Colombia, the Oligarchs and Washington
Prof. Vijay Prashad | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Last year, on November 21, the Colombian people took to the streets in massive numbers to reject the policies of the government led by President Iván Duque. In particular, the people called on the government to withdraw two policies….
globalresearch.ca/colombia-oligarchs-washington/5710186

Chile: Teachers Reject Resuming School Year Over COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-20
Chile's Professors College refused Sunday to resume the educational year in May. The union expressed its disagreement with the Chilean president's administrative decisions. | RELATED: | Chile Registers 9,252 COVID-19 Cases, With 116 Deaths | Sebastian Piñeira, Chile ¥s president, announced administrative measures to resume social and economic activities amid the pandemic. Piñera stated gradual retake on productive and public labors April 27. Chilean mandatary also announced professor…
telesurenglish.net/news/chile-teachers-rejects–school-year-restart-amid–the-pandemic-20200420-0002.html

New York City mayor announces $827 million in cuts to public education
wsws.org | 2020-04-20
New York's Democratic mayor Bill de Blasio announced deep cuts to education last week, with predictions of more to come.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/20/more…

Stanford's Antibodies Study Wraps Up, Shows Covid-19 Is 50x More Prevalent and 50x Less Deadly than Believed
John P.A. Ioannidis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
The heavily anticipated ( at least by Anti-Empire) Stanford University antibodies test of a representative population has now concluded. | Background | Addressing COVID-19 is a pressing health and social concern. To date, many epidemic projections and policies addressing COVID-19 have …
globalresearch.ca/stanford-antibodies-study-wraps-up-shows-covid-19-50x-more-prevalent-50x-less-deadly/5710147

Trump Admin Furloughed 4,000 Korean Workers in the Midst of a Pandemic to Punish South Korea
Kap Seol | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
The U.S. Forces in Korea (USFK) has furloughed about half of its 8,500 local hires, not for fear of the COVID 19 pandemic, but in a ploy to extract more subsidies from the South Korean government, using workers as pawns….
globalresearch.ca/trump-admin-furloughed-4000-korean-workers-punish-south-korea/5710179

Donald Trump's Governor Problem: Debates on Opening Up the Economy
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Things are getting dizzy in the White House on what, exactly, is being done to "open the economy". Cranky advocates for the financial argument over the restrictions of public health have been attempting to claw back some ground. As Jonathan …
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-governor-problem-debates-opening-economy/5710154

Lies Won't Stop COVID-19
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Washington-based military think tanks constantly warn of possible attacks by the wicked North Koreans who have a large arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and missiles to deliver to North America. | So do Britain, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, China, India …
globalresearch.ca/lies-wont-stop-covid-19/5710140

Trump Was Real Time Informed During COVID-19 Outbreak in China
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-20
U.S. health experts briefed President Donald Trump in real time about the emergence of COVID-19 in China while working full-time at World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva in late 2019. | RELATED: | Scientists Prove That COVID-19 Can Survive Over 60 Degrees | A dozen U.S. researchers, doctors and experts were at WHO headquarters when the new coronavirus outbreak began in China. | They kept the Trump administration informed of its discovery and spread, U.S. and internation…
telesurenglish.net/news/trump-was-real-time-informed-during-covid19-outbreak-in-china-20200420-0004.html

'China Lied, People Died?' Look Who's Talking!
Thomas L. Knapp | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
"The costs of the pandemic keep piling up," writes Marc Thiessen at the Washington Post. "Somebody has to pay for this unprecedented damage. That somebody should be the government of China." | And why, pray tell, should China's government be punished? …
globalresearch.ca/china-lied-people-died-look-who-talking/5710124

Orwellian Lockstep and a Loaded Syringe
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Some years ago, the then vice-president of Monsanto Robert T Fraley asked, "Why do people doubt science". He posed the question partly because he had difficulty in believing that some people had valid concerns about the use of genetically modified …
globalresearch.ca/orwellian-lockstep-loaded-syringe/5710144

Science Saturday: The new super power of hand-washing
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-20
Researchers are hard at work identifying ways to help patients with COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But in the meantime, one common household object can be used to help prevent infection. Soap. Good old soap, the Clark Kent of clean, is really the superhero fatty acid salt, the Superman of clean. Soap …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-the-new-super-power-of-handwashing/

Milky Way could be slingshotting entire STARS beyond the edge of the galaxy
rt.com | 2020-04-20
Using incredibly sophisticated computer models, astronomers now believe that the Milky Way is launching stars out from its core to the fringes of the galaxy with mind-boggling levels of force. | The research, carried out at the University of California, Irvine, found that clusters of supernovas near the heart of the Milky Way galaxy were exploding with such force that they fired jets of gas towards outer space, beyond the classical disk of our home galaxy. | This so-called 'supernova feedback' could account for roughly 40 percent of these outer-halo stars, while the total number of stars produced by the supern…
rt.com/news/486291-milky-way-catapulting-stars/

What Will You Do if They Try to Extend Coronavirus Lockdowns into Next Year?
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
We are seeing a massive backlash against the coronavirus lockdowns all over the United States, and it is likely that the protests against these lockdowns will only intensify in the days ahead. But some elected officials are doubling down and …
globalresearch.ca/what-will-you-do-if-they-try-extend-coronavirus-lockdowns-next-year/5710119

The Occupation and the Pandemic: The Coronavirus and the Conditions of Palestinian Workers
G.N. Nithya | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
"Colonialism is not a thinking machine, | nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. | It is violence in its natural state…" |

Sweden Is Right. The Economy Should be Left Open
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Sometimes, the best thing to do, is to do nothing at all. Take Sweden, for example, where the government decided not to shut down the economy, but to take a more thoughtful and balanced approach. Sweden has kept its primary …
globalresearch.ca/sweden-right-economy-should-left-open/5710128

As Flint Water Crisis Enters Sixth Year, 'Astounding' Report Exposes Lies of Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder and Other Officials
Jessica Corbett | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
VICE on Thursday published an " astounding" and " important" exclusive report on how Rick Snyder, a Republican who served as Michigan's governor from 2011 to 2019, "knew about Flint's toxic water–and lied about it." | The report, based …
globalresearch.ca/flint-water-crisis-enters-sixth-year-report-exposes-lies-ex-gov-rick-snyder-other-officials/5710131

Smearing China a Lame Trick to Aid Reelection for White House
Global Times | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
US President Donald Trump tried to prove his effective leadership in the COVID-19 fight during the White House briefing on Saturday. He said that the US mortality rate was 11.24 per 100,000 people, lower than that of Spain, France and …
globalresearch.ca/smearing-china-aid-reelection-white-house/5710184

Corporate Media Cover for US Mob Threats Against Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
The Trump administration unveiled on March 31 a "democratic transition" plan to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from office, in favor of a "council of state" composed of both opposition and ruling party loyalists. | The plan was, however, less an …
globalresearch.ca/corporate-media-cover-us-mob-threats-against-venezuela/5710173

And so, It's Biden
William Stroock | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Last week the socialist pest from Vermont, Senator Bernie Sanders, formally endorsed former vice president Biden in an awkward livestream in which the two septuagenarians told one another how wonderful they are and how awful Trump is. As of …
globalresearch.ca/and-so-its-biden/5710188

Reports suggest many have had coronavirus with no symptoms
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-20
New research suggests that far more people have had the coronavirus without any symptoms, fuelling hope that it will turn out to be much less lethal than originally feared.Based on known cases, health officials have said the virus usually causes mild or moderate flu-like illness.Now evidence is growing that a substantial number of people may have no symptoms at all.Scientists in Iceland screened 6% of its population to see how many had previously undetected infections and found that about 0.7% tested positive.So did 13% of a group at higher risk because of recent travel or exposure to someone sick.Aboard the airc…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/04/20/reports-suggest-many-have-had-coronavirus-with-no-symptoms/

A Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
According to an April 6 article on CNBC.com, Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a universal basic income (UBI) on a long-term basis. Spain's Minister for Economic Affairs has announced plans to roll out …
globalresearch.ca/universal-basic-income-essential-will-work/5710152

The Massive Covid-19 Hoax
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
By all accounts and from the very beginning it was clear that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) was at the very most a bad cold

COVID-19: A Diabolical US Anti-China Plot?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Is it coincidental that the first widely reported COVID-19 outbreak was in China. | It's unknown if the virus was natural or man-made, the latter very much possible, perhaps originating in a US bio-lab. | The US has a long disturbing history …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-us-anti-china-plot/5710176

Are We Brewing a New Feudalism? The Economy is Being Destroyed
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
The answer to the question is "YES." The large bailed-out creditors will end up with the property of the non-bailed-out debtors who are being pushed deeper into debt with "bail-out loans" and fees and penalties for missed debt payments. Write-offs …
globalresearch.ca/are-we-brewing-new-feudalism/5710142

'Armageddon': When Coronavirus Struck a Tehran Hospital
Saheb Sadeghi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
It was like scenes from an Armageddon-like movie made in Hollywood instead of a real-world Tehran hospital, Hesam Khezri said, describing the state of Masih Daneshvari during the first days of the coronavirus outbreak in Iran. | "Looking down from the | …
globalresearch.ca/armageddon-coronavirus-struck-tehran-hospital/5710181

Apple and Google Announced a Coronavirus Tracking System. How Worried Should We be?
Jennifer Stisa Granick | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Apple and Google last week announced a joint contact tracing effort that would use Bluetooth technology to help alert people who have been in close proximity to someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Similar proposals have been put forward by …
globalresearch.ca/apple-google-announced-coronavirus-tracking-system-how-worried-should-we-be/5710126

Will America Launch a War on Iraq?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
The US administration views Iraq as an arena for confrontation with Iran, with the aim of subjugating the country to its hegemony and dominance. The US imposes harsh sanctions on Iran and is trying to close the Iraqi market to …
globalresearch.ca/will-america-launch-war-iraq/5710134

India's Ventilator Requirement Will Triple Within Next Week, Government Lab Researchers Say
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-20
New Delhi (Sputnik): As the number of cases in India has crossed the 17,000-case mark, several suggestions have been made that the country would require more ventilators, as the COVID-19 situation is developing.
sputniknews.com/india/202004201079029507-indias-ventilator-requirement-will-triple-within-next-week-government-lab-researchers-say/

Selected Articles: A Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
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-universal-basic-income-essential-will-work/5710167

Australian experts find novel method to study COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-20
Scientists in Australia are using a new method to study the thousands of genetic sequences of the coronavirus.A statement by Australia's national science agency

Super-Earth and Orbital Resonance: Extraordinary Star System Found in the Depths of Space
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-20
While the state of orbital resonance between the planets doesn't appear to be exactly perfect, it is close enough to make the system stand out.
sputniknews.com/science/202004201079029629-super-earth-and-orbital-resonance-extraordinary-star-system-found-in-the-depths-of-space/

A Giant Asteroid is Hurling Towards Earth at Seventeen Kilometres-Per-Second
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-20
NASA's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), located in California, is tasked with tracking all space rocks which are considered to be flying relatively "close" to our planet in an astronomical sense. The largest of them can have an impact on our planet's environment, even from a far distance.
sputniknews.com/science/202004201079030697-a-giant-asteroid-is-hurling-towards-earth-at-seventeen-kilometres-per-second/

Australian governments refuse to assist international students amid pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-04-20
Thousands of international students are on the precipice of homelessness and abject poverty after state and federal governments refused to provide them with any assistance.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/20/insu…

International students in Australia speak out: "Governments have done nothing to help us"
wsws.org | 2020-04-20
"Governments are providing billions and even trillions of dollars to the banks and corporations. Why nothing for us?"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/20/inss…

Shakespeare on Trump
Entering 6th Week of Quarantine | indybay.org | 2020-04-20
As we enter the 6th week of quarantine due to Nazi Trump's inexcusable delay in preparing for a pandemic which was known to be a threat in November 2019 , the benchmark of literature in the English language, Shakespeare's writings, teach us that Trump is not an aberration.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/20/18832516.php

Prescribing an overdose: A chapter in the opioid epidemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-20
ROCHESTER, Minn.

Six contracts inked for producing COVID-19 vaccine: VP
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-20
TEHRAN, Apr. 20 (MNA)

England's Office for National Statistics: The Average Covid-Positive Fatality Has Three Other Health Conditions
Nick Triggle | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-20

| More than nine in 10 people dying with coronavirus have an underlying health condition, figures from the Office for National Statistics show. | The ONS looked at nearly 4,000 deaths during March in England and Wales where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate. | In 91% of cases the individuals had other health problems. | The most common was heart disease, followed by dementia and respiratory illness. | On average, people dying also had roughly three other health conditions. | It comes amid signs the coronavirus outbreak is deterring people from going to A&E.
anti-empire.com/englands-office-for-national-statistics-the-average-covid-positive-fatality-has-three-other-health-conditions/

Amid US coronavirus disaster, Trump tries to shift focus to China with increasingly anti-Chinese messaging
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2020-04-20
Donald Trump has insisted that deaths from coronavirus (Covid-19) are much higher in China than in the US, despite official statistics painting a far different picture. This comes as Trump and his supporters have been boosting anti-Chinese sentiment as part of his re-election campaign. | The stats: | China has more than four times the population of the US but has reported far fewer deaths. At the time of writing, China has reported 4,…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/04/20/amid-us-coronavirus-disaster-trump-tries-to-shift-focus-to-china-with-increasingly-anti-chinese-messaging/

How Ecuador Descended Into Corona Chaos
Guillaume Long | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-20
In the last few days and weeks, media outlets around the world have been publishing shocking stories and images of the COVID-19 crisis in Ecuador. Scenes of corpses abandoned in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador's second-largest city, have shaken audiences in Latin America and beyond. Statistics, even the highly untrustworthy official ones, have confirmed the dire picture of a fast accelerating crisis.
counterpunch.org/2020/04/20/how-ecuador-descended-into-corona-chaos/

Iran Will Allow Low-Risk Businesses to Resume Work
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-19
Iran's capital Tehran was allowed to resume low-risk businesses on Saturday, a week after kindred deregulations were adopted in other parts of the country amid the COVID-19 epidemic. | RELATED: | COVID-19 Mideast Updates: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel | The move came as per the smart distancing plan, whereby Iran loosened quarantine regulations and allowed the re-opening of businesses with lower risk indices. | According to Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education, high-r…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Will-Allow-Low-Risk-Businesses-to-Resume-Work-20200419-0004.html

COVID-19 Lockdowns Harmfully Impacting Millions of Children: UN
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-19
Millions of children worldwide are being vulnerable to countless threats due to the lockdowns arising from the global coronavirus pandemic, a new United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report has revealed Thursday. | RELATED: | Children Political Prisoners Face Hell in Egypt | The document called "The Impact of COVID-19 on children" details the different areas in which children could possibly be harmed, including lack of access to healthcare, domestic life, education, and risks as a resu…
telesurenglish.net/news/COVID-19-LockdownsHarmfully-ImpactingMillions-of-Children-UN-20200419-0009.html

Politics and Corruption at the World Health Organization (WHO)
Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-19
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

China Denies the Coronavirus Came from One of Its Labs
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-19
Authorities at a maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus outbreak emerged last December, rejected claims that they could be the source of the COVID-19 surge, following recent accusations by the President of the United States, Donald Trump. | RELATED: | G7 to Back Debt Relief for the Poorest Countries If China Joins | "In no way has this virus left us," said researcher Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, capital of central Chi…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Denies-the-Coronavirus-Came-from-One-of-Its-Labs-20200419-0003.html

Why Did Hundreds Of CEOs Resign Just Before The World Started Going Absolutely Crazy?
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-19
In the months prior to the most ferocious stock market crash in history and the eruption of the biggest public health crisis of our generation, we witnessed the biggest exodus of corporate CEOs that we have ever seen. And as | …
globalresearch.ca/why-did-hundreds-of-ceos-resign-just-before-the-world-started-going-absolutely-crazy/5707970

Herd immunity? 1 in 3 test positive for Covid-19 ANTIBODIES in pilot Massachusetts street study
rt.com | 2020-04-19
Nearly a third of 200 randomly tested residents of Chelsea, Massachusetts were found to have Covid-19-related antibodies in yet another indication that the virus could be far more widespread and much less lethal than believed. | All of the participants "generally appeared healthy," but around half of them admitted that they had suffered at least one coronavirus symptom in the past month, according to the Massachusetts General Hospital researchers. Those who had previously tested positive for Covid-19 in the regular nasal swab were deliberately excluded from the study. | A total of 64 out of 200 blood samples t…
rt.com/usa/486235-massachusetts-covid-19-antibody-study/

Orwellian Lockstep and a Loaded Syringe
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-19
Some years ago, the then vice-president of Monsanto Robert T Fraley asked, "Why do people doubt science". He posed the question partly because he had difficulty in believing that some people had valid concerns about the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. Critics were questioning the science behind GM technology and the impacts …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/orwellian-lockstep-and-a-loaded-syringe/

Lessons From COVID-19 to Address the Climate Crisis
Amy Merrill | commondreams.org | 2020-04-19
Students and environmental activists participate in a climate strike in Los Angeles, California on May 24, 2019. (Photo: Ronen Tivony / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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More evidence that official figures don't reflect the true scale of care home deaths from coronavirus
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-19
A study of deaths linked to Covid-19 in care homes predicts that thousands more people have died than official figures show. | The National Care Forum (NCF), which represents not-for-profit care providers, has estimated that more than 4,000 people may have died after contracting Covid-19 across all residential and nursing homes before April 13. | This is significantly higher than the official weekly figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which recorded 217 care home deaths connected to the virus up until April 3. | The NCF collected data from 47 care homes which support more than 30,000 peo…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/04/19/more-evidence-that-official-figures-dont-reflect-the-true-scale-of-care-home-deaths-from-coronavirus/

Bret Stephens' Employers May Keep Big Pharma Haters Out of the New York Times, but We Are Everywhere Else
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-04-18
The sub-headline of Bret Stephens' latest column tells readers "there should be no big-pharma haters in pandemics." The point is that researchers at Gilead Sciences, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies, are working tirelessly on the testing of remdesivir, which at the moment is the most promising treatment for the coronavirus. Stephens' column focuses on …
cepr.net/bret-stephens-employers-may-keep-big-pharma-haters-out-of-the-new-york-times-but-we-are-everywhere-else/