Frontex agency sends more guards to Greece to help protect EU's border
rt.com | 2020-03-13
The European border protection agency, Frontex, says it has deployed another 100 guards to Greece to help protect the EU's frontier there from the pressure of migrants. | Warsaw-based Frontex said on Friday the deployment of guards from 22 member states is part of a rapid border intervention requested by Athens. The assistance will also include vessels, maritime surveillance aircraft and thermal-vision Vehicles, for the Frontex maritime Rapid Border Intervention task, Aegean 2020, AP reports. | Greece has been trying to stop a massive wave of migrants pushing in from Turkey, in a crisis that erupted last month…
rt.com/newsline/483073-frontex-greece-eu-border/

Chelsea Manning released from jail after grand jury is dismissed by US federal court
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
Manning, who had been in prison for a year for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury empaneled as part of the conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was released following her attempted suicide on Wednesday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/mann-m13.html

Chelsea Manning Is Free From Jail, Faces Exorbitant Fines
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-13
Manning speaking outside of the grand jury in Alexandria VA before being incarcerated Alexandria

Chelsea Manning released from jail after grand jury is dismissed by US federal court
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
Manning, who had been in prison for a year for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury empaneled as part of the conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was released following her attempted suicide on Wednesday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/mann-m13.html

EEUU y la OEA hacen lobby para liberar a 'presos políticos' en Nicaragua que apuñalan a muerte a sus parejas embarazadas
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-13
Benjamín Norton reporta desde Nicaragua, donde la embajada de los Estados Unidos y la OEA han cabildeado con éxito por…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/13/eeuu-oea-liberar-presos-politicos-nicaragua/

The Grayzone and CODEPINK ask why OAS doesn't monitor badly flawed US Democratic primary
The Grayzone | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-13
Watch The Grayzone and CODEPINK ask the Organization of American States Secretary General Luis Almagro why he won't send election…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/13/watch-grayzone-codepink-oas-monitor-democratic-primary/

Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
This week, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia's 34-year-old de facto ruler, was on a tear. He arrested members of his own royal family and initiated an oil price war with Russia that has sent the price of oil–and the world's stock markets–plummeting. Behind the headlines, however, another critical event will take place…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/saudis-brave-women-pull-back-the-curtain-on-crown-prince-mbs/

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Fourth OPCW whistleblower says staff 'frightened into silence' as watchdog brought into 'shameful disrepute' over Douma probe
rt.com | 2020-03-13
A fourth whistleblower has come forward to defend two senior OPCW inspectors who revealed the watchdog tried to cover up evidence in the Douma chemical weapons probe, saying that other employees were "frightened into silence." | In a statement to the Grayzone, the latest whistleblower said they were "horrified" but "unsurprised" by recent events within the organization, describing the "mistreatment" of "two highly regarded and accomplished professionals" as "abhorrent." | The employee wrote that he is "one of many who were stunned and frightened into silence by the reality how the organization operates," and t…
rt.com/news/483037-opcw-fourth-whistleblower-douma/

Will the Afghanistan Peace Deal Work?
Sonali Kolhatkar | truthdig.com | 2020-03-13
There are two likely outcomes of the recently signed U.S. peace deal with Afghanistan's Taliban. One is that a withdrawal of U.S. forces will bring a short-term reduction in violence. The second is that the U.S. will leave behind a political mess so severe that violence prevails for the foreseeable future. | Although several details of the peace deal signed on February 28 by U.S. and Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, remain secret, a time table was released for U.S. troops to begin withdrawing ten days after the signing of the…
truthdig.com/articles/will-the-afghanistan-peace-deal-work/

Latest U.S. Military Strikes Are as Reckless as they are Cruel
Lilly Dragnev | peaceaction.org | 2020-03-13
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Community Care in Light of COVID-19
San José Peace and Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
The San José Peace and Justice Center would like to emphasize the importance of community care during this distressing time.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/12/18831464.php

Chile: Piñera Celebrates 'Democracy' As Police Mistreat People
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Chile's President Sebastian Piñera Thursday commemorated 30 years of "democracy" and two years in office, as the people took to the streets to demand his resignation. | RELATED: | Chile: Church Criticizes Piñera's Indifference to Social Demand | Meanwhile, the people crowded into the Alameda, Santiago's main avenue, and the Military Police brutally repressed the demonstrators. "Step out Piñera," the crowd repeated. | In an empty speech, he acknowledged that "although these were…
telesurenglish.net/news/chile-pinera-celebrates-democracy-amid-protests-and-repression-20200313-0003.html

Uruguay: Educators Protest Against President Lacalle's Bill
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Uruguay's Secondary School Teachers Federation (Fenapes) Thursday began a 24-hour strike in Montevideo to protest against President Luis Lacalle Pou's bill, which seeks to centralize and privatize education in the country. | RELATED: | Uruguay: Lacalle Pou Announces Increase in Taxes | Education Minister Pablo da Silveira explained that the bill would reformulate the educative system's structure and its different bodies. | In an interview with local news media, he tried to minimize the protests' im…
telesurenglish.net/news/uruguay-educators-protest-against-lacalle-s-bill-20200313-0008.html

Dominican Republic Prepares for Polls Amid Political Crisis
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Next Sunday, extraordinary municipal elections will be held in the Dominican Republic amid an unprecedented political crisis and almost no propaganda activity by the candidates. | RELATED: | The Dominican Republic Prepares to Hold New Municipal Elections | This Thursday closed the candidates' electoral campaign in the country with an absolute silence of the candidates. | The proselytizing work of the political parties was silenced by the widespread protests that have shaken the Cari…
telesurenglish.net/news/dominican-republic-prepares-for-polls-amid-political-crisis-20200313-0011.html

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The Efling union has sold out a three week strike by municipal workers in Iceland while hospital workers in Lebanon protest the government's inept response to the coronavirus pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/work-m13.html

Spain: An emergency social and political plan against COVID 19
Anticapitalistas | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
The goal of these measures is to win the war against the coronavirus, empower the people and the working classes, strengthen their rights, weight the financial effort on those who have the most, lead and provide a political solution to popular anger and protest and cut off right-wing populist demagoguery.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/spain-an-emergency-social-and-political-plan-against-covid-19/

Nurses protest weakening of coronavirus (Covid-19) guidance by CDC
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
The impeached President Donald J. Trump just held a national press conference and declared that he is suspending all travel from Europe to the United States starting tomorrow for the next 30 days, but the restrictions will not apply to the United Kingdom for some reason. The Trump administration sees the coronavirus as a PR disaster for his administration, instead of a health crisis and has been trying to downplay the seriousness of the spreading pandemic. The impeached President Trump has also just falsely claimed that the US is better prepared to fight against the coronavirus than any other nation on the planet…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/11/18831446.php

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-03-13
The Efling union has sold out a three week strike by municipal workers in Iceland while hospital workers in Lebanon protest the government's inept response to the coronavirus pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/13/work-m13.html

Class Conflict is Stronger than Clan Conflict
Michèle Brand | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
The Democratic party elites have shown that they prefer Trump to Sanders. That is, they prefer the real risk of a second Trump mandate to the real risk of a Sanders presidency. How else can we explain the sudden coordinated rally around Biden, whose weakness and liabilities are obvious to all? No need to recount…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/class-conflict-is-stronger-than-clan-conflict/

Dear Berners: Dementia Joe is How Much "Your" Party HATES You
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
"You Have Owners" "Mr. [Bernie] Sanders," the New York Times reported last Tuesday, "has built a following of voters who want and expect more from their [Democratic] party, from their government, and from their country." That's true enough, with some key qualifications: it's not "their party" any more than it's "their government" or "their country."
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/dear-berners-dementia-joe-is-how-much-your-party-hates-you/

Markets Screaming Global Recession
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
The longest bull market in US history began on March 9, 2009. | It ended on March 11, 2020 when the Dow average closed down 20% from its 29,551.42 February 12, 2020 all-time closing high. | The same goes for the S …
globalresearch.ca/markets-screaming-global-recession/5706276

Markets Screaming Global Recession
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-13
The longest bull market in US history began on March 9, 2009. | It ended on March 11, 2020 when the Dow average closed down 20% from its 29,551.42 February 12, 2020 all-time closing high. | The same goes for the S …
globalresearch.ca/markets-screaming-global-recession/5706276

Bolivia: Evo Morales Expresses Concern About Covid-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Bolivia's former President Evo expressed concern about the mismanagement that the self-proclaimed President Jeanine Añez is carrying out of the Covid-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | MAS Presents New Legal Resort To Enable Evo Morales' Candidacy | Through his twitter account, Morales addresses the Bolivian people asking them to remain calm, be supportive and not stigmatize any citizen. | He said that the Añez administration spent more than US$50 million ‚Äã‚&Au…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-evo-morales-expresses-concern-about-covid-19-20200313-0004.html

US Intel Agencies Played Unsettling Role in Classified and "9/11-like" Coronavirus Response Plan
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-13
As coronavirus panic grips the world, concern over government overreach is growing given the involvement of US intelligence agencies in classified meetings for planning the U.S.' coronavirus response.
mintpressnews.com/us-intelligence-unsettling-role-classified-9-11-like-coronavirus-response/265687/

Krugman Disses Sanders and Embraces Biden While Distorting the Obama Record
Rick Baum | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Paul Krugman, a past winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, wrote a recent New York Times column with the title "Bernie Sanders is Going for Broke." He criticizes Sanders for his politics which are characterized as a "go-for-broke maximalism" "without compromise" described as:…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/krugman-disses-sanders-and-embraces-biden-while-distorting-the-obama-record/

A Machine to Beat President Trump
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
As different as night from day yet there's one way that Bernie Sanders and President Trump are alike, and Joe Biden is different from both. President Trump runs a one man show with a supporting cast. As we know from very recent history of this presidency, this liege cast either pays homage to President Trump…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/a-machine-to-beat-president-trump/

Sanders perfectly exposes twisted establishment priorities surrounding coronavirus pandemic
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2020-03-13
Bernie Sanders has exposed where elite priorities lie right now in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. And his assessment rips apart establishment arguments that bold plans for our future are somehow 'unaffordable'. | Establishment priority: 'protect the powerful, not the people': | On 12 March, US stocks had their "worst day since the 1987 crash". This was largely due to fears about the rapi…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/03/13/sanders-perfectly-exposes-twisted-establishment-priorities-surrounding-coronavirus-pandemic/

The Rise and Fall of the Work Society
Andrew M. Johnson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-13
The victories of Bernie Sanders in the early primaries had people talking about socialist revolutions, while Biden's wins on Super Tuesday (in largely conservatives states) have tempered that enthusiasm. This is an important reminder of something we all need to remember: The Capitalists already won. There may still be a few scattered enclaves of subsistence …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-work-society/

Abuse, Oppression and Murder: The PA Does Israel's Dirty Work in the West Bank
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Merely two weeks after Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, declared that the PA will suspend all 'security coordination' with Israel, Palestinian security forces in the West Bank killed unarmed teenager, Salah Zakareneh. Zakareneh is not the first and, sadly, will not be the last Palestinian to be killed by the PA security forces, which in…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/abuse-oppression-and-murder-the-pa-does-israels-dirty-work-in-the-west-bank/

As Trump stumbles on Coronavirus, He Bombs Shiites in Shiite-Ruled Iraq
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
The Trump administration is now more or less forcibly occupying Iraq against the will of its elected representatives, and is waging a low intensity war on a section of the Iraqi military with which the US is supposed to be allied…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/as-trump-stumbles-on-coronavirus-he-bombs-shiites-in-shiite-ruled-iraq/

Gracias Chelsea & Julian for publishing Bush's War Crimes
Orion the Elder | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
Fruitvale & Mac Arthur Oakland 94602…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/13/18831486.php

Gracias Chelsea&Julian for publishing Bush's War Crimes
Orion the Elder | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
Fruitvale & Mac Arthur Oakland 94602…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/13/18831486.php

Coronavirus, Epidemics and Capitalism: The Bugs Are in the System
Radical Women | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
Radical Women supports and recommends this thoughtful analysis of the novel coronavirus by our sister organization, the Freedom Socialist Party. The statement raises excellent demands to protect workers, women, the poor, and people of color being scapegoated for the crisis.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/12/18831477.php

Coronavirus epidemic responses reveal differences in capitalist and socialist values
Ian Goodrum | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-13
BEIJING–The world has a Public Enemy No. 1, and it's the novel coronavirus. Capable of causing severe pneumonia among those it infects, the virus first wreaked havoc on the city of Wuhan in China's Hubei province and has since spread at an alarming rate. At present, thousands have died and over 100,000 have been infected …
peoplesworld.org/article/coronavirus-epidemic-responses-reveal-differences-in-capitalist-and-socialist-values/

A biologist points out an alarming omission in Boris Johnson's coronavirus strategy
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-03-13
Boris Johnson informed citizens that the UK is moving to the "delay" phase in tackling coronavirus on 12 March. Flanked by his chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser, Johnson laid out the details of his plan during a press conference. | Following the move, the Guardian published experts' "verdicts" on the details of the d…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2020/03/13/a-biologist-points-out-an-alarming-omission-in-boris-johnsons-coronavirus-strategy/

"We Are Way, Way Behind": U.S. Lags on Coronavirus Testing & Medical Experts Warn "No One Is Immune"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-13
It has been seven weeks since the first case of the new coronavirus was reported in the United States. President Trump is claiming, "Anybody that needs a test gets a test," but this is simply untrue. There have been just 11,000 tests so far throughout the United States since the coronavirus outbreak began, compared to nearly 20,000 tests for coronavirus every day in South Korea alone. We spend the hour looking at how the Trump administration has failed to account for what may be thousands of infections because of ongoing problems with access to testing, and how other countries have responded. We also discuss meas…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/13/us_coronavirus_response

No, Venezuela does not have a six child per family policy
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
I respect UK journalist Andrew Buncombe. As I noted for FAIR last year, he was one of the few corporate journalists who reported on a study linking Trump's financial sanctions on Venezuela to thousands of deaths by the end of 2018. Since 2018, Trump has repeatedly intensified the sanctions and threatened Venezuela military action, including Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/no-venezuela-does-not-have-a-six-child-per-family-policy/

Amid the Worse Public Crisis in Decades, Trump Admin Finds the Time and Money to Bomb Iraq
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-13
While the government has found plenty of money to carry out wars around the globe (the Trump administration increased the military budget to $934 billion), when it comes to policies protecting public health, money is always apparently lacking.
mintpressnews.com/amid-coronavirus-crisis-trump-admin-busy-bombing-iraq-iran/265704/

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/

UAW Michigan Workers On Elections, Coronavirus, GM Strike, Democracy & Internationalism
Pacifica | indybay.org | 2020-03-13
Pacifica and WorkWeek reporter Steve Zeltzer interviews UAW 909 Detroit retiree Frank Hammer and UAW 598 Flint Truck Assembly worker Sean Crawford about primary elections in Michigan as well as the struggles for auto workers. They also discuss the lack of protection from the coronavirus epidemic expanding into US auto plants. They also discuss the corruption crisis in the UAW, green technology and international solidarity efforts by auto workers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/09/18831421.php

Judge Orders Release of Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Following Suicide Attempt
Kevin Gosztola | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-13
Manning was confined for 365 days or one year after being held in civil contempt because she refused to testify before a grand jury empaneled to investigate WikiLeaks.
mintpressnews.com/judge-release-whistleblower-chelsea-manning-suicide-attempt/265716/

Warren Isn't A Snake, She's Just Misreading Hegel
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Bernie Bros, but especially sisters and non-binary siblings who dare to stand up to the billionaire class are being accused of calling former Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren a snake. The mainstream media is horrified by this "uncivil" behavior but apparently not horrified by Ms. Warren's decision to go to an oil super PAC in her…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/warren-isnt-a-snake-shes-just-misreading-hegel/

Biden's Victory: A Blessing in Disguise?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
It has been years since I last saw the great Alain Resnais film "La Guerre Est Finie" (The War Is Over, 1966), starring Yves Montand and Ingrid Thulin, in which, decades after the anti-fascists lost, a Communist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, still fighting the good fight, confronts the moral and political ambiguities of…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/bidens-victory-a-blessing-in-disguise/

What Is Covid-19 Trying to Teach Us?
H. Bruce Franklin | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Some people see the world as an infinite number of prize fights, each with one winner and one loser. For them life is an unending series of these zero-sum games. Unfortunately, one of these people is the President of the United States. One example of something that is not a zero-sum game is a global…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/what-is-covid-19-trying-to-teach-us/

Who's Ready to Die for Trump's Ego?
Mitchell Zimmerman | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
My granddaughter's school has planned a trip to Thailand. Two things worry me. First, that she or her classmates might be exposed to or catch the coronavirus. Second, that if they did, President Trump would try his best to keep them from returning to the United States. In my view, if any of them became…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/whos-ready-to-die-for-trumps-ego/

"Now, Voyager" in Reverse
Clark T. Scott | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.

Four Reasons Civilization Won't Decline: It Will Collapse
Craig Collins | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
As modern civilization's shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a lucrative market has emerged for post-apocalyptic novels, movies, TV shows, and video games for those who enjoy the vicarious thrill…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/four-reasons-civilization-wont-decline-it-will-collapse/

Trump's DOA TV Address and an Alternative Fiscal Stimulus Program
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Tonight, March 11, Trump gave a TV address to the Nation that was to be his program for mobilizing the country to address the growing spread of the Covid-19 virus and its increasing negative impact on the US economy. The proposals landed with a thud. Even the financial markets gasped and went into a tailspin.
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/trumps-doa-tv-address-and-an-alternative-fiscal-stimulus-program/

Bill de Blasio, Climate Troll
Charles Komanoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Bike ticket sting at 59th and 1st Avenue. Two cops ticketing, I think, when folks turn right on red coming south/off the Queensboro Bridge. Good lord, how do you schedule the spring ticket traps at the same time as you tell people to bike to work? Those tweets, from a bicycle commuter and local journalist,…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/bill-de-blasio-climate-troll/