The Agribusiness Model Is Failing
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Over the past decades the organization of the entire world food supply from farm to consumers has been reorganized into a globalized distribution known as agribusiness. With most of the world in lockdown over the fears of spread of the …
globalresearch.ca/agribusiness-model-failing/5710289

As US Shale Oil Plunges, Trump Admin Takes Aim at Venezuela
Whitney Webb | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
President Trump recently praised a deal reached largely by Saudi Arabia and Russia, two of the top oil producers in the world who together dominate the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), saying that the agreed upon production cuts …
globalresearch.ca/us-shale-oil-plunges-trump-admin-takes-aim-venezuela/5710257

Freedom of Speech: The Next Casualty of COVID-19?
Brett Jordan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
The question of free speech in our current COVID climate is something that begs revisiting, particularly since there have been enough recent incidents on the global stage that have appeared to diminish the potency of that freedom. | I believe most …
globalresearch.ca/freedom-speech-next-casualty-covid-19/5710316

Video: Respiratory Doctor Exposes the Fake Virus Pandemic
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
This brave and intelligent respiratory doctor has blown the whistle on the fake pandemic that is COVID-19. He joins the ranks of a growing number of doctors on the frontlines who are reporting that this so-called pandemic simply doesn't add …
globalresearch.ca/respiratory-doctor-exposes-fake-virus-pandemic/5710274

Closedown vs. No Closedown
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Every country with the exception of Sweden found it necessary to close down at least part of the economy in order to prevent the highly infectious virus from overwhelming their medical care systems. The exponential rate of infection together with …
globalresearch.ca/closedown-vs-no-closedown/5710240

Government plans to give poorer pupils free laptops 'do not go far enough'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-21
The government's plans to ensure that disadvantaged children can access lessons online amid school closures "do not go far enough", campaigners say. | Education secretary Gavin Williamson has announced that free laptops or tablets will be given to disadvantaged pupils to help them learn at home amid the Covid-19 pandemic. | Disadvantaged secondary school pupils and care leavers who do not have mobile or broadband internet in their homes will also be provided with 4G routers. | But the Good Law Project (GLP), a legal campaign group which has previously brought cases against Uber and over Brexit, said the governmen…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/04/21/government-plans-to-give-poorer-pupils-free-laptops-do-not-go-far-enough/

COVID-19: Morrison attempts to blackmail teachers
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-21
Workers & unions Mary Merkenich and David LindenIssue 1262 Australia COVID-19 Australian Education UnionApril 21, 2020Prime Minister Scott Morrison took to the media on Apr…
greenleft.org.au/content/covid-19-morrison-attempts-blackmail-teachers

Selected Articles: COVID-19: Closing Down the Economy Is Not the Solution
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Video: COVID-19: Closing Down the Economy Is Not the Solution | By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 21, 2020 | While the lockdown is presented to public opinion as the sole means to resolving a global public health crisis, its devastating economic …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-covid-19-closing-down-economy-not-solution/5710337

Desertions in the Desert: US Mercenaries at Syrian Base Are Leaving
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
The last Syrian 'rebel' unit on the US payroll is dissolving by desertions. A former senior officer in the US-backed mercenary unit Maghaweir al-Thowra (MAT) deserted his unit in Syria on April 14. Samir Ghannam al-Khidr deserted the Eastern Syrian …
globalresearch.ca/us-mercenaries-syrian-base-leaving/5710244

A Decade on the Left
Leo Panitch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
The 2010s were the end of 'the end of history.' Beginning in the shadow of the largest financial crash since the Great Depression, it was a decade in which the injustice of austerity tore away at the social fabric and …
globalresearch.ca/decade-left/5710300

The Gates Foundation's Vaccination Activism
Eric Wagner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
In the corona crisis, billionaire Bill Gates makes a high-profile appearance as a vaccination activist. The essence: a vaccine is the solution, it is only a matter of implementation. According to Gates, the G20 should now "address the logistics of …
globalresearch.ca/gates-foundation-vaccination-activism/5710314

COVID-19: Will social distancing be the new normal? A Mayo Clinic expert discusses what the future might look like
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-21
As some states look toward relaxing restrictions and social distancing measures, such as stay-at-home orders, new projections suggest social distancing may need to continue through 2022. Researchers predict that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, will return every winter, and that prolonged or intermittent social distancing strategies could limit the strain on health care systems. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/covid-19-will-social-distancing-be-the-new-normal-a-mayo-clinic-expert-discusses-what-the-future-might-look-like/

75 Years Ago: Red Army Encircles Berlin. Analysis of Germany's Failed 1942 Offensive
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Three-quarters of a century ago, on 21 April 1945 the Soviet Army had encircled Berlin and was unleashing its final attack upon Nazi Germany. | With the Germans having killed more than 10 million Soviet troops since their June 1941 invasion, …
globalresearch.ca/75-years-ago-red-army-encircles-berlin-analysis-germany-failed-1942-offensive/5710245

Unprecedented: "Oil Prices Can Go Negative"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Last month, analyst Paul Sankey warned that "(o)il prices can go negative" in today's environment. On March 18, he wrote: | "The physical reality of the market is that oil is pumped out of the ground and has to be consumed …
globalresearch.ca/unprecedented-oil-prices-can-go-negative/5710332

Covid-19 mutations underestimated, Chinese scientists warn, as DEADLIEST strains grip Europe and US
rt.com | 2020-04-21
Chinese scientists have found that Europe and America's East Coast have been infected by some of the most aggressive Covid-19 strains, as they discovered dozens of virus mutations. These destroy a host's cells faster than others. | The ability of the novel coronavirus to mutate has been previously vastly underestimated, a team from China's Zhejiang University, led by Professor Li Lanjuan, says in a new study. The group found as many as 33 virus mutations in just 11 coronavirus patients they examined in the city of Hangzhou. | The researchers say that 60 percent of the strains they discovered turned out to be e…
rt.com/news/486425-covid-19-mutations-deadlier-strains/

Latvia Wanted to Bridge EU with Russia but Is Now in Economic Trouble
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
The transit industry was one of the most important in Latvia and was established during the Soviet era. In the first years of Latvia's independence in the 1990's, it was destroyed. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has significantly lowered Latvia's …
globalresearch.ca/latvia-wanted-bridge-eu-russia-now-economic-trouble/5710339

Netanyahu/Gantz Unity Deal… Safeguarding Israel's "Democracy". Annexation of West Bank Ongoing
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
A weeks earlier agreement between them collapsed, a new unity deal struck. | Netanyahu prevailed. Gantz's surrender to his demands split his Blue and White (B &W) party. | It may have ended his chance to become prime minister, his political career …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-gantz-unity/5710325

WHO and China: A Case of Geopolitical Misdirection
Hassanal Noor Rashid | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Who is at fault? | The Covid-19 pandemic has been a real roller-coaster ride as far as geo-politics is concerned. | Through the chaos and the barrage of information and updates on the on-going pandemic, there are still those, especially among the …
globalresearch.ca/who-china-case-geopolitical-misdirection/5710267

SARS-CoV-2 Mortality Data Is Distorted. Review of Scientific Research in Germany, U.S., Italy, Spain
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
SouthFront offers a scientific-based survey providing an in-depth look at the real death toll statistics and the spread of SARS-COV-2. | 1. The research issued by the Bonn University Hospital | The research issued by the Bonn University Hospital and made by …
globalresearch.ca/sars-cov-2-mortality-distorted/5710253

'Oreo Connection'? New 'Flavour' of Binary Black Holes Found in Space
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-21
Describing the difference in mass between the colliding black holes the astronomers spotted, one researcher made a joking comparison with a certain popular brand of cookies.
sputniknews.com/science/202004211079040636-oreo-connection-new-flavour-of-binary-black-holes-found-in-space/

Distanziamento sociale dalla democrazia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
´Il distanziamento sociale è qui per rimanere molto più di qualche settimana. Stravolgerà il nostro modo di vivere, in un certo senso per sempre ª: lo hanno annunciato i ricercatori del Massachusetts Institute of Technology, una delle più prestigiose università statunitensi …
globalresearch.ca/distanziamento-sociale-dalla-democrazia/5710226

O Distanciamento Social da Democracia
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
"O distanciamento social chegou para ficar muito mais do que algumas semanas. Num certo sentido, irá perturbar o nosso modo de vida para sempre": anunciaram os pesquisadores do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts, uma das universidades de maior prestígio dos …
globalresearch.ca/o-distanciamento-social-da-democracia/5710233

Tra microchip e punti quantici diventeremo antenne umane?
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-21
Il distanziamento sociale è molto di più di una semplice misura contingente alla pandemia, stravolgerà il nostro modo di vivere. A dirlo è il Massachusetts Institute of Technology. L'Istituto è al centro di numerosi progetti di ricerca, molti dei quali …
globalresearch.ca/tra-microchip-e-punti-quantici-diventeremo-antenne-umane/5710373

Science Saturday: Antibody testing, in pictures
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-21
Convalescent plasma therapy for the treatment of COVID-19 virus infection is based on the function of antibodies, tiny proteins created by the immune system, that combat invaders to the body in a variety of ways. Some are capable of neutralizing a virus, while others work by mobilizing a range of other immune cells that fight …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-antibody-testing-in-pictures/

Young American Scholars: Give Them Their $6.25 Billion Already
Greg Moses | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-21
While small business owners and individual workers are well aware that the first round of fiscal stimulus is not enough to keep them going through the COVID-19 pandemic, America's college students are just now discovering that they are owed $6.25 billion in federal emergency relief funding to help them cover "food, housing, course materials, technology, health care, and child care."
counterpunch.org/2020/04/21/young-american-scholars-give-them-their-6-25-billion-already/

Student debt jubilee–pandemic edition
David Ruccio | mronline.org | 2020-04-21
The United States is currently experiencing a dystopian orgy of death and destruction.
mronline.org/2020/04/21/student-debt-jubilee-pandemic-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=student-debt-jubilee-pandemic-edition

Young American Scholars: Give Them Their $6.25 Billion Already
Greg Moses | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-21
While small business owners and individual workers are well aware that the first round of fiscal stimulus is not enough to keep them going through the COVID-19 pandemic, America's college students are just now discovering that they are owed $6.25 billion in federal emergency relief funding to help them cover "food, housing, course materials, technology, health care, and child care."
counterpunch.org/2020/04/21/young-american-scholars-give-them-their-6-25-billion-already/

New Zealand government moves to end lockdown
wsws.org | 2020-04-21
There is opposition among teachers, in particular, to the decision to lift restrictions on businesses and reopen schools while there is still community transmission of coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/21/newz…