Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
The U.S. embargo on Cuba has been in effect for 60 years. It's time to end it. | The embargo makes it a criminal offense for any American to spend money in Cuba or to do business in Cuba. If an …
globalresearch.ca/lift-u-s-embargo-cuba/5706003

Dems Rigging Things for Establishment Figure "Moderate Jo" Biden?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
The myth of moderate Joe belies his hardline agenda throughout a near-half century of public life as US senator and vice president. | Along with most others on both sides of the aisle, his political record shows full support for endless …
globalresearch.ca/dems-rigging-things-establishment-figure-biden/5705968

1983 CIA Document Reveals Plan to Destroy Syria, Foreshadows Current Crisis
Brandon Turbeville | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
As the Syrian crisis enters its ninth year, the Donald Trump administration is looking more and more like the Obama administration every day. With the Trump regime refusing to open useful dialogue with Russia regarding Syria, it's obvious anti-Iran and …
globalresearch.ca/1983-cia-document-reveals-plan-destroy-syria-foreshadows-current-crisis-2/5705964

Draconian response to coronavirus may be worse for global economy than epidemic itself
rt.com | 2020-03-10
The Covid-19 outbreak has been taking its toll on global supply chains and economic growth, but how governments are tackling the problem could have far worse economic consequences, an expert tells RT. | "A medical threat turned into international economic calamity, with these quarantines, these shutdowns, this frenzy and this hysteria. It's becoming enormously disruptive to international commerce and actually even to domestic [US] commerce," said Jeffrey Tucker, the editorial director at the American Institute for Economic Research. | The epidemic left hundreds of flights grounded and many international events…
rt.com/business/482730-coronavirus-response-kills-economy/

IDF Knee-Capping Besieged Gazans. Hundreds of Palestinians Killed
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Live fire by Israeli soldiers, police, and other security forces against defenseless Palestinians threatening no one is official Jewish state policy. | What was instituted on the pretext of preventing harm to Israelis is systematically and repeatedly breached by IDF and …
globalresearch.ca/idf-knee-capping-besieged-gazans-hundreds-of-palestinians-killed/5705989

Saudi Arabia's Oil Price War Could Very Easily Backfire
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Russia's rejection of its OPEC+ partners' request to further reduce oil production in response to slumping demand prompted Saudi Arabia to unwisely initiate an oil price war over the weekend as revenge, one which the Gulf country is ill-equipped to …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-arabia-oil-price-war/5705941

Video: New Idlib Ceasefire Is Already Crumbling and Nobody Is Surprised
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
On March 6, the Syrian region of Greater Idlib entered another ceasefire phase with al-Qaeda-linked groups breathing a sigh of relief thanks to Turkish sacrifices in the battle against the Syrian Army. However, the pause in the Turkish-Syrian military confrontation …
globalresearch.ca/video-new-idlib-ceasefire-already-crumbling-nobody-surprised/5705950

The Big Heist: U.S. Imposed Economic Sanctions on One Third of Humanity
Lauren Smith | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
The US has become increasingly dependent on the use of unilateral economic sanctions to achieve its policy objectives against its declared targets since the start of the great recession in 2008. Presently, sanctions impact one-third of humanity in 39 countries. …
globalresearch.ca/united-states-imposed-economic-sanctions-big-heist/5705987

COVID-19 Marketing in the USA: Misinformation, Incompetence and Buffoonery
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
The content of this article will make little sense to you. The purpose in your reading it is to appreciate how little sense it makes. | The WHO described worldwide virus cases passing the 100,000-mark as a "somber moment". | The AFP …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-marketing-usa-misinformation-incompetence-buffoonery/5705948

Western Union Suspends Family Remittances to Cuba, Except from the U.S
Granma | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
This is sanction number 191 imposed by the U.S. government on the Cuban people, with the purpose of causing discouragement and despair, while portraying revolutionary authorities as responsible for the damage caused by its aggressive policy | *** | The Donald Trump …
globalresearch.ca/western-union-suspends-family-remittances-cuba-except-u-s/5705973

Israel's Third Election: Netanyahu Wins, Justice Loses
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Israel just completed its third national election in less than a year. The first two votes in April and September 2019 ended in an impasse with no party able to form a governing coalition of 61 Knesset Members (i.e. a …
globalresearch.ca/israel-third-election-netanyahu-wins-justice-loses/5705999

The Adverse Effects of Genetically Modified Maize. Call for Retraction of EU-funded G-TwYST Study
Claire Robinson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini of the University of Caen has published a peer-reviewed paper criticising the EU-funded 2-year feeding study on GM maize that claimed to show no adverse effects from the GM diet. | The EU-funded study was published in 2019 …
globalresearch.ca/call-retraction-eu-funded-g-twyst-study-gm-maize/5705984

Financial Meltdown: The Impending Credit Crunch; The Next Shoe to Drop?
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
Last week's violent gyrations in the stock market are the result of a tug-of-war between two well-represented groups of investors. One group thinks the Coronavirus will severely impact the global economy pushing stocks further into the red, while the other …
globalresearch.ca/impending-credit-crunch-next-shoe-drop/5705945

Drop the Charges! Pack the court for our fellow comrades!
Worker Student Solidarity Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-03-10
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz | 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/08/18831368.php

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…

What Does Work Look Like on a Dying Planet?
Ilana Cohen | thenation.com | 2020-03-10
Students, promised a bright and successful future after college, are being fast-tracked into corporate careers, usually without a second thought about the value of their work in a climate emergency.
thenation.com/article/society/what-does-work-look-like-on-a-dying-planet/

Jobs Before COVID-19: Strong Employment Numbers, Weak Wage Growth
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-10
Wage growth slowed further in February to just 3.0 percent over the last year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 273,000 jobs in February. The January figure was revised up to the same number, which, along with an upward revision to December's number, brought the three-month average to a very strong…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/10/jobs-before-covid-19-strong-employment-numbers-weak-wage-growth/

EU economy closes 2019 with weaker growth rate
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-10
The EU's annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate was 1.5% in 2019, while it was 2.1% in 2018, the bloc's statistical office's data showed on Tuesday.Eurostat said the euro area's GDP growth rate of 1.2% was also weaker in 2019 than the previous year (1.9%).Meanwhile, the EU27 and eurozone's economies grew by 1.2% and 1% in the last quarter of 2019, versus the same quarter 2018.The eurozone/euro area or EA19 represents the member states that use the single currency

Magnetic Field on Mars Much Stronger Than Expected, Scientists Say
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-10
The spacecraft also helped researchers to study phenomena that occurs in the upper atmosphere of Mars and in space near the planet, where a stream of particles emanating from the Sun produces disturbances similar to solar storms.
sputniknews.com/science/202003101078527843-magnetic-field-on-mars-much-stronger-than-expected-scientists-say/

How a 'Sneezing' Star Dispelled Premature Rumours It Was About to Die
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-10
At the end of 2019 the star Betelgeuse started fading significantly, dropping to around 40 per cent of its usual brightness, fueling speculation that the red supergiant would soon explode as a massive supernova in what would be the biggest celestial event of the year.
sputniknews.com/science/202003101078527325-how-a-sneezing-star-dispelled-premature-rumours-it-was-about-to-die/

Iranian Coronavirus test kits to go to domestic market as of March 21
Mehr News | iranian.com | 2020-03-10
Secretary of Biotechnology Development Headquarters of the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology Mostafa Ghanei informed on Monday that Iranian knowledge-based companies will put their produced coronavirus test kits to the market next Iranian calendar month, Farvardin (Starting on March 21, 2020). As Ghanei, who is also a member of COVID-19 Scientific Committee, elaborated, the available test …
iranian.com/2020/03/10/iranian-coronavirus-test-kits-to-go-to-domestic-market-as-of-march-21/

Selected Articles: Cease Fire Rejected. Al Qaeda is not "a Terrorist Group"
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-10
The Violence of 'Conservation' | By Fiore Longo, March 09, 2020 | Along with WWF, as well as palm oil and logging conglomerates, UNDP is a sponsor of the $21.4 million conservation project. A sizeable chunk of this funding goes to …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-cease-fire-rejected-turkey-doesnt-consider-al-qaeda-terrorist-group/5705927

Julian Assange: The Power of Truth
Massoud Nayeri | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-09
Julian Assange

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…

Rising number of young people excluded from jobs, education and training
news.un.org | 2020-03-09
The number of young people around the world who are neither employed, studying or in some kind of training, is on the rise, according to a new report released on Monday by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1059031

No End to Endless War in Syria
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-09
Obama's war in Syria, now Trump's, continues endlessly. | On or about the Ides of March, US aggression in Syria will enter its 10th year with no prospect for near-term resolution. | Tens of thousands of heavily armed jihadists remain in Idlib …
globalresearch.ca/no-end-endless-war-syria/5705895

Conservation Groups Argue in Federal Court That Trump's Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Was Illegal