Jewish Activists Demand Governor Newsom Release Detainees In Light of Covid-19 Outbreak
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-03-23
In a March 21 press release, Never Again Action Bay Area calls on Governor Newsom to take immediate steps to release migrants from unsanitary, overcrowded "death camp" detention centers…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/21/18831710.php

Santa Rita Jail Solidarity During the Coronavirus Pandemic
IWOC Oakland | indybay.org | 2020-03-23
As businesses, schools, and institutions close to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, many people are wondering how to support people in jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/19/18831666.php

Immigrants at New Jersey ICE detention center launch hunger strike over COVID-19 threat
wsws.org | 2020-03-23
Detainees at the Newark, New Jersey jail used by ICE are protesting filthy conditions that increase their risk of infection by the coronavirus and are demanding to be released.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/hung-m23.html

What the Coronavirus Emergency Has to Do with Biden vs. Sanders
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-03-23
Tepid adjustments vs. truly transformational agendas…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/19/18831664.php

Power in a Time of Coronavirus
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-03-23
To fight like hell for the living

UN Chief Warns of Coming Recession for the Planet
Evelyn Leopold | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-23
The United Nations has shut down most of its meetings and all of its conferences, but the world body in New York stays open. There are peacekeeping missions to follow, conflicts around the world and the plight of the millions of refugees from wars that don't heal. But most of the work is done electronically…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/23/un-chief-warns-of-coming-recession-for-the-planet/

When is a Logging Road "Not a Road"?
Mike Garrity | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-23
war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength How does the Forest Service justify bulldozing new roads where they are not supposed to be? Only by saying, "this feature is not a road." These are the official slogans of the Party as inscribed at the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. The…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/23/when-is-a-logging-road-not-a-road/

Reaching 'beyond the possible' in Hawaii to meet sustainability goals
news.un.org | 2020-03-23
The people and government of the US state of Hawaii will reach "beyond the possible" to make the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a reality; The SDGs are a set of targets agreed by countries around the world to reduce poverty, protect the planet and ensure peace and prosperity for all, by 2030. Hawaii introduced its own initiative, Sustainable Hawaii, in 2016 in support of the SDGs.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1059832

Death of the "Usual": Economic Evolution and the Emergence of the New
Graham Peebles | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-23
Humanity is faced with a series of self-made, interrelated crises, from the environmental catastrophe to poverty, inequality, the absence of peace and an unprecedented level of displaced persons, among other pressing issues. All have been brought about by the negative behaviour of mankind, by the pervasive modes of living, the corrosive values and ideologies that …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/death-of-the-usual-economic-evolution-and-the-emergence-of-the-new/

Pompeo and Netanyahu Paved a Path to War with Iran, and They're Pushing Trump Again
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
Though it narrowly averted war with Iran this January, the Trump administration is still pushing for all-out military conflict. The architects of the drive to war, Mike Pompeo and Benjamin Netanyahu, have relied on a series of cynical provocations to …
globalresearch.ca/pompeo-netanyahu-war-iran-pushing-trump-again/5707142

Is Martial Law Coming to the US?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
Crises are opportunities for ruling authorities to institute policies not easily introduced during normal times. | Post-9/11 and at other extraordinary times, the public is willfully deceived to believe that by sacrificing personal freedoms, greater security is possible

U.S. and Iraq: The Hidden History
Richard Becker | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
"You have given Iraq the opportunity to stand on its own," President Barack Obama told hundreds of cheering U.S. troops in Baghdad on April 7, 2009, his first visit to the country after being elected. He added that now, "Iraqis …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-iraq-hidden-history/5707126

For America's Urgent Health and Safety, Trump Needs to Resign!
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-23
Leaning on sober-minded experts in infectious diseases at his daily news conferences, Trump is frantically trying to look good. But the old delusionary Trump keeps resurfacing. On Monday, he rated his coronavirus performance at a perfect ten. On Tuesday, he lied to the public about his knowing it was a pandemic…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/23/for-americas-urgent-health-and-safety-trump-needs-to-resign/

"Four Corners" program exposes Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
wsws.org | 2020-03-23
The actions revealed in the program, including the execution of unarmed civilians, have doubtless been known by successive governments, Labor and Coalition alike.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/afgh-m23.html

The Pathogenic Profits System: Beyond Begging, Praying, and Capital
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-23
We live in an age of Orwellian untruth where falsehood is the norm. One key falsehood worth unmasking is the claim that the current COVID-19 stock market decline, soon to usher in a full-on recession, is a "black swan"

The Pathogenic Profits System: Beyond Begging, Praying, and Capital
Paul Street | zcomm.org | 2020-03-23
If it were a rational, decent, educated, and democratic society, the United States would be spending massive sums on epidemic/pandemic readiness instead of on a Pentagon System that transfers massive wealth to the owners of high-tech "defense" corporations…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-pathogenic-profits-system-beyond-begging-praying-and-capital/

United Parcel Service forcing employees to work without protection amid COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-03-23
"There has been no serious talk about this disease" at UPS, a warehouse worker in Baltimore, Maryland, told the World Socialist Web Site.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/upsb-m23.html

IMF Rejects Venezuela COVID-19 Emergency Fund Appeal
Ricardo Vaz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
The International Monetary Fund has rejected a Venezuelan appeal for an emergency US $5 billion loan to face the coronavirus health crisis. | Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza revealed on Tuesday afternoon that President Nicolas Maduro had sent a letter to IMF …
globalresearch.ca/imf-rejects-venezuela-emergency-fund-appeal/5707156

The IMF Abandons Venezuelans to the Threat of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nino Pagliccia | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-23
No government that had to bow to the power of a financial institution like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) knows the harsh consequences to which it will have to submit. That includes the Venezuelan government. And yet last March 15 president Nicolas Maduro filed a formal request to the IMF for a financing facility of…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/23/the-imf-abandons-venezuelans-to-the-threat-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/

WATCH Russian Army deliver medical aid at airbase near Rome as Moscow rallies to help coronavirus-ravaged Italy
rt.com | 2020-03-23
Russian personnel swiftly airlifted trucks full of medical equipment to Italy, the nation with the highest death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic. | A video by Russia's Defense Ministry shows containers with equipment being offloaded onto Kamaz military semi-trucks after an Il-76 transport plane landed in Italy's Pratica di Mare airbase, 30km (18.6 miles) from Rome. Personnel in white hazmat suits helped to prepare the cargo hatch before the vehicles could roll onto the tarmac. | Russian aircraft carrying Covid-19 aid have been arriving to Italy since Sunday evening. Moscow is helping Rome by providing medic…
rt.com/news/483800-russian-aid-italy-covid19/

Russian cases of coronavirus surge as economic crisis hits
wsws.org | 2020-03-23
The Russian oligarchy is promoting nationalism and xenophobia and pushing for greater surveillance and dictatorial measures, as social tensions are set to escalate over the socioeconomic impact of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/russ-m23.html

The Coronavirus Exposes the Foolishness of the US Sanctions Policy
Annelle Sheline | thenation.com | 2020-03-23
The Coronavirus Exposes the Foolishness of the US Sanctions Policy…
thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-iran-sanctions/

Coronavirus: Latest updates from across the world
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-03-23
Covid-19 has infected hundreds of thousands of people across the globe.Here are the latest updates:

No corporate bailouts! Direct financial resources to the working people, not the capitalist elite!
wsws.org | 2020-03-23
The ruling class is seeking to exploit this crisis to engineer another multitrillion-dollar redistribution of wealth, on a scale even greater than the 2008 bank bailout.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/pers-m23.html

US unemployment rate may skyrocket to 30% amid 'huge shock' to economy
rt.com | 2020-03-23
The United States is expected to see an unprecedented 50 percent drop in gross domestic product in the second quarter due to coronavirus outbreak, says Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard. | According to his projections, the US unemployment rate could hit 30 percent in Q2 as a result of massive shutdowns to combat the virus. | Bullard has called for a powerful fiscal response to replace the $2.5 trillion in lost income to assure a strong eventual US recovery. He said that the Fed should be poised to do more to ensure markets function during a period of high volatility. | "This is a planne…
rt.com/business/483803-us-jobless-growth-coronavirus/

'Count every drop, every drop counts': UN weather agency calls for better water data on World Meteorological Day
news.un.org | 2020-03-23
Floods, extreme rainfall, droughts and melting glaciers…many of the major signs of climate change involve water. On this year's World Meteorological Day, the UN weather agency (WMO) is reinforcing the message of World Water Day, by focusing on the links between climate and water, and calling for better water-related data.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1059922

Are 5G / Biometric Systems Being Covertly Installed During the Lockdown, Where You Live?
Take Back Your Power | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
In recent days a couple videos have begun circulating on social media with evidence of apparent installations of 5G and/or biometric systems while children are home due to the COVID-19 lockdown. | We now have the opportunity to confirm (or debunk) …
globalresearch.ca/are-5g-biometric-systems-being-covertly-installed-during-lockdown-where-you-live/5707159

Coronavirus total in US skyrockets as testing expands
wsws.org | 2020-03-23
The United States now leads the world in new cases and is second only to China and Italy in the number of patients infected with COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/covi-m23.html

Why Americans Should Stop Talking About 'China Flu' and Learn From China
John Buell | commondreams.org | 2020-03-23
A medical staffmember walks out of an aisle in a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (Photo: Feature China/Barcroft Media/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/coronavirus_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/03/22/why-americans-should-stop-talking-about-china-flu-and-learn-china?cd-origin=rss

Spotlight: U.S. Politicians' Use of the Term "Chinese Virus" Widely Condemned
Xinhua | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
The recent re-labeling of the novel coronavirus with xenophobic undertones by some U.S. politicians to stigmatize China has drawn widespread criticism. | As the international community works together to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, a few American politicians are shifting blame to …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-politicians-use-chinese-virus-widely-condemned/5707146

Spain's coronavirus death toll spikes by 462 fatalities overnight, 4,500+ new cases
rt.com | 2020-03-23
The Spanish Health Ministry has confirmed that an additional 462 people died overnight bringing the country's total loss of life during the coronavirus crisis to 2,182. | Spain was among the first European countries to initiate a nationwide lockdown protocol as infection rates soared. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country rose from 28,572 to 33,089 on Monday, despite the best efforts of authorities to impose strict social distancing. | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned Saturday that "the worst is yet to come," as the nation's beleaguered health system struggles to turn the tide of infe…
rt.com/news/483824-spain-coronavirus-death-toll-spikes/

Derelict Leadership on Health Security
Mel Gurtov | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-23
If one event shows both Trump's flawed character and his ineptitude, it would have to be his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It is all about him, claiming superior knowledge of the medical issues while constantly downplaying the extent and seriousness of the virus, ignoring early warning signs, and withholding vital information from the scientific…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/23/derelict-leadership-on-health-security/

Coronavirus and The Age of Anxiety Redux
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
In 1948 the poet, W.H. Auden, published a long poem he titled, The Age of Anxiety, in which four characters express their anxiety about their place in a world that has been destroyed by two world wars and was threatened …
globalresearch.ca/age-anxiety-redux/5707139

Coronavirus crisis in New York: As doctors warn of "our Chernobyl," state government plans Medicaid cuts
wsws.org | 2020-03-23
Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has been calling for the deployment of the military, warned on Sunday that between 40 and 80 percent of the population of New York state (roughly 19.5 million people) would be infected.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/nyst-m23.html

UN Chief Warns of Coming Recession for the Planet
Evelyn Leopold | zcomm.org | 2020-03-23
"This is a moment that demands coordinated, decisive, and innovative policy action from the world's leading economies. We must recognize that the poorest and most vulnerable–especially women–will be the hardest hit"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/un-chief-warns-of-coming-recession-for-the-planet/

How to Wage War, FDR-Style, on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sam Pizzigati | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-23
The United States, President Donald Trump is now proclaiming, stands at "war." We are facing, in the novel coronavirus, "an invisible enemy" that could claim the lives of more Americans than every shooting war America has ever fought. But that sort of terrible toll, public health people have been working so hard to remind us,…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/23/how-to-wage-war-fdr-style-on-the-covid-19-pandemic/

How to Wage War, FDR-Style, on Our Pandemic
Sam Pizzigati | commondreams.org | 2020-03-23
President Donald Trump looks on next to Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a meeting at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland on March 3, 2020. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/donald_trump_29_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/03/22/how-wage-war-fdr-style-our-pandemic?cd-origin=rss

Catastrophic worldwide medical ventilator shortfall despite years of warning
wsws.org | 2020-03-23
World productive capacity of medical ventilators is far below peak requirements during the coronavirus outbreak.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/medv-m23.html

South Africa's ANC government suppressed report showing thousands could die from COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-03-23
The Ramaphosa government's response to the pandemic has been exactly what the study warned against–slow and virtually nonexistent.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/safr-m23.html

The Beautiful, Baffling Mysteries of Paolo Sorrentino's Vatican
Erin Schwartz | thenation.com | 2020-03-23
The Beautiful, Baffling Mysteries of Paolo Sorrentino's Vatican…
thenation.com/article/culture/new-young-pope-television-review/

Coronavirus: Israel's Mossad Acquires 100,000 'Unusable' Test Kits
Lubna Masarwa | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
Israel's external intelligence agency, the Mossad, joined the country's battle against the global coronavirus pandemic and has acquired 100,000 test kits for the disease from two countries with which it does not share diplomatic ties, Israeli media reported, adding …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-israel-mossad-acquires-100000-unusable-test-kits/5707157

The Real 'Sports of Kings' … Not for Us Suckers!!
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
Borrowing from the moniker of horseracing as the 'Sport of Kings' this writer is going further into the sewer of media hype. I love sports and acknowledge that I am a fan of many sports, with even some teams as …
globalresearch.ca/the-real-sports-of-kings-not-for-us-suckers/5707081

In Times of Crisis, How to Prevent an Economic Meltdown and Avoid Privatizing Profits and Socializing Losses
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
"The test of our [moral] progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." –Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd American President …
globalresearch.ca/times-crisis-how-prevent-economic-meltdown-avoid-privatizing-profits-socializing-losses/5707136

COVID-19: Trump Companies Fall, Hundreds Lose Jobs
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy already seems to be affecting the companies and businesses of U.S. President Donald Trump and, along with with it, the employment of hundreds of people. | *** | President Trump's company

A Fiasco in the Making? As the Coronavirus Pandemic Takes Hold, We Are Making Decisions Without Reliable Data
John P.A. Ioannidis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco. | At a time when everyone needs better information, from disease modelers and governments to people quarantined or just …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/5707168

Does the Coronavirus Pandemic Serve a Global Agenda?
Senta Depuydt | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
For those who follow the global immunization agenda and its implementation on different continents, the announcement of a new pandemic didn't come as a surprise. "Pandemic preparedness" has been well-funded and a buzz word for a long time before becoming …
globalresearch.ca/does-coronavirus-pandemic-serve-global-agenda/5707133

Cuba Sends 53 Doctors and Nurses to Fight Covid-19 in Italy
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
Cuban health authorities announced on Thursday that the country will send 53 health professionals to Lombardy, Italy, to help contain the new coronavirus pandemic. | The 53 doctors and nurses have experience in caring for these types of diseases. In 2014, …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-sends-53-doctors-nurses-fight-covid-19-italy/5707149

While Dumping Their Stocks, US Senators Misled the Public on Coronavirus Crisis
Jacob Crosse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-23
The actions of prominent US lawmakers, Democrats as well as Republicans, in seeking to secure their personal wealth while concealing from the public the catastrophic implications of the coronavirus pandemic and the measures needed to combat it, sum up the …
globalresearch.ca/dumping-stock-us-senators-misled-public-coronavirus-crisis/5707141

Inside a Murder Trial in Krasner-Era Philadelphia
Ernest Owens | thenation.com | 2020-03-23
Inside a Murder Trial in Krasner-Era Philadelphia…
thenation.com/article/society/murder-trial-larry-krasner/

Hong Kong to ban all tourist arrivals, may suspend alcohol sales
rt.com | 2020-03-23
Hong Kong is banning all tourist arrivals to the global financial center amid a spike in imported cases of the coronavirus. The move comes as Hong Kong joins cities worldwide in the battle to contain the spread of the disease. | The government also said it was studying whether to suspend the sale of alcohol in licensed bars and restaurants in the city. It has 318 confirmed cases of coronavirus and four deaths, Reuters reported. | Hong Kong last week toughened curbs on travelers, ordering 14 days of quarantine for arrivals and advising against all non-essential travel. University entrance exams will be postpone…
rt.com/newsline/483806-hong-kong-ban-tourists/