2020-05-21: News Headlines

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-21). "KievGate" and the November Presidential Elections. Biden and Poroshenko Colluded in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca Money-controlled US elections are farcical when held — world's apart from what democracy in action is supposed to. | It's a notion long abhorred by both right wings of the one-party state — the war party, the money party, the anti-peace, …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-21). "KievGate" and the November 2020 Presidential Elections. Biden and Poroshenko Colluded in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca Money-controlled US elections are farcical when held — world's apart from what democracy in action is supposed to. | It's a notion long abhorred by both right wings of the one-party state — the war party, the money party, the anti-peace, …

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-21). Will Trump Wage More Wars to Distract From COVID-19 and Economic Collapse? globalresearch.ca Trump is the latest in a long line of belligerent US presidents, throughout his tenure waging war on multiple fronts at home and abroad. | His priorities are self-enrichment, serving Wall Street, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Military, and other corporate …

Staff (2020-05-21). 'Students Have Fallen Off The Face Of The Planet'. therealnews.com Remote learning has created huge barriers to learning for low income communities of color, where four in ten families lack high speed internet access.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-05-21). Towards a Culture of World Peace. globalresearch.ca "Towards a Culture of World Peace" constitutes a commitment to Human Livelihood. It consists in confronting the UU-NATO discourse in support of war and military intervention. It requires reviving a Worldwide anti-war movement, nationally and internationally as well as establishing a resolve by the governments of sovereign nation states to reject this Worldwide process of militarization.

Socialists for Retirement Security (2020-05-21). Washing Our Hands of Financialized Pensions. globalresearch.ca Rethinking Retirement After COVID-19 | The unemployment crisis brought on by the coronavirus outbreak has suddenly destroyed the earnings of hundreds of thousands of working people in Canada. For many jobless workers, the immediate scramble to make ends meet will be …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-21). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 research at Mayo Clinic. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Thanks to its combination of practice, education, and research, Mayo Clinic has a strong foundation to respond quickly to a medical crisis such as COVID-19. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread worldwide, a research task force was formed at Mayo Clinic to review and approve research proposals related to the virus and the disease it causes. …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-21). Teachers and students across Greece protest government's flawed educational policy. peoplesdispatch.org Protesters denounced a new bill on education proposed by the conservative New Democracy-led government in Greece. Critics claim the new bill is likely to worsen the operational running of schools in the country and increase class barriers to education…

WSWS (2020-05-21). Education unions and Labour councils ready back-door imposition of Johnson government's "back to school" plan. wsws.org The decision to send nursery aged children—including babies and toddlers—and primary-aged students as young as 4, 5 and 6 back into schools was taken solely by Johnson and his cabinet of deranged Thatcherites.

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-21). Indian government's approach to students' issues is exclusionary. peoplesdispatch.org Dipsita Dhar from of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) talks about the plight of Indian students and the demands being made by them to the government to ensure that education remains accessible to all.

Project Censored (2020-05-21). Zooming Past Equity in Higher Education: Technocratic Pedagogy Fails Social Justice Test. projectcensored.org By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff The response to COVID-19 by governing institutions has altered the lives and practices of people across the nation, including the students, faculty, and staff…

Stan Karp (2020-05-21). Getting a Covid-19 Education: From Race to the Top to a Plunge to the Bottom. commondreams.org From a rally for public education in Washington D.C. in July 2017. (Photo: Bob Korn) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

GRAIN (2020-05-21). Millions Forced to Choose Between Hunger or COVID-19. globalresearch.ca On the eve of May Day 2020, in full coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released some hair raising statistics. About 1.6 billion workers from the informal sector are in dire straits because of the lockdowns governments have imposed …

Christian Correa (2020-05-21). Trump Admin. Punishes Renewables While Bailing Out Oil and Gas. globalresearch.ca Trump's Interior Department is demanding payment from the past two years from solar and wind projects on federal lands, Reuters is

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2020-05-21). COVID-19 Hits Hard, but Challenges BRICS. globalresearch.ca By and large, the coronavirus pandemic has taken a huge toll on Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) since it was declared late January by the World Health Organization (WHO). It allegedly originated (yet to be proved) from …

Michael Jansen (2020-05-21). Demanded by Israel's Radical Right-wing and Settler Movement, Annexation Has Become Netanyahu's Crutch. globalresearch.ca Israel's latest "national unity" government has, for the time being, ended 500 days of internal political crisis, the longest in Israel's 72-year history. At the same time, Israel embarked on an external political crisis over the potential annexation of occupied …

John W. Whitehead (2020-05-21). The Slippery Slope to Despotism: Paved with Lockdowns, Raids and Forced Vaccinations. globalresearch.ca "You have no right not to be vaccinated, you have no right not to wear a mask, you have no right to open up your business… And if you refuse to be vaccinated,

Jonathan Cook (2020-05-21). Outspoken Palestinians — Transformed Into Antisemites Simply Because They Call for Peace. globalresearch.ca An attack on a prominent British-Palestinian doctor and academic, Ghada Karmi, by a self-styled "antisemitism watchdog" looks suspiciously like a new trend in anti-Palestinian bigotry and bullying dressed up as victimhood. | Late last month, the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), …

Gideon Polya (2020-05-21). COVID-19 Timeline Exposes Falsehood of US and US Lackey Australian Anti-China Blame Game. globalresearch.ca Trump is blaming China for the Covid-19 pandemic to hide his criminal negligence during the crisis. A detailed Timeline of the disaster reveals that China informed the WHO and the World of the Wuhan outbreak on 31 December 2019 but …

Tsvetana Paraskova (2020-05-21). Ukraine's Port Odessa Welcomes First U.S. Crude Oil Cargo. Undermines Russia's Oil and Gas. globalresearch.ca The Ukrainian port Odessa on the Black Sea will receive its first-ever crude oil cargo of WTI Crude from the United States, after the U.S. shipped its first oil to Ukraine just last year as it looks to wean off …

Cynthia Chung (2020-05-21). The 'Clean Break' Doctrine: A Modern-Day Sykes-Picot Waging War and Havoc in the Middle East. globalresearch.ca In 1996 a task force, led by Richard Perle, produced a policy document titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" for Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then in his first term as Prime Minister of …

Tamara Kunanayakam (2020-05-21). Sri Lanka, Fight or Flight From International Organisations: In the Footsteps of US President Trump? globalresearch.ca Speaking at the National War Heroes Commemoration Ceremony on 19 May 2020, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared that he will not hesitate to withdraw Sri Lanka from any international body or organisation that continuously targets the country and war heroes. | The …

Environmental Investigation Agency (2020-05-21). New Family of Synthetic Refrigerant Gases Poses Potential Dangers to Human Health and the Environment. globalresearch.ca Hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs) are being promoted as sustainable alternatives to climate-wrecking hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are widely used in refrigeration and air-conditioning and are currently being phased down under the Montreal Protocol. | HFOs are the next generation of synthetic chemicals being promoted …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2020-05-21). Pandemic Inquiry Wars: Australia, the United States and the Coronavirus Investigation. asia-pacificresearch.com

Science for the People & partner (2020-05-21). The Science We Need + The Science We Have: Internationalism in the Pandemic. indybay.org Online via livestream…

sputniknews (2020-05-21). Go Green! Antarctica's Snow is 'Changing Colour Due to Climate Change'. sputniknews.com The rise of the global temperatures has had a dramatic effect on our planet's polar regions, which are warming up faster than other parts of the Earth; the secondary effects of this distressing phenomenon can be quite visible.

sputniknews (2020-05-21). Earth's Vast Magnetic Anomaly Probed With ESA Satellites – Report. sputniknews.com The process that reportedly attracted the scientists' attention involves a new minimum emerging within the magnetic anomaly.

sputniknews (2020-05-21). Obama Science Team Warns US Has 3 Months to Replenish Medical Stockpiles in Case COVID Strikes Again. sputniknews.com Ex- US President Barack Obama and his successor recently exchanged verbal barbs, with the former slamming the administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Donald Trump countering by calling him 'grossly incompetent'.

sputniknews (2020-05-21). Mysterious 'First-of-Its-Kind' Trojan Asteroid is Detected by Astronomers. sputniknews.com Although quite rare, it is not at all unusual for astronomers to come across so-called "active" asteroids, that share some characteristics with comets due to their outgassing tails. However, a newly-discovered space object may complicate this definition even more.

Andrew Korybko (2020-05-21). The Real UkraineGate Scandal: There's No Longer Any Question that Joe Biden Carried Out a Cover-Up in Ukraine. globalresearch.ca Trump stands vindicated for accusing Biden of trying to cover up his son's corruption in Ukraine after one of that country's lawmakers released audio recordings of the former Vice President's numerous conversations with former President Poroshenko to that effect, proving …

Michael Lynk (2020-05-21). Canada Missing in Action on Israel's Proposed Annexation of the West Bank. globalresearch.ca The leaders of the two of Israel's largest political parties — Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz — In an initial six-month period, the coalition will address only two issues:

Johanna Ross (2020-05-21). Nicola Sturgeon Is Leading Scotland Out of Lockdown, and Out of the UK. globalresearch.ca Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been voted the UK's 'most impressive' politician according to a recent poll. The

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny (2020-05-21). COVID-19 Testing: What Are We Doing? What Does "Positive" Test Really Mean? globalresearch.ca In 1965, scientists identified the first human coronavirus; it was associated with the common cold. The Coronavirus family, named for their crown-like appearance, currently includes

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-21). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 news briefing. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org On the Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast, Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, covers the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Poland discusses how the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is changing, and how scientists and researchers are rapidly gaining new knowledge about the virus and the disease that it …

Vincent Mathieu (2020-05-21). Pandemic 2020: From Statistical Fraud to Controlled Society. globalresearch.ca The outbreak of Covid-19 which first occurred in China in the autumn of 2019 did not, at that time, seem to herald a crisis of such magnitude in the West. In Quebec, the new coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) was referred to as …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2020-05-21). Mayo researchers, minority communities team up to combat COVID-19 health disparities. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Rochester, Minn.

graham (2020-05-21). Blaming Russia, China, Iran — to profit from Covid-19 vaccine. truepublica.org.uk By Craig Murray: On 5 May, the British security services released to their pet media the claim that Russia, China and Iran were attempting to hack into British research institutes conducting coronavirus research. The BBC reported it. Britain's shameful copy and paste media all, without exception, just copy and pasted the government press release. …

Dr. Dennis Etler (2020-05-21). The US Is Trying to Dismember China by Promoting Separatism in Its Regions. globalresearch.ca The US Senate, on 14 May passed bill on the mistreatment of Uyghur minority in China. The bill demands President Donald Trump to sanction Chinese officials who partake in the violating rights and freedoms of Uyghur community in the northwestern …

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-21). Bob Langer The Coronavirus "Common Denominator" Tied To Charles Lieber & Israel's NY "Smart Cities" 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 (5/20/19). 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 …

News Desk (2020-05-21). For Women in Qatar, Lockdown Is Nothing New. globalresearch.ca When it comes to the issue of women's rights in the Gulf , Saudi Arabia is most frequently cited as the most repressive country in the region, and Qatar is widely regarded as the most modern in terms of human …

Global Research News (2020-05-21). Selected Articles: Warmongering Amid COVID-19. globalresearch.ca To say that the public has become disillusioned and wary of constant doomsday media reports and news coverage is a gross understatement — people see their world changing and they want to understand what is happening, and why. They want …

True Pundit (2020-05-21). Cover Up: Fauci Approved Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine 15 Years Ago to Cure Coronaviruses; "Nobody Needed to Die" globalresearch.ca Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose "expert" advice to President Trump has resulted in the complete shutdown of the greatest economic engine in world history, has known since 2005 that chloroquine is an effective inhibitor of coronaviruses. | How did he know …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-05-21). France sees a spike in COVID-19 cases after schools reopen. peoplesdispatch.org At least 70 new cases of COVID-19 were reported from schools in France following their reopening last week by French authorities. Teachers' unions and student organizations criticized the government for the move…

WSWS (2020-05-21). Deaths and illness among youth raise concerns as schools plan to reopen. wsws.org Several recent deaths of youth and students due to COVID-19 demonstrate that, despite efforts by the media and politicians to downplay the danger of the virus to youth, the virus can pose a deadly threat to young people.

sputniknews (2020-05-21). French Businessman Proposes Selling Mona Lisa to Help Nation Amid COVID-19 Pandemic. sputniknews.com In late-April, France's national statistics agency, INSEE, reported that the country fell into recession as it's GDP contracted 5.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, primarily due to the coronavirus lockdown imposed in March.

Stephen Lendman (2020-05-20). Abbas Suspending Agreements with Israel? globalresearch.ca In 2005, Israel virtually installed Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president and PLO chairman. | A rigged election with no legitimacy assured it. His mandate is serving as Israel's enforcer. | He's kept in power as long as remaining submissive to Israeli interests …

Global Research News (2020-05-20). Selected Articles: China Updates Its 'Art of Hybrid War'. globalresearch.ca By The escalated tensions even led to a military incident on the M4 highway, near the town of Nayrab, when the Turkish Army …

Staff (2020-05-20). Immigrants Protest Demolition of NJ Public School for $750 Million Robert Wood Johnson Cancer Center. democracynow.org We go to New Brunswick, New Jersey, to look at the fight to save the largely immigrant Lincoln Annex public school from demolition to make way for the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital's $750 million cancer center. Democracy Now! co-host Juan González lives in New Brunswick and has been active in the campaign. We also speak with Juan Cartagena, president and general counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and attorney representing parents, students and taxpayers who oppose the demolition.

The Canary (2020-05-20). 'Unproductive' to blame scientists for government decisions, says Buckland. thecanary.co Justice secretary Robert Buckland has labelled it "unproductive" to blame scientists for decisions taken by the government during the coronavirus crisis.His comments came after Cabinet colleague Thérèse Coffey, the work and pensions secretary, tried to deflect criticism about key decisions, such as ending community testing, on to the scientists advising ministers on the UK response.Coffey, speaking to Sky News on Tuesday, said: "If the science was wrong, advice at the time was wrong, I'm not surprised if people then think we made a wrong decision."Downing Street distanced itself from her comments sh…

Paul Antonopoulos (2020-05-20). Failures in Syria and Libya Fuel Coup Speculations Against Erdogan. globalresearch.ca Turkish media has been full of speculation of a potential coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including from state-run