlash against a …

Kurt Nimmo (2020-05-02). German Lawyer Sent to Psychiatric Ward for Organizing Protest Against COVID-19 Lockdown. globalresearch.ca First published on April 16, 2020 | In the Soviet Union, activists were sent to state psychiatric wards. According to the state, any and all opposition to government policy was considered a form of mental illness. |

Andrew Green (2020-05-02). [Obituary] Gita Ramjee. thelancet.com HIV researcher who specialised in HIV prevention for women. Born on April 8, 1956, in Kampala, Uganda, she died of complications from COVID-19 on March 31, 2020, outside Durban, South Africa, aged 63 years.

RT (2020-05-02). DARPA research lab designing 'game changer' rapid coronavirus blood test repurposed from BIOWEAPONS detection project. rt.com Germ warfare researchers at the Pentagon's shadowy advanced projects unit have developed a new coronavirus test that could spot infected patients before they become contagious, originally created to diagnose victims of bioweapons. | The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says the new test may be capable of identifying infections within 24 hours, some four days prior to any of the test kits currently available, the Guardian

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya (2020-05-02). Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a "New Middle East" globalresearch.ca Towards the balkanization (division) and finlandization (pacification) of the Middle East…

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-02). Lockdown Wars: Debating Pandemic Measures in a Failed State. strategic-culture.org If you thought COVID-19 wouldn't get political, think again. | Peter VAN BUREN | If America has a fast forward button on it, someone should push it ahead to November. We won't be done with the virus until we're done with the election. Between prudence and overreaction lies politics. | We bleat about wanting decisions to be based on science, then we do the same dumb red-blue thing, even counting the corona dead differently (nothing left certain but taxes now) to make the numbers seem better or worse depending on shifty politics. Something that should not be about Trump at all is All About Trump. | It's killing us.

Michael Marmot (2020-05-02). [Perspectives] Society and the slow burn of inequality. thelancet.com On June 14, 2017, Grenfell Tower, a high-rise housing block in the Royal London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, UK, went up in flames. 72 people died, among the poorest and most marginalised in society. A dramatic conflagration such as this could teach us two kinds of lessons, if we were but open to receiving them. This event exposed underlying problems in society and it showed us that we have to do things differently. In the case of Grenfell, the underlying societal problem was deep-seated and enduring social inequalities and resultant health inequalities.

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-01). Harvard Postpones Commencement Indefinitely? Tele-Education and Tele-Medicine. globalresearch.ca Founded in 1636, Harvard commencements began in 1642, a handful of graduates alone in its early years, nine in 1642. | There were few college entrants at that time. In the 17th century after the school's founding, there were no graduates …

Julia Conley, staff writer (2020-05-01). 'A New Low': Betsy DeVos Sued for Garnishing Wages of Nearly 300,000 Student Loan Borrowers During Pandemic. commondreams.org A home health aide who earns just under $13 per hour is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose department has continued collecting garnished wages from hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers during the coronavirus pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Rob Woodward (2020-05-01). Surveillance System and Privacy: Britain's NHS Ordered to Hand Over Security Keys of NHS Data to UK Intel and Security Authority GCHQ. globalresearch.ca Britain's NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, …

Zero Hedge (2020-05-01). "Food Supply Chain Is Breaking": Tyson Foods. globalresearch.ca News feeds in April have been inundated with food supply chain disruption stories due to

Tyler Olson (2020-05-01). Case Asking Supreme Court to Halt Enforcement of "Stay-at-home Order". Justice Alito Orders Pennsylvania Government to Respond. globalresearch.ca

South Front (2020-05-01). Video: Prospects of Turkish-Russian Military Conflict in Syria. globalresearch.ca The region of Greater Idlib remains the main source of tensions in Syria. | The March 5th ceasefire deal reached by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow allowed an end to be made to the …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2020-05-01). Scuttling New START Treaty: Trump's China Distraction. globalresearch.ca "If we want to preserve strategic stability using arms control as a counterpart of that, as a tool in that toolkit, then China should be in as well." — US Defence Secretary Mark Esper,

Natasha Lennard (2020-05-01). Millions Unable to Pay for Housing Next Month, Rent Strike in NYC. globalresearch.ca Want a grim picture of the state of American dissent during the coronavirus pandemic? Take an overview of media coverage from the last week. The press focused disproportionate attention on a