We're In A Recession, And It's Likely To Get Worse
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-18
The coronavirus epidemic is creating an ongoing teachable moment that could be used to transform the US economy. COVID-19 and the oil war are triggers leading to a recession that has its roots in record corporate and personal debt, longterm low wages and an artificially-inflated stockmarket. The shortcomings of US economic policy, the healthcare system, and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/were-in-a-recession-and-its-likely-to-get-worse/

Close Australian schools to stave off coronavirus! Form action committees of teachers and school staff!
wsws.org | 2020-03-18
The Committee for Public Education insists that in the face of a public health emergency, the voices of teachers and education workers must be heard!
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/18/cfpe…

Curveball–Germany's role in the Iraq war–and the horrors of the concentration camp in Persian Lessons
wsws.org | 2020-03-18
Johannes Naber's film is a political satire rooted firmly in evidence researched by the director and his team. Vadim Perelman's work follows a man who has to invent an entire language to survive.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/18/berl…

When Available, COVID-19 Vaccines May be Hazardous to Human Health
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-18
In cahoots with government, Big Pharma is more concerned about profits than human health. | Drug companies see a potential bonanza by developing and marketing a COVID-19 vaccine once testing is completed

Beijing Believes COVID-19 Is a Biological Weapon
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-18
From conspiracy theory to geopolitical realism, the possibility to treat COVID-19 as a biological weapon has been finally accepted in the public sphere. The recent statement by the Chinese spokesman Zhao Lijian, formally accusing the US of bringing coronavirus …
globalresearch.ca/beijing-believes-covid-19-biological-weapon/5706558

China Locked in Hybrid War with US
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-18
Among the myriad, earth-shattering geopolitical effects of coronavirus, one is already graphically evident. China has re-positioned itself. For the first time since the start of Deng Xiaoping's reforms in 1978, Beijing openly regards the US as a threat, as stated …
globalresearch.ca/china-locked-hybrid-war-us/5706687

Washington Attempts to Intimidate Indonesia Not to Buy Russian Weapons
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-18
Correspondents from Bloomberg reported that under pressure from Washington, Indonesia will likely refuse to buy Russian and Chinese weapons. A U.S. State Department spokesman informed Bloomberg that the United States had asked all its allies and partners to abandon new …
globalresearch.ca/washington-attempts-intimidate-indonesia-not-buy-russian-weapons/5706682

Money for Something. Keep the Predatory Wall Street Firms Afloat
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-18
Isn't it funny how whenever Uncle Empire needs to find some of that green to solve a problem THEY deem vital, they find it. | When they DON'T deem it necessary they don't! | Go back 12 years or so when the …
globalresearch.ca/money-something/5706570

Over 450 US Planes Carrying Weapons Landed in Shannon Airport in 2019
Ryan O'Rourke | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-18
Over 450 planes carrying weapons on board landed in Shannon Airport last year. | The Government approved 454 applications for "the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft" in Shannon Airport in 2019. | The practice has continued into 2020, with …
globalresearch.ca/over-450-us-planes-carrying-weapons-landed-shannon-airport-2019/5706640

China Smothers Coronavirus as West Continues Hyperbole for Big Pharma Gain
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-18
There are firm indications that China has won its battle in suppressing the coronavirus, with daily cases in the country reduced to low double digit numbers. On 8 March 2020, a mere 40 new reports of coronavirus were recorded in …
globalresearch.ca/china-smothers-coronavirus-west-continues-hyperbole-big-pharma-gain/5706692

The Taliban Scores a Coup
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-18
It threatened to disappear under the viral haze of COVID-19, but February 29 saw representatives from the US and Taliban, loftily acknowledged as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, sign the "Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan". After two decades of …
globalresearch.ca/taliban-scores-coup/5706654

Now Is the Time to Cancel Student Debt
Cody Hounanian, Natalia Abrams | thenation.com | 2020-03-18
Now Is the Time to Cancel Student Debt…
thenation.com/article/society/now-is-the-time-to-cancel-student-debt/

Cicero's Lessons for Life
Mark Medish | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-18
My high school Latin teacher, Mr. McPherson, passed away recently, before his time. Joe's death brought back memories of our class more than forty years ago translating Cicero, Ovid, Catullus and other Roman writers. Those old Latin lessons have a way of returning in new forms. Buried deep in the collective past are valuable fragments…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/18/ciceros-lessons-for-life/

POSTPONED: Poetry for Haiti
Haiti Action Committee | indybay.org | 2020-03-18
For the safety of our community, March 18's poetry reading to support the construction of a teaching hospital in Haiti has been postponed. When it's safe to meet, the generous devorah major and Tongo Eisen-Martin will schedule a new date.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/15/18831555.php

COVID-19: Indian State of Uttar Pradesh Decides to Promote Students Without Exams
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-18
New Delhi (Sputnik): With a gradual increase in the number of positive cases of Coronavirus cases, India's federal government had announced a holiday for schools and universities to stop the spread of the infection.
sputniknews.com/india/202003181078608335-covid-19-indian-state-of-uttar-pradesh-decides-to-promote-students-without-exams/

Bangladesh confirms first death from new coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-18
Bangladesh on Wednesday confirmed its first death due to the coronavirus pandemic.Meerjady Sabrina Flora, head of Bangladesh's Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, announced during a news conference that the patient was a 70-year-old woman who was suffering from cardiac problems, high-blood pressure, kidney diseases and diabetes.She got infected after getting in contact with a person who had just returned from abroad, said the official.Another 14 people have been infected with the virus which causes the disease known as COVID-19, she added.Flora said that the infection spread in the country du…
yenisafak.com/en/world/bangladesh-confirms-first-death-from-new-coronavirus-3514288

EU posts $2.8B trade deficit in January
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-18
The EU's foreign trade deficit posted a ‚Ǩ2.6 billion ($2.8 billion) in January, compared with ‚Ǩ3.7 billion ($4 billion) in the same month in 2019, the bloc's statistical office revealed on Wednesday.According to Eurostat, the first estimate for extra-EU27 exports of goods in January 2020 was ‚Ǩ166.5 billion, up 0.4% compared with ‚Ǩ165.8 billion in January 2019. Intra-EU27 trade fell to ‚Ǩ255.3 billion in January 2020, down 0.9% compared with the same month last year."Imports from the rest of the world stood at ‚&Cce…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/eu-posts-28b-trade-deficit-in-january-3514296

EU sees rise in annual inflation rate in February
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-18
Consumer prices in the EU increased 1.6% year-on-year in February, the bloc's statistic office announced Wednesday. Eurostat said the 27-member bloc's annual inflation rate last month was down from 1.7% in January.February figure remained constant compared to the same month of last year.In February, annual inflation fell in twenty-one member states, remained stable in one, and rose in five, compared to the previous month."The lowest annual rates were registered in Italy (0.2%), Greece (0.4%) and Portugal (0.5%)," Eurostat said.Hungary (4.4%), Poland (4.1%) and Czechia (3.7%) posted the highest inflation rates dur…
yenisafak.com/en/world/eu-sees-rise-in-annual-inflation-rate-in-february-3514297

Selected Articles: Cuban Drug Could Save Thousands of Lives in Coronavirus Pandemic
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-18
Cuban Drug Could Save Thousands of Lives in Coronavirus Pandemic | By Steve Sweeney, March 17, 2020 | Cuban medicine could treat thousands of coronavirus patients as production of a "flagship" drug known to combat the disease is set to increase …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-cuban-drug-could-save-thousands-lives-coronavirus-pandemic/5706659

Covid-19: Education Secretary announces suspension of Ofsted inspections
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-17
Ofsted inspections are being halted to "remove unnecessary burdens" on schools during the coronavirus pandemic, the education secretary has announced. | Gavin Williamson said he had instructed chief inspector Amanda Spielman to postpone all routine checks on schools, further education, early years and children's social care providers. | Tuesday's decision follows pressure from a number of teachers' unions, including the National Education Union, which said it was "unacceptable" for inspections to be going ahead. | We are committed to supporting schools to stay open at this difficult time. As part of our measures…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/03/17/covid-19-education-secretary-announces-suspension-of-ofsted-inspections/

Quarantine the US Military Machine?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
It happened almost on the same day. Italy's lockdown. People confined to their homes across the European Union. Influx of 30,000 US troops in preparation of the "Defend Europe 2020" war games against Russia in the largest display of military …
globalresearch.ca/quarantine-for-the-us-nato-military-machine/5706664

Is Washington's Attack Against Chinese Media a Bad Joke?
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
The U.S. is insulting the Chinese media. It is affecting both countries. My colleagues in Beijing believe, correctly, that Washington should have tried to increase communication, not to bring it to a halt. | Twist what is happening; reverse facts. That …
globalresearch.ca/washington-attack-against-chinese-media-bad-joke/5706572

Pandemic: The Invention of a Disease Called Fear. People are being "Herded". Disrupting the World Economy
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
The word 'pandemic' bears a similarity to the word 'panic' and indeed 'pandemonium'. In fact 'pandemic' evokes an almost instant flush of fear in those easily manipulated by mass media, before any details have even touched the surface or context …
globalresearch.ca/pandemic-invention-disease-called-fear/5706596

5G: "The End of All Things". The Health Impacts of Electromagnetic Radiation
Dr. Gary Null | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
We have become thoroughly accustomed and habituated to endless advertising by drug makers to buy into the promises of pharmaceutical drugs or to consent to the nutritional value of junk food. Yet the drug and food industries are completely indifferent …
globalresearch.ca/5g-end-all-things/5706587

Cuban Drug Could Save Thousands of Lives in Coronavirus Pandemic
Steve Sweeney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
Cuban medicine could treat thousands of coronavirus patients as production of a "flagship" drug known to combat the disease is set to increase significantly, pharmaceutical bosses said at a press conference on Friday. | President of the BioCubaFarma group Eduardo Martinez…
globalresearch.ca/cuban-drug-could-save-thousands-lives-coronavirus-pandemic/5706643

US Kills Iraqis for Demanding End of Illegal Occupation
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
The US has recently carried out deadly attacks across Iraq

US Indifference to Public Health: The Shame of the Nation
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
Both right wings of the US one-party state serve privileged interests exclusively at the expense of public health and welfare. | It's been this way throughout the nation's history, notably since the neoliberal 90s, especially post-9/11 when Republicans and undemocratic Dems …
globalresearch.ca/us-indifference-public-health/5706599

Armed Terrorists Storm Syrian Arab Red Crescent Offices in Idlib, Attack Volunteers, Loot Humanitarian Aid
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
In coordinated attacks on Saturday 14 March, armed terrorists stormed the SARC office in Idlib and its sub-branch in Ariha. In both facilities, the savages beat up Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers, looted humanitarian aid, and vandalized that which they …
globalresearch.ca/armed-terrorists-storm-sarc-offices-idlib-attack-volunteers-loot-humanitarian-aid/5706564

"Defender-Europe 20" War Games, COVID-19 and NATO's Disjointed Flight Forward. Computer Simulations of Nuclear War
Brian Gray | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
Presently NATO is in the initial stages of military operations called Defender-Europe 20. The 40,000 soldier strong war game exercise includes roughly 20,000 American troops and accompanying weaponry. This witnesses the largest deployment of US personnel in Europe since 1983 …
globalresearch.ca/war-games-covid-19-nato-dis-jointed-flight-forward/5706634

The Stop5GL Foundation Takes Netherlands Government to Court over 5G Rollout, Citing Health Concerns
telecompaper | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
The Stop5GNL Foundation has filed a suit summary proceedings against the Dutch government, to stop it from rolling out 5G. The foundation believes the deployment is unlawful because it does not protect citizens against the consequences of radiation exposure from …
globalresearch.ca/dutch-foundation-takes-government-court-5g-rollout-citing-health-concerns/5706502

The Coronavirus Hoax. "Governments Love Crises"
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-hoax/5706636

Video: New Syrian Army Offensive in Idlib Becoming Inevitable as Militants Sabotage Joint Turkish-Russian Patrols
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
On March 15, Russian and Turkish forces conducted a first joint patrol in Greater Idlib in the framework of the new de-escalation agreement reached in Moscow. The planned route of the patrol goes along the M4 highway, where a buffer …
globalresearch.ca/video-new-syrian-army-offensive-idlib-becoming-inevitable-militants-sabotage-joint-turkish-russian-patrols/5706575

Sanders Endorses Biden? It's Coming
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-17
You heard it here first. No, Sanders hasn't formally endorsed Biden yet, but make no mistake. It's coming

With US Hospitals Unprepared for COVID-19, European Students Urged Home
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-17
The biggest college in Norway urged students to return from countries with "poorly developed" health systems

Covid-19: Teachers' union accuses Government of creating 'chaos and confusion'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-17
A lack of advice for schools amid the coronavirus pandemic is creating "chaos and confusion" and placing "intolerable pressure" on staff, a teachers' union has warned.The NASUWT, which represents teachers and head teachers, said there was a "rising sense of panic" as it called for a definitive decision on how to protect staff and pupils.Prime minister Boris Johnson stopped short of announcing school closures as he unveiled unprecedented peacetime measures to try to control the spread of Covid-19 on Monday.Although he added that the measures will remain under review, the union criticised Johnson for failing to giv…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/03/17/covid-19-teachers-union-accuses-government-of-creating-chaos-and-confusion/

Black Plague, Spanish Flu, Smallpox: All Hold Lessons for Coronavirus
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-17
Pandemics are nothing new in history, and their long record across the ages and continents has much to teach us about how best to handle the current outbreak, writes California State University professor Ibrahim Al-Marashi in a fascinating piece at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. | Al-Marashi begins with a tour through the animal origins of both common viruses and lethal pathogens, of which COVID-19 is just the latest example. Three-quarters of infectious diseases result from what he calls "zoonotic spillovers," mostly from common farming…
truthdig.com/articles/black-plague-spanish-flu-smallpox-all-hold-lessons-for-coronavirus/

China Nearly Conquered Coronavirus Epidemic in 50 Days
Eric Zuesse | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-17
According to www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/countr…, which obtains its information from only the most reliable sources, here are the main statistics regarding coronavirus-19 cases in China: as of today, March 17th: WORLD / COUNTRIES / CHINA Last updated: March 17, 2020, 14: 20 GMT China Coronavirus Cases: 80,881 Deaths: 3,226 Recovered: 68,715 ACTIVE CASES 8,940 Currently Infected Patients 5,714 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/china-nearly-conquered-coronavirus-epidemic-in-50-days/

Charter Schools Have No Legitimate Claim to Public Funds
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-17
Despite the sustained exposure of endless problems in the segregated charter school sector, charter school promoters are permanently stuck in "blindly repeat disinformation" mode and cannot seem to understand what is happening to them. Their social being and social consciousness objectively prevent them from grasping why the public increasingly opposes charter schools. The most recent …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/charter-schools-have-no-legitimate-claim-to-public-funds/

'The Send-People-Money Bids Are Ramping Up': As Trump Signals Direct Cash Payments, Progressives Say Check Size and Who Qualifies Matters
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-03-17
"Good," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Now we must suspend student loan payments." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/03/17/send-people-money-bids-are-ramping-trump-signals-direct-cash-payments-progressives?cd-origin=rss

A case study of corporate media disinformation
Stansfield Smith | mronline.org | 2020-03-16
Corporate America's disinformation relies on politicians, media and NGOs to implant their messaging. An essential part of combatting that messaging requires us to question our own views, as none of us are entirely immune to disinformation techniques, which have in effect become an advanced science. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/16/a-case-study-of-corporate-media-disinformation/

Campuses Across the Country Are Closing–These Are the Students Impacted
StudentNation | thenation.com | 2020-03-16
Campuses Across the Country Are Closing–These Are the Students Impacted…
thenation.com/article/society/campuses-across-the-country-are-closing-these-are-the-students-impacted/

Immediate steps are required to avert mass casualties in prisons and jails
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-15
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following March 14 statement from the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | The Illinois Department of Corrections has declared that all civilian visits to Illinois prison will be suspended indefinitely starting Saturday, March 14, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for which a national emergency has been declared. New prison inmates arriving from any of the four "Reception and Classification Centers" are reportedly being held in quarantine. | These are minimal steps not based on science. Depriving prisoners of contact with their families only aggravates…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/3/15/immediat…

Coronavirus death toll reaches 611 in Iran
IRNA | iranian.com | 2020-03-14
The head of the Public Relations and Information Center of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education said on Saturday that 12,729 people have so far been infected with the deadly coronavirus in Iran, 611 of whom have died while 4,339 have recovered. Kianoush Jahanpour said that 1,365 other people have been diagnosed with coronavirus …
iranian.com/2020/03/14/coronavirus-death-toll-reaches-611-in-iran/

Government Spends Equivalent of Entire US Student Debt to Rally Stock Market for 15 Minutes
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-13
The money spent was equal to the total amount of US student debt, more than twice as much as the Wall Street bailout of 2008 and nearly 30 times the net worth of former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, the richest man to ever run for president.
mintpressnews.com/amid-covid-19-crisis-govt-spends-equivalent-entire-us-student-debt-rally-stock-market/265726/

Trump Calls COVID-19 "Foreign Virus" as Lack of Universal Healthcare Makes the Pandemic Worse
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-12
After downplaying the threat of coronavirus for days, President Donald Trump addressed the nation Wednesday from the Oval Office, calling COVID-19 a "foreign virus" and announcing an unprecedented travel ban from most of Europe to the U.S. He also said he will expand sick leave. This comes as Senate Republicans blocked paid sick leave legislation. Robert Pollin, distinguished university professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says the lack of universal healthcare in the U.S. is exacerbating the coronavirus crisis due to "the ab…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/12/coronavir…

Italy Is Now a Red Zone: Student at Bocconi U. Describes Strict Measures Taken to Contain COVID-19
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-10
The entire country of Italy has been placed on lockdown in an attempt to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, impacting 60 million people. People in the nationwide red zone will only be allowed to travel for work, medical reasons or emergencies until early next month. All schools and universities will also remain closed, major sporting events are suspended, and airline passengers now have to justify their reasons for traveling. We go to Italy to speak with Romy Kool, an international student at Bocconi University in Milan, where courses are now being taught online amid the coronavirus outbreak. We are als…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/10/italy_red…

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Recruited Spies to Infiltrate Progressive Groups with Project Veritas
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-09
Erik Prince, the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, helped recruit former spies to infiltrate and gather intelligence about Democratic campaigns and labor organizations, including the American Federation of Teachers, according to an explosive report by The New York Times. The story exposes previously unreported details about the ties between Prince and Project Veritas, a right-wing group that often sets up sting operations targeting the media and journalists by recording covert videos. According to documents and interviews, one former spy recruited by Erik Pri…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/9/blackwater…

TEXAS 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY
Theodore de Macedo Soares | tdmsresearch.com | 2020-03-07
Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count By Theodore de Macedo Soares The 2020 Texas Democratic Party presidential primary was held on March 3, 2020. Election results from the computerized vote counts differed significantly from the results projected by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research and published by CNN at poll's closing. According to the exit poll Sanders was tied with Biden but lost in the unobservable computer counts by 4.5%. In this election candidate Sanders saw the largest Continue Reading ‚Üí…
tdmsresearch.com/2020/03/07/texas-2020-democratic-party-primary/

Victorian teachers' union calls on government to ban duck hunting
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-03-06
Kerry SmithIssue 1256 Australia duck hunting Australian Education Union MelbourneMarch 6, 2020On February 14, the Australian Education Union (AEU) passed a motion calling on the Victorian gov…
greenleft.org.au/content/victorian-teachers-union-calls-government-ban-duck-hunting