UK: Indian Students Starving and Unable to Return Home
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-01
The closure of borders in India left thousands of students stranded in the United Kingdom. Now they depend on food donations from charity institutions to survive. | RELATED: | Thousands of Migrants Workers Demand Indian Govt Trains to Go Back Home | According to local media, most Indian college students work part-time in low-paying jobs to support their studies in this European country. | "The confinement forced by COVID-19 has caused many of them to lose their jobs,"
telesurenglish.net/news/uk-indian-students-starving-and-unable-to-return-home-20200501-0004.html
Harvard Postpones Commencement Indefinitely? Tele-Education and Tele-Medicine
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
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 …
globalresearch.ca/harvard-postpones-commencement-indefinitely-tele-education-tele-medicine/5711501
Dr. Anthony Fauci: COVID-19 "May Turn Out to be Like a Bad Flu Season". His Peer Reviewed Article Versus His Public Statements
Ana Laura Palomino García | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Dr. Anthony Fauci and two co-authors published an article on March 26, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine. | Anthony Fauci is head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the article, linked below, he states …
globalresearch.ca/dr-fauci-covid-19-may-turn-out-like-bad-flu-season/5708222
All of the Coronavirus Models Were Wrong
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
How is it possible that all of the coronavirus models could have been so completely and utterly wrong about what was going to happen? Very early in this pandemic, some models that were predicting millions of deaths caused quite a …
globalresearch.ca/all-coronavirus-models-were-wrong/5711454
A Protest From France. The Great Danger of Ill-Conceived Lockdowns
Jà∂rg Guido Hàºlsmann | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
After WWI, the distinguished British economist Edwin Cannan was asked, somewhat reproachfully, what he did during the terrible war years. He replied: "I protested." The present article is a similar protest against the current lockdown policies put into place in | …
globalresearch.ca/protest-france/5711469
Millions Unable to Pay for Housing Next Month, Rent Strike in NYC
Natasha Lennard | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
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 few hundred white reactionaries, in a small number …
globalresearch.ca/millions-unable-pay-housing-next-month-organizers-plan-largest-rent-strike-nearly-century/5711443
Pompeo Demands Countries Block Airspace to Iran's 'Terrorist Airline' After Venezuela Deliveries
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The US is going on the offensive once again against Venezuela, this time attempting to break up growing Iranian cooperation and assistance to Caracas. The two so-called 'rogue states' recently targeted for US-imposed regime change are helping each other fight …
globalresearch.ca/pompeo-demands-countries-block-airspace-iran-terrorist-airline-after-venezuela-deliveries/5711461
Scuttling New START Treaty: Trump's China Distraction
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
"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."
Cuba Cannot Get Swiss Respirators Due to US Inhuman Blockade
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Journalist Laura Hunter published an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier denouncing that the companies IMT Medical AG and Acutronic Medical Systems AG were ordered not to sell high-tech respirators to Cuba. | Claiming that they do not wish to …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-cannot-get-swiss-respirators-due-us-inhuman-blockade/5711453
Uncivil Corporate Discourse
Michael Schwalbe | zcomm.org | 2020-05-01
Focusing on the manners and debating skills of undergraduates makes the real problem disappear and serves the interests of those who would like to ally research universities all the more tightly to "corporate partners."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/uncivil-corporate-discourse/
Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
"Meat Improves Mental Health" mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the "study," published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, was funded by an "unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen's Beef Association." Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat. Whereas only…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/meat-mental-health-story-latest-in-fake-nutritional-science/
International May Day 2020. Workers of the World Unite!
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
In order to survive the plague of global capitalism and prosper, working people must join hands nationally and internationally. | As the indisputable producers, they must become the new owners of the means of production. | There is no other solution. | ….
globalresearch.ca/international-may-day-2020-workers-of-the-world-unite/5711429
"Food Supply Chain Is Breaking": Tyson Foods
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
News feeds in April have been inundated with food supply chain disruption stories due to coronavirus-related shutdowns. At least a third of US meatpacking facilities handling hogs have shifted offline this month, other plants that process cows and chickens …
globalresearch.ca/tyson-foods-warns-food-supply-chain-is-breaking/5711445
Video: Planet of the Humans. Michael Moore's Documentary
Michael Moore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day
"They're Writing COVID On All the Death Certificates": NYC Funeral Directors Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic
Project Veritas Action | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with funeral home directors and their staff throughout New York City questioning the number of deaths officially attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. | *** | Project Veritas today released another video featuring conversations with …
globalresearch.ca/funeral-directors-covid-19-epicenter-doubt-legitimacy-deaths-attributed-pandemic-fear-numbers-padded/5711447
It's Crucial to Distinguish Between Can't and Won't–With a Million Lives at Stake
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-05-01
CNN ( 5/1/20) fails to note that its expert is predicting a seven-figure death toll for the United States. | In a story predicting two more years for the coronavirus pandemic, CNN ( 5/1/20) quotes Michael Osterholm, who directs the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota: "This thing's not going to stop until it infects 60 to 70% of people," he said. "The idea that this is going to be done soon defies micr…
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Heads up! More than 16,000kg of EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIAL blasts Earth every year, study reveals
rt.com | 2020-05-01
Groundbreaking fresh research has revealed that Earth is under constant assault from the heavens with 16,000kg of space material raining down on our planet every year. | A team of UK scientists went to Antarctica to hunt for meteorites in order to work out how often Earth is battered by space projectiles. It turns out that it happens all the time, as their calculations revealed that more than 16,000kg of meteorite material with a mass above 50g wallops the planet each year. | When smaller material is included, the figure rockets up to a staggering total of 40 million, but this is mostly made up of fine space d…
rt.com/news/487516-amount-meterorites-hit-earth-every-year/
How Mayo Clinic is using artificial intelligence in its COVID-19 research
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-01
Artificial intelligence has a vital role in helping researchers in their efforts to fight COVID-19 and is an important tool in the work being done at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Andrew Badley is an infectious diseases specialist and leads Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Research Task Force. In this Q&A, Dr. Badley answers questions about the task force …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-mayo-clinic-is-using-artificial-intelligence-in-its-covid-19-research/
Physicians, scientists and physician-scientists connect dots between heart disease, potential for worse COVID-19 outcomes
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-01
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/
Big-Pharma Put in Charge of COVID-19 "Vaccine"
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Big-Pharma is being given billions to develop a Covid-19 "vaccine." Would you trust your health to these profit driven criminals? | Coronavirus Disease 2019 or "Covid-19″ hysteria is sweeping the globe
France Says COVID Was Already 'Silently Circulating' & DARPA's "Implantable Nanoplatform" Vaccines
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-05-01
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 (4/30/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/france-says-covid-was-already-silently-circulating-darpas-implantable-nanoplatform-vaccines/
For World's Rarest Great Ape, COVID-19 Is Latest in a Litany of Threats
Ayat S. Karokaro | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The COVID-19 pandemic has become the latest threat to the Tapanuli orangutan in Indonesia, the rarest great ape species of all and one already under severe pressure from a range of human threats. | The critically endangered species, Pongo tapanuliensis…
globalresearch.ca/world-rarest-great-ape-covid-19-latest-threats/5711467
Case Asking Supreme Court to Halt Enforcement of "Stay-at-home Order". Justice Alito Orders Pennsylvania Government to Respond
Tyler Olson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Justice Samuel Alito this week ordered the Pennsylvania government to respond to arguments from a variety of Pennsylvanians asking the Supreme Court to halt enforcement of Gov. Tom Wolf's strict stay-at-home order, aimed at fighting the coronavirus, because they …
globalresearch.ca/alito-orders-pennsylvania-respond-case-asking-supreme-court-halt-enforcement-stay-home-order/5711436
Global smartphone market suffers largest annual decline in history due to coronavirus pandemic
rt.com | 2020-05-01
The coronavirus has hit the global smartphone market hard, sinking worldwide shipments by up to 13 percent in the first quarter of 2020, new data from analyst firms shows. | While the International Data Corporation (IDC) says that the smartphones shipments tumbled 11.7 percent, analysts from Counterpoint Research and Canalys indicate that they fell even worse – by 13 percent. Whichever numbers are more accurate, this means that the global smartphone market declined the fastest ever. | Companies shipped fewer than 300 million smartphones in the first three months of 2020, with the IDC quarterly mobile tracker s…
rt.com/business/487488-smartphone-market-worst-decline/
The Yemeni Quagmire
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
A Saudi-led coalition has rejected the enforcement of a "self-administration rule" by the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen and called on all the parties to honor the Riyadh Agreement that includes the formation of a technocrat government with equal …
globalresearch.ca/yemeni-quagmire/5711486
Video: Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Discovered HIV Says Coronavirus Was Created in Laboratory
Paul Anthony Taylor | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
In a highly significant development, Professor Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has added his voice to those who believe the new coronavirus was …
globalresearch.ca/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-who-discovered-hiv-says-coronavirus-created-laboratory/5711463
As US Unemployment Reaches Great Depression Levels, Millions Still Unable to Obtain Assistance
Shannon Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
More than 3.8 million workers in the US filed for unemployment benefits last week as the country faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. More than 30 million American workers have filed unemployment claims since the beginning of …
globalresearch.ca/us-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-levels-millions-still-unable-obtain-assistance/5711499
The Defeat of Bernie Sanders and the Perfidy of the Democrats
Donald Monaco | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
The sudden collapse of Bernie Sanders' campaign for the presidency comes amidst what official sources are calling the worst influenza pandemic to hit the United States and much of the world since the misnamed 'Spanish Flu' in 1918. Sensational …
globalresearch.ca/defeat-bernie-sanders-perfidy-democrats/5711493
Science Saturday: Antimalarials, COVID-19, cardiac arrest
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-01
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/
COVID-19: When schools reopen, it needs to be on a radically different basis
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-01
Education Fred FuentesIssue 1263 Australia COVID-19 schools teachers parentsMay 1, 2020R…
greenleft.org.au/content/covid-19-when-schools-reopen-it-needs-be-radically-different-basis
Surveillance System and Privacy: Britain's NHS Ordered to Hand Over Security Keys of NHS Data to UK Intel and Security Authority GCHQ
Rob Woodward | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
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, …
globalresearch.ca/nhs-ordered-hand-over-security-keys-nhs-data-gchq/5711458
Video: Prospects of Turkish-Russian Military Conflict in Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
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 …
globalresearch.ca/video-prospects-turkish-russian-military-conflict-syria/5711491
Trump Regime Threatens Escalated War on China by Other Means
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Hegemons aren't like other nations. They operate extrajudicially on the world stage by their own rules
Blaming the Victim Is the West's Latest Infowar Tactic Against China
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-05-01
Fewer and fewer people believe Western officials and their media, which is the West's own fault for confusing their targeted audience with the mixed messages that they disseminated about COVID-19 over the past couple of months. It was an epic …
globalresearch.ca/blaming-the-victim-is-the-wests-latest-infowar-tactic-against-china/5711478
Remdesivir as "miracle drug": Back-to-work propaganda vs. science
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
The media's adulation of this "breakthrough" takes place in the midst of an increasingly frenzied effort to create the impression that the virus is "under control" and the crisis is all but over.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/pers…
Remdesivir as "miracle drug": Back-to-work propaganda vs. science
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
The media's adulation of this "breakthrough" takes place in the midst of an increasingly frenzied effort to create the impression that the virus is "under control" and the crisis is all but over.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/pers…
Imperial community pays tribute to Lord Robert May (1936-2020)
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-01
Colleagues remember a 'towering figure in UK science', with a 'sharp, penetrating mind' and a passion for croquet.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197256/imperial-community-pays-tribute-lord-robert
EFF Off! Nonprofits Score Major Net Neutrality Win As ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale To Ethos Capital
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-01
The 'important' ruling has been seen as a victory to preserve the internet for millions of non-for-profit entities and organisations, according to a major internet defence campaign.
sputniknews.com/science/202005011079157813-eff-off-nonprofits-score-major-net-neutrality-win-as-icann-rejects-org-sale-to-ethos-capital/
Two Down, Two More to Go: Earth is Bombarded by Asteroid Visits
sputniknews.com | 2020-05-01
The development comes after NASA announced that a potentially hazardous asteroid is expected to fly by our planet on 7 May. 2009 XO belongs to the category of Apollo asteroids, whose orbit crosses that of the Earth.
sputniknews.com/science/202005011079158831-two-down-two-more-to-go-earth-is-bombarded-by-asteroid-visits/
Teacher, symbol of kindness, love
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-01
SHABESTAR, May 01 (MNA)
Quebec workers denounce government's rush to "reopen" the economy amid raging COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
"We are being sent out to babysit so that business can make profits on the backs of working people," a Montreal teacher told the WSWS.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/quco…
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
Protests are continuing against attempts to restart operations in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic without proper safeguards, including French teachers, German doctors and nurses in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/wor2…
Ayatollah Khamenei congratulates teachers on their national day
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-01
TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA)
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
Protests are continuing against attempts to restart operations in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic without proper safeguards, including French teachers, German doctors and nurses in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/wor2…
Quebec workers denounce government's rush to "reopen" the economy amid raging COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
"We are being sent out to babysit so that business can make profits on the backs of working people," a Montreal teacher told the WSWS.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/quco…
What Cuba Has to Teach, in Pandemic Times and Beyond
Diana Block | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
In July 2019, I visited the Cuban Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) as part of the 50th Anniversary Venceremos Brigade. We were impressed by the many scientific advances that the Institute had achieved, including the development of interferons to successfully fight viral diseases such as dengue and ebola. Little did we imagine that…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/what-cuba-has-to-teach-in-pandemic-times-and-beyond/
What Cuba Has to Teach, in Pandemic Times and Beyond
Diana Block | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
In July 2019, I visited the Cuban Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) as part of the 50th Anniversary Venceremos Brigade. We were impressed by the many scientific advances that the Institute had achieved, including the development of interferons to successfully fight viral diseases such as dengue and ebola. Little did we imagine that…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/what-cuba-has-to-teach-in-pandemic-times-and-beyond/
Poorest in England MORE THAN TWICE as likely to die from Covid-19 as richest, new stats reveal
rt.com | 2020-05-01
New UK figures show that the deadly coronavirus does indeed discriminate in unequal societies, and badly, revealing that Covid-19 deaths in the most deprived areas of England are over double the amount in the least deprived areas. | Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on F…
rt.com/uk/487505-coronavirus-deaths-double-poorest/
Bolsonaro & COVID-19 push Brazil towards military dictatorship
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Brazilian journalist and researcher, Aline Piva, after Brazil's Justice Minister, Sergio Moro, caught…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/30/bolsonaro-covid-19-push-brazil-towards-military-dictatorship/
Video: How the US Makes Countries Pay for Its Wars: Economics of American Imperialism with Michael Hudson
Prof Michael Hudson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own military occupation. | Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the economics of Washington's empire, …
globalresearch.ca/video-how-us-makes-countries-pay-its-wars-economics-american-imperialism-michael-hudson/5711354